Okay…I’ve got some fun, exciting, suuuuper cool news book-related news! But I can’t share it yet. As soon as I’m sure everything is a one hundred percent go, I’ll post. Let’s just say this…I’m going to document this trip with video blogs. It’s something I’ve never done and I bet most of you haven’t either. That’s all I’ll say. 🙂 For now.

It’s gonna be good. Keep your eyes peeled for a video coming soon with the first clue.

The winner of the Cherry Cheva giveaway is…Micolz! Congratulations! You’ve got 48 hours to e-mail me (jessica [@] jessicaburkhart [dot] com with your name and address so I can pass it on to Cherry.

If you didn’t win, check back this Friday for a new prize.

(In case you guys are curious, here’s what I use to determine the winner: http://www.random.org/integers/.)

Also, look for a new video blog next week. 🙂

I found this article “Chan promotes Olympic equestrian events” on Yahoo.

I’m a fan of RUSH HOUR and it’s so cool to see Jackie lend his celebrity to increase awareness of the equestrian events in the Olympics in Hong Kong this summer. He’s bringing lots of attention to a sport that’s often underrepresented. 🙂

He has photos on his Website, too.

If you need a holiday laugh: http://elfyourself.com/. I think I remember this from last year, but go Elf Yourself!

Thank you so much to everyone who left comments here, emailed me or left notes on LiveJournal. I greatly appreciate your thoughts and they’ve been so helpful in getting through this difficult time.

Ooh! A big thanks goes to Trashionista for recommending Teen Fiction Cafe. Yay! 🙂

And that’s the end of today’s incredibly short post.

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Sara Hantz tagged me, so here goes:

Two Men I’d Love to Date if I Were Single (and they were single):

Johnny Depp and Will Smith (seriously, boys, call me.) 😉

I Am Wearing Right Now:

PJs

Two Things I Would Want in a Relationship:

Intelligence and humor

Two of My Favorite Things to do:

read and coo over puppies in the park

Two Things I Want Very Badly At the Moment:

To finish my second book and get started on the third

Two things I did recently:

Put up my Christmas tree and mail a package

Two things I ate today:

Cheerios and peppermint tea

Two people I most recently talked to:

BFF1 and BFF2

Two things I’m doing tomorrow:

Writing and watching Hairspray

2 longest car rides:

Florida to Texas and Florida to Boston

Two Favorite Holidays:

Halloween and New Years

Two Favorite Beverages:

Diet Pepsi and any kind of tea

Two Things about me, things you may not have known about me:

During the holidays, I paint my toenails in corresponding colors. Right now, they’re red and green. I’m almost a foot shorter than my younger brother.

Two places I have lived:

Nashville and Ocala

Two of my Favorite Foods:

Chicken and butterscotch cookies

Two Places I’d rather be right now:

In a snowy cabin in the wilderness or on a very hot beach.

Tagged: Emily Marshall and Emily Hendricks

I blogged about my new Website page for schools and libraries today at Teen Fiction Cafe. 🙂 Leave a comment there and let me know what you think!

I’m off to finish an article about teen driving (scary stats!) and keep typing away on book 2.