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September 11, 2007
You will be entertained at the very least and enlightenment is an option.
http://advancedmeditation.com/cmd.php?Clk=2095310
Thursday, 9/13, there is a teleconference call where you can learn more about this. There will be sample meditations and a chance at a free gift worth $400.
http://advancedmeditation.com/cmd.php?Clk=2095310
Trust me. You want to try this. The IAM Meditations are the product of the fertile mind of Steven Sashen who is also responsible for much of the Shampoo Method we talk about here every day.
It’s completely safe. I’d trust this guy with my life.
This feeling, this is what we have all been looking for our whole lives. It’s like coming home.
Love, Ann
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July 11, 2007
I am so totally getting into this book by Jen Lancaster: Bright Lights, Big Ass.
http://www.jennsylvania.com/
I tried a part time job at my favorite major bookseller, Borders. I was hoping to garner enough to pay rent on a part time, later hours job, so that I could entertain myself writing this blog in the mornings, and eventually, the book of Ann’s Tale. I twisted my ankle at Paul’s son’s graduation back on Memory Day, and reluctantly took my leave of the 8 hour shifts of standing. Well, I don’t miss the standing part, but I do miss working with book people and getting paid to tell people what to read all day. That was awesome.
Did you know the whole store is your personal library if you work for them? Ooo la la! And you can check out the publisher’s advance copies of beaucoups of fabulous new books. Man, oh man. Book Worm Heaven!
So, our trainer, Reba, she told us one day we could take any book we liked from a stack of these promo copies. She said she personally recommended this Jen Lancaster book, Bright Eyes, Big Ass. So, I went for it.
And Jen? Jen can write like a Valley Girl Erma Bombeck.
Oh. My. God.
Like that.
You totally know what her voice inflection would be like if she was sitting there sipping coffee with you while you laugh your ass off at her book. I mean uproariously. If I weren’t so unselfconscious and exhibitionistic I would not read this in public! I laugh at this book like there is no tomorrow.
I am kinda known for my laugh anyway. I really let myself go when I laugh (or cry).
I’ve already found myself at the Braying Donkey, a new coffee shop, with a girl who refuses to speak to me because I once moved in – as a roommate – with one of her exes she broke up with 2 years before that!1 Well, I was reading Jen Lancaster and looked up to spy Becky just sitting there, turned in her chair so her back was to me, so she could, like, pretend she didn’t know I was there. But then I’m laughing to beat the band at this Jen Lancaster book. There’s no way on Earth that everyone didn’t know I was there. People passing by on the street looked in to see what was so damned funny.
Honestly, when I first looked at the book, I thought there was no way I was going to like it. Why? It wasn’t science fiction. It wasn’t a mystery. And it mentions current events and celebrities. 2
But I? I heart Jen Lancaster.
My trainer used that one, too. Pretty clear what it means. Who knew that ancient bumper sticker would become a colloquialism?
Jen writes these cute little footnotes to her stories, too. 3
She spices up the book with little emails she writes to her girlfriends about her day. I won’t try that one here because I don’t know how to put it in a text box and make it look right.
She reads like your favorite gossipy neighbor next door. And it’s amazing how hilarious that can be . . . and how hopeful.
So, look her up if you need a laugh, and sometimes I just really, really do. It could relieve your depression.
Jen Lancaster, the next Erma Bombeck.
http://www.jennsylvania.com/
Besides, I like anyone who hates Halloween as much as I do!
Love, Ann
1 – I tried to call her about it and she never returned my phone calls. I figured he was being a better friend than she was, so I packed my bags and moved in, trading cooking for rent. Our rooms were on opposite sides of a living room in a remodeled high school and I swear I never touched him.
2. I don’t even watch TV and very few movies.
3. Like this, but she knows how to superscript her footnotes and I haven’t figured that out on WordPress.
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Ann's Tale 