Today starts the first day of the 2007 BlogHer conference and where am I?
Not Chicago that’s for sure.
I’m home.
Putting away the Anna Sui black nail polish I planned on covering over Vanity Fairest with. Hiding my navy blue phone because it will no longer get a stranger to be my friend long enough for a photo op. Undoing the Pippy Longstocking braids (plaits) I neatly tied a small hair tie at the ends of. Closing my tiny notebook and putting the pen inside the spine so it doesn’t get lost in my bag. And no longer shaking my Nalgene water bottle after pouring in a packet of True Lemon.
I was guaranteed to be in at least 10 photos which I think would have been pretty respectable in the Cool Mom Picks BlogHer scavenger hunt.
I was scheduled to work today and Monday so no blogger scavenger hunt for me because Chicago is just a tad bit farther away than a quick trip to Philadelphia after work. Speaking of work… I’m off to my radio media tour and store appearances.
Anyone else not make it to BlogHer this year? Let us cry together. (No seriously, what’s your excuse for missing the fun?)
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But of course the ending of book 7 of the Harry Potter series was leaked onto the Internet.
Anyone who lives on the Upper West Side doesn’t find that to be a surprise of any kind.
Walking home tonight I saw a street book vendor with two boxes of the Harry Potter books (embargo date in clear sight) selling them to anyone who walked by. At first I didn’t think it was the newest book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows but it definitely was.
So much for the secret printing facilities and armed guards watching over the books until midnight on Friday / early Saturday, July 21st.
I certainly don’t believe “A 10-million pounds security operation featuring an army of guards, satellite tracking systems and legal contracts has swung into action to prevent any leak”. And all of the publicity from the leak isn’t going to cost JK Rowling a penny from her royalties. She will be fine because on Friday everyone who wanted to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows without squinting at lo res images will get their copy and speed read it.
And for those who just can’t wait to find out, the characters who died in this last book have been already been listed on some sites online so you can know how the series ends before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is officially released in stores.
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Not getting married today – the supposed luckiest day of the century? Don’t worry your marriage isn’t doomed from the start just because you didn’t follow the footsteps of Eva Longoria who will lavishly wed her basketball player sweetheart Tony Parker today (07/07/07) in a castle hours outside of Paris. Eva still only has the exact same chances of living happily ever as every other celebrity couple who will wed any day this year. (And that goes the same for Wolfgang Puck who is marrying his girlfriend in Capri today. Sorry buddy, love your salads but getting married today doesn’t give you an advantage either.)
All those “regular folks” Lucky in Love and getting married today with lotto tickets as favors and dice as table decorations, just to be clear, you do know your wedding has the same chances of lasting as everyone else’s marriage, right? And ladies, I hate to break it to you but you still have the same chances of your husband to be forgetting your anniversary. Yup, trust me. It’s possible.
But then again, what do I know? The luck of the Irish didn’t help me any when I got married the first time on St. Patrick’s Day. But I’m still doubtful any of the couples getting married will receive any special marriage juju from the lucky number 7.
And by the way, while we are on the topic of three sevens being the luckiest day for weddings, today is not really the only “luckiest day of the century”, as the number 8 is a very lucky number in the Chinese culture. So next year, we can expect a bunch of Chinese weddings around the world on 8/8/08 where the bride and groom rightfully feel equally as lucky. (And yes I’ve already started to get my red envelopes ready as Chinese wedding banquets simply rock.)
Hoping to score big at the craps table or the slots today? Well have fun with the crowds of gamblers who woke up with the same idea. The casinos in Vegas, Connecticut and Atlantic City are filled with day trippers who believe today – July 7, 2007 – will bring them the luck they’ve always needed. That in itself is enough to make me stay away. (Can you imagine the lines for everything from tables to the buffet line at the Bellagio. Oh forget it.)
Speaking of winning money, planning on playing the lottery today? I never play the lotto but planned to buy a $1 ticket for each of my kids for the fun of it. Well in New York’s lottery, 777 can’t be played in numbers. Oh well. Today, I guess I’m sh-t out of luck.
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