Maybe this is just funny to me because, well, I’m just sick and wrong, but I had to share this morning’s back & forth with my favorite little south of the border AW & facebook buddy. (And by little, I don’t mean in the sense that I take the friendship lightly, it’s just that she’s the kind of friend [insert Randy Newman song here] “ya gotta pic ‘em up just to say hello” kinda little ;) ) You’re not short, Hoo, you’re fun sized!!!

So, it’s not the first time that this has happened to me, in fact, it’s the forth. I get over eager when it comes to ordering books that my friends and acquaintances  on my writing forum get published. I hurried to pre-order this particular book as soon as it was available, forgot I did so & hurried and ordered the day of release. I received them both yesterday. I posted the below picture on facebook of said book.

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Right away I had a taker for it – my little Hoo in Meh-hi-co. I will be in Chicago next weekend with a few of my buddies & as fate has it – she’ll be home then as well & lucky me – home is Chicago!! I’m staying with her Saturday night. I’m giddey at the thought of an old fashioned slumber party ‘cept probably w/ booze instead of soda & instead of ghost stories, we’ll probably sit back to back with our laptops & talk on facebook! (Well, my recently restored laptop – her new notebook!)

We were all giggling yesterday how you go about talking with someone that you only know online. Do I bring nutter butters and hand them to her or can I just say asterisk – hands Mel nutter butters – asterisk? Tee hee… Do I have to moon her or can I just say :e2moon: or “insert mooning smiley dude here” using finger quotes? Hmm… this is going to be tricky.

All this being said, when she asked if she could have the spare book I said “Sure, I’ll give it to you for rent”, meaning – for letting me stay w/ her Saturday night. She thought I meant “rent the book”. I thought maybe she thought I was teasing about the price being set at like “rent for a house”. We got that straightened out then she informed me about where we were staying.

“Anything is fine with me,” I said, “As long as your brother doesn’t mind me parading around in a towel.”

She replied, “He doesn’t mind. I do.”  Which I initially took as “he doesn’t mind but I do.”

We shared laughs and she said, “And we’re writers.”

I responded with, “All that means is we’re handicapped but can’t get one of those thingy’s for our cars.” *insert rolling laughing smiley here*

I so completely love that I discovered  my writers forum and found all these people. (cough*freaks*cough*) My whole life I felt like I stood out in a crowd. After mingling with the likes of other writers for over two years now, I see I’m hardly the peach colored crayon in the box of colorful loonies :D .  I now understand me. Now only if everyone else did :}

To Hoo & all my friends at AW – “There’s no place like home!”  Embrace the crazy! We can’t all be  the brightest light bulb in the picnic basket thats a beer short of the elevator going all the way to the top, right?

Stand by for review of Kelly Medings book – I have 2 other AWer books in front of hers or go to Amazon & get it yourself… my 2nd copy has a home.