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Thirteen Very Fine Reasons A Single Woman Would Vacation In India

Here’s to combating negative stereotypes with eye candy. Guh!

1. His name is Dinesh Kumar and he’s from Delhi - *fans self*

2. This one with the smoldering eyes is Tarun Arora - I’m thinking he’s enough to make you take a second trip, no?

3. Another Tarun, Tarun Raghavan - but check the dimple. *swoon*

4. Bollywood actor John Abraham has been a face I’ve really loved for some time

5. Speaking of Bollywood - How about Bollywood’s “Bad Boy” Salman Khan?

6. Oh and how about Emraan Hashmi? They call him “Emraan KissMe” and I can totally see why…

7. More Bollywood anyone? *yes please!* This is Hrithik Roshan (you can all thank me later)

8. Abhishek Bachan - mmmmm - I wanted to show a picture of him in a movie, all dashing and stuff - *sigh*

9. And um, whew, Arjun Rampal is all wet and um, yeah…

10. More you say? Well, let me introduce you to Bikram Saluja

11. Lest I leave out the lovely female reasons to visit India - Aishwarya Rai is one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen…

12. Oh, sweet, sweet Zayed Khan…

13. And shall we close with Dino Morea?

I’ve noted some of the websites where I found these fabulous pictures below here. This was one of the most fun TT’s I’ve done ever. I think I’m really inspired now…whew!

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(www.seasonsindia.com, www.indbazaar.com, www.mobilemastee.com/wallpapers/)

Thirteen Summer Road Trip Murphy’s Laws

1. Children will get sick on vacation

2. Usually one after the other

3. Almost always involving horrible monkey troubles or vomit

4. In the car

5. If you do not get them all the exact same things to play with on the road, they will fight incessantly, just on principle

6. One of them will break their toy, lose the book, damage the whatever it is and they’ll still fight when the other kids still have their whatever it is, whole and shiny.

7. Their grandparents will send them something that makes an annoying sound.

8. The batteries in this will last until the next ice age

9. Something will go wrong with the car on a road trip

10. At some point, you will get into a fight with your spouse and will spend at least several hours at your in-laws, in the car or at an amusement park trying to ignore them.

11. However, quiet, furtive and hurried make up sex will be memorable and make you smile the rest of the way home.

12. At least one of your children will do or say something horribly embarrassing and/or so dangerous you’ll fear being thrown out or banned at a restaurant chain or amusement park or get beaten up by the woman whose large mole with the very long black hair growing out of it your son just loudly asked her about.

13. The last day of a road trip will always have tears, a potty accident of some sort, a child in need of roadside first aid, exhausted temper tantrums and a lack of clean clothing.

(14 - you’ll do it all again next year)

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Thirteen Things That Bug Me

1. Bloggers who consistently try to police what everyone else says

2. Authors who can’t seem to speak to anyone else without telling you how great their writing style is, how special they are and how much they rock oh and by the way did you hear about my new book deal with X? Sigh. Dignity people!

3. That weird black hair that I keep having to pluck, what the *uck is up with that?

4. People who talk on cellphones in the middle of any event they should have turned it off for. Like say, the St. Martins press publisher spotlight at RT, the movies, when they’re in front of you in line at the grocery store…

5. Heroes in romances who are assholes and people who keep saying I’m PC because I can’t get behind a dude who rapes the heroine or emotionally or physically abuses her. Whatthefuckever! I didn’t say you can’t publish it, I said it bugs me. And it does. Because heroes don’t abuse women thankyouverymuch.

6. People who make excuses for everything. Suck. It. Up.

7. People who seek to make themselves feel better by tearing other people down.

8. “Light” cheese. It’s just, not cheese.

9. People with terribly communicable, deadly diseases who jet off to Europe without a care.

10. Paris Hilton.

11. Paris Hilton “finding God”

12. Lindsay Lohan’s mother

13. Little girls in clothing made for exotic dancers

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Thirteen Of My Favorite Foods

1. Chili Cheese Fries (from Tommy Burger)
2. Kung Pao Chicken (although tofu and shrimp are also nice)
3. Yellow Curry With Chicken or Tofu
4. Dark Chocolate Diletantte Truffle Bars
5. Dark Chocolate Frangos
6. Popcorn with parmesian cheese
7. Biscuits and gravy (like my mother makes, not sausage gravy, ew)
8. Mozarella Sticks
9. Thai Pizza from Cucina Cucina (thin crust, chili oil, red pepper flakes, chicken, prawns and green onions)
10. Kerrygold White Cheddar Cheese
11. Spinach Dip with Sweet Potato Chips (the combination is to die for)
12. Peach cobbler
13. Cupcakes - Lemon with buttercream, or yellow with chocolate buttercream

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1. My husband (Yes, that’s what I mean and yep, it usually works like a charm. He’s very handy that way.)

2. Listen to 80’s music loud and sing to it (usually something especially fabulous like Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Psychedelic Furs, Go Go’s)

3. Eat chocolate

4. Read Welcome To Temptation

5. Read Naked in Death

6. Read Vaclav Havel’s Living In Truth

7. Watch The Matrix

8. Run through the sprinklers with my kids

9. Retail Therapy - shoes, books, purses or music

10. IM Megan or Anya

11. Eat egg rolls from my favorite Thai restaurant (shrimp ones, SO good!)

12. Make cookies with my kids

13. Snuggle with my husband and let him cheer me up

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1. You want to write? Get your ass in that chair and do it. Even if it’s ten minutes every three days.

2. Stop making excuses about everyone else’s time/schedule/lifestyle/ability - you will never be anyone else but you. Be the best you you can be.

3. Keep your shit together in public

4. Dignity Costs Nothing

5. Don’t email angry. Wait a day, even an hour before you hit send.

6. Just because you can wear your underwear as clothing in public doesn’t mean you should.

7. If you preface something, “Not to be racist/sexist” etc, you are and don’t say it.

8. Suck it up

9. Don’t call your ex boyfriend or look him up on myspace just because you’ve had a fight with your current partner or when you are drunk or PMSing.

10. Don’t tell an editor your manuscript is the book of your heart.

11. Don’t give up.

12. Be grateful and humble about your successes and don’t forget to tell people you appreciate them.

13. Don’t take the low road. There’s not a damned thing wrong with being positive, especially in public.

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1. Whatthefuckever

2. Get your hands off your _______

3. Keep Your Shit Together In Public!

4. Um…no

5. Are you listening to me?

6. What is that?

7. Nevermind, don’t tell me!

8. Just wash your hands!

9. With soap and water!

10. Have you heard back? (this one and some variation thereof is a favorite with my agent and editors, I’ll tell you what!)

11. Oh the tragedy. Now go to bed (eat your food, get dressed, etc)

12. Fuckadooodle doo!

13. Cripes! (I’m trying to say fuck less)

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Thirteen Random Things Because I’m Stressed and Still Brain Mushed

1. I meant to be able to visit with a lot more people at RT and did not! I’m disappointed about that.

2. But I’m overjoyed to have had our little RT posse - Megan, Amelia and Laura.

3. I need to go dancing more often.

4. I started writing GWAB again last night and this thrills me.

5. It also scares me.

6. I get to see Anya in a month!

7. I have the best husband ever.

8. I have A LOT of work to do

9. Suddenly I’m so busy it’s disconcerting but wonderful all at once

10. I hate waiting

11. I’m still fighting off the cold that threatened before I left for RT. It’s back and has settled into my throat and appears to want to timeshare there. I have too much to do this weekend so my husband is plying me with vitamins

12. I brought back three dozen books from RT and I don’t have time to read any of them

13. Tater tots are still as good as they were when I was a kid. Ding dongs are not.

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Thirteen Totally Random and Unrelated Things About Me

1. I’m religious about breakfast. I take breakfast very seriously and without a good breakfast I’m ravenous and slighly woozy all day long.

2. I put 300 tassles on bookmarks last night and I have a thousand left to go

3. I absolutely hate things that don’t make sense. Even if I don’t agree with something, if there are rules that led to that opinion or situation, I can accept it. But when things happen for no apparent reason, it drives me nuts.

4. I’d really like to sell a book this week.

5. I have an airplane book for RT - Night Rising

6. Every once in a while for no apparent reason I’ll sing the chorus from Electro Woman and Dyna Girl (see how I date myself?)

7. I love green olives

8. I am a not so secret fan of Laguna Beach. Oh the teenage drama!

9. I cannot believe Sci Fi is going to make me wait until next year for more episodes of Battlestar Galactica

10. I bought hot curlers the other day

11. I need to buy body scrub stuff this weekend

12. I don’t like banana splits

13. I am of the sincere belief adding cheese to just about anything makes it better

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Thirteen Things I’ve Been Interrupted By This Morning So Far

1. “Mom! He’s touching my bionicle!”

2. Fixing Barbie’s crown. Fixing it again and then putting her ball gown back on. Six times since 7 am (and it’s 9 now)

3. Rewinding The Little Mermaid

4. Nexting through all the previews before Happy Feet to start the movie.

5. Juice refills

6 Slow internet this morning making me time out repeatedly. Grr.

7. Choked on a vitamin (yes, I’m pathetic)

8. OOH! Story idea, gotta write it down.

9. Reheating coffee that’s gotten cold. Making a cup of chai after guzzling coffee like a caffeine junkie.

10. Going in to stop fights over pokemon cards. Threatening bodily harm to the cards if I hear another word about them.

11. “Mooooooom! Morrigan is in our roooom! She’s on the top bunk!” Sigh

12. Phone.

13. “I’m hungry!” me - “you just had breakfast and you told me you were full.” him “but that was for chex, I’m hungry for easter candy.” me “go away.” and thinks “Mother of the Year!”