Baby Blues
Yesteday I slogged all my candles to a craft fair. It was the fall festival for a local town, and the space was cheap. So I rouse myself early and drive out into the country, which was nice. It's a gorgeous day, but chilly. After fighting with my tent, and suffering some bruising, I finally get it up all by myself and set up in time.
This place was packed - I did pretty well considering. Sold out of small bears, but I didn't have that many to begin with. I have work to do before the next fair, at the beginning of December. Not so much candles, but bears. I have a couple of batches of candles to make too though.
Next to my booth was this group who sold baked goods for a charity. Nice people. One of the young girls with them is in Childcare class at the local High School. She had with her one of those fake babies - you know the mechanical ones with a chip in the back to record how well it was taken care of. I've heard of them, but never seen one. It was a cute little thing, and it did wail when it needed something; diaper change, bottle, rocking. The girl would walk away from it, and her mom kept threatening to steal it and hide it, since she wasn't paying attention. It 'slept' a good part of the day. The girl's grandmother and I had great fun at this poor girl's expense, because the doll amused us. She kept saying how annoying the doll was, and we're laughing.
She says "What? It is annoying."
I say, "See, your grandmother and I have had real babies, and we find this doll amusing. That's all."
I want to develop a more realistic doll - one that wiggles, grabs your hair, spits up on you, pees on you when you change its diaper, and has explosive poop. I mean, come on, all this does is cry and you press a button to make it stop. Sheesh, that's completely not what happens. How about one with colic? LOL. That'd teach those kids what babies are really about. LOL.
It's going to be a busy week for me. Tuesday and Wednesday I'm subbing for... wait for it... Spanish, I think. Uh, ne habla espanol. But they don't really expect me to anyway, so it's cool. Thursday is work meeting for the other job, and the speech for the teachers (which I have to work on today). Saturday is the Collingswood Book Festival, where I'll be signing copies of Talisman of Zandria. I won't have to put the tent up by myself though, because LeeAnn , my publicist, and terrific author Deborah will be coming down from Canada to hang with me. Yay!
Then it's ad change again. Sigh. Somewhere in there is my wedding anniversary, but I don't know when I'll get to celebrate it.
I also picked out my panels for Philcon today too. And I'm working on some children's programming for the event, maybe a talk like I give to school groups, or a talk about writing fanfiction, which I think is a great way for young people to start creative writing, and gain confidence in it. I'll let you all know about that when it gets closer.