I got this idea from Glamour magazine. They have a section called Hey, It’s Okay and will list a bunch of things to be okay about. You're welcome to join in and do something like this on your diary. Doesn't have to be on a Tuesday either.
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To eat at Hooters with the kids. Some people are all, “HOW could you do this?” Um? Because we like the chicken wings?
To be amazed at what people give up for Lent. Some people give up Facebook. Others give up sweets (I’d die.) Someone else is giving up soda. (Again. I’d. Totally. Die.)
To still think those oversized sunglasses make a person look like a walking bug.
To not have cared who The Bachelor picked. I give it two months. Three at the most. That Brad dude just creeps me out.
To still not watch Glee. I know. I’m probably the last person out there to not watch the show. Maybe over the summer I’ll rent the first season on Netflix.
To feel like I’m the only one who doesn’t have The Pioneer Woman’s cookbook. She seems like a nice woman but I’ll pass on the cookbook. This has nothing to do with her, it’s just, I hate to cook ;) She’s welcome to come cook for me or attempt to teach me how to cook better. Might make for an amusing reality show.
To have finished my second book that I’ve written called Being Anne Boleyn. I’m still searching for an agent. Know any agents who represent chick lit? Getting a book published is like getting Charlie Sheen to shut his trap, I’m figuring out. I refuse to give up. I know there is an agent out there for me.
To watch that show Sister Wives. I could never share my husband but hey, if other women want to do it, so be it. I’ll just sit back and watch the train wreck. (The newest wife? Ew. Cody’s hair? Double ew.)
To wish I could go over to Japan to help out. It’s horrible what has happened.
To wish I owned a peacoat in every color. I love absolutely love peacoats.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Totally OK to NOT watch Glee--I don't even know what day its on.
ReplyDeleteSister wives is gross and weird. I wish I could find 3 men like that....naaaah, still to weird.
I love these posts you do. I watch Glee, but I don't really like it. It is just not a great show right now. But I do enjoy the songs. I guess I can stop watching and just download the music...
ReplyDeleteToday it's going to be okay to let my kids watch TV all day because I'm too sick for much else. :(
Can't believe the situation in Japan. I wish I could help too.
Wow, I feel like your my long lost twin sister. I would totally die without soda. I've never watched Glee. I could care less about the Bachelor, but could never admit it in public because my co workers would look at me like I'm crazy.
ReplyDeleteAnd Sister Wives? Exactly what you said. Exactly.
Today it was (Tuesday's ending over here) okay to eat a blueberry muffin instead of granola for breakfast. :D (And I ADORE peacoats!)
ReplyDeletei need to check out the sister wives show. i love a good train wreck.
ReplyDeleteIs it OK to not know what the Pioneer Woman's Cookbook is? Does she cook out of a covered wagon?
ReplyDeletePeacoats are super cool! I've never seen Glee because the commercials for it annoy me, and I'm way too wrapped up in trashy things like Bad Girls Club.
ReplyDeleteI love oversized sunnies.
ReplyDeleteI have NEVER watched Glee.
WTF is a peacoat? I"m googling....
Lol. Amen. Amen. 1. If I could find a Hooter's around here, we would be going. Food is food. Even babies and kids know Hooters is food. LOL. I LOVE their wings and oysters. 2. Yes, yes. I'm one of the crazy people giving up Facebook for lent. LOL. 3. I seriously thought I was the only one on the planet not a fan of Glee. I've seen it twice and only 2 minutes each time. 4. I don't have The Pioneer Woman's cookbook either. My friends rant & rave about her. I'll pass. 5. Good luck on the book ;-). 6. Sister Wives is interesting, but I would not be able to deal with that. These men are insane. One wife is more than enough. 7. The events in Japan are heartbreaking. I agree. 8. Last but not least, I've been wanting pea coats in every color for sometime now. I keep forgetting to buy them on clearance for the next winter.
ReplyDeleteYou know, the folks who give up FB for lent are usually the ones you say to yourself, "Thank GOODNESS. I get a reprieve from them for 40 days and nights!" 9 times out of 10, they are the over-abusers who post wayyyyyy too much on FB wayyyyyy to often!
ReplyDeleteHappy Tuesday,
AB
I tried watching Glee. I just didn't get it. It's weird.
ReplyDeleteI do have The Pioneer Woman's cookbook but only because my best friend, who loves to cook, gave it to me as a gift. The only thing I've made from it is the Sangria!
I can't get enough of that show, Sister Wives, and I couldn't agree more about that 4th wife and Cody's locks.
Good luck on getting those books published. I would love to read them!
I am just about to settle down and watch Kody and my Girls.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what was better...your post or the follow up comments. I LOVE THIS!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's okay to love it...you said so.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who has never, ever watched Glee! Not once! And the Pioneer Woman has some good stuff, but the fat and calorie content ... whoa. That covered wagon better be a double-wide.
ReplyDeleteI just started watching Glee. I don't really get what all of the hype is about, but it's entertaining. I watch it for the songs.
ReplyDeleteI would totally buy that book if and when you get it published! And I would love a pea coat in every color too. I have a green one. That's about it.
I love peacoats!
ReplyDeleteI have not ever watched Glee either. Never felt an urge to.
I can't watch Sister Wives. It makes me a teensy bit angry. I don't have The Pioneer Woman's cookbook because I can just get super fabulous recipes right from her site. And congratulations on the book! Can't wait to read it when you get it published. :) Love Glee.
ReplyDeleteFor your writing a lot of authors are publishing directly in e-book form and being very successful at it. Here's a link to an article about the most successful(not the original article I read, can't seem to find that one) (http://www.technocliq.com/news/26-year-old-indie-author-makes-millions-with-amazon-kindle-store/). The gist is that these authors are getting so successful traditional publisher's couldn't offer them anything that they don't already have and you have a great forum here on this blog to help promote your work =).
ReplyDeleteI don't watch Glee either, although I'd like to. But who has the time?
ReplyDeleteYou are the absolute BEST at these posts! I love it when you publish this list because you are so funny.
ReplyDeleteI, too, have never watched Glee. I tend not to run with the crowd and I never have. In high school, when everybody was into Michael Jackson, I thought Prince was better, Ha!
Hooters, huh. No judging here.
I just rented Season1 of Glee on netfix and after a couple episodes LOVE IT. I thought it was going to be some dumb show about high school, but it's better than that.
ReplyDeleteFor Lent, I am giving up giving up things for Lent.
ReplyDeleteI still have the Peacoat I was issued in the Navy.
ReplyDeleteIt's only been worn 3 or 4 times.
And no, you can't have it.
I guess my "Its okay." would be to agree with everything you just said! lol Love this post!
ReplyDeleteI like this weekly segment. I'm not into Glee either. But I have to admit to liking those oversized sunglasses!
ReplyDeleteI can't help but watch Sister Wives. I agree they are a total train wreck.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch Glee either. I wish I could go and help in Japan as well. Scary place and I hope they are able to help their people soon.
ReplyDeleteLove Sister Wives. And CONGRATS ON THE BOOK! I hope you can find an agent!! I'll be looking for one shortly myself. Scary!
ReplyDeleteI came to say something about e-publishing, but someone already beat me to it!
ReplyDeleteI'm kind of a purist when it comes to books, saying that if they're not PRINTED and BOUND then they don't count. But then I went to an author panel of authors who have books out in print, and a lot of them said they're going the e-book route now. So it's not as sketchy as it once was.
Also, I've never been to Hooters. Not because I have anything against it, just because I never have.
Finally, I have the Pioneer Woman's cookbook because there was a copy they were going to throw out at the library where I work because every page was literally falling out, and so I snagged it. If you don't like to cook, it'd be a pain, but if you're like me and you love it, some of her calorie-laden, fat-filled recipes are awesome every now and then.
Congrats on finishing your 2nd book! I'm *finally* almost finished with my first, and I'm not looking forward to the agent-finding part of the process at all.
ReplyDeleteI don't have that cookbook either. Good luck with the agent. I'll read the book when you get published...heck, I'll read it when you want to send it to me.
ReplyDeleteGlee gets boring after a half season. It's just too proposterous and up its own ass these days, pardon my francais.
ReplyDeleteI watched a "Sister Wives" marathon out of curiosity, recently, when I was sick in bed. The dude seems like he's too smug to exist. The wives are ok though. They're not hurting anyone by living their lives the way they do, I say people should leave them alone. I agree on the new wife, she comes across as overly sugary and fawning and caring but in a totally over the top way, which makes me think there's a bitch waiting to be unleashed. :)
Ditto on the peacoat thing! Love them!
ReplyDeleteAlso watch Sister Wives. Totally addicted. I am not into that but Robyn totally messed up what the 3 wives have had going on for like 14 years...horrible! ha
So many things to respond to...I refuse to watch Glee, it's not my thing. Same for the Bachelor. I don't get the Hooter's stigma...they don't look sexy they just look like they got trapped in 1992!! I love peacoats, I have 3!!
ReplyDeleteOooh me too! Peacoats!
ReplyDeleteMust go shopping :)
Oooh me too! Peacoats!
ReplyDeleteMust go shopping :)
I love Glee, but I'm a musical theatre nerd, so I guess that's why I started... my husband, who is not a theatre person, started watching it and likes it too for the music and the humor.
ReplyDeleteI don't think there's anything wrong with Hooters, I used to love their wings until I found feathers on one of them...
I also love peacoats:)
I'd rather stick a fork in my eye than watch Glee. Never ever will I succumb to its cheery bubbly whatever it is that draws grown women to wet their knickers.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch Glee either. And I love peacoats!
ReplyDeleteConfession, I DVR Glee,I suppose that makes me a Gleek. Sister Wives is such an alien concept for me, there are some things that I do not share well, my husband being one of them. The Bachelor, same concept as Sister Wives, don't you think? I love to cook and view recipes as suggestions. I experiment. A lot. Sometimes it turns out great and sometimes, well, we won't talk about that.
ReplyDeleteBuy the peacoats and eat at Hooters, cause you are right, it really is okay!
I've never seen Glee. Obviously it plays against a reality show on my tv schedule. Nothing comes between me and my reality.
ReplyDeleteJust added Sister Wives to my DVR.
I couldnt even say what channel or network Glee is on...I just dont see the appeal!
ReplyDeleteI love Sister Wives...cant look away!
I didn't mean for it to happen, but I got totally pulled into Sister Wives last season- has it already started again??
ReplyDeleteGlee? emmmm - what's that?
ReplyDeleteTotally kidding. I've *heard* of it but never seen it. Just wanted you to know you weren't alone. Although I don't have any plans of ever watching it.
I'm with you on the Bachelor he was totally creeptastic. And I looove Sister Wives.
ReplyDeleteDitto on People looking like bugs with those Huge stupid sunglasses, ditto on Glee too I've never watched it, and I don't have that cook book either. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteHave a Beautiful Week!
Thanks for coming by my blog. I love yours!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm stealing this idea <3
Amanda
Www.keepitcomplicated.me
Here's a good one -- for Lent I'm actually going to try and stop yelling at my kids. At least try to take DEEP breaths, before I'm in the face of y five year old who has taken up whining that sounds, literally, like a bee buzzing in your ear. "Is that the bee again?" his older brother asks, which makes him whine all the more.
ReplyDeleteDOn't you HATE that commercial where the mom is burning dinner, the toddler is crying in the living room and then she takes a deep breath, smiles, forgets dinner and goes in and smiles sweetly at the screaming child? You KNOW, the commercial that reminds us how our behavior sets an example to our kids?
Congrats on finishing your book! (Your second book?!? I didn't realize that.) I have no clue on how to get an agent but I wish you all the luck in the world and will love to read it someday.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if you had planned ahead and written the book about Charlie Sheen:) Hang in there. There has to be one smart publicist out there who will snatch your book up.
ReplyDeleteBachelor? No thanks.
Pioneer Woman cookbook? No thanks.
Totally with you on Cody's hair - I think he's trying desperately to hide his receding hairline... but he's really just drawing more attention to it - and not in a good way!
ReplyDeleteLove my peacoat. It's black and goes with everything.
ReplyDeleteHooters is no worse than some of the coffee places around here. Seems everyone's showing something for tips now a days.
And, I gave up Charlie Sheen for lent. Easy peasy.
I don't watch Glee, either. I came home tonight to find my husband watching it. This is hilarious to me.
ReplyDeleteI hope you find an agent! I'd read your books. :)
Thanks for visiting! As much as I want Charlie Sheen to shut his trap, I'll send out the vibes that - first (or simultaneously) - you'll get your book published. Good luck.
ReplyDeletexoRobyn
I don't watch Glee, either. Nor do I have the Pioneer Woman's cookbook. I would TOTALLY buy your book. . . and peacoats = L O V E!
ReplyDeleteOdd finale there, with the Japan disaster empathy and the pea coat love, but I agree on both counts.
ReplyDeletenope I've never seen Glee. And I don't have PW's cookbook. i've actually printed off and made things from her website, back in 2006 and no one had any idea who she was and my computer was still on dial up and it took like an hour because I didn't realize it also was downloading and printing pictures. this crazy fattening olive butter bread. and in my mind, cause she kept talking about her bil and being a cattle rancher's wife and stuff...I pictured this middle aged, short, stout (because she'd have to be stout with the food she makes, she's like the gilmore girls talking about all this food but not really ever eating it I think ) lady and just didn't connect.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch Glee either. I have no desire to.....
ReplyDeleteLove this post:
ReplyDelete1. So happy that you've completed a book! You had me at the title: Being Anne Boleyn, but if it's chicklit! I'm in! Let me know if you need any diehard chicklit fan readers, and certainly let me know if you'll be doing a book signing near me at some point. Just hang in there!
2. I love Sister Wives. No, I probably wouldn't share my husband (note: probably) but I sure could use those other wives to help with laundry.
3. Bachelor? Is that show still on the air?
4. And do catch up on Glee when you can. My family and I recently got into it. We ended up renting and watching the entire first season in like two nights! It's addicting, I promise it won't disappoint.
Your Tuesday posts are the highlight of my web-surfing in the evenings. For real. It's a bit ridiculous, actually.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Pioneer Woman, I find it okay that I read her blog religiously EXCEPT for the recipes because they make me hungry, and make me realize my own path to success is not in my kitchen.
Hey, it's okay to let my middle-aged bellybutton show.
ReplyDeleteI think you would like Glee.
ReplyDeleteSister Wives is just the best train wreck.
I didn't even watch The Bachelor this time because the dude was so creepy.
ReplyDeleteHope you had an okay Tuesday.
The agent hunt is hard. I'm on it for my kid books.
ReplyDeleteI don't own Pioneer Woman's cookbook. Nor do I watch Glee.
ReplyDeleteSo you're not alone. :p
Is there a possibility of Tom being sent to Japan to help?
Great post.. your not the only one that hasn't watched Glee.
ReplyDeleteI thought I was the only one obsessed with peacoats. Love.
ReplyDeleteAlso, congrats on finishing your book!! Do you have crit. partners?? And have you enlisted beta readers? I would be interested in beta reading for you, if you want to take me up on it, email me!
even though I'm not Catholic and don't observe Lent...I still gave something up just to see if I could....and its soda. P.S. After 8 days of no diet coke, no diet dr pepper or pepsi...I'm nearly ready to rip someone's head off!
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I tried Glee one time. I totally didn't get it.
ReplyDeleteOr, the Bachelor.
I emailed a friend who has chick lit of her own and knows people...I'll get back to you!
I've never watched Glee, never watched Bachelor. I do however watch pretty much every single other reality show though. Sister Wives... totally agree on Cody... Ewwee Big TIME! I'm a lil sick to my stomach eveyr time I watch yet I still watch. I also feel bad that their family might be broken apart. Seems like its worked for them for 20 years just let them be. Ehhh its the law so we'll let those people deal with it. LOL.
ReplyDeleteIMO, you're right about the Bachelor. I don't know why but Brad doesn't seem to be all there. That may be mean, but that's just how I see him. It's nothing against him, I'm sure he's a very sweet guy, but I don't see their relationship lasting.
ReplyDeleteI have tons of friends who gave up FB for Lent. My friends list was cut almost in half. Haha.
Sister Wives is really entertaining. I watch it :)
Um, yeah. Bachelor almost sucked me into that last episode, but I quit before it got me. I realized no matter what happened it was going to piss me off because one or the other was going to get proposed to and then was going to be all, "Oh Brad, of course I'll marry you!" when what she really should have done was kick him in the nuts and walk away. So. Now you know my opinion! lol.
ReplyDeleteOh, and it's just killin me that you've now finished your second book and I still have no hope of reading either!! Seriously, if you epublish I will go buy me some sort of ereader so I can get your books.
ReplyDeleteGlee is alright... until they burst into song. And they're all cover songs, so I don't see what the point is; I'll just listen to the original, better version on my iPod thank-you. Of course, I'm only one of two people I know that doesn't absolutely love the show, but you may like it.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait till you find an agent! Your blog is the only one I read consistently every week; you are super interesting and hilarious. I look forward to reading your books one day. :) Good luck!