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| One week from today, Mentally Incontinent
comes out in bookstores. People who know me (and have seen the infamous
tattoo) are probably thinking "wait a minute, Mentally Incontinent came
out years ago. WTF?" Well, due to Joe's success as a self-published
author/writer type person, he got a book deal with Penguin Books. Yup.
So, they're releasing the next book, but not calling it a sequel as
part of a very logical marketing scheme.
Anywho, the book comes out Tuesday November 3, 2009. In case you haven't figured it out, the links are to the Amazon.com presale page. I preordered mine forever ago.
The preparations aren't just for the book, however. The following weekend, there is a big book release party happening in Atlanta.
I'm going. Yes, I am driving 9 hours to go hang out with Joe and others
and to celebrate yet more weird stories from one of the coolest guys
around.
So what have I been doing to prepare for my big road
trip? Very little until now. I had Googled directions from my house to
the hotel I'm probably staying at and from there to the venue for the
party. That was about it, actually. Fortunately, the Fates intervened
in my procrastination.
We decided to go see a movie on Sunday
night. The app on my phone said 8:45, in reality it was a 10pm showing.
Solution? Buy our tickets, and walk down the strip mall to the Barnes
and Noble.
I bought a Streets of Greater Atlanta map, and the Rand McNally 2010 Road Atlas of North America.
I'm already a pretty big nerd when it comes to maps and whatnot, and
I'm just having ENTIRELY TOO MUCH FUN with my new atlas. Not only have
I marked out the route suggested by Google, but I've found a detour I'm
going to take on my way back to Columbus to indulge my Civil War
geekiness. I found 3 fun things a lot closer to my fastest route than
shooting across and through Nashville, which was my original plan.
Now
I'm sticking to my Knoxville route for the most part, but I'm going to
experience Jelico mountain and hopefully Gatlinburg. *happy dance*
By
the time I'm done with this, I'm going to have at least four routes
with various fun things to do along the way. Part of me feels bad for
anyone who ends up riding with me on this one.
I've also gotten
Blogger set up for mobile blogging (so people reading this on Xanga
will have to switch over to timeracer.blogspot.com). I'm going to post
cell photos and whatnot from the road. If I can figure out how to send
video, too, then perhaps you'll get to enjoy a video of me harassing
rest stop patrons. Hard to say, really.
But yeah..that's really all I have. I'm insanely excited about this road trip/book release/seeing people.
Oh,
and did I mention that the preliminary forecast for Atlanta the weekend
I'm down there is a good 15 degrees warmer than the forecast for
Columbus that weekend? I might actually get to shed my hoodies for a
couple of days.
The biggest downside to this trip so far is that CakeWrecks will be in Atlanta...the day after I leave. Grrrr.
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| Nate is obsessed with the crashing housing market right now. It truly is a buyer's market, and he keeps looking at houses that are going for *CHEAP*.
Usually, they're OK houses in OK neighborhoods, so it's just like "eh, whatever" for me. Today, he found one. The one. In Gahanna instead of Pickerington, but still, the house. Perfect sized lot, the big house we'd love to have. For cheap. Insanely cheap. Like, if he had a job so we could qualify for the loan we'd buy it today cheap.
But alas, my income alone isn't enough to qualify us for *any* loan. He has to have a job as well, even for such a small loan as we would need for that house.
It broke my heart just a little bit. I know it's silly and that we should really sit tight where we are so I can finish paying off the student loans (hey, I have them under five grand from the over 15K I started with!) and so I can finish paying off the credit card...but still, my heart broke a little bit seeing that gorgeous house within our budget and knowing we couldn't get the loan yet. If he had a job, yes, we could get the loan rightnow.
It's a blessing in disguise. That's what I'm telling myself, anyway. It's an opportunity for me to finish paying off my debts to get my credit from being "meh, okay." to being at a point where we can get the very nice interest rates on a mortgage.
It's ridiculous that I'm writing about this, but it's what is on my mind. I have no real complaints in my life at the moment (for which I am very grateful!) so you get to read about my sadness that we can't buy a house right now.
So. Other than that, my life is pretty much at the same place it has been. I'm in school, I'm married to my best friend, and...my dog and cat are constant little bundles of cuteness.
Nothing more to say, sorry.
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| I'm sick of passive aggressive people.
I'm sick of drama.
I'm sick of being painted as the bad guy by a pathological liar when I'm the victim.
I wish I could do something more than just vaguely complain about it.
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| Absolutely! Both of my Grandparents did, and I intend on following the family pattern. Specifically, I want to be donated to the body farm so I can rot in the woods and people can learn from it.
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| I did something random and silly yesterday at the Ren Fest.
I hugged the chubby guy from the mud show...just because I thought it would be fun.
I haven't done anything like that for a very long time.
I think I'm finally getting better. | | |
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