I stood around for 3 hours to get my book signed… and I liked it.

I’m a picky reader. I often start books but don’t finish them because…. well honestly I think they suck. So when I find a book series or author that I really enjoy reading it’s kind of a miracle. After Simon was born I bought Jenny Lawson’s (The Bloggess) first book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir and read it almost entirely on my phone, in the middle of the night while nursing my young baby. It was such a fun read I would occasionally wake up Joe just to read him excerpts from the book.

So of course I also read Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things.  I bought the hardback book and read this one while nursing Abel. Different book, different format, different baby but still an extremely fun book to read. Then I saw that Jenny was coming to do a book signing in Raleigh for her newest book, You Are Here: An Owner’s Manual for Dangerous Minds. I’d never been to a book signing event but I knew I really wanted to go to this event. Then stuff happened (like sick kids) and I didn’t get my book pre-ordered in time so I didn’t get into the reading but I did score a ticket to the signing line so I took it. 

It was cold and I had to wait at the end of the line for about an hour outside but then as luck would have it I was in group #1 from the signing line so I got to go inside the store after the reading was over… to stand around for another hour or so… but at least I was warmer and could look at more books. I bought a book for the kids, Goodnight, Numbers by Danica McKeller (a signed copy). I also ran into my blog friends Marty and Cyndi. They got tickets to the event and somehow happened to get better signing line tickets so they gave be their letter R. Then someone asked if they could trade their I for my R and of course I said yes. Lucky me.

Of course I had no idea what I was going to say when it was my turn to meet her and get my books signed. I mean we don’t know each other, I know way more about her life after reading her books but she knows nothing about me so I just decided to tell her that I read her books in the middle of the night while I nursed my babies… it seemed appropriate, but it was still weird. However, Jenny was the sweetest and most loveliest person. She took times to smile and greet each person and thank them for coming.

It was a fun way to spend a Saturday afternoon even if I did just stand around waiting for someone to write in my book. (I didn’t have any of my kids with me which made it even better.)