Surfing the Net

I may or may not have mentioned that I'm the Newsletter Editor of my local chapter. Every month I collect articles from our members and put them into a newsletter that I just have to (or am supposed to) send out before our monthly meeting - which is the third Tuesday of the month. The software is easy enough to work with but I have found that it really is a lot more work than one (or at least I) thought. As such, I start plugging in the articles as soon as I get them (and I start asking for them as soon as the last one went out).

Anyway, I finished putting it all together late last night, sending it out just after midnight. I knew I had left one person off the mailing list (I didn't have her email address - but more on that later) and two bounced back. I also went to our e-loop to post it there (emails from the e-loop don't allow attachments but we can upload the file). What I saw was that it appeared that I had uploaded 72 articles, in addition to the one I meant to. Banging my head on the nearest hard surface, I sent an email acknowledging that I was an idiot. I also mentioned that the two email addresses bounced back and that I didn't send it to one person, a new member, Patricia Kay. I'm telling you her name because she's the reason I was surfing the net.

You see, she responded to my email and gave me her email address. And her signature line had her webpage - so I clicked on it (several people had mentioned how great it was to have her as a new member but I didn't know who she was - kind of reminding me of the Reno incident of '05 with Julia Quinn, but I digress).

She has a new book out called "Wish Come True" which sounded really cool (and which I bought this morning at Walmart while buying groceries for the week - and which I also suggested for the RWAOL book discussion for April, but again, I digress). She also had all these links at the top of her webpage, like "great reads" where fans can email her about books they enjoyed, "meet Pat" where she tells about herself, and "fun stuff" where she has links to some of her favorite pages - which is where I found "Romance Buy the Book", where a local woman reviews novels (she used to do it for a local news station but since the first of the year, she's been doing it but not associated with the news station). It looked fun so I was scrolling through her archives and reading reviews of some of the books I had read, and some I hadn't.

One I hadn't that caught my eye was "I Gave You My Heart but You Sold it Online" by Dixie Cash. The title was too cute not to check out the author's webpage, so next thing I know, I'm on Dixie Cash's webpage. She also has books called "My Heart May Be Broken but My Hair Still Looks Great" and "Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash". Suddenly I'm wanting to buy them.

Anyway, I came online to update my blog with the Romance Buy the Book link and decided to update a few other things as well. I've added a couple of blogs I visit but hadn't added yet and removed a couple that I never go to anymore. I updated my "Just For Fun" with new links as well. When I got to my "Favorite Authors" though, I found that I was dying to add Patricia Kay and Dixie Cash...and I may have mentioned that I've never read either of them before. Yeah, I'm that easy when it comes to books. In any event, I refrained from adding them - for now but I do see a couple of reads (at least) in the making.

And that, my friends, is how I spent my Saturday morning. What are you all doing? :~)