Love the world you're in.

I am happily humbled by the amount of book orders I have received, and furthermore, thank you for all of the compliments.  You guys are nothing short of amazing.  You sure do know how to make a girl feel like it's okay to write my life out.

As for this year: I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I 'grow up'.  I am currently working at a factory, building lawnmowers, and while this started as simply proving a point (Kenny didn't think I could handle factory work), the truth is, I am having more fun than I have ever had at a job.  Sure, I'm working my ass off (literally), but I am singing and dancing and even when I make a mistake, there are plenty of people to laugh with me and say, "I've done that at least twenty times..."

What I'm trying to say is that even though I may not have my life figured out, I am just in love with the whole world.  I love working so hard that my ribs hurt.  I love laughing so hard that my tummy aches.  I especially love the tornado of personalities all in one place.  I don't see people as just people; I see them as colors.  So you might walk into this factory and see red and black, because those are the colors of the lawnmowers.  But if you're me, you see red and black and then every other color bouncing all over the place because of all of the personalities that just cannot be contained.  Everybody has a story and they really do want to be heard if only you take a couple of minutes to get them talking.  I love learning people's lives.  I love that smiles are contagious (I made sixteen people smile today).  I really, really love the explosion of emotion that can be extracted from each and every person if you hit just the right subject.

So...go find emotions.  They're everywhere.

Happy New Year! Buy My Book!

It's probably no secret that 2013 wasn't my favorite year.  In fact, it was my least favorite of all of my years thus far (except for my sister's wedding, that was a whole lot of fun).  It only seemed appropriate that Kyler puked on the carpet, the linoleum, in the toilet and all over his sister on the last day of the year.  I, too, would like to barf all over the past 365 days (well, minus on Mae because she really wasn't pleased by it).

But alas, it's no longer 2013.  With all of the terrible lessons and heartaches of the past year, I'm moving into 2014 filled with goals, happiness, motivation, and a bunch of other words that end with 'ment' and 'ness'.  This is going to be a good year even if I have to force it.  And just to ensure that the year starts out on the right foot, I pre-planned a great event for this very first day of the year:

MY BOOK IS PUBLISHED!  MY BOOK IS PUBLISHED!  MY BOOK IS PUBLISHED!  SEE:

And you can order it right on my page by clicking the PayPal link in the upper right-hand corner.  OR you can send me a check (comment with your email address and I can send you my address).  OR you can order here:

https://www.createspace.com/4576947

I am set to receive the books on January 14th, which seems an eternity away as I will sit here for the next thirteen days worried about grammatical errors, because proofreading the book 643 times maybe wasn't quite enough.  Or what if I wrote something that came out wrong and everybody decides to hate me.  Or what if Kenny finally reads the book and realizes that sometimes I am laughing at him, rather than with him, like I so often promise him I'm doing.  

Putting all of that aside, I am ecstatically, excitedly, eccentrically looking so forward to this year and figuring out how to self-promote myself.  And yes, I have already started in on book number two.  And my very first 'Meet the Author' book signing will be held on Saturday, February 1st at the Wymore Library from 9am - 11am.  I'm pretty darn happy about that.  So without further ado, please order away!  But more importantly, I hope everybody has a fantastic year, with just enough bad to appreciate the good and just enough sad to put your whole self into every hug, smile, conversation and laugh.