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wendyjo

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About Me


I'm in need of some rainy-day solace.
Here's the lowdown:
• Happily married, but don't ask me how long because I can never remember (we met in '98, you do the math). All I know is he accidentally stood me up on our first date, and then I accidentally stood him on Valentine's Day three weeks later, and then he moved in. What can you do? I took him for a four-and-a-half-year test drive and decided he was worth keeping, especially since he's a hockey fanatic (though I do have to forgive him for being a Flyers fan) and a Twin Peaks fanatic, and he buys me flowers for no reason.
• I am out of the rat race! After a year of teaching and seven in advertising, I've left behind that ladder-climbing office world that I never really wanted to be in anyway to pursue freelance work. Currently I work as a fiction manuscript editor, and I copy edit and proofread for academic publishers. Yea! I get to play with words all day (okay, really night since I am an extreme night owl and cannot seem to function before 11 a.m. but can work like a bandit riding through the flames of hell between midnight and 4 a.m.).
• Instead of children, I have two cats, Reeses and Hoobie, who think they run the house (and do); Rimmon, an gorgeous navy, crown-tailed betta fish; and three goldfish—Glub-Glub, the sadistic (yes, sadistic) goldfish who likes to play dead; Statler, who likes to pester Glub-Glub; and Waldorf, who, oddly has turned white despite being being a "black something-or-other" goldfish.
• Where will you find me in the winter: planted in front of the TV watching my Edmonton Oilers remain a small-market Canadian team or jeering my husband's hapless Flyers while digging into a half gallon of ice cream.
• Where will you find me in summer: playing among my flowers, daydreaming about Agent Cooper, or waiting, with my nose in a book, for the next thunderstorm to roll over my house.
• If you wonder about my oft-described contradictory personality, here is some quick insight. If you aren't familiar with astrology, take a quick peek at any astrology Web site, and the answers will come. :p
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Sun 0° Aquarius 21' Aquarius Horoscope
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Moon Sign: Virgo
Moon 24° Virgo 58' Virgo Horoscope
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Rising Sign: Scorpio
Ascendant 13° Scorpio 16' Scorpio Horoscope
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

• His Holiness, the Dalai Lama;
• Just about anyone else. So drop a line. :)

My Blog

finally, something to look forward to . . .

Today is, what, July 19? We've had temps in the upper 80s, low 90s; heat indices in the mid- to upper 90s; and no rain in sight for weeks and have weeks yet to go. How I despise summer. At least today...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:58:00 GMT

simple, sage advice . . .

Food for thought for you mystery writers. I've tried to communicate the concept but so as succinctly.  "Mystery isn't about the murder; it's about the secrets. . . ." PSI wish I knew to wh...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:09:00 GMT

now one for the "banned phrase list" . . .

Warning . . . this post contains abuse of if/then statements. Okay, so if you "can't/couldn't help but" something, then you're doing it.If you can't help but wonder about why the Appalachains are real...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:03:00 GMT

another pleasant surprise . . .

So during the third day of my miseryno, I don't care what anyone says, no good reason exists for a heat index of 95 °F before 10:30 a.m.another little surprise has popped up to make my week of hell ...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:40:00 GMT

you seem a decent fellow; i hate to die . . .

"You fell victim to one of the classic blundersthe most famous of whih is don't get into a land war in Asia. But only slightly less known is never go in against a Sicilian when death is on ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:19:00 GMT

the banned word list . . .

I have many words on my personal "banned" list, and words end up on my mental list for a variety of reasonsoveruse to the point of lost meaning, ambiguity, laziness, weakness.One in particular h...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:51:00 GMT

and a lonesome foghorn blows . . .

Welp . . . as fun as it's been, the hockey season for my husband and me is over. No, we won't be watching the SCF (Stanley Cup Finals) because neither of us like either of the Western Conference teams...
Posted by on Mon, 19 May 2008 17:10:00 GMT

ya cant tell me they didnt know . . .

So, my husband and I are hockey fanatics. Now, I'm not talking about watching a game every couple days or once a week. I'm talking about flipping between four 7:00 p.m. games and keeping track of what...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:08:00 GMT

ahhh . . . the first of the season . . .

Today was the first day we hit 70° in my area, but that was not what brought me joy.Instead, it is the moisture-laden breeze kissing away the humidity from my skin; the pointcounterpoint of quie...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:41:00 GMT

PLEASE tell me this is a faulty report . . .

WARNING: This post contains abusive use of all caps,  exclamation points, and punctuation combinations I advocate in not other situation. My outrage could not be contained without usage. OH MY GO...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:43:00 GMT