Is it really Friday already? Is it really about to be July? How does this happen??

Sigh.

A quick report of the weekend…Rand and I attended Conterpoint in Rockville, Maryland. We could hardly pass up the opportunity to see Tony and Vixy, Seanan, and Wild Mercy all in one place! They were all fantastic, as were the other concerts.

Wild Mercy made me cry twice…once with their rendition of Hallelujah, and again with a new song that was basically that scene in Titanic, when the mom is telling a story to her kids to get them to go to sleep so they don’t realize they’re gonna die…except on a spaceship. Yeah. *sniff*

Jen, who plays harp and sings with Wild Mercy, has the cutest baby in the world. (yes, all babies are the cutest babies in the world…) Seriously, though…baby Maddie was so happy and content all weekend, even with hundreds of strange people about.

I’m sure there were a million things I wanted to say about the weekend, and maybe I’ll remember them at some point. 😉

I also managed to squeeze in a visit with my college friends Holly and Mary (and their families), who both live in Maryland.

We ate at the Cheesecake Factory, and I finally got to meet Mary and Holly’s children. It only took me three years to meet Holly’s!

Anyway, yay for time spent with friends, both old and new. 🙂

My friend Seanan is helping out a friend by donating sales of her live album Pretty Little Dead Girl. Here’s the whole story directly from Seanan:

A fire sale is what you have when the house is on fire and you need to get things out of it, right? ‘Here, buy my stuff before it gets smoke-damaged’. Well, a very good friend of mine has a house that’s on fire right now, and that means I’m having a fire sale to try to help her put it out.

For the next week, all proceeds of sales from my first album, Pretty Little Dead Girl, will be going straight to her and her family, to help them get through a rather nasty financial crunch — basically, she starts her new job in two weeks, but until then, there’s no money to do fun things like ‘feed the resident small child’ and ‘keep the electricity running’. If we can manage to sell forty copies of the album, at $15 a pop, we’ll raise six hundred dollars, and get them through this stupid speed bump.

To order Pretty Little Dead Girl and donate the proceeds, go to:

https://www.seananmcguire.com/secure_order.php

Put ‘fire sale’ in the comments field. We still have to charge postage (and the international order surcharge, for people outside the US), since I don’t have any money either, but all actual sale-of-CD proceeds will go straight to the donation pool. I’m probably going to do a few art sales or auctions to help this along, later in the week.

Please, feel free to repost this entry, modified as necessary, especially if you have a reading list that differs substantially from mine. The fire sale will run from Thursday, June 28, through Thursday, July 5.

Thank you.

Addendum: Because a few people have asked — if you want to contribute to the fire sale, but either don’t have $15, or don’t need another copy of Pretty Little Dead Girl, you can send non-CC PayPal directly to:

delirium at xocolatl dot com

For those of you who don’t know her, Seanan rocks. She’s an awesome person, and a brilliant songwriter, and, well, even if it weren’t for a good cause, you’d want to own her music.