A question was asked on one of my writers’ online email loops. I wrote a response, prayed, and clicked send. Then the wifi connection dropped.
Rats.
Then I had second thoughts.
I decided not to send it.
I went in to my email to delete it from the outbox.
And watched it sail away.
Oh well, I told myself. You were brave. That’s the main thing.
There have been a few comments that I’ve responded to off the loop. Then yesterday a message came through that the officers in charge of the loop were crafting a response to me.
Ooops.
I’m soooo not a pot stirrer. Not a drama addict. I’m a keep-the-peace-at-all-costs kind of girl.
Gulp.
I wailed to one of my besties, “WHAT HAVE I DONE??!!” She talked me off the ledge. She reminded me that I didn’t say anything inflammatory. What I said needed to be said and it needed to be heard.
So …
If i let myself wallow, I start to panic again. Will my hand get slapped? Will I be scolded? Then I climb back off the ledge and remember the important things:
I was brave.
I addressed something that needed to be addressed.
A quick look at what’s coming up to the top of my To Be Read stack.
First up on my Kindle is Neanderthal Seeks Human by Penny Reid.
Comes highly recommended!
A couple of people have recommended this series quite highly and I’m looking forward to diving in.
I’ve just started another Susan Mallery, Only Yours, a Fool’s Gold book from a couple of years ago. I’m working through her older stuff and so far this is another winner.
Finally, I’m also reading Jen Hatmaker’s latest, For the Love. I’ll probably be reviewing this one next week. It’s full of wisdom, grace, encouragement, and a few recipes.
Well, it’s been a week and a half since my Project Runway viewing party sponsored by JustFab.
A fun time was had by all!
I sent out an evite to 93 people. That’s pretty much everyone I know who lives in a 50-mile radius and that I had an email address for. I do know a few more people, but if I didn’t have an email address, I couldn’t invite.
Stud Muffin freaked out a little when I told him I’d invited 93 women to our 1250 square foot house.
I did it for several reasons:
The swag JustFab sent. Sketch books, gift cards, favor bags, wine, catalogs!
JustFab committed to sending favors, buying us some food and drink, and supplying gifts. I owed it to them to make it the biggest bash I could.
My hostessing experience tells me that if about half to seventy-five percent of invitees actually attend, so my guesstimate was I’d have closer to 40 than 90 attendees.
My real life experience of living in the country has taught me that people think driving twenty extra minutes is no big deal until the time arrives for them to climb in the car and they change their minds. And it was short notice, so I knew a lot of people wouldn’t be able to make it and some would have something come up at the last minute. So I wanted to have some padding against the inevitable fallouts.
It promised to be a really fun evening and I wanted to share it with all my friends.
In the end, I had about twenty women come. We ate the food JustFab and a few of my friends provided. I set up chairs in the living room, dragged the dining table out of the way and we got cozy. I could have fit a few more on the floor in front of the television.
In all, it was the perfect viewing party. Even Stud Muffin ended up agreeing with me.
Studying the runway
We watched the show. We chatted during the commercials about which designs we liked and why. Just like the judges, we were widely divergent on the runway designs. We agreed that the red dress was fabulous. We also loved Ashley’s motorcycle jacket.
That was beyond adorable.
We discussed if Tim would use his Tim Gunn save. We agreed that it depended on who was “out.”
Those of us who watch the show regularly knew that Laurie and Merline were on thin ice.
In the end, Laurie just couldn’t get past the double failure of her bottom finish the week before along with the JustFab challenge.
We agreed the judges made the right decision on who was out, but we weren’t unanimous on the winner. Some of us felt Ashley deserved another win. She completely recreated her look when Tim suggested the fabric suggested a hospital gown. She “made it work.”
A few more pictures of our evening:
JustFab has sent me a few of their products to try out. And they sent some gift cards for three lucky attendees at my viewing.
Next week, I’ll talk about what I ordered and what I think of the products.
Rats.
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