My Life with a Book Launch, a Video, and The Hunger Games
I woke up this morning at 9:15.
Do you know how long it's been since I've slept until 9:15? Sometimes I wake up earlier but stay in bed for a while, but I actually didn't even come to consciousness until 9:15. I think I've been overtired.
I know all of you with little kids are now insanely jealous, because you'd love to sleep in, so I'm sorry. One day your turn will come again, I promise!
But I've had a bit of a wild ride these last few weeks, getting ready for the launch of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex and writing last month's 29 Days to Great Sex. I've blogged pretty much everyday since the end of January (even weekends), and it's hard to get a post up everyday! And I've been writing guest posts for a bunch of sites, and doing radio interviews. Last weekend I even had a video guy over at my house filming some videos to use in my Girl Talk event for churches and to put up on YouTube. It's just a strange life right now. As these pictures prove:
My husband is a really good sport. For the videos he didn't actually have any lines. One he just had to lie there, and one he just had to look dejected in a variety of scenes. He does dejected well.
And by the way, the videos are not raunchy at all! 
But here's the worst part of filming videos in your home: you have to actually clean. A lot. And when you've spent a month and a half doing nothing but blogging, the house gets really messy! But it gave me a good reason to clean, and boy did the house look great! For about 24 hours. Sigh.
And then, to top it all off, I decided on Sunday night that I would start the Hunger Games series. My girls have read it, and they're all excited about the movie coming out in a week or so, so I figured I'd better see what all the fuss was about.
I delayed reading them for a while because the concept was just so gross to me. Basically, The Capitol, a tyrannical government, keeps 12 Districts as slave labour (and the Districts don't communicate with each other at all). Each year, one teenage girl and one teenage boy from each district are forced to compete in The Hunger Games, a gladiatorial-like contest to the death, with only one winner.
I thought: that is so revolting. That is so awful. That is absolutely insane. There's no way that I could read that. But the girls kept saying, "it's not as gross as it sounds." I couldn't believe it could possibly NOT be gross, but I have a stronger stomach than my girls, so I figured if they enjoyed it, I would.
I read the first book the first night. Then I read the second book the next day and started the third. And then I had to finish the third the next morning before I could get anything done.
I am not letting myself read anything again until the summer. I don't get anything done! When the kids were little and I would start a novel, I would stay in my pyjamas and read, and ignore them, and tell them to have cereal for lunch, because I am completely incapable of putting a book down once I've started it. Some people have no self-control when it comes to chocolate. I have no self-control when it comes to books.
Anyway, I did enjoy the books, and I'll be writing about them in my column next week, so you can see what I think. But I'm back in the real world now, after a day yesterday of finishing up the Hunger Games and then being interviewed for an hour by Dennis Prager (could you tell I was folding laundry during the interview? I thought if my hands were busy I'd be less nervous.)
So that's a little peek into my life.
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A number of sites are running contests where you could win a copy of The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex!
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And this weekend I want to run my new feature, Reader Questions. So if you have a great question, leave it in the comments, and maybe I'll put it up to get other people's input!
Have a great day! I'm going to go try to get caught up on teaching my youngest her Math (we homeschool, too). And then I'll clean my house again.
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