Well, this morning Alva tells me that last night she and about 20 friends sat on the floor to toast the New Year as the ball came down over Times Square. The result? Alva just bounced in today ready for work! On New Year’s Day, no less!
I sent her home. Told her to relax until Tuesday–but not before congratulating her on her success in her New Year’s Occupy Hope and Vote 2012 Project in which she successfully talked all of her friends to have a midnight ‘sit in’ (as she referred to it) to celebrate the fact they all not only are old enough to vote, but plan to use their vote in 2012!
According to Alva the Indie, about 18 of the 20 had already registered.
So I congratulated Alva and promised her that, yes, I would vote in 2012 (as if I haven’t always done so)! And then I sent her home for real.
Meantime, AlLVA Press has been just a flurry of activity! In the past week:
- ALVA distributed a newsletter offering a 10% discount on Jolt: a rural noir in both Mobi (Kindle) or ePub (Nook) eBook forms.
- Roy, medalist author of the survival themed book, Jolt: a rural noir had an interview by M Edward McNally that will be published February 7, 2012 on McNally’s Tag Line Tuesday Interview at SableCity.Wordpress.Com.
- A glitch in the Newsletter Sign Up window was resolved. Whew!
- The January 3, 2012 ALVA Newsletter was readied for distribution Tuesday.
And all in all the beginning of the year has been all around rosy–what with Roberta’s son’s Gallery Ottaviani (galleryottaviani.com) after a really slow year, finally picking up; birthdays for Roberta‘s 84 and 88 year old aunts, Betty Hamel, the author/artist, and Marie Sicolo, singer/yodeler, being celebrated; Roberta‘s oldest and youngest two grandsons, ages 11 and 7, having stayed over for a couple of fun days, and a New Year’s dinner with the family planned for this evening, what more can one ask? Except to wish you all a Very Happy, Hopeful, and Healthy New Year 2012!
Roberta in Po-Town, Lookin’ up
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