There's a carrot in my kitchen, what am I gonna do? 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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Is the book available to purchase in the shops yet?

Why are you nervous? LOL

It's weird isn't it?

Pink - yes of course, I would email you but I don't have your address, sorry.

FK - I don't know! I thought Thursday was D-day but dh saw in the window of a bookshop today and again But not in the big W.

Ooooh what will happen? Will there be updates? Up to pg25 love it! pg 45 bit of a chore now pg.106 Oh FGS! As if.

I think it might tell on my nerves if there are these kind of updates. I might be sick or something. What if there is silence? Just an awful quiet polite silence and it becomes the great big shaming elephant in the 10/10 hall?

It's dreadful and delicious all at once.

Thanks ahundred - TooT's just linked on FB for me. Will go and order now!

Aww, it's so nice, remember when you came on all drunk on champagne the night you heard that it was going to be published? And now we're all buying it. You might have to take compliments about it without punching people though, can you do that?

oh god i am going dizzy with excitement

i am laughing sycophantically at your post 100

dp says he will read it and tell you exactly what he thinks
he says is it about girls things, or space? he thinks he is being funny

Sorry, had to go and read to dc. (Am doing quite a weird round at the minute: Well Done Naughtiest Girl, Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire, The Strange Incident of The Dog in the Night. They begin to merge in my head and I end up thinking 'Golly, that was thrilling lacrosse and quidditch match with an odd backstory I can't quite follow, and here is my list of yellow things I noticed at the zoo.'

Yes, okay. There will be no punching, promise

did dh take a photo of the window? it's unreal isn't it? i'm going to show my mother when it arrives and say "an internet sprite my friend wrote this"

boco those ceps titles made me feel a bit ill

No, he thought it might be weird, but he rang me up. He said 'it's OUT HERE' and we both laughed nervously.

[laughs nervously too]

I don't know why we're nervous. I showed dp that amazon were sending it, and made him look at the cover, and laughed nervously. I don't know why. It's just exciting innit.

What's wrong with my ceps titles? Well, what about 'cepsual healing'? cepsual peeling? erg, maybe not that one.

Where's Bbbee? I saw this and thought of her today

I think I'll just stick with "I Want Your Ceps" thanks Boco

I'm excited too

I'm wondering whether it would be appropriate to run round the bookshop waving a copy above my head and squeaking.

I know that's what I'm going to feel like doing.

i'm going to tell the postman when he brings it
i'm going to tell him "this is a book my friend wrote. my friend, that's right. i speak to her, on the internet. she's my friend."
then i'll hang around at the front door and wait for my neighbour to come out, and i'll tell her

lol, you're going to be making her itch franny.

Ooh speaking of things that make 100 uncomfortable, we saw a barn owl yesterday, really really close, flying in the field right by us - it was beautiful.

Um, well, I had a ride on the back of a golden eagle once! [competitive] [deranged]

WOW though at snowy owl! Where was it? what was it doing? I painted a snowy owl for someone once, I feel i have very precise knowledge of their feather patterns.

I am really trying this week.

sultana bran (if some of you are mentioning humous, I wil mention sultanan bran)
broccoli soup
red peppers, spring ingins in stir fry
lettuce
cucumber
cress (a salad but wanted a longer list)
red pepper houmus (aha! the houmus card)

Soon I will consume a plum

lol @ [deranged]

I don't mind owls, they have width. I think I've said this before.

Look at Pointy's list. She's quite serious, what with the plum all lined up for afters and everything.

I have bought so much fruit and veg I am worrying about being able to eat it all. I don't like waste.

what are ingins? they are like engines? You get points deducted for eating metal.