Screaming In Bookstores and Making Secret Goals
Hey hey hey friendlies!
Yesterday I screamed inside a Barnes and Noble. Not Taylor-loud (they probably would have kicked me out), but loud enough that the other girl in the aisle looked at me like I was crazy.
But I had a good excuse. A really, really good excuse. I was there to get a few grad gifts for people (done! and wrapped! and not all from bn!) and so I’m wandering around the YA section and you guys know how they have that little Nonfic-YA shelf?
THIS WAS WHAT I SAW ON IT.
Do you see that? Do you see those two books that say RED on them? Oh. Freaking. Em. Gee. I was freaking out. I was like I have to tell someone, I have to tell someone! So I called my mom and then texted a few of my friends and I felt like doing a little happy dance right there in the store but I restrained myself.
But oh my gosh. I’m in that book. That is in Barnes and Noble. That is coming out in paperback. Me. Me, me, me. My words. I know it came out in November, and I know I found out in February or something like that, but friendlies? It still feels surreal.
In other news, I bought Julianne Hough’s CD and yes, it is great. Go buy it. Unless you really just can’t stand country. In which case you are missing out.
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And changing gears again, let’s talk about Project for Self (go read it and join if you haven’t yet). Because I’ve got three people who’ve joined (yay!) and I’ve been thinking.
It’s really easy to say you’re going to start going after life and doing the things you really want to do, but it’s a whole other thing to actually go through with it. So think of something you want to do, maybe something you’ve wanted to do for a while, but haven’t yet because you’re too afraid or it just seems crazy. You don’t have to say what it is (but you can), it can be your SECRET GOAL and it can be anything. Being more outgoing, getting to know someone you’ve wanted to know for a while, making a new friend, asking your crush out, making up with a friend you’ve been fighting with or even lost because of a fight. Whatever it is that you’ve wanted to do but haven’t. Then start to make it happen. Baby steps, like talking to the Starbucks barista if you’re trying to be more outgoing, saying hi to that person you want to become your friend, calling or texting your lost friend to see how she/he’s doing.
Let’s all think of our secret goals (or not secret goals, it doesn’t matter but sometimes it’s just easier to do things if you don’t have people knowing about what it is, for some reason) and take the first step. (I may or may not open up a Project for Self page on the wordpress blog for people to let us know how their secret goals are going, even if they don’t want to tell what the goal is.) Thanks to Erin, Jocelyn, and Jamie for joining me in this!
Tags: barnes and noble, goals, graduation gifts, project for self, red the book, secret goals
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June 3, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Soooo cool about the book. I actually haven’t read it yet, but am going to next month when my friend lends it to me finally. And I know two of the contributors! Yay!
Ok, I’ve settled on my SECRET GOAL. I’m ready to go. *takes a deep breath*
June 3, 2008 at 7:51 pm
How very exciting, I think you would have been entitled to a very large scream. Congratulations!
I like Project Self. I do say things alot and then not do them, I was actually much, much braver when I was young because I thought I had all the time in the world.
I think I might go and write something about this - inspiration, thanks!
June 4, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Erin - Yay! I’ve settled on my SECRET GOAL too (actually I’d settled on it before I wrote this post but having it out there, even secretly, is really helping give me the push to actually do it). Now just deep breath, dive in.
Marmiteandtea - Thanks for linking to me! Yay!