Four more days to my book release party - and I am nervous - scared - anxious. What I still have to do: 

1.  figure out what to wear -
2. finish cleaning my house -
3. go grocery shopping to feed my peeps (at the house that is - my family's rolling deep - I'll be housing about 15 people) -
4. go over last minute setup details with the crew at the ABHM -
5. get with the Hurston Wright foundation -
6. make programs -
7. design a program -
8. write a finale poem (yeah yeah yeah - I know all the poems are s'pose to be written but I got this bomb ass idea) -
9. rehearse and I gotta stop I'm getting overwhelmed (did I mention toes - nails and hair).

What I am grateful for:

1. Family driving and flying miles and miles and miles to see me (Wamp - andrea - my sisters - mother grandmother aunts cousins -------
2. Friends who are doing the same and helping me to figure out everything that needs to be done and volunteering to do it before I can even fix my lips to say "help".
3. Marcia and Cindy for being so flexible and talented.
4. Gwen for being such a giver and smartass woman
5. Brooke-Sidney for flying in and doing what she does best
6. Heather and Nicole for calling me from Belgium to tell me they love me
7. Korn - for driving the highway miles 6 months pregnant even though she hates long distance driving even when she wasn't pregnant
8. Courtney - even though he left me helping me to run logistics - canceling his daughter's hair appt to help pick up people from the airport for me
9. Lisel - for catering - organizing - brainstorming
10. Jewel - planner at the ABHM - for assuring me all is going to be alright and doing all that she can
11. Marita - for offering her help and support when she is the busy - successful - famous - talented woman she is
12. My womens rock!!! Courtney - you rock, too
13. Everyone who is taking time out of there lives to come out and support me - encourage me - celebrate with me