OB, My Valentine

Today was my first OB appointment with my shiny new non-dick-doctor and it could not have been a more perfect first date. Even the stirrups were padded with fuzzy hearts. I kid you not. 

I told the new doctor about the hell that was my last experience and he shook his head. We chatted about what I wanted this time around re: my birth experience and the dude even gave me a list of Doulas and midwives which is soooo not normal (at least in my experience). I can't even begin to explain how opposite my new doctor is to my old one. So much that we hugged. Twice. I even showed him a copy of my book and gave him my blog address.

Then we held hands and went dancing across the plains. 

Baby's three inches long and moving around like a crazy MOFO up in my piece. My due-date was pushed up to October 12th and the doctor thought he maybe saw a penis but it looked like a giant clitoris to me. 

I'll give you a hundred dollars if you can find the baby in the ultrasound photo

Anyway, regardless of whether or not the baby turns out to be a boy or a girl (or a monkey-squirrel)  I already want to kiss it all over its lemon-sized body. This pregnancy is suddenly very exciting to me. A good doctor really does make all the difference. 

Good doctor + Good pair of maternity jeans = Good times. 

GGC

In The Meantime... Let's Dance!

BOOK UPDATE: It looks like the release date has been pushed to mid-month. Don't be alarmed by the Amazon emails proclaiming a June 2nd shipment. It isn't so. It's just that the books aren't *in* the warehouse yet so they have to push the date back until books arrive. It's just an Amazon thang. SO! The books will be processed at the Amazon warehouse in the next week-ish to ship soon-after and most likely in/at your local bookstore mid-monthish as well. All appearances, even those held before the *new* mid-month release will be stocked with books aplenty. If you have any other questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email me or comment below.

Phew! Okay then. SO! In lieu of Rockabye's MIA status I'll be featuring my favorite music every day from now until youtube crashes my website Rockabye hits shelves (for real) as a sort of rockin' down to Rockabye situation. 

Because we might as well rock out in the waiting room, yes? 

Today's pick: New Moon* by: Sambassadeur.  

GGC

*Love this track? This one's just as snappy.

Hazards of Releasing a Book On April Fools Day

Life has a funny way of being... funny.

And honestly, I kind of have to laugh. Especially after my week-long freak-fest over today's book release. Because here it is, release date and... Psyche! No book.

I guess should have known the hazards of having an April 1st publication date but alas, I believed in the system and was never one to fall for April Fools shenanigans. Foiled again, I was! My apologies to those of you who were foiled as well.

Today *is* the book release date but because of some issues with the Perseus Books warehouse and a three week delay in shipping (reviewers only *just* got their books Friday. As did I.) Books will not be on local bookstore shelves until next week and/or at the very latest, the week after. Amazon shipments have also been delayed (Five days, I believe?) so if you ordered your Amazon copy in hopes it would arrive today, April Fools! Early next week is probably more accurate. (Ugh! So sorry about that!)

Hal and I had today reserved for bookstore browsing Rockabye at all our local booky haunts but alas... After the third clerk at the third bookstore checked his/her computer shook his head and said, "the book is on it's way it looks like, but, uh, I don't really know.... " I thought to myself, "Hmmmm, something's wrong with this still-life."

I had the brief inclination to think "what if my book NEVER comes out and this was all a joke?" After all, wouldn't that just make sense? After my last weeks of doubt and emotional self-mutilation? I mean, I even went so far as to say "I wish the book could just NEVER come out!"

"OH MY GOD", thought I. "WHAT IF my life is some kind of modern Aesopesque Fable and I, The Girl Who Cried Woolf!?"

Thankfully that isn't the case. I spoke with my publisher about the whole warehouse-debacle and it turns out that yes, the book WILL indeed come out. Soon. I just don't know exactly what day. And that's pretty much just life, isn't it? Plans shmans. Release dates, shmelease dates. The universe fucks with those in need of a good old-fashioned fucking-with (like me).

After all, babies seldom arrive when they are due. And aint that true...

GGC

*For those of you coming to the Book Soup event on Saturday, books WILL be available there. Books will also be available at next week's Borders event in Carlsbad (San Diego) if they haven't already arrived in big chains by then.

**To those who ordered on Amazon, please let me know if you're book has *not* arrived by early next week so I can do some inspecting.

*** I love you people so-so much. Thank you for making me feel like less of an asshole and more like a human being.