#1 - I have been unable to discern any kind of "windfall" or extra MONEY from the MONEY ANGEL. She was supposed to pay out by Saturday, remember, and I am pretty much just as broke now as I was before, especially since we're only three days from the end of the month. Of course, if "riches" are measured in love, health, happiness, friends & family, etc., I am a wealthy woman indeed -- I already was -- but she didn't claim to be the WEALTH ANGEL, so what's up with the MONEY?!
#2 - On a completely different subject, with your NASCAR update: Angel Boy won the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis yesterday, which was very exciting and turned out to be a great race, tire drama notwithstanding. (Intrigue, uproar and endless analysis over tires, for god's sake -- that's why I love NASCAR!)
#3 - I am a little disgusted with myself, I have to admit: I completely checked out for good long stretches this weekend, from Friday when I opened the cover on TWILIGHT (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
by Stephenie Meyer -- yes, the first book in the bestselling teenage vampire romance saga, which was all the rage at the Middle School Book Fair back in January (where I picked it up, to see what all the fuss was about). Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. 498 pages later, actually 527 pages with the teaser chapter to the second book in the series, I couldn't get to the bookstore fast enough Saturday morning to buy NEW MOON (The Twilight Saga, Book 2)
-- What happens to Bella?!I am about 50 pages from the end on this one, so don't bother calling this afternoon (when I should be cleaning up and getting ready for our 20th Anniversary/long weekend getaway)...I just ordered the third book, ECLIPSE
, with the pre-order for the fourth and final book in the series, BREAKING DAWN
, which is coming out this weekend -- to a Harry Potter-like reception, with Midnight book parties all over the country and all kinds of fanfare. I had no idea.Not only was my timing perfect for the next book frenzy -- forcing me to break my long-standing policy of waiting for the paperback version (when I buy books at all, since I have a healthy TBR (To Be Reviewed) Pile from our publishing friends) -- Twilight THE MOVIE is coming out, too, in December (check out the movie trailers!).
If you haven't heard about Bella and Edward and Jacob and the vampires and werewolves running amok in the tiny town of Forks, Washington (I've been there!)...you will.
The really sick part of the whole thing (and you could take 'sick' either way, as a teen (good) or as a fortysomething author (enough to make you ill)) is Stephenie Meyer's biography on www.StephenieMeyer.com: the young, first-time author of an oops novel that mostly came to her in a dream and during her children's swimming lessons, published in 2005, to J.K. Rowling-esque success and fame as a worldwide phenomenon, in three short years...ugh, I need to go finish NEW MOON and lay down for the rest of the afternoon to re-think my writer-ly ambitions and cry just a little...
Love her (mostly) or hate her (just a little, jealous shrew that I am), Stephenie Meyer's books are captivating, even for old people: