I Think She's On to Me

The SIFTW signing last night was just lovely. It was cold and Gustav-y rainy, and I barely felt like going myself, as I'd fallen off my Walt Bodine adrenaline rush at 2 p.m., had a lot of deadlines at work and was working on a killer headache when I showed up at Barnes & Noble on the Plaza and was informed by a surly bookseller that she thought the signing wasn't even happening because I was late. Let's just say I was pretty nervous at that point.

But then E. showed up with her adorable baby, who smiles and squees with an appropriate amount of attention (read: smiling at her), and that made me feel a whole lot better. And then, one by one, my friends came. Lots of them. And God, it felt so good to celebrate with Kelli and my friends and their kids and my kid and my husband and my lovely FRIENDS who really are the best, most supportive friends in the whole wide world. I know a lot of them already had the book and could've gotten me to sign it in the parking lot of Blockbuster but drug themselves out after a long day in the icky rain to find parking in the Plaza and delay dinner and there wasn't even wine and cheese. Thank you, my lovely friends, and especially my new blog friends who have commented here so many times and in some case been reading for years but whom I have never met before until last night. It was so incredibly cool to put a face with a name.

Barnes & Noble had only ordered 23 books, so we ended up getting into my stash for Atlanta a little bit. I think it will all be okay, though. We gave away all the Sharpies I'd designated for Kansas City. The only thing that made me sad was B&N prohibited me from selling the Eco Libris stickers. I'll have them at non-B&N locations, though. I'm not sure what that was all about, but I'm sure it was rooted in corporate policy.

So anyway, this was a really long lead-in to say afterward I went to dinner with Steph, whom I never see even though she only lives in Lawrence, and we had a really good talk and then I went home and rehashed it all with Beloved and drank more wine and had some trouble getting out of bed this morning. So I climbed into the little angel's bed and tried to get her to cuddle with me, and she sat up and said, "Oh, no, Mommy, I'm not going to sleep all day long like you."

I could hear my husband laughing from two rooms away.

I think she's starting to realize that I REALLY LIKE TO SLEEP.

So I've got to go write a whole bunch of stuff for BlogHer and Savvy Source and Cool Mom Picks and get organized to head to Atlanta tomorrow to hang out with Mir and Kristen at Beehive Co-op. And I used to do all that stuff at 10 p.m., and today I'm going to do it at 10 a.m., and that feels really, really good.