I got a call yesterday. They’re going to install my blinds today! Yea!!! Probably, they’re going to have to come back to install the hardware for the curtains, but I don’t care. It’s creeped me out to have a bare bedroom window. I’m still traumatized from a peeping tom incident when I was 7. I found out the next day it was the neighbor boys going around looking in everyone’s window, but at the time, I looked up at the window, saw this face mashed against it and totally freaked out. I’m sure that’s why I’m having such a huge problem with this naked window now even though I know it’s really difficult for anyone to see in.
Anyway, I have to put things away that I’d normally leave out–like my laptop–so I really need to move this morning. So what do I do? Oversleep. Sigh.
While I’m talking about my house, I just want to say that asking the electrician to install a light above the shower was brilliant. Maybe one of the smartest decisions I made. If I hadn’t, it would be pretty dim in there because of the position of the light fixture and the shower.
I hung my curtains that came in from Penney’s and they’re about an inch shorter than the ones I already have up. (I bought the extra panels because I liked the fuller look.) Sigh. How can two sets of 63″ panels be two different lengths? This just boggles my mind. It’s not like they have to guess how long to make the panels. I left them up for now, but I’ll no doubt have to return those.
So tomorrow I have a book signing. I’ll be at the Mall of America, Bloomington, MN at 7pm. Sears Court on the first level. Question and answer session (gulp), followed by the actual signing. Along with me will be Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer, Barbara Samuel, Kathleen Eagle, Michele Hauf, Judy Baer, and so many other authors my brain can’t remember all their names. Especially at 4:53 in the morning. 
But there will be a lot of Minnesota authors there so come on out if you’re in the area.
In honor of the book signing, the MN Dept of Transportation has decided to close the freeway that I need to take to the mall. I’m trying to figure out an alternate route.
Today should be a truly fabulous day! I hope I’m right and I hope everyone else has a day as good as the one I plan on having!
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Wow, Patti, the book signing sounds awesome! Also, you’ll be in such great company! Jennifer C., Barbara Samuel, and the goddess Kathleen Eagle. I’ve read her for years. Let us know how it goes. I’m living vicariously through you on this, okay? I think I’ll love book signings the most, the one on one with actual readers. Wow.
Have fun and enjoy the booksigning!
I ordered tops recently and they fit fine so I decided to order a jacket with hood in the same size. Would you believe the jacket is too big (sigh) but it’s such a pain to mail back, pay for postage etc. that I decided to keep it anyway.
Patti,
Enjoy yourself at the booksigning. If Crusie is as funny at signings as she is as a keynote speaker, you should have lots of fun.
(and lots to report back!!)
LaDonna,
Thanks! I’m really shy, though, so book signings are hard for me. I have to psych myself up for them and I live in fear of saying something stupid or misspelling a reader’s name. I rarely do them, although I do enjoy the ones at RWA National. Mostly.
Patti
Thanks, Joyce!
I guess I’m not too surprised about the clothes being different sizes because it seems like everything is different from brand to brand or style to style when it comes to apparel. I did expect more consistency in curtains, though.
That’ll teach me to be optimistic!
Patti
Thanks, Theresa! I hope I have some good stories since this is what I’m planning to blog about tomorrow.
Patti