Alas, the moment is almost upon us…
How I’ve missed all of you in the past couple weeks. I’m sure it was harder for you than it was for me, thus, I vow never to put you through such unspeakable anxiety like that again.
I will be announcing my new website at the end of this week – either Thursday or Friday. Um. That is where you’re supposed to show me your excited face, and I’m not too impressed so far. So check back as I will have many new and exiting things for you to explore. Did I mention that every visitor gets a FREE SNUGGIE?!!!!!
In other exciting news, I have another story being published in Chicken Soup for the Soul. It is the “Campus Chronicles” edition coming out on April 7th. Unlike my first one, which was a bit cheesy [ I mean, I’d never even read these books so I didn’t know what they wanted ] this is a seductive tale of forbidden college romance. A true story, of course, of a guy who changed my life.
Congrats. But I didn’t see your name on the cover. WTF?
haha. sorry to disappoint you bearman. I’ll call the editor about that. my story is WAY more important than the rest.
Congrats on the publication! 🙂
I am anxiously awaiting thursday or friday – please remember the little people when you are a star.
That snuggie comment was legally binding, I’d like the green please.
jules. you can have any color you want for your complete devotion to my blog and comment section. you are truly a shining example of a blogging friend. I can’t think of any better way to show my appreciation than through sending you a blanket with sleeves.
This is my excited face.
How did you get published in Chicken Soup for the Soul?
enna… that is pathetic.
Last year, I received a call for submissions and I wrote a story on my lunchbreak at work and submitted it. I didn’t give it much thought, considering there are thousands of entries, but they chose it. and that was published in chicken soup: my resolution. Now they send me emails when they are looking for new stories.
I’m using a “Brit list”, just because I can.
1) Congrats on getting published again. Now about that book that is 8 years in the making…
2) Didn’t you say the website would launch “this Friday” a couple of weeks ago? Are you just stringing us along to sucker us into some sort of pyramid scheme, where you start asking for donations to help you begin, and then all of a sudden you disappear?
3) I cannot show you my “excited face” when you don’t post for weeks. And I thought MY absence was bad. You have to excite me to see my “excited face”… it doesn’t come out very often. (No, I will not take a picture of it.)
4) Free blanket with sleeves? Sign me up. Also, I’d like to address here how Julie somehow leapfrogged me as “a shining example of a blogging friend.” I mean seriously WTF? I’m not sure I should be offended or just stage a protest. I’m sure I’ll get tons of support….
5) I’m afraid to ask which “romance” you are referring to that made it to the book. With so many options to choose from….
brandon
1. thanks
2. um, no, i said i was hoping to have it up. knowing the perfectionistic procrastintor that I am, you should have known better. but it will REALLY be up this week. I’m so serial.
3. julie commented first, what can i say?
4. it was a short lived, risky little romance. the best kind
#2 – like Cutco Knives perhaps?
#4 – My sheer awesomeness can not be questioned Brandon. She said SHINING example – you are a good example, but I am SHINING.
#2 – Did you fall victims to the tricks of a Cutco salesman over the weekend or something Julie?
#4 – This is wholly untrue, and we both know it. How dare you position yourself against Brandon. (That’s right, I’m using third person now.)
#2 – I have no idea what you are talking about – I only buy quality knives… sampling is no crime however.
#4 – I would never dare to position myself against you – but come on, we know no one could ever refer to you as “shining”
ok whitty – DROP THE CUTCO KNIFE. violence, although fun, is not the answer
jules, i can’t help it you are shining. or maybe it was just the knife that caught my eye. still, whitty is special in his own right – but shining… no.
i once got a job with Cutco while at uni… i did the 3 day training…. then they told me about the pay scale…. talk about a pyramid scheme… bloody communists i tell ya!
I, Brit, was almost in tears from not having you post… i truly nearly went mad… so new website huh how come you didnt tell me about it!???? 😛
It is wayyyy obviously that Jewels is a shining star.. Brandon is just THE BIG DEAL around this place…but I am the ultimate ONE and ONLY bestest..
fair dinkum mate!
i figured as much susi.. considering i’ve mentioned it every day for a month! hah. or else you really like to skim read.
yea, i’m with brandon, i have NO IDEA what you’re talking about there. i wouldn’t go so far as the BIG DEAL, but maybe like, sort of, some kind of deal.
by the way i jokesing about not knowing about new website..just in case it wasnt clear…
“fair dinkum mate” – I have no idea what this means.
Welcome back and congratulations on the publication!
thanks granny!
{EXCITED FACE}
Can’t wait to check out the new stuff. Oh, and congrats on the chix soup….I should check out the first one; I’ve been meaning to! Maybe I could buy it and read your story and then “regift” it to someone when I need an easy b-day gift or something. HA!
Have a good one!
you can’t make it in life as a successful woman, rach, without learning the art of the regift. I think that sounds like a grand idea =)
you know i will be completely honest… i have no idea what fair dinkum means either its a very – hillbilly equivalent – aussie expression.. we call hillbillies Ockas… dont ask me i have no idea why ocka is a word either.. haha but since u hate “gooty expressions” so much guys i thought id bombared you with them haha
susi, thats just like something you’d do. throwing fake and annoying aussie experessions at us. you know, here we are opening up ourselves to you and all your foreign-ness, and what do you do with it? try to annoy us.
Just stopping in to see if anything new at the “BiWeekly Elephant” ha ha
shut up bearman. oh yea, cus you post ALL the time!?@#$%
anyway, check back tomorrow, cus thats the day!
so i wake up and roll out of bed. drive to my parents house (the internet guys are supposed to come sometime this decade) and see that you have yet to post anything fun or at least entertaining for me to view. i go to your house and no entertaining new stories to tell. im starting to think i need to get you out of that den of a bedroom and take you out so you have stories to tell. and your are oh so fun to go out with! except when you steal my phone!
ugh, one and only – i’ve been working like a slave girl… the website will be up tomorrow sweetheart! there will be many entertaining stories for you to feast your eyes on
HAHAHA bi weekly elephant –
i love you but that was funny
yea yea yea laugh it up jules. you won’t be laughing when you have so many new blogs to read that you lose your mind now will you!
tde, i thought i left a comment here. i’m losing my marbles.
congratulations on publishing! good for you!
i shall wait for it… wait for it… until the new website appears! 😉
oh maria, its okay. there are alot of loose marbles lying around here.
but annoying u and Brandon with my goofy phrases is what makes me life worth while…especially annoying Brandon …. haha.
i am likely to be passing through your town in December this year…. maybe i could annoy you guys in person then! haha ull see how awesomely cool and fantabulous my accent really is 😀
no you’re not?!?! forreal? u coming to chicago or what?
I don’t foresee any situation in which Susi talking in her goofy accent doesn’t cause Brit and I to constantly laugh at how absolutely ridiculous it is. So where do I sign up for this?
seriously, susi,… if i heard you talk in person saying those phrases that you type i will most likely laugh in your face. i might even leave becuase it’s too much to handle
Well there is a reason I didn’t name my blog the “Daily Bearman”
ok, you know what bearman i have HAD IT UP TO HERE with you!
Snuggies are all the rage night now