Awesome Things
Do you remember the first time you saw a LOL Cat? Or a Cake Wreck? Or a Post Secret secret? How about an Awkward Family Photo? Remember how cool you thought that was? How funny? How brilliant? How… awesome?
And remember when you got to the point where you never wanted to see another LOL Cat, Cake Wreck, secret or Awkward Family Photo again? Until the book came out and then you reserved your copy early, or you bought as a gift for someone, or you reserved it at the library because that site and all of its brilliance was part of your life for awhile and you have good feelings toward it (and its creators.)
If you do, then you’ll understand what I’m about to tell you about The Book of Awesome, The Book of Even More Awesome, and the Book of (Holiday) Awesome.
Years and years ago, I thought 1000 Awesome Things was brilliant. I loved it. I subscribed to the blog and I read the awesome daily. Until I stopped. Turns out, you can have too much awesome in your life. I had so much awesome burn out that when an awesome thing happened in my own life it felt less awesome because… I just read that exact thing on the blog, which means awesome happens to everyone and some of the shininess of my own awesome seemed to have been rubbed off. So I stopped reading and pretty much forgot about 100 Awesome Things – until last week when I noticed someone had reviewed all three books on my library website.
I felt a tug on my marshmallow insides and I reserved all three books.
And I did not read all three books, word for word, story by awesome story. I learned my lesson about awesome overload years ago – instead I read about half of The Book of Awesome and then flipped through the rest. I read most of the Awesome Holidays and flipped through what I didn’t read. And I read all of the titles in Even More Awesome and read a few full pieces but mostly not. TW and I talked about how I’ve never tried to peel an orange in one piece (I wonder why) – but I have peeled an orange in one piece, with my favorite Girl Scout pocket Knife and that was AWESOME!
These are fun books. I wouldn’t mind owning them – being able to pluck one off of the shelf and find an awesome thought, feeling, experience to make me smile, and then put the book back in its place.
*Sidenote 1* My favorite fun site right now is Fuck Your Noguchi Coffee Table – you must go look.
*Sidenote 2* It was hard to read the awesome because I kept thinking of Awesome, Julie’s darn cat. Sheesh.
