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October 23, 2004

Bestseller lists and petting zoos

Alesia, from Fall Festival central...

So, my agent told me that I hit my first bestseller list with SHOP ‘TIL YULE DROP. I jumped around the house, hooraying and dancing a bit, and then finally broke down and called the housecleaning service.

What does success mean to me? Not having to clean toilets any more!!! Yippee!!!

Last night we had two different Fall Festivals to attend (one at each school), and hooboy the excitement! Pony rides, carnival games, petting zoos, fair food, and bags of candy and the kind of little plastic prizes that make underpaid workers all over the world sit in their factories and wonder what the heck Americans DO with all that crap???

And to think, in the days BC (before children), I used to start getting dressed to go OUT at the same time we got HOME last night . . .

It’s just sad. I asked Navy Guy about it.

Me: Do you remember the days when Friday night meant a romantic dinner out and a movie or dancing or something totally adult?
Navy Guy: No.
Me: Sigh. Me neither.

But I had so much fun at my writer’s conferences. That’s when I get to be the non-Mommy me again for a week or so at a time. . . and the pink leather jacket and chick lit corset purse came out, trust me.

Tonight is Boo at the Zoo night, which more than likely has nothing to do with scaring wild animals (or the reverse). Do I live a wild, glamorous writer life or what? I wonder if I can wear pink leather to the zoo . . .

hugs,
Alesia

Posted by Alesia at 11:34 AM