MY BOOK!

Guess what came in the mail for me today! MY BOOK! Hee hee hee! I'm giddy! I ripped open the package and showed everyone at the post office! Then I proudly carried it with me when I went to pick the kids up from school. I thrust it in everyone's face (whether I knew them or not) and yelled, "This is my book! Lookie! I wrote this! See? It's my book!!!"

People generally backed slowly away from me. I think some of them may have called the authorities. I might as well have been wearing a sign that read, "I'm a giant DORK!"

My friend, Ginny, ran up to me and gave me a huge hug when she saw what I was holding. I wrote in my blog (back on July 31, 2007), "...I got to read, a pastime I truly enjoy, but don't usually find time to do. I finished How I Write by Janet Evanovich, a book my good friend, Gin, gave me for Christmas. She insists I should write a book, but she has much more faith in me than I do..." LOL! And she hasn't said, "I told you so," even once.

Not only is this fun, but it's given me a much needed kick in the butt to start finish my second manuscript. I'm off to the library to write in peace.


Pay no attention to the seaweed looking hair. It doesn't matter that I have a book being published - I'm still a mom who oftentimes doesn't get in the shower until noon and then doesn't have time to dry or straighten her hair, thus the sunglasses headband. Classy. Very classy.

Thanks for mailing this out to me right away, Beth!!! :) You're the best!