As Steve Rubel says, hopefully this will be the last blog meme of the year. I am not surprised to score as a Wonder Woman, but probably not for the reasons the test asks about…I will say no more. I’m just going to bask in merriment…

Your results:
You are Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman 95% Superman 90% Supergirl 85% The Flash 80% Spider-Man 65% Green Lantern 65% Batman 60% Robin 60% Catwoman 60% Iron Man 60% Hulk 55%

You are a beautiful princess with great strength of character.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Quiz

All the best to you and your loved ones over this Holiday weekend. Have fun.

Thanks to Debbie Weil, I wasted an hour creating this goofy dancing elf of myself. But it did give me a belly-ache full of chuckles, instead of doing my work…

Go here to see my version of Debbie’s Elfamorphitization…

[Well, folks, I spoke too soon, the Office Max Elf Yourself site seems to be experiencing server issues; the links here are apparently only good for 24 hours, and when I tried to create a new link, the system kept giving error messages. I’ll try again later – updated 12/20/06 at 9:30 a.m. PT]

Here’s Denise doing the Holiday Hip Hop!

Who said white elves can’t dance?

The point is, this clever little thing will get passed around millions of times over the Holidays, and all thanks to good spirit over at Office Max. I raise my elf cap to the bright minds over there.

Thank you, Chris Knight! Christmas came early this week. I received my very own special coffee mug, thanks to Chris and the great team over at EzineArticles.com. Of course, I have to post my "mug shot" here! (taken by myself with my cell phone, my oh my, aren’t I getting to be such a techie…!)

They sent mugs out to their Platinum writers, and it reminds me of how neat it is to be a writer, to earn my living writing, and how great it is to be supported by this organization.

http://www.ezinearticles.com also has a great logo: Ezine@rticles! To me they are clearly head and shoulders above every other article directory, especially in customer service. They set the bar for everyone else to model.

If you haven’t submitted your articles to this directory yet, what are you waiting for? Maybe next year you too will get a mug.

"Back to work later" has new meaning for me, folks. In about 2 hours, I’m going under the knife at Kaiser Hospital in San Diego for back surgery to repair a couple of vertebrae. They are going to do a laminectomy at L-4/L-5 to relieve the pressure on the sciatic nerve.

Playing tennis almost daily has had a jarring effect on my spine. On the one hand, tennis has been the best thing for my health, mentally and physically. And I don’t do things half-way. I hope to be back on the courts and playing by Spring or Summer.

So I’ll be out of the office for a while. I’m guessing a week, but we’ll see. My goal is to be back to the computer on Sunday Oct. 22. Whether or not my brain will be competent or still under the influence of pain meds is another story.

If you need anything, please contact Denise at BlogSquad.biz. See ya!

Here’s a site that will generate your name in Japanese…or, what must be a relative approximation, perhaps. This thanks to an usual blog called Me, Myself and I.

Here’s mine:

Patricia Krakoff:
猿渡 Saruwatari (monkey on a crossing bridge) 歩 Ayumi (walk, deeper meaning: walk your own way)

Here’s the Japanese version of Denise Wakeman’s:
遠藤 Endoh (distant wisteria) 歩 Ayumi (walk, deeper meaning: walk your own way).

Which means we must be some kind of sisters…

And don’t anybody even dare to call me a monkey.

Denise and I had fun in Phoenix last weekend, attending Tom’s Butt Camp (how to make money on the Internet sitting on your butt). It was put together by the smart and savvy Barbara Dragza who actually established a National Work in Your Bunny Slippers Day! Barbara wore hers…and darn, I didn’t get a picture of that! Here’s the Blog Squad with our mentor Tom Antion…