Several of you have asked how my trip to Arizona went a few weeks ago, to which I have to reply…
THERE WERE LIBRARIANS/TEACHERS IN GALLAHGER ACADEMY T-SHIRTS!!!!!
How could it have been anything but awesome?
I got to talk to hundreds of middle school students!
(Note how the arrival of this picture closely preceded my re-enrollment in diet church. I mean Weight Watchers.)
And sign what felt like thousands of books!
And see probably the greatest school bulletin boards…
… in the history of school bulletin boards!
(I highly recommend clicking on this one to make it really big because the little details in it are AMAZING!)
So how could it have been anything but wonderful?
A lot of you have also been asking how my cabinet exorcism went.
Well…it wasn’t actually the exorcism itself. There were no hammers or crowbars or crucifixes or anything. But we did look over the situation and there is hope!
Of course, I was warned, that my cabinets will never be the wonderful cabinets of which I’ve always dreamed, but they may be able to–with a few alterations–become functioning members of kitchen society.
We’ll get new doors.
And lose the terrible, awful brace thing…
that makes it impossible for me to remove my dinner plates without first turning them at a thirty degree angle.
And we might even be able to add some awesome features!
Like two of these!
And maybe even something like this!
And if all goes well, I might have soon have something like this!
Oooh. Look at me–I’m all a flutter!
I don’t know if it’s the cabinets or this…
That’s right–CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY is at Wal-Mart.
WAL-MART–the holy grail of retail!
People are going to go in looking for laundry detergent and tortilla chips and they’re going to see it. And maybe buy it.
Now I know some of you might not think this is a big deal because maybe you’ve got a bookstore right across the street, but where I come from…you’ve got nothing across the street except cows and maybe some big round bales of hay. In fact the only place that sells books in about a five county radius of where I used to live is Wal-Mart.
So…yay!
My book is at Wal-Mart (and right next to my friend Lauren Myracle’s awesome books! Double yay!)
That’s it.
I need to go lie down.
–Ally