March 7

The Sisters are so busy they don’t know what the hell is going on any more. There are books to write on deadline, marketing for new releases, editing chores for the book due out in June. Also, there are plot holes to fix in other books and dresses to sew. Stuff to gather for the Tucson Festival of Books next weekend. Wait! What’s today? Oh Jeez. We’re so busy.

1. Wrapping directions. Our good friend had a birthday this week. We bought her our favorite bottle of wine. Not OUR as in the Sisters, but OURs as defined as the one our friend and we like best. We’re not as selfish as you’d think. Anyway, we also bought a gift bag and a thingy of tissue to make the bag prettier. We would like it mentioned we bought these items in a national chain store that rhymes with Barget only it starts with a T. We did not purchase the wrapping in a store for the mentally deficient. On the back of the package there were instructions on how to install the tissue paper correctly into the bag. Thank Zeus for that. Because we’re nothing if not for the public service announcements, we’ll let you in on the secret. 1) Gather tissue from the center of sheet. 2) Twist bottom of the tissue to hold in place. 3) place tissue in gift bag; repeat steps to fill bag. You all good now?

2. Gambling is fun and apparently not permanent.  A Las Vegas gambler who lost $500,000 in the casinos during the Super Bowl weekend is suing the Downtown Grand for loaning him money and allowing him to play while he was blackout drunk. This puts a whole new spin on the phrase, What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, huh? The Sisters are not big gamblers. We’d much rather leave the boys to the table games and we’ll hit the Forum shops in Cesar’s. STill, if we can lose our money and then get it back, we’re much more willing to shoot dice. Bring it on, we say. We’re all in.

3. Mrs. Potato head. Did you know Mrs. Potato head has a first name.  It’s Jane. We don’t know if that’s really the name for her. Jane. We know and like several women named Jane, but we don’t know if that’s what you call a potato. We don’t know what her name should be either. Maybe Felicity? Portia? Penelope? That’s the one. We’d have gone with Penelope. Penelope Potato.

4. This gorgeous book. The third book in the Secrets series is available for sale in ebook and paper format at Amazon – follow the link on the top left to purchase it. We’re quite proud of it, and we’re so happy with the cover. It’s embarrassing to toot your own horn, but we’ll do it a little. Toot toot toot!

5. Ellen. Cause we love pizza. And funny photographs. And Ellen. And this dress. And the Oscars. Ava would also like it mentioned that she loves Jared Leto. Alright, alright, alright.