barbhendee

Hi Gang,

Thank you to everyone who chimed in yesterday via email or the journal here to wish me a happy birthday.

Made me feel loved!

I had a really good birthday. We went out for breakfast, and then came home for a while to just putter around. In the afternoon, J.C. drove us up to Tigard, and we went shopping at B&N and Cost Plus World Market.

Going to a B&N is a real treat these days (smiles).

I bought several hard cover novels and then checked out the situation with our own books.

The hard cover of IN SHADE AND SHADOW has completely sold out for B&N stores in the Portland area. I had a clerk look it up on the computer, and there is one copy left at the Jantzen Beach store. DHAMPIR is in its 16th printing, so I bought a copy for posterity. The mm paperback for REBEL FAY has gone into a second printing--which kind of surprised me since the first printing was pretty big.

So, good news all around.

Oh, also, when we talked into the store, Devon Monk's newest novel MAGIC IN THE BLOOD was almost the first thing I saw. There were multiple copies face out in the center aisle rack--just below James Patterson and just above Nora Roberts. Awesome! You could not walk into the store without seeing Devon's book.

Then we spent a long time at this HUGE Asian grocery store. It was awesome. J.C. bought a new tea pot.

Then we met some of our good friends here for dinner at a nice Chinese restaurant called Wu's Open Kitchen. There were six of us, and we killed off two bottles of red wine—but we were there for a couple of hours, so nobody was dancing on the table.

Lovely day.