Livejournal influences

[pegkerr]

I was reading my friends list and ran across an entry by lollardfish, talking about his adorable son Nico. In the comments, gerisullivan mentioned in passing that she was eating some pumpkin ice cream. When lollardfish lamented his lack of pumpkin ice cream, I was suddenly overcome by an irresistible urge. So I went downstairs, dished up some vanilla ice cream, microwaved it for ten seconds, opened a can of pumpkin and threw a 1/4 cup on top of the ice cream and mixed it all together. I'd never done such a thing before, but it was so ravishingly delicious that I went down and fixed myself second bowl. Uh, because I need more vitamin A, right?

I find it funny that a passing comment from a woman in Massachusetts would set off a food craving for me here in Minnesota.

Tell me about an instance where something you've read on LiveJournal influenced you to do something, maybe something you've never tried before. Big or small--whatever. I know some of you started the 100 pushups program because you read about it here. What else?

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[takumashii.livejournal.com]

From reading all the posts people made about WisCon in 2005 and 2006, I desperately wanted to go. I made it in 2007 (and again in 2008), and:

-misia, who had volunteered to do tea leaf readings, validated my desire to quit the job that was gradually sucking out my soul;

-I made some dear friends;

-I made up my mind that I did want to keep writing and submitting my writing even though I'd written five novels and had received only form rejections, and was having a bear of a time with the sixth. Well. That sixth novel got accepted for publication.