Counting down

It's only a little over twenty-four hours until Cliff will draw a name out of a hat to determine the lucky winner of a signed copy of Ree Drummond's book, "Black Heels to Tractor Wheels".  I'm in the process of reading my own copy.  I followed a lot of the story as she serialized it on her blog, but I'm enjoying reading those parts again; I believe I'm about to the point where I stopped, because it's beginning to be new and unfamiliar to me. 
Did you know Ree has signed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a possible movie version of the book? 
I didn't stop reading the story online because I lost interest, by the way.  Somehow my attention span isn't so great, reading on the computer, I think because there are so many things online to distract me... you know, like checking email or tending Farmville crops.  I do much better reading my Nook, or an actual book, away from the computer.    
I've made out the list for the drawing, ready to type out and cut into strips to fold and toss in a hat.  I hope there's no confusion about who is who.  For instance, I have one Vikki and one Vicki.  So I hope if I draw one of those, the winner will know which one is her.  One person left an anonymous comment, said they were in New Mexico, so I wrote the name like this:  "Anonymous in New Mexico".  
You can go to that entry and read all the comments and see where everybody said they would travel if they had a choice.  I received three entries by email instead of in the comments.  They're in the running with everybody else.  
It isn't too late to get your name in; midnight tonight is the cutoff time.  
I've decided to throw in a consolation prize.  Since I have three signed copies of Ree's cookbook, I'll give one of those away to the second name Cliff picks.  If it goes to someone who already has the cookbook, perhaps they will have a friend who would enjoy it as a gift.   
Now, everybody keeps saying how nice I am to have this drawing, but all it's going to cost me is the postage to send the books to the winners.  Ree donated the books; how else would I have gotten them autographed?  
I was asked on Facebook if I'd met Pioneer Woman; no, I have not, but I've read her blog for so long it feels as though I know her.  That's enough for me.  We're "cyber-neighbors", don't you know?  
While we're on the subject of books, Groupon has a deal that will get you ten dollars off a twenty-dollar purchase at Barnes and Noble; it can be used for a Nook Book, too.  I put in for my coupon this morning.  

Pioneer Woman is coming to Kansas City!

(I stole this picture from her website... I hope she doesn't mind)

No, I won't be forcing my daughter to take me to meet Ree. I've always felt out of my element on the Plaza anyhow. You know, like one of the Clampetts in Beverly Hills.

The Pioneer Woman is going on a tour with her cookbook, so if you're a fan, you might want to check HERE and see if she's coming to a book store near you. She says the list of towns she's visiting will be updated from time to time.

If you see her, tell her Granny Clampett said howdy.

Interesting stuff

Pioneer Woman has an entry today that made me think hard about who I am. You can go over there and read the whole thing, but it boils down to what she asks her readers to do: "What are your five adjectives? How would you answer, with a list of five items, the question “WHO ARE YOU?” Go ahead and scrape the depths of your psyche. You need to let it out."

What she's saying is, use five adjectives (or nouns) that describe you.

Check out the hundreds of comments there, and notice how many people use their relationships to describe themselves. "Wife, mother, sister, friend...". Somehow that doesn't tell me the essence of a person. Or does it?

Food for thought.

amazed!!!!

So this morning, I was reading Confessions of a Pioneer Woman and she had three closeup shots in her entry. She asked her readers to choose a favorite. I didn't like any of them, and told her so in a comment. I did tell her, however, in that comment, that she had inspired me with her close-up pictures of horses' eyes. And left a link with my comment to this entry.

I can't believe that I got at least 80 hits to my journal today straight from Ree's blog.

Wow!

That's how good her blog is... that many people read her comments; and many of them came here. If you haven't met Ree yet, I strongly advise you to check her out.

That's Ree's Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. In case you didn't catch it in the first line of this entry.

She keeps it real. That's probably why she has about 2,000 readers, and gets, like, 200 comments per entry.

Don't worry about the crummy entry she did today, unless you like reading comments. Because the comments are the best part in this case. (Sorry Ree, I'm only half-way kidding; I never claimed to have the eye of an artist.)