Saturday, October 3, 2009

Thankyouthankyouthankyou + The News


I'm not feeling very creative, what with the lugging and the running and the stamping and the screeching, so just the basic facts:

1. You guys are way beyond awesome. People have been spreading the word and it's making a big difference. Thank you for keeping me in business. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.

2. The new issue is HOME. Being mailed out as we speak.

2a. I enclosed "Time to renew!" slips for all who require them; you can also tell it's that special time by looking at your address sticker. If it has an 8 on it, this is the last issue in your subscription.

2aa. When I can afford it, I will get a stamp made to the effect that it's time to renew, and a nice bright ink pad, so that you can tell without even having to open your envelope or learning to read my weird little codes.

3. "Tru Blood," my new drug of choice, only has one season available to rent, and I've already burned through it. So now I'm stamping and stuffing to old episodes of "Alien Nation," and I have no idea of what happened to Lafayette other than the fact that his prospects don't look too bright, seeing as how he's been "out of town" for two weeks and I'm pretty sure that was him hanging out of the back seat of that car at the end of the last episode.

3a. Re Lafayette: DON'T TELL ME. I'll rent the next season as soon as it's out.

3b. Jon Danniells is a father in my local support group who wrote an article about his experiences as a primary homeschooling dad for the current issue of SHM. His wife worked on Tru Blood. This is the kind of thing that passes for normal when you homeschool in L.A.

More soon...

2 comments:

Wendy Hawksley said...

1. Hoping that every little bit helps.

2. Can't wait to read it!

2a. I know my subscription is up for renewal. You'll see my order around October 16 or so.

The rest, no speaky of vampire secrets. Will keep mum! Just know that if you have read the Sookie Stackhouse books, the TV series is very different. People who die in one don't necessarily die in the other, and vice versa.

Looking forward to the next issue!

AntoniaBologna said...

1. I just finished the 1st season of "True Blood" also. Gawd almighty but I think Lafayette has to be a vampire, or I swear if I ever meet a writer from that show, I will choke them.

2. Can't wait for your next issue and I have been trying to make every person I know, even ones without children, buy SHM. You'd think that just by being my friend you would want to buy a year's subscription! Really!

3. Deb, I have a really sick (but sick in a funny way) story to tell you. When you actually have a minute, could you either FB me, or just email me?? I would send it to you without any provocation, but it is too good to accidentally end up in your spam....