One room at a time, a new series of the EO, books, CBC ’10, Listen To Your Mother, and Moving House

1. So, that One Room at a Time thing? We’re still doing that, it’s just that it’s taking a really long time to do one room at a time. We’ve been working on the dining room for a while now. I still plan to do some Big Reveals complete with riveting before and after pictures, but stuff keeps getting in the way. Like life. Silly life.

2. I’m really excited to be starting something new here on the ol’ blog. I’m going to be interviewing people, about their life stories and then writing about them here. You know, like I’m a jouranlist of my own making or something. I’m actually interviewing my friend Jen this very day about her journey with breast cancer, starting in her early twenties. She’s absolutely beautiful and a complete rock star and I can’t wait for you to meet her. I want to call this series something but I haven’t come up with what to call it yet. Something like, She Should Be Famous, but less lame. Help is appreciated.

3. I think I’m addicted to reading. I’ve always been addicted to reading, but it’s worse now. Or should I say better? Because at the height of my drinking (or should I say the lowth?) I would read a couple chapters before bed and then not remember them the next night. (Not awesome.) Now I’m gobbling up books and remembering them, so I’m really excited that I won Plan B by Pete Wilson in a giveaway and that my lovely friend Aidan Donelly Rowley is kind enough to send me her debut novel Life After Yes even before it’s available to the rest of the world. I love Aidan’s writing and heart and I can’t wait to read it. I’ll be sure to tell you all about it.

4. Tomorrow it will be May. This means May 28th and 29th are getting closer. That means that I’m getting really excited and really nervous at the same time because I’ll be at The Casual Bloggers Conference meeting lots of amazing blogging friends and also speaking in front of them. I’m speaking with the likes of Moosh in Indy on one panel and Kristen from Rage Against the Minivan and Allison of OMyFamily on another. (Those aren’t the only bloggers I’m a huge fan of that I’ll sit with, but I’ll leave my not-so-subtle name dropping for another day.) (Um…because I can’t believe the fine folks of the CBC would really want me to do this!) (Seriously. Please don’t tell them that I get really nervous and sometimes that means I go mute.)

5. Speaking of CBC ’10, if you can swing it, especially if you live near Sandy, Utah, you should totally come! I think there are like 5 tickets left, so hurry!

6. I’m also fantasizing about showing up in Madison, Wisconsin on Mother’s Day to go to my friend Ann’s show Listen To Your Mother and to see my Maggie.
Listen to Your Mother is going to be an amazing show, I just know it. SO, if you’re near Madison, you don’t want to miss it. And neither do I…therefore, I fantasize and check flights and consider driving the 7 hours. I mean, really. You only live one wild and precious life!

7. We brought my Mom to the airport yesterday and then we went to IKEA and then to see some friends and then to see our old Best Neighbors In The Universe. (I’m sorry we didn’t see more people, but it was quite a packed day from thing to thing.) It was a very good day and also bittersweet because I’m still grieving living there and Miles told me he doesn’t like it that we moved and then I cried. Moving is so hard. It’s like we didn’t just move on to another chapter in our lives, it feels more like we stopped writing a book altogether and then opened a blank one. That’s been both really good and really hard. Speaking of Miles, he also said, “When is Martyr’s Day?” Seriously, that’s how he pronounced Mother’s Day. Hilarious.

The End.

{This post is a part of 7 Quick Takes}