So This is What the Fuss is All About!

I’m baaaaaaack! What’s even better is, I’m back with a giveaway!

Y’all are settling into your summers and having your kids home all day.

I just left mine in Florida for the week with their grandparents and am settling into a week alone.

Wait, let me rephrase that. Settling into a delicious week alone.

A million things to say…. about last week – about Vanity’s Greyhound experience – about my day alone with Spin yesterday – about what I’m going to do this week……

But first, I have to show you what I’m having for lunch.

I KNOW. Bad, right? Don’t feel too bad for me. It’s better than this….

It’s really nothing a good whisk can’t take care of………

(And why are my photos so tilted?  I’m thinking that chiropractor put my head back on crooked this morning.)

Seriously, though. I’m seeing this doctor that wants me to flush the bajeezus out of my delicate digestive system with water – and it makes me well, not hungry. So I figured I’d have a go at “Greens Plus” so that even if I’m not eating much, at least I’ll be getting all my greens in.  I’ve never had a drink I had to chew though… it’s not nearly as sexy as Renee Russo made it look in the Thomas Crown Affair.  (Love that movie!!)

I must say – while it looks awful, but it really doesn’t taste that bad.

It’s better than, oh say…….. Pepsi. (And, yes, Queen B – I realize I’m breaking my own rule about posting that word here. But I’m comfortable using it in its proper context. Meaning is in people, not words.)

So Greyhound…. Yah. It’s a good thing I don’t have bladder control issues, because we’d have had an ugly issue right there in seedy Lake City, FL. Poor Vanity was a wreck.

We pulled into the station and she burst into tears…. I’m telling you – she is Vanity to the T. Having purposefully dehydrated herself in flat refusal to visit the “loo” on the bus, the speed with which she abandoned that resolve was astounding when I offered to take her out for a drink before she boarded.

One drink wasn’t enough. She did a shot of tequila, chased that down with a Corona and climbed aboard with her finger on her pepper spray trigger.

I won’t say much more, other than to point out the sweetheart in short white shorts standing in front of Vanity. Why yes – those are red high heels….. which seemed oddly appropriate as Greyhound-riding attire.

Vanity finished a book that she loved on vacation and passed along to me to read. I decided to give a copy away in her Greyhound riding honor… because it inspired her to write her own “essay” while aboard the bus about her experience. She texted me shortly after hitting the road saying it was “pouring out of her” and she’d already written three entire pages.

It KILLED me to not tell her about my blog, but for obvious reasons, I did not. She’s considering posting it to her own little public blog – so if she does, I will copy and paste it into mine. It should be a hysterical read.

So the giveaway book, I Was Told There’d Be Cake, is a collection of essays by Sloane Crosley. I’ve read a few of the essays and they are comical. Just the kind of reading we all love… totally blog-able experiences, written from a sarcastic, can-do-no-right perspective.  You’re going to love it!

To enter, leave me EITHER

• a link to a post about something that you had to do that was really a stretch for you (such as Greyhound) – or an embarrassing moment….. you know – a time you felt you were really sinking low.
• OR – if you don’t have a post to link to, leave a brief comment about something along the same lines as above that was worthy of blogging about
• OR – just leave me a comment and tell me how much you missed me last week.  I’ll count those as entries, too.

After reading your stories, I will come up with a creative way to choose a winner on Friday, June 6th. Might be random….. might not.

Tomorrow, we’ll talk about my week. ALONE.

So glad to be back with you, dear reader.