I mentioned this book earlier in the week, but if you would like to win a copy of Murder on the ‘ol Bunions, then leave a comment between now and Monday. I will announce the winner next Wednesday.

So I totally voted this week. Thank God that’s over.

I was so focused on the big things to vote for that I was taken totally unaware of things that would ALSO be on the ballot. Who knows what I voted for. Actually I had to leave some things blank. But one Arkansas Amendment I didn’t leave blank was the one that said, “Idiots and the insane should not get to vote.” I won’t tell you how I voted on it, but let’s just say I’m not sure that I’ll qualify to cast my ballot next year. Seriously, what the heck does that even mean? Idiots? Do they know how many people in Arkansas that would eliminate?  So I guess idiots won’t get to vote, but apparently they can still run for office. With that in mind, check out this AARP video.

So this is totally legit, but if you go HERE to Campbell’s Soup and click on the small barn icon on the top right, you can help support Future Farmers of America. I’ve clicked a few times! FFA is a great organization and one of the largest growing groups in high school. And it ain’t just for boys and cows anymore.

Sometimes do you just sit around and think, “I wonder how we’re going to fix the economy. I also wonder how Posh Spice would look like as a fierce Indian bride.” Well, wonder no more. For at least one of those.

Apparently Rob Pattinson, aka Edward Cullen of Twilight, got mobbed in Mexico. Maybe THAT explains his hair.

I have a note to myself to blog about jeans, but I have no idea what that even means. Maybe that was my laundry list. . .

Right now I’m trying to read some YA as well as a book on writing. A book I just read that is neither one of those is this

It’s a light little series about a crime solving lady who’s a former Nicole Richie type, and even though she’s broke, she still hobnobs with the elite. It was pretty good. And I didn’t know who did it until the very end, which was well done. Though the ending itself was a cheap cop-out. My super smart editor would have NEVER let me get away with this cheap ending. I’ve mentioned before how my editor Jamie is really into reality and stuff that I tend to ignore. One time I tried to give Katie Parker three arms in a scene from On the Loose, and she would not go for it. And in that same book I had a scene in which Katie and the family were skiing in February. Um…that didn’t fly either.

I’m now going to read this book:

Book of a Thousand Days is a YA novel by the author of Goose Girl, which I also haven’t read but really want to. But flipping through this book I have noticed it’s a little fantasy-ish with all sorts of fantasy-ish names like Saren and Dashti. I get really lost and confused when authors start making up names and universes and their own little language, so I hope I can get through this book. I will let you know. If I ever write a fantasy novel the characters will be like Bill, Susie, Mike, and Tina. You know…normal names. Names with an appropriate balance of consonants and vowels. Names that don’t sound like communicable diseases you find on posters in the health department.

If you’ve read anything good lately, let me know. I need to branch out and stop reading Nora Roberts and Seventeen magazine. Don’t forget to leave a comment between now and next Monday to win a copy of Muder on the ‘Ol Bunions. Because any book with a foot deformation reference has to be good, right?

Have a fabu weekend.
JEN

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