I love you too!

Just finished watching P.S. I Love You and I must say, it’s one of the best movies i’ve ever seen. I cry, I laugh, I cry and laugh at the same time. Gerard Butler was so incredibly charming that he made me want to book a trip to Ireland for the off-chance hope of meeting a tall, dark and handsome stranger on the road who could possibly be as sweet as him. Everyone should have a Gerry Kennedy in their life to love them, hold them, make them laugh uncontrollably, piss them off just to make up.

Hilary Swank did a wonderful job in her first romantic comedy and I applaud her. She was sweet, fiesty, heartwarming.

God, I’m tearing up again just thinking of the movie. Bravo to everyone involved, I love you too.

Dilemma

So, I have a problem.  I’m writing a book, which i love dearly of course, but I am questioning the races of the characters.  I am black, and 2 of the characters are black and one is biracial.  The book doesn’t focus on race, per se, but the characters are black except for the main character’s love interest.  The thing is, i don’t want to be relegated to the African-American lit side because then that cuts off about 90% of the people who may want to read the book if it’s not in that small ass section of the bookstore.  It wouldn’t matter so much to change the race though, but they are slightly based on real life people and I like them being black because, really, should only black people be interested in black characters if it doesn’t affect the storyline?  the book is set in an upper-class type society and nothing is blatantly about race except the description. 

I should just change the race to white, huh?  I don’t want to be relegated to a section where only 13% of the population really even wanders and then have to cut down that percent to the people who will actually buy the book….when I could just make it a “white” book where white people, some blacks, some asians, some of anybody may read it.  Not to say that other races don’t read “black lit”, but it’s a steeper change that doesn’t seem economical when you think about it. 

Lol, guess blog writing is informative, because I pretty much summed up my own answers, huh?

Style Cravings

Working retail, especially in a mall, can be a real pain because it’s more sales driven than anything, but I so love when I get to help the customers plan outfits and accessories.  I want to work at a smaller boutique so that I can focus more on doing that, the styling.  I don’t like having to sell people on the store credit cards and all of that, i want the simple pleasure of style consultations.  Too bad there’s no where around here to work at that would let me thrive in that.  So regular retail it shall be until I probably move to Los Angeles.  I wish a mall around here at least had a Nordstroms or something so that I could work my way up to being a personal shopper!  Damn these “average” stores around here

My birthday is Wednesday   I can’t believe a whole year has passed; man, time flies!  I’ve turned 21, graduated, gotten published more, so some good has happened the past year.  Got fatter though, lol, so I need to get that baggage off of me!  Wonder what this 22nd year of my life will hold.