Thank you, love!

Ha! I hear ya on not wanting to be influenced - makes perfect sense and it keeps everything organic and on a level playing field. I was quick to the draw - as I am quite often - because I begin compiling my "long-list" and begin my scoring process on DAY ONE of each week.

By the time Friday comes along, I've already put in 40-50 hours of work... Thereafter, it's simply a matter of fine-tuning my top-30 into a top-10 - and then it takes me another 3-hours or so to render my Top-5 post.

Don't know if you remember that commercial from the 70's where the woman says to the man... Take Human Bites! Ha-haaaa ...There's just no way I could swallow all those entries in just a day or two...

Here's the link - and ironically enough, one of the first lines is "My neighbor Bonnie!" - how's that for coincidence! :-)