Blue Moon

           So, a couple days ago (August 28th) was the release date for a book I had been weeping and waiting on for over a year.  I asked off work months in advance to be sure I had proper reading time with this baby.  You would think I was reading it on the 28th, right?  No.  Thanks to a friend of mine I had the Author of this very same long awaited novel as a patron to my shop and I got the book 3 weeks early as a thank you for customer service well done.
           Now to ordinary people this would be... maybe not that big a deal.  I get that.  Perception is 9/10's of the law.  It's just a book.  She's just another human being who wrote something.  'How's rent coming?  Have you thought about that while you were squeeing over the book?'
           I know...
           But I'm a writer.
           So, this is a person who inspires me and whose words I related to and loved effortlessly the first time I read them.  They are sharp and funny and affecting all in appropriate doses to make great story.  I love the realism of her characters.  I love the shape and depth of her prose.  I aspire to do what she has done in essence and quality.  That's from long before any of this happened with the autographed book and stuff.  My fandom runs deep.

Me===> Fangirl for Kelly Creagh  

              Anyway, I got the book early.  I crawled through it and my husband called me a chicken for taking so long reading it.  It wasn't that it was bad... not at all.  I mean how can cheerleaders sword-fighting and the funniest drive-through order ever be bad?  I was having a really good time while my heart broke with every page that went on.  On some subconscious level I just didn't want it to end after waiting so long, I think.  But I loved the book when I read it almost three weeks before a lot of people.  

              The point of all this is that I had something crazy outrageous amazing happen to me no matter how it might look to anyone else.  This month has been insanely wonderful in great ways.  I'm so happy and I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop on my head from twenty stories up.  There's balance in the world even if we don't always see it right away.  Give and take.  So, I've been peering around corners waiting for the 'take' to begin.  Nothing happening almost stressed me out more than if it had.  The unexpected is always more frightening than the bad things we can think of.  

               Yesterday, I came home from work and went on Fb to find a graphic in my feed that pretty much said this...

"a Blue Moon is sometimes defined as the second full moon in a calendar month. The first full moon is August 1. The second full moon is August 31, 2012."

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-blue-moon

               That's a rare thing...

               Once in a Blue Moon... I had a really great time showing my jewelry to someone I admire and she liked it and supported it in a small way.  Then I received an awesome gift and the experience of knowing her for a short time.  I also ran a trivia contest on Fb for fellow fans and had a fantastic time amping up the love for the  new release.  I got to connect with people over something I feel deeply for and it rocked!  So hard.  I don't have months this good, but there it was... not making any sense.  Then I saw that graphic and went "Of course it's a Blue Moon month.  My good fortune is explained as a freakish lunar rarity."  I'm sort of fine with that, though.  If it's the moon making it happen maybe I'll escape paying the balance piper for all this keenly focused awesomeness dropping in on me.

               I know that my joys may seem small and strange to some.  

               But, I'm a writer.  

               What's your excuse?