Blogging to you from Canada’s capital city, Ottawa. Even on this grey, rainy day, it’s a beautiful city.
I’m here doing some media for my book, talking about how to entertain kids while preparing for holiday travel (here’s a hint – get electronic toys for the kids that will drown out the sound of you and your husband in the front seat arguing about what his mother meant with that remark), and getting ready to meet up with a swell gang of Ottawa Tweeps tonight at a cool indie bookstore, Collected Works.
Whenever I meet up with people I “know” on Twitter, I have to sort of bring my thumb and forefinger together in that Kids in the Hall “I’m Squishing Your Head” move so I can compare them to their avatar. (Just in case I meet you tonight and you think I’ve gone a little nuts getting away from my kids.)
I called those kids this morning – from Kingston, en route getting coffee, and instead of finding out if they missed me and if things are okay, I found out that Bridget told Nicholas he dresses funny and they had a fight on two phone extensions while I listened. Yes, I had to listen, because I was USING my BlackBerry for the call and couldn’t read emails at the same time. Like the one I missed from my daughter at university who simply sent “Buy me stuff, k?” Wow, I miss them. Yep.
Today was “TV Day” – did my make up at 5:00 this morning before hitting the road, so not sure how fresh I was on Rogers Daytime at 11:00, let alone the CTV segment at 2:00. Hopefully they spent a lot of time on the book cover.
Tomorrow is “Radio Day” – first CHUM then CBC – I love radio because there’s no “visual repair & enhancement” required. This is a good thing, given I’m sure these Ottawa Tweeps (and most of them Yummy Mummys) will be as glad as I am to be out and not listening to children fight or ask for things. We may never go home.
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