May 3, Houston: The big one -- the Inprint reading -- occurs at the Alley Theatre on Monday, May 3. Do not miss it or you'll be sorry. I'm not kidding -- I'm going to say the craziest, most intellectual yet hilarious stuff I can think of, and I'll be sharing the stage with the ultra sexy Oscar Casares, too.
June 24, Houston: I'm one of the peeps scheduled to read at Poison Pen, at Houston's famous Poison Girl bar. Besides me, everyone there will be ultra, *super* sexy. Come see me and drink!
June 26, Washington, DC: I'll be reading at the American Library Association conference. Come on down.
My other blog: Go read my the Houston Chronicle parenting blog (or my ChronMomBlog, as I like to call it) and make sure my kids won't resent me more than other kids resent their own parents.
Buy my new novel, Lone Star Legend. Already did? Well, buy a few more for your friends, then. :)
Sunday, June 08, 2008
stress mismanagementRight now I'm stressed out for a variety of reasons. On the DefCon scale of Gwen Stress, I'm about a 3 out of 5 possible stress settings. So, nothing horrible. Just standard stuff -- work, other work, and the eight-years-post-divorce proceedings that are apparently going to keep happening for the rest of my life, or until my youngest turns 18, which is 7 years from now, so it may as well be... Oh, and I just killed my effing front lawn by over-fertilizing, and I have to hurry up and create a new lawn before the homeowners' association starts fining.
So, normal stuff. The difference today is that I'm trying not to cope with it by my traditional means which are:
1. eating sweets, or
2. spending money on frivolous things.
Which leaves me with no coping mechanisms at all.
What do normal people do? How do healthy, functional, sane people cope with stress? Someone tell me, please. Except don't say jogging. Although I probably should exercise. In all my copious hours of spare time.
that's all
That's all I can say right now. More later, when things blow over and the lawn is green again. Which I'm sure will happen very soon.
I'm going outside with a permanent marker right now, in fact.
Later, peeps. 4:02 PM #
