"A Nice Surprise"

"A Nice Surprise" Is what author Nancy Marie Brown of one of my favorite books A Good Horse Has No Color wrote of my email to her on her blog. This was the cherry on the sundae of my wonderful day, and for once I am not being sarcastic.
It started out good, by actually waking up in time, and then not getting into a major fight with my sister as I wove her hair around her head in a eleborate crown braid for a skit she was doing in her seventh grade history class. It was the first time she has really let me do her hair (since I can remember) so, it was nice.
After a lesurily bus ride to school I sat through a normal math class, until the last five minutes when my teacher called me up to her desk to show me the test she has graded from the day before. In my memory I have never gotten an A on a math test. Lots of B's and some C's but never A's on tests. But on this test (that I will admit I hadn't studied for) I got 80 of of 79 points. OVER 100%!!! I could barely contain my excitment as I skipped to journalism telling everyone who would listen.
The rest of the day peeterd along, mostly I just tried to look small and invisible as I have come down with a pretty bad cold and sniffle a lot, and my voice sounds weird, so didn't want any teachers to call on me.
I keep journals. I am sure I have mentioned this before, but I am stating it again. I write everything in them, some days I just log in my routine, others my thoughts and feeling. Some days I doodle, and yet others I write stories, it's just a small book can write in all the time. Now choosing a journal is very important for me I have to find one that looks nice, will hold up to being thrown around, squished and squeezed into bags, being written in very often, and being able to hold up to my love of ink pens. I have been looking for about a week now, and finally found my journal today at Global Village. A fair trade shop down town, so that was happy.
And finally the nice (although for me it was amazing) surprise when I got home to find that said author wrote me back. I made a book preview of her memoir (said book) for Journalism and posted it on youtube. I was planning on asking if she wanted to see it and then sending it to her, but instead I told her about it and she searched and found it herself! Not only did she look at it, she posted a link to it and mentioned me in her blog! It was... astounding. Here is the link to her blog

http://nancymariebrown.blogspot.com/

So that is all super great, it seems things are settling down and turning up for me again. Check back in soon I lave loads more to write about (when I find time!) But I will try and keep you in the loop for now, check out her blog and the video (which is in a link on her blog)

Photo Credits: Regina Brecha (a good friend) from her trip to Iceland.