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A Wedding Band, Book Clubs, An Excerpt and the Best Water in the World

Posted on | April 23, 2009 | 5 Comments Leave a comment | Print This Post   

Today I’ve got a bunch of happy news to share with you. But first, a personal note.

Wedding Band

Next month marks my husband and my tenth anniversary. It’s been a journey getting to this point, which includes a lot of ups and downs, though mostly ups, especially in the past five years (which means, yes, that the first five years were pretty down). If you ever want to challenge your relationship, then do this: make a big move to a place you’ve never lived, start a new business doing something you’ve never done, have a baby (and then an unexpected c-section) with no family around to help, downsize to practically nothing and live month by month for a few years. That’ll do it.

So for us to come out on the other side with three beautiful children (the last two were VBACs, the third being a home VBAC for those who may be interested), a business that’s doing well (spiritofgolfacademy.com plus our books and publication), and finally being able to take a breath and appreciate living on this beautiful rock called Hawaii, well, we have a lot to celebrate. So we’re going to do a simple private ceremony next month with our kids to mark our anniversary, to acknowledge all we’ve gone through and our hope for what’s to come.

Which is the long way of telling you that I have a new wedding band. It came two days ago from Blue Nile and it’s engraved with the original engraving from my first wedding band. “What? Your first wedding band? What happened to that?” Well, remember the whole living month-to-month thing? There was one point when things got really bad and I sold my diamond engagement ring and matching wedding band so we could make rent. Yes, true story.

Do I wish I’d kept it? For a long time, no (I try not to have regrets), but now I do. Maybe we could have found another way, though honestly I have to say that we’d exhausted almost every other option and we were down to the wire, so I don’t know what else we could have done. It did help us to tread water a little longer, which I’m grateful we did. I wasn’t ready to give up on our dreams.

So fast forward today, where I’m filled with a lot of happiness. These small details, while nice, fade in comparison.

My new ring is a simple platinum band, no diamonds like before, but it went on my finger the minute it came out of the box. It feels both weird and wonderful to be wearing something again. I sadly realize that I don’t have a picture of my first ring other than the wedding photos (and even then there’s not a close-up) but, if you are so inclined, you can look through back issues of Town & Country magazine and you’ll see us in one of the 1999 issues (I forget which one, I think it’s August). Yes sir, it’s been a long journey and our life is dramatically different and I wouldn’t change a thing. So here’s the ring, and I’m a very happy girl.

Book Clubs

In other late-breaking news this week, my upcoming release, TABLE MANNERS, will be a selection of four book clubs: Doubleday, Literary Guild, Rhapsody, and Book of the Month 2!

Yay, yay, hooray, Mia does a happy dance…

Which leads me to the next bit of news, if you’re dying to get a sneak peek of what’s in store. TABLE MANNERS is the sequel to my first novel, GOOD THINGS, which was a national bestseller. So I have for you…

An Excerpt

Yes, a TABLE MANNERS excerpt!

The first chapter, to be exact. It’s a continuation of Deidre’s story, though you’ll be hearing quite a bit more from Marla and Lindsey in this book, too. NYT Bestselling author Susan Mallery offered the blurb: “Table Manners delights.” USA Today Bestselling Author Jill Marie Landis adds on the back cover: “Mia King is a winner when it comes to creating memorable characters readers will love.” And, of course, you are welcome to pre-order the title at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or your local independent bookstore.

To download and read the first chapter from TABLE MANNERS, click here. Requires Adobe Reader.

Drink Hawaii  – The Best Water in the World

A couple of weeks ago I went to the Kona Chocolate Festival. Now, for a chocoholic like me, you can only imagine what was going through my mind. Chocolate, chocolate, every where! I was going to be in heaven.

When we got there, we hit a couple of booths and I was happily getting my chocolate hit. It wasn’t too crowded in the beginning, which was great, because it meant more chocolate for me. And then I came upon the booth for Kona Deep.

At first glance, it looks like just another bottle of water. It’s not!! They get the water off the coast of Hawaii at 3,000 feet, which means it’s too deep and too cold to be contaminated by man. There’s tons of minerals and vitamins, electrolyte-rich, and it’s delicious. Smooth. Silky. Do not ask me how, but it is. And I’ve had a lot of bottled water. I have even done some consulting projects (in my pre-Hawaii life) for some high-end water companies, and I can tell you that nothing compares.

So there I was, surrounded by chocolate in every shape and form (one of my favorites was the chocolate tamale from Huggo’s), and I kept going back to the Kona Deep booth for more. I think I went back a total of 8 times. Maybe 9. By the end of the night I wasn’t eating any chocolate and just drinking this water. I even got some for the one-hour drive back to Waimea.

I’ve since spent my hard-earned money (and it is hard-earned, as you now know from the story above) on buying big bottles at the grocery store. I also buy Hawaii Deep Blue, which has a pH balance 7.6. I think I got a liter and downed it 10 minutes! If it’s possible to crave water (and not because you’re dehydrated in a desert), I do. If you get a chance to try it, don’t pass it up. It’s happy water.

So that’s it from me, a rather long post that I hadn’t originally intended to write but am glad I did. Wishing everyone a happy day and a happy life,

Mia

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