Our "baby" came in the mail yesterday!

Yesterday when we got home from David picking me up at the train station after work he said we would be having a nice wine with dinner. Well that means we are celebrating something. He had already shared his business stories of the day which were quite good but I didn't think that was what we were celebrating. I suspected it might have to do with our book having finally arrived from the publisher but I didn't see it anywhere.

I had approved the e-proof on the 25th of September and it was a very long and frustrating process for this first version of the actual book to make it's way too me. I knew that it could actually finally arrive any day, but wasn't totally prepared for it to be that day. David was really frustrating me as he had obviously hidden it and I really wasn't in the mood for hide and go seek! He told me to stop looking down and to start looking up (what a metaphor for life and the bad day I had at work that is). So I looked at the ceiling where it obviously wasn't. He asked why it was either black or white, up or down for me, is there not a middle ground (another good metaphor for life). Where do we put nice things we receive like cards? I then realized that would be the shelf above the fireplace, I looked up at that and there it was our beautiful book! The cover is glossy, the paper is nice and it actually looks like not just a book but a really nice and good book!

Go away self esteem demons! I am worthy of having a really good book that people will enjoy reading and owning. As I know that our beliefs create our reality I must really really believe that from every cell in my body. Well, it will help when a few people who don't know us buy the book and make really good comments about it. But why do we (me anyway) seek this approval from outside of ourselves? I'll leave you with that as I work on that one myself. I don't work in my day job on Fridays and one of the things I'm doing today is answering the publisher's press release questionnaire about the book. It really is a good book, a great book in fact!

thoughts on my "brand" the enchanted frog

David and I attended an internet marketing course yesterday. After all, as the book is self published through Trafford, online will be the way the book is purchased until we are able to get it into bookstores.

At this course anybody who wanted to could go on stage and promote their "brand" for 30 - 60 seconds. Well, as more people than they had time for wanted to do this I got maybe 40 seconds so couldn't say everything I wanted to but this is very good material for a blog that other people can add their thoughts to.

So our brand for the book "Some Day My Prince Will .com" is an enchanted frog with a crown on his head, sitting at a computer and with a magic wand above his head with fairy dust coming down and enchanting him (after all, he was writing to me on match.com). To me, he represents that love can be fun (both finding it and after it has arrived), it represents that the fairy tale can be real and that we all need to live our lives in a state of enchantment, hope and inspiration and to always see the glass as half full. It represents to both David and I our belief that anything is possible if you keep an open heart and an open mind.

Another thought occurred to me with the concept of fun and thinking like a child. When a child falls off the swingset in the playground, they might cry for a few moments but then they usually get right back on it. They don't spend years being wounded or afraid to try another swing. Why can't adults be the same way? When we have heartbreak in love (and who among us hasn't), we tend to close our hearts at least for awhile. What if finding an enchanted frog, or ruby red magic slippers, was just as easy as getting back up and believing we can? As Obama says "yes we can!". In life, "shit happens", but why must a person lose twice or more by reliving the pain and closing their heart.

Our book (I am the main author but David has contributed close to 50% of it in either his emails or the chapter that is devoted to him so I do call it ours), tells the story of how we both opened our hearts to find each other. My hope is to help others find this enchanted way of looking at life and relationships.

So....this is a blog, a new one just started on Friday. I would love to have contributions and thoughts and stories from other people.

1st blog 9 October 2009

Hello world. It's Friday night here in the UK and I'm enjoying an at home evening with my husband David. We both have our laptops in our lap and are comfortably doing our own thing on them with the tv in the background. It's a peaceful loving relationship although we both can be unpleasant when we are overtired and stressed. We do try to always stay in gratitude for our relationship and our life.

I won't write much tonight, this is just to get this started. My book "Some Day My Prince Will .com" will be available online probably within the week and I'm both excited and scared. I/we have put our story out to the world with the hope that other people will open their hearts and their minds to the infinite possibilities that exist for a real soul mate relationship.

We met on the internet, hence the title of the book. I was in Florida and David was in England. It was 1999.

I'm very sleepy as I often am on Friday nights so I'll leave you with our website to look at www.somedaymyprincewill.com.

I'll be sharing my insights, David's insights, and those of others, and I'm hoping that old friends and new will add to this blog with their own stories of love, life and relationships.

More later friends....
with love
Dianne