If you are in the United States, perhaps you are reading this from the depths of your couch, where you are thinking about How Much You Ate Yesterday. As for today's shopping extravaganza . . . I am NOT going out there. I live in New York City, where is it a shopping bloodbath on the best of days. I do not want to be killed by a well-meaning tourist wielding a giant stuffed platypus from F.A.O. Schwartz.
No. I am staying here, blogging to you in safety.
I had a very YA Thanksgiving. Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larabalestier came over, as did Australian YA queen Lili Wilkinson. It was also kind of a UK Thanksgiving, as my British friends Oscar Gingersnort and Winchester Grey were there, asking "Wot is this?" a lot, which was fun. When you have four foreigners at your Thanksgiving table, you can make up all kinds of things, and THEY BELIEVE YOU! They don't know Thanksgiving traditions! You can say, "On Thanksgiving, it is traditional to put on these ski boots and go stand in the hall closet making ghost noises." AND THEY DO IT!
Or they WOULD have, if I had asked them to. But I was trying to be a good hostess and not burn the turkey or the vegetarian option (for Scott and I).
In any case, the festive season is now upon us! I love the festive season. I hope you will visit me over on my blog, where I will be answering cheer-related questions for the next five weeks, as well as opening the MJ Holiday Card Signing Workshop. Come on over! Get some cheer!
Maureen Johnson
Author of Girl at Sea, 13 Little Blue Envelopes, and The Key to the Golden Firebird
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