Ode to the Junk Drawer
Feb 29th 2008
Suzanne EnochMy Life As A Plebe
The junk in the drawer.
But is it junk?
Without it I would be lost.
Tape. Scissors. A nail clipper. A red stamp pad in case I need to stamp something with red ink.
Other drawers are segregated – hot pads, baggies, tupperware lids. Are they afraid to mingle?
The junk drawer is not afraid. Brave junk drawer.
I wonder, is there a house without a junk drawer?
Where, or where, do they put their old birthday candles?
Wait! Someone says I should organize my junk drawer.
All of the paperclips together. A holder only for rubber bands.
A neat junk drawer? Oxymoron.
The thrill of the hunt would vanish. The breathless worry as the postman approaches the house – I know I have another stamp.
Okay, ‘fess up. Who has a junk drawer? Are they a necessary part of a house? What do you keep in your junk drawer?
68 Comments »
Audrey on 29 Feb 2008 at 1:49 am #
I have never had a kitchen without a junk drawer - even when I get organized and the paper clips and elastic bands are in the desk and the birthday candles are in the cake decorating/cookie cutter box, where would you keep that little plastic widget that you’re sure belongs to something but you don’t know what and maybe your husband will know? If you ever remember to ask him.
Or course, this comes from a woman who actually had boxes labelled “pieces of things” and “things too small to keep”.
evlqn on 29 Feb 2008 at 3:55 am #
At the present time my entire house is a junk drawer. We are in the midst of enclosing our carport so we can move our office/ craft room/ sewing room out there and turn this room back into a bedroom. The youngest grandson doesn’t want to share a room with his brother anymore. So there is that chaos. Mix in redoing the closet in our room while I am using our brdroom for sewing. Today I threw in the towel and called Castle Storage for a quote, tomorrow I will go sign for a unit.
But beyond that ,yes, I do have a junk drawer. It is in my sewing table because all other “junk drawers” in our house are subject to purges by my otherwise wonderful sister. Nothing makes me crazier faster than looking in a drawer I know I put something in and find my sister has disposed of it as un-needed!
PJ on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:35 am #
There are houses without junk drawers? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you! How do these people survive? Suzanne, that picture looks very familiar. Are you sure you haven’t been skulking around my kitchen? LOL!
Gannon on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:53 am #
I thought that having a junk drawer was required! I’d be lost without mine; but then again, things sometimes get lost in said junk drawer, aka, The Black Hole!
MargaretG on 29 Feb 2008 at 7:52 am #
I don’t know, PJ. I think she’s been skulking in my kitchen. I couldn’t possibly live w/o a junk drawer. Nor a junk cabinet. Where else am I supposed to keep all those manuals to appliances that I no longer have. Plus the manuals that my long deceased mother saved. I’ll bet some of those things are 50 years old or better.
Personally, I think every room should have a junk drawer of it’s own. How handy that would be. I have one in the kitchen, laundry room (including the cabinet) and sewing room.
Junk drawers can be an adventure. Evlqn, your sister would be fed to yesterday’s python if she messed with MY junk drawers. I hate people re-arranging my stuff.
Julie on 29 Feb 2008 at 7:59 am #
It sounds to me that you have more of an odds and ends drawer. What is the difference you ask? Well, I have a junk drawer its filled with stuff I never use which is handy since I filled it to overflowing and can’t get the drawer open anymore.
kaly on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:18 am #
I have not only a junk drawer but also my closet looks like one too.
cail on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:20 am #
my top desk drawer can pass for an odds and ends drawer. i don’t have enough space to really have a ‘junk’ drawer. i do, however, have a big pile of ’stuff to be used for art’ that could qualify as junk.
Kathy/Cookiedough on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:35 am #
I have a junk filing cabinet! It was going to be a craft cabinet, but junk got in the way.
a legal one with 33 long drawers, most are filled with mixed up items. I try to be somewhat organized but of course, it never works out that way.
the added bonus of being able to shut the drawers makes everything at least look clean and tidy
I still have a kitchen junk drawer. sigh
Kelly Ann on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:40 am #
I have 3 junk drawers! I know, 3? Well, I have one in the kitchen, which houses household junk - things like staples for the staple gun, unused nightlights, tools, things I will never use but am afraid to throw away.
Then, I have a bathroom junk drawer…for bathroom junk that I can’t throw away eihter. That tube of lipstick I’ll never wear, but keep for what? A relative that forgot her lipstick and will love this one? Who knows!
I also have a junk drawer in my bedroom dresser. That’s where I keep nail files, broken jewelry (why keep it you ask? craft projects, I don’t have a craft room), tape, cards, scrap book stuff, broken book lights etc.
I really need to clean those out - how embarrasing!! Also, if anyone touches them they are threatened with untold horrors!
Karen Hawkins on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:55 am #
I have one! I have one! My DH was getting persnickty though, because every time he’d open it up, it would catch on some object and he’d have to jiggle things around to fix it. So, after seeing a TV show on organizing, I went to Linens and Things and bought a bunch of plastic boxes. I emptied the drawer, put in the boxes, and filled them by category. Very nice and neat and now the drawer always opens BUT . . . I had some stuff that didn’t fit in the New And Improved Junk Drawer so now I have another. And NO ONE is going to organize that one!
Lisa H on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:56 am #
We have two junk drawers. Every now and then I throw everything in them away except for scissors, tape, pens and pads. Within minutes the drawers magically refill with all sorts of strange objects!
KariE on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:58 am #
I have 2 junk drawers. I go in at least one of them every day, so yes, they are necessary. Every time I go in one it’s like looking for a long lost treasure. You just never know what long forgotten trinket you might find in there. Why, just the other day I found a rock. It’s a mystery on how it got there. It’s a pretty rock though.
Other than that my junk drawers are home to the basics: scissors, tape, screws, nails, wood glue, chap stick, my old broken Nikon, a charger, coins (mostly pennies, we tend to spend the silver), and bobbie pins.
Santa on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:59 am #
Is it wrong to have two junk drawers? One in the kitchen and I fear there’s another growing in the computer desk. It’s all the DH’s fault, I tell ya! He insists on clearing any nearby countertop into said drawers. No, I cry! I need the computer desk drawer clearly separated into the slots the INSERT I put there has. Pens with pens. Paper clips with paper clips. NOT the digital camera with the cracked viewer or all my writing charms. They’re suffocating in there!
I’m sorry - was I getting carried away. Don’t get me started on how the junk drawer filled with the school supplies last year’s teacher returned at the end of the year. Isn’t she going to need them again NEXT year anyway so she doesn’t have to demand supplies AGAIN?! (and yes, I used two punctuation marks)
Sorry - a mini-tirade there! I’m off before I get started on the junk freezer. I mean, do we really need all those ice packs? Are we finally going on that road trip across the Sahara NOW?
KariE on 29 Feb 2008 at 8:59 am #
OH I almost forgot: CONGRATS SABRINA!!!!!!!!
Kelly Ann on 29 Feb 2008 at 9:01 am #
I am in awe of your great junk drawer organizing Karen H. Will you come to my house and get rid of my 3 junk drawers? PLEASE!!!!!!
doglady on 29 Feb 2008 at 9:38 am #
Not having a junk drawer is unAmerican! I have two junk drawers - one for people junk, one for animal junk.
The people drawer has the usual tape, stapler, screws, string, bread ties, cords to things I cannot find, things without cords, post its, stamps, manuals,etc.
The animal drawer has toe nail clippers, syringes, styptic cream, rabies tags, treats nobody liked, reminder cards from the vet, ear syringe, thermometer (very important to keep dog thermometer separate from human one!) wound salves, tweezers, suture material, scissors and hair clippers.
My brothers never fail to go into the wrong drawer when I tell them “It’s in the junk drawer!”
Karen Rose on 29 Feb 2008 at 9:40 am #
Okay, I’m waiting to see where Claudia weighs in on this one, LOL.
Of course I have a junk drawer, but my creativity is not limited to the kitchen - Nay, verily. I have junk drawers in every room in my house. Two in my bedroom - one is for normal junk, the other is for all the skimpy things my DH has bought me over the years in the hopes that I’ll wear them. Um … maybe a Sports Illustrated model could wear those things, but not me. It’s kind of sweet that he actually thinks I could!
The only junk drawer I plan to organize is the one in my desk, because I keep buying the same dang things at Staples because I keep forgeting I already bought them and put them in my desk junk drawer. The kitchen desk drawers are safe, with no threat from me.
ladydawgfan on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:02 am #
Let’s see . . . We started out with one junk drawer and it kinda multiplied like rabbits into at least 4 different drawers in diffferent parts of the house (can’t figure out how THAT happened!). The one in the living room has broken sunglasses (been meaning to get those fixed!), Christmas ornament hooks, paper clips, pens, pennies, and assorted other junky type stuff that keeps the drawer monster happily fed. The one in the kitchen has clothes pins for keeping potato chip bags closed, twisty ties, plasticware, chopsticks, and other kitchen junk, and a screwdriver, for some unknown reason.
The one in my computer desk has little to do with my computer, being the resting place for dead calculators, mystery business cards, assorted receipts, old perfume samples, and more pens and pencils than I could use in two lifetimes! And I don’t want to discuss my bathroom junk drawer. Something growled at me the last time I tried opening it!!
Julia London on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:08 am #
Suz, THAT is a junk drawer!!! I am proud of you!
In my junk drawer, I have junk drawer organizers my SIL gave me. They are still in their packaging.
Freedom Writer on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:12 am #
I have several junk drawers all of which I sorted through the other day in hopes of removing things that a 2 year old might find fun to play with, but which lack the Nana stamp of approval as a proper plaything for a toddler.
I removed things such as screws, nails, screw drivers, Christmas light bulbs, and permanent magic markers. Don’t worry, there is still plenty of junk left in them, just a wee bit less dangerous junk, and writing instruments that are easier to clean off of the walls. My junk drawers are located in the kitchen, living room and bathroom.
ladydawgfan on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:13 am #
BTW, Suzanne, slightly off topic, I just had the opportunity (finally!) to read “The Black Duke’s Prize” and “Angel’s Devil.” I tell you, if they don’t re-release these wonderful books soon so I can get my own copies, I’m gonna find some executive’s desk at Avon, climb on top of it, and start singing “I’m Henry the Eighth, I Am” until they relent!!!!
Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a little, but really, what can we do from our end as readers to push things along??
claudia dain on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:20 am #
Of course I have a junk drawer. Who doesn’t? Mine is organized, slotted containers, space for the paper clips, rubber bands, check registers (how long do I have to keep those?). Just because it’s organized doesn’t mean it’s not a junk drawer!
I have a separate drawer for manuals on all the appliances. I was so proud of myself, setting aside a drawer in the kitchen for the manuals and guarantees and whatnot–all that stuff you need once in your life, if that, but suffer if you can’t find it when needed for that all important service call.
So my DH, who is Mr. Messy, sees this drawer that’s not even close to being full and starts shoving stuff in there. Stuff that is not manuals. He did it right in front of me! He didn’t even bother to act guilty!
“What’s that?” I asked. “That’s not a manual.”
He ignored me. He smiled in my direction, but he ignored me.
Pretty nervy. So now I have a junk drawer I didn’t even know about. Who knows how many other junk drawers I have.
amy1242 on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:20 am #
I too, have several junk drawers throughout my house. I think, whoever plans houses and kitchens and such, should make those drawers larger on their plans. I have two in the kitchen, one for household repair things and one for the phone books, tape, glue, etc… Just yesterday, I was going through the one for household repair things and found a basketball net, still in the packaging. We don’t HAVE a basketball hoop in our driveway. Where did this come from and how did I not know it was there? One of life’s mysteries. I’ll have to remember to ask the kids about it. They are usually involved.
DebMarlowe on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:21 am #
A junk drawer is a must–where else DO you put old birthday candles? Coupons you forgot to use? The knife we used to cut our wedding cake? rubber bands? And by far the most numerous–all those boxtops and labels that we clip for school fundraising?
DebMarlowe on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:24 am #
Claudia–I am totally checking out your junk drawer. I’ll bet your laundry room is totally organized too. For my birthday, I want you to come and organize mine!
Cyndi on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:28 am #
Have no idea how anyone can exist without a junk drawer! I, too, have more than one in the house. I regularly clean and organize all but the one “true” junk drawer but they all wind up cluttered again in a blink. I keep a little bit of everything in them—screwdrivers, window suction cups (never know when you will need one!) miscellaneous keys…..why I keep the keys is besides me. We are Navy and move ALL of the time–so I know they don’t fit the current house.
Anyway whenever my dh asks where something odd is I can usually find it in “the drawer.”
Meg on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:28 am #
I have a sofa table that has three small drawers in it. Those THREE are my junk drawers. Let’s see… There’s tape, several different decks of playing cards, lots and lots of pens, a couple of old pocket calendars (what if I need to know what happened on a day back in 2000), directions to things I proably don’t have anymore, dead batteries, old paperwork, chapstick, and more tape. Wow. Now that I take inventory, I kind of shock myself. Maybe it is time to go through and at least get rid of the old and dead stuff.
cail on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:35 am #
i figured it out… i don’t really have junk drawers so much as junk shelves. these are random shelves that are small and contain various knickknacks like seashells, rocks, matches, pens, takeout menus, etc. I kind of block those from my view with picture frames in front of it. Those are my real ‘junk drawers’
claudia dain on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:40 am #
Happy Birthday, Deb Marlowe!!!
If you want a Junk Drawer Organizer, I’m your goddess.
claudia dain on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:43 am #
As to the question of where you put old birthday candles, that’s easy: in the trash.
When you are the Organization Goddess, the trash bag is your truest ally.
Karen Rose on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:48 am #
Claudia, I’m liking your DH more every time you talk about him.
The one pet peeve I have is when people leave the cabinet doors and drawers open. Like, how hard is it to close a dang door once you’ve gotten a glass? So when I’m in a bad mood I’ll sometimes close the cabinet doors and drawers really hard and loud, just to let the family know I’m PO’d.
So then I come back and EVERY cabinet door and drawer is standing open. DH’s work, I know.
Oh, and Claudia darling, JUNK does not equal ORGANIZED. Once it is organized, it ceases to be junk and becomes supplies. Just sayin’
But because your DH had created junk drawers for you, you can stay 
Karen Rose on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:52 am #
PS - Claudia, you know I pick on you because I’m jealous, right? Sometimes I stand in a messy room and sag. I know there is organization possilbe and sometimes can even envision it in my mind, but I’m somehow not capable of achieving it. When I go to clean my junk drawer, there’s never anything I can throw out, so I just end up with little piles of related junk in the drawer that gets all washed together once I go looking for AAA batteries again.
I am a disorganized person who yearns for control over my environment. ACK. Maybe a Vulcan mind meld would do the trick? Claudia, are you willing to mind meld me?
Nicole Jordan on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:01 am #
>>>Evlqn, your sister would be fed to yesterday’s python if she messed with MY junk drawers. I hate people re-arranging my stuff.
Margaret, I’m glad someone else feels this way, lol. My junk drawer is probably not as officially organized as Claudia’s, I’ll concede. But everything must be in its proper place in the drawer. Otherwise I go nuts looking for stuff.
Fun question, Suzanne!
Susan K on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:04 am #
I definitely have a junk drawer. It has pens, batteries, gum, candy bars (this is the drawer that my fiance likes to stash his candy), and other odds and ends that I just know I’ll need one day so I can’t throw them out.
Susan K - who is awaiting the massage that the company is providing it’s employees today. Boy am I glad I got this job!
PJ on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:19 am #
Off topic, but I just have to share. I’m off to meet the wizard! Oh. No, wait. That’s a different conference. I’m really off to meet the GODDESSES! The van is packed and I’m ready to drive to Columbia, SC (a 2 hour trek) for the Celebrate Romance conference. I’ll be rooming with fellow Goddess-in-waiting, Gannon (can’t wait to meet her in person!) and comparing tiaras with Goddesses Karen H. and Sabrina. I’m sooooo excited! Can you tell? LOL!
Have a great weekend. We’ll be back Sunday with lots of juicy details!
Kim on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:27 am #
PJ–have a great time!! Take lots of pictures.
We have a junk drawer. Its mainly, junk/trash. I clean it out, shred the junk mail that gets tossed in there, put the pens in the pen drawer, etc. Then the next week its filled to the brim with more junk/trash. Maybe I just need to start lining it with a trash bag. That would make my job so much easier.
Suzie–can I borrow one of your Scotch tapes? I can’t find any of mine for the life of me!
KariE on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:30 am #
I’m very jealous PJ!! I would LOVE to have been able to go. Have lots of fun and take LOADS of pictures.
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:59 am #
Yes, that is actually my junk drawer. Not edited, enhanced, or photogenically cluttered in any way.
I have a drawer just for manuals/instruction books too, Claudia! I’m afraid to throw any of it away in case it breaks and my dad comes in and says “I could fix it if I had that manual”. *g*
ladydawgfan on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:00 pm #
I’m with Kari, PJ!!! I want photos, play-by-plays, juicy details, etc!!!
Officially jealous, LDF
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:00 pm #
I’m glad you finally got to read “The Black Duke’s Prize” and “Angel’s Devil”, Ladydawgfan! We’ve put out a couple of feelers about getting them re-issued, but as you know, most publishers don’t do traditional Regencies any more. Maybe we can put the two stories into one book, like an anthology. I don’t know. Any ideas?
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:02 pm #
Kim, of course you can borrow some tape. Do you want the double-sided, the extra wide, the one with the snowflake pattern, the invisible, or the magic one? *g*
ladydawgfan on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:10 pm #
Actually, an anthology would be a great idea!! With the size of both books, it would not be much bigger than a trade PB, and if you were to somehow “reintroduce” them, perhaps with another short story that ties them together, the results could be potentially explosive in nature, albeit in a GOOD way!!!
Yes, they are “traditional” regencies. But I’ll tell you something. IMHO, as strong as those stories were, inserting an intimate scene ANYWHERE in them would have diminished them considerably, much the same as if someone had inserted a drum riff in the middle of Ein Klein Nacht Musik!!!
Just sayin’!!!
Lisa H on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:32 pm #
PJ - I wanna go too!
Karen R - people say you don’t need a bigger house to be more organized—THAT IS A LIE! After we moved from our tiny cape cod into our comfortably large colonial, I found it much easier to be organized and have a place for everything. I do agree with Claudia that your garbage bag is your friend, I constantly purge so that I am never overwhelmed by stuff like I was in the smaller house. I also like that saying “When you bring something into your house, take something else out.” It is astounding how much stuff we humans can accumulate!
colinfirthfan on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:32 pm #
Wait a minute… you can only have 1 junk drawer? I have about 5 junk drawers at least!!
Sabrina Jeffries on 29 Feb 2008 at 12:47 pm #
I was going to say, before colinfirthfan beat me to it, that I have multiple junk drawers. And junk tables, and junk rooms. I’ve started tossing things away, but it’s really HARD for me. I’m a pack rat. Sigh.
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 1:12 pm #
I want to know why no one has complimented me on my epic poetry skills. The non-cadence and the lack of rhyming, the splendid punctuation…
Margaret Garland on 29 Feb 2008 at 1:59 pm #
I’m so sorry, Suzanne. It was far too early in the morning for me to realize you were writing poetry. Let alone that it was epic. Maybe with a couple of cups of coffee, I might have recognized your talent.
On 2nd thought, maybe you should just be grateful for your wonderful talents at story telling.
MargaretG
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 2:01 pm #
I have to admit, I have a bathroom junk drawer where I keep all my mostly-used lipsticks, the hair combs with one tooth missing, the eye shadows that turned out to NOT be my color.
Karen Rose on 29 Feb 2008 at 2:27 pm #
Suzanne, maybe we should have a “makeup-that-wasn’t-our-color” swap. I’ve tried to give it all to my 13-year-old daughter, but her coloring is identical to mine, so she didn’t want it either.
Your Ode is lovely. Your drawer is lovelier because it looks like mine. Not quite as bad as mine, but close.
Lisa H - the only thing I throw away is tupperware that has been in the frig too long and now lives. DH gets totally PO’d with me - he’ll wash it. I say “ew, that’s what that cheap-o new plastic-ware is for.” So I throw it away when he’s not home. Everything else I’m too scared to pitch, because I might need it someday.
A bigger house means more room to store stuff. There is this thing called entropy - the universe expands to fit its boundaries (which are ever expanding). Same in my junk drawer. It must be true, I heard Carl Sagan say it once (not the part about my junk drawer, just the part about the universe…)
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 2:59 pm #
Ha, Margaret, do you think you’re the first person to…encourage me away from poetry writing? *g*
I agree about the make-up swap, KarenR. There’s book swap, so why not make-up swap?
dbrown3400 on 29 Feb 2008 at 3:15 pm #
Congratulations, Sabrina. I’m in the middle of your book right now and am thoroughly enjoying it. Yum!
I have a junk drawer and some junk tables stacked with papers I intend to get to today or maybe tomorrow. Actually, my junk drawer is more organized than the rest of my place although it does contain menus for delivery restaurants that are out of my territory? And I do have some 3 1/2″ diskettes that no longer fit my computer. But my different size envelopes align neatly and my paper clip boxes are in order. Something is wrong here. This isn’t at all like the rest of me. Where did I go astray???
catslady on 29 Feb 2008 at 3:34 pm #
Only ONE junk drawer hahahahahahaha.
Marie on 29 Feb 2008 at 4:38 pm #
I have a junk car. I wouldn’t be able to get anything accomplished without it. I have everything I’ll need in any given day in it. I can’t run home if I forget something so I have to have everything in my car.
Suzanne Enoch on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:09 pm #
One junk drawer? You neatnicks.
Judy F on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:28 pm #
Oh I have a few junk drawers. there are two in the kitchen, one has stuff you buy at those darn Pampered Chef parties you know you are going to use but never do. the other junk drawer is the garbage ties, tape, etc.
My drawer next to my bed is a mini junk drawer, it has book marks, markers, book covers and the like in it.
Now my living room closet is at this point a junk room. LOL if you want something in or out you enter at your own risk.
FreshEChelle on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:36 pm #
Has anyone seen the key to my garage? I already checked the junk drawer.
KariE on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:47 pm #
Fresh-I’m sure one of the twelve keys in my two drawers will do the trick for ya.
Paula on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:47 pm #
I also have several junk drawers, one of which , asmany of you also have, contains all those manuals and bits of paper that tell you how thing work (or should do!!) I also have a junk shelf in a cupboard in the utility(laundry) room. My desk drawer is another junk drawer.
Sorry Fresh I haven’t seen your key to your garage but has anyone seen favourite black biro?!! maybe the boys have moved it!!
Paula on 29 Feb 2008 at 5:48 pm #
Fresh, I can check the pot that I have that holds all the odd keys from about the place maybe one of them will work.
lisa on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:17 pm #
i just cannot tell you how much better reading this has made me feel. I’m going to go pop a beer. The bottle opener is in the junk drawer!
FreshEChelle on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:27 pm #
Paula, thanks for checking that pot. Found it right after I sent that after looking for 2 weeks.
I’ve got a lovely black fountain pen that’s out of ink. Will that be an adequate substitute for your fav biro? I’m sure I’ve got some very dried up cartridges to go with it.
FreshEChelle on 29 Feb 2008 at 6:28 pm #
Kari E - I did locate lots of keys to stores in various malls with locks that we’ve probably changed a few times over. I should probably get rid of those. Let me send them to you so you can really beef up that collection.
Meg on 29 Feb 2008 at 7:28 pm #
Wait! There is a conference in Columbia this weekend? I don’t live that far away myself! I want to go! Where’s the info?
Karen Hawkins on 29 Feb 2008 at 10:59 pm #
Off topic, but like, I’m two and a half hours late for this conference thingee I’m going to, but I finally get there and walk in and who do I see? GANNON AND PJ! And tomorrow Sabrina will be here!
It’s A GODDESS-ARAMA!
Karen Hawkins on 29 Feb 2008 at 11:05 pm #
Oh and the info is here … there’s a book signing tomorrow! http://www.crspring.com/
Come on down!
PS Btw, PJ sat at my table tonight and was our designated Blow Hard. And boy, did she SHINE!
Santa on 01 Mar 2008 at 12:01 am #
PJ - You lucky DUCK you! You take great pictures - so don’t forget to report back! Is this the conference where half nikked cover models stroll around? If so, make sure you packed your extra memory card and charger for your camera or film, as the case may be!
Suzanne - where do we sign the petition to have those traditional Regencies put made into an anthology? Do I need to start one? I adore trads and am a big fan of anthologies - so it would heavenly to me!
And Karen - please hug PJ and Gannon for me! I can’t wait to meet them in person to do the same!
Santa
Who is sneaking off to the bookstore tomorrow to get me a sleeping rogue….
Kim on 01 Mar 2008 at 12:31 am #
San–That’s RT. LOL. Not CR. CR is not a con like RT or RWA is all about the readers. It sounds very cool. We need to go next year.
KarenH–ahh, what’s a Blow Hard and WHAT did you do to my sweet PJ to turn her into one?!?!?!
Have fun Goddesses! And enjoy the chocolate PJ took you. I know she did!