Beda April 12: Maureen

Author's note: I planned on doing one whole blog with the different authors but I’m kinda bored with writing today and having trouble focusing so I’ve only gotten halfway through part two so what I’m going to do it stretch this out a little bit. So this is going to be a three parter. (Also I know I promised Meg Cabot today but while she’s first in the chronology of all of this she is second for story telling because she actually happened.)

Today I plan on writing the blog I set out to write. So with that said let me get into it.

I have had a few exiting things happen to me in my life. I’m going to talk about run-ins with authors. The first one I’m going to talk about probably never happened but it has a few things about it that make it possible. About two years ago Maureen Johnson had a contest for people 18 and under to win a trip to New York to meet her. She was also having a comment contest to win Suite Scarlett sleep masks. She spent weeks hyping this super awesome super secret thing that was going to be announced (as MJ will do) and then it was announced that the super secret thing was the New York thing which had I been under 18 at the time that would have been awesome. I wasn’t and that day on the blog comments I complained that I waited forever to be over 18 to be able to enter awesome contests like that and then after I turned 18 all of the best contests were for 18 and under. So the next day MJ announced sleep mask winners and I was on the list. I think this was because she felt bad for me, but I won and I almost never win anything so it was exciting. So I sent in my address and waited. Meanwhile I was following the John and Hank and found out that they would be having a nerdfighter gathering with MJ in Michigan. I wanted to go so bad but it was in Grand Rapids which is on the other side of the state and no way would I be able to get there. The day of the gathering arrived and I sat at home wishing I could be there. I can’t remember what caused me to go outside but that day I stepped onto my front porch and there in the mailbox was a small manila envelope with the sleep mask in it. Several hours later the mail arrived. After seeing the mail I looked at my MJ envelope again and noticed that it had no postage on it. Which is a little weird, the only explanation is that Hank, John, and Maureen all carpooled to the Grand Rapids and on the way they stopped at my house Hank and John waited in the car while MJ Ninja’d up to my mailbox to drop off my prize then they went tearing away giving them plenty of time to get to Grand Rapids. Unlikely yes but it could totally happen.