I GOTTA make me holla, honey-boo-boo!
The above title is partially from and courtesy of the amazing Alana, who for the past four weeks has been holding steady as my Most Favoritest Person In America. She is also responsible for the phrases "git monnnaaaaay!", "Honey boo-boo child" and "Go-Go Juice " being added to my everyday vernacular.
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Also, for special romantic occasions, I like pull out my "Alana's Talent Dance, As Performed By Her Momma" (skip ahead to the 4:15 mark for the magic) for Chris. It gets him so excited that, when I'm done, he's ready to skip making out altogether and just go to sleep.
Anyway. In three days it's going to be my birthday. Typically, when it's my birthday, I like having a whole month devoted to it. "But it's my birthday," I'll declare, when wheedling friends into meeting me for a happy hour arranged specifically to fit my schedule and location. "But it's my birthdaaay!" I'll whine, when people have the audacity to make other plans that don't include me during any point in the month of February. "Buuuut it's my birthday," I rationalize, when I or anyone accompanying me has a moment of hesitation over whether or not I really need that Starbucks beverage, ice cream cake, new book, or cute scarf.
And I'm happy to report that many other people - whether willingly or begrudgingly - have fallen in line with this type of personal birthday thinking. But this year, I'd like to do something a little different.
This year, instead of interrupting your internet trolling to write happy birthday on mah Facebook or dragging yourself out to a birthday happy hour, I'm asking peeps to gift a copy of the Holiday Chick eBook to another friend. It costs a dollar, Amazon and Smashwords makes it easy to give a copy to anyone (all you need is their email address and all they need is a computer - Smashwords does PDF files for people who aren't fancy e-reader owners), and you get to look like a pal by giving someone else the gift of a new book.
And I mean, if you still want to do the thing where you sit there and think, "I'll give you what I want to give you for your birthday" and you still want to take me out for drinks at Starbucks or buy me a Dairy Queen ice cream cake, that's your prerogative, moneybags. But since it's only a dollar, gifting an eBook of Holiday Chick is both more fiscally responsible and admittedly less selfish (for you. Not for me). And, frankly, this might be your only chance to take my special day as a way to strengthen your friendships with others, instead of shunning them in favor of me like you're usually supposed to do. I'm letting you off the hook this year. I'm encouraging you to do something different, something special, for others.
Except for my parents and brothers. You guys still have to send me money. To make my birthday extra-special and show me that you love me by spreading the birthday cheer and supporting my dreams by giving an eBook of Holiday Chick to a friend, go here.
To not support me in my dreams and refuse to make this, the only 33rd birthday I'll ever have in my entire life, a happy one and be a real jerk who won't just do the one thing that I ask them to even though it would make me and the other people around them so, so happy, go here for Smashwords and here for Amazon.
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Also, for special romantic occasions, I like pull out my "Alana's Talent Dance, As Performed By Her Momma" (skip ahead to the 4:15 mark for the magic) for Chris. It gets him so excited that, when I'm done, he's ready to skip making out altogether and just go to sleep.
Anyway. In three days it's going to be my birthday. Typically, when it's my birthday, I like having a whole month devoted to it. "But it's my birthday," I'll declare, when wheedling friends into meeting me for a happy hour arranged specifically to fit my schedule and location. "But it's my birthdaaay!" I'll whine, when people have the audacity to make other plans that don't include me during any point in the month of February. "Buuuut it's my birthday," I rationalize, when I or anyone accompanying me has a moment of hesitation over whether or not I really need that Starbucks beverage, ice cream cake, new book, or cute scarf.
And I'm happy to report that many other people - whether willingly or begrudgingly - have fallen in line with this type of personal birthday thinking. But this year, I'd like to do something a little different.
This year, instead of interrupting your internet trolling to write happy birthday on mah Facebook or dragging yourself out to a birthday happy hour, I'm asking peeps to gift a copy of the Holiday Chick eBook to another friend. It costs a dollar, Amazon and Smashwords makes it easy to give a copy to anyone (all you need is their email address and all they need is a computer - Smashwords does PDF files for people who aren't fancy e-reader owners), and you get to look like a pal by giving someone else the gift of a new book.
And I mean, if you still want to do the thing where you sit there and think, "I'll give you what I want to give you for your birthday" and you still want to take me out for drinks at Starbucks or buy me a Dairy Queen ice cream cake, that's your prerogative, moneybags. But since it's only a dollar, gifting an eBook of Holiday Chick is both more fiscally responsible and admittedly less selfish (for you. Not for me). And, frankly, this might be your only chance to take my special day as a way to strengthen your friendships with others, instead of shunning them in favor of me like you're usually supposed to do. I'm letting you off the hook this year. I'm encouraging you to do something different, something special, for others.
Except for my parents and brothers. You guys still have to send me money. To make my birthday extra-special and show me that you love me by spreading the birthday cheer and supporting my dreams by giving an eBook of Holiday Chick to a friend, go here.
To not support me in my dreams and refuse to make this, the only 33rd birthday I'll ever have in my entire life, a happy one and be a real jerk who won't just do the one thing that I ask them to even though it would make me and the other people around them so, so happy, go here for Smashwords and here for Amazon.
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