I have so much to be thankful for and for some reason, I have spent the last few weeks focusing on all of the things in my life that are not going the way I’d like and I am spending this holiday time turning all of that around. It is not easy. I am basically an optimist; a Dale Carnegie clone, and when I’m not, it not only goes against my basic nature, frankly it frightens me. Which is why my blog has been so quiet. But I am feeling chatty now so I decided to cash in on that.
I cannot tell you how excited I am about my upcoming trip to bookstores to buy unsuspecting strangers books. I am daydreaming about that a lot. I talked to Andy Graves at The Happy Bookseller here in Columbia this morning and I am going to kick off my tour at his store. I have been wondering if any publisher would pay for a wrap on my car that would promote their titles as I drive through the south. I hope that my husband and I can figure out how to work the damn camera and then can find someway to edit it and get it up on YouTube. I think that would be so cool. I am psyched about spending time in Fairhope, AL. It seems like quite a cool place. I just finished Cassandra King’s Queen of Broken Hearts. It was sooo good and it takes place in Fairhope — a good sign!
I had a huge epiphany about weight loss, management, etc. I have been talking with several addicts – drugs, alcohol, nicotine, food, etc. and the one thing they all have in common is the notion of cold turkey. It is easier to indulge in or abstain from an addiction. The hardest thing to do is to manage an addiction and the only one that must be managed is food. We all know how ridiculous it is to listen to an alcoholic talk about just drinking two drinks a day. or to a smoker talk about smoking only one pack a week. But with food, we have no choice but to manage it and the whole notion of cold turkey has confounded me because this food reference does not apply to food at all. Happy Turkey Day!
