Big to-do
You want to know how two YA authors spend a night on the town? Well, let's just say that when Jennifer Lynn Barnes stopped by to see the new house last night the following happened:
1. Jen agreed that the cabinets are evil, but the rest of the house is cute.
2. We watched a bit of TROY on AMC and agreed that Brad Pitt is indeed the hottest man who ever lived (and is either staying at the same level of hotness or even possibly getting hotter as he ages.)
3. Decided to go see JUMPER.
4. Agreed that JUMPER was both a really bad, yet also really enjoyable, movie.
5. Got into Jen's car to leave.
6. Realized that Jen's car wouldn't start.
7. Tried to call AAA.
8. Realized that if you have a full A-Z keyboard on your phone (like a Motorola Q) then phone numbers like 1-800-AAA-HELP aren't all that helpful.
9. Decoded the AAA phone number.
10. Waited for AAA.
11. Observed a woman, a child, and two men acting suspiciously in the parking lot, so Jen (who also writes about spies) and I recorded the following:
--they were driving two vehicles, a white toyota camry, and a maroon chevy malibu.
--they were both from out of state--the same state.
--one of the men thought he was a whole lot younger and a whole lot cooler than he actually was.
--the owner of the white camry was likely a University of Texas graduate (but neither of the cars were from Texas.)
--the woman and the child left in the white car and the two men left in the maroon car. They left going in different directions, but not before we overheard plans to meet up later at a local nightclub.
--the operatives (Jen and I) couldn't follow, however, because that's about the time the AAA guy got there.
12. AAA quickly jumped the car. It started. Jen and I bragged about how calmly we handled the situation.
13. Started to leave parking lot.
14. Car died again.
15. Called Jen's parents.
16. Waited and watched as the entire Barnes clan descended upon us. Seriously. It was as if someone sent up the Bat signal or something.
17. Waved about a dozen cars to drive around us because, of course, we stalled in probably the busiest place in the parking lot.
18. Tried to jump Jen's car again--no luck.
19. Listened as Jen's dad instructs Jen's brother to push the car into an empty space.
20. Watched as brother strained and moaned and had his face turn purple.
21. Offered to get out of the car and HELP push as opposed to BEING pushed.
22. Pushed car easily with our superior, collective girl-power strength.
23. Learned that Jen's dad had kept his foot on the brake during the first car pushing attempt, so maybe Jen and I weren't the awesome car-pushers we thought we were.
24. Got taken to dinner by Jen's Parents.
25. Gave tour of house...again.
26. Got confirmation that the cabinets ARE EVIL...again.
27. Said a prayer of thanks that I now live in a place where when you break down people care. And help. And even if the cabinets are evil, the people most definitely are not.
--Ally
1. Jen agreed that the cabinets are evil, but the rest of the house is cute.
2. We watched a bit of TROY on AMC and agreed that Brad Pitt is indeed the hottest man who ever lived (and is either staying at the same level of hotness or even possibly getting hotter as he ages.)
3. Decided to go see JUMPER.
4. Agreed that JUMPER was both a really bad, yet also really enjoyable, movie.
5. Got into Jen's car to leave.
6. Realized that Jen's car wouldn't start.
7. Tried to call AAA.
8. Realized that if you have a full A-Z keyboard on your phone (like a Motorola Q) then phone numbers like 1-800-AAA-HELP aren't all that helpful.
9. Decoded the AAA phone number.
10. Waited for AAA.
11. Observed a woman, a child, and two men acting suspiciously in the parking lot, so Jen (who also writes about spies) and I recorded the following:
--they were driving two vehicles, a white toyota camry, and a maroon chevy malibu.
--they were both from out of state--the same state.
--one of the men thought he was a whole lot younger and a whole lot cooler than he actually was.
--the owner of the white camry was likely a University of Texas graduate (but neither of the cars were from Texas.)
--the woman and the child left in the white car and the two men left in the maroon car. They left going in different directions, but not before we overheard plans to meet up later at a local nightclub.
--the operatives (Jen and I) couldn't follow, however, because that's about the time the AAA guy got there.
12. AAA quickly jumped the car. It started. Jen and I bragged about how calmly we handled the situation.
13. Started to leave parking lot.
14. Car died again.
15. Called Jen's parents.
16. Waited and watched as the entire Barnes clan descended upon us. Seriously. It was as if someone sent up the Bat signal or something.
17. Waved about a dozen cars to drive around us because, of course, we stalled in probably the busiest place in the parking lot.
18. Tried to jump Jen's car again--no luck.
19. Listened as Jen's dad instructs Jen's brother to push the car into an empty space.
20. Watched as brother strained and moaned and had his face turn purple.
21. Offered to get out of the car and HELP push as opposed to BEING pushed.
22. Pushed car easily with our superior, collective girl-power strength.
23. Learned that Jen's dad had kept his foot on the brake during the first car pushing attempt, so maybe Jen and I weren't the awesome car-pushers we thought we were.
24. Got taken to dinner by Jen's Parents.
25. Gave tour of house...again.
26. Got confirmation that the cabinets ARE EVIL...again.
27. Said a prayer of thanks that I now live in a place where when you break down people care. And help. And even if the cabinets are evil, the people most definitely are not.
--Ally
posted by Ally Carter at Monday, March 10, 2008
44 Comments:
Hahahaha! That's really funny Ally. Next time, invite me. I love a good laugh! :)
-Kat
Yay! First comment this is so asweome, thank gawd for a snow day! (I guess wearing your pj's inside out really works!) Anyhows, I feel your pain, trust me if your car broke down in Ohio you guys would have been dead! We have snow pat my knees! And Im 5"3! Plus the roads are so bad they threaten to give anyone who was outside on saturday a ticket! Ha-ha I guess they dont call it "Blizzard of 0'8" for nothing huh?
Ally,
I'm so glad you've got a support network. Life is always much easier to handle if you know that there are people you can call and who will drop everything to help you.
Now here's hoping your cabinets get exorcised soon!
oh gosh...i hate it when the car won't start...at least my dad's old truck never died in the middle of the parking lot. it likes to die in the driveway so we end up riding our bikes to school...and it usually dies in the winter. it's just evil like that.
either way, i'm glad you guys are both okay and that you got some spy time in!!
Briana
Gosh. Yet another good reason to become a YA author. And from this night out we can all learn sevral good things:
Beware of two guys in a maroon car with a woman and child in a white car.
Seriously. Get New Cabinets!!!
Jumper is as weird as I thought it looked.
The Barnes family is seriously amazing.
Ally has very strong, superwoman-like arms.
Again. NEW CABINETS!!!
*Marina*
I've heard that Jumper is really bad which is a bit of a disappointment for me, Hayden Christensen is very cute but I should've guessed from his Star Wars performance it would be bad lol. And that car sounds possibly more evil than the cabinets lol!
-Lexa
hey ally!!!
guess what?! i took your advice and read Jen's books, i LOVED it!!!!!
do you think you could ask her when the next book in the squad series will be out?!?!? hey nevermind, i'll look in her blog :)
but it's so cute how u guys are friends and u both write about spies!!! :)
I laughed like crazy when I read this!
Wow... my mom's car got stuck by a sushi restaurant once, and she called AAA... by the time they got there 2 hrs had passed...
At least you got faster help!
so... evil cabinets, (possibly) evil maroon and white cars, triple A jumping a car but then the car fails just after they leave...
Someone should write a book about that... two authors who write books about spies are trapped near a movie theatre because their car mysteriously won't start. They finally call AAA but then they notice a conspiracy plot - two cars, both from the same state (etc...), and decide to follow to stop the plot. But just then, AAA comes and jumps their car (at the same time planting a GPS tracking device so that they will always know where the authors are - the authors are wanted because their spy "fiction" books aren't so fictitious after all). By the time the car is "fixed", the "AAA" workers (who really work for (insert acronym here)), have snipped an important wire, because it would interfere with the tracking device's signal. So, the two authors have to call one of the author's parents to pick them up. Unbeknownst to them, they work for the CIA and are ready to attack the evil (acronym) people, and will stop at nothing. So, when the visit one of the author's houses, they offer to look at the evil cabinets and find out that they are indeed evil - the (acronym) has added a three inch support bar! They must now rush off and Google evil support bars until they have enough information to track down the evil (acronym) operatives.
Hey - it could happen! You never know who these AAA people are... although maybe you should check the car over for GPS tracking devices...
sorry i was ranting a little there...
OMG! that was so fUNNY!! I have yet to read the Squad books but they sound AWSOME! Sorry about Jumper, im kinda disapointed cuz the commericial made it look really cool. but yeah, right now i wana see Penelope cuz it has 2 of my fave actors/actresses, Reese Witherspoon and James Macovoy. I LOVE James Macovoy! i first saw him in Becomming Jane and thought he was really good at acting. ( and reeeeally cute! )but anywase, i think your entry today is reeeally funny!
-gallaghergirl95
P.S you seriously need to get your cabinet DE-EVILFIED!
LOL! That really stinks. Glad you made it back though!
Quick question! I emailed you, like, I don't know, I think it was almost 3 weeks ago but never got an email back....not to be rude or anything....but my question was about a newsletter. If you got my email could you email me back?
Cait
that's hilarious!
we should always pray to God after something good.......and bad.. happens.
That's SO funny, mabey you do have gril-power and Jen's dad is just jealous.....
*Elise*
lol... that is soo funny! can we see more pics of ur house??? i wanna tour!
That was so funny! To bad it was a true story...btw i was watching Troy to, but stopped as soon as Orlando killed Brad. =]
woo hoo!! undercover mission!! super cool! and it's even cooler that you trusted us enough to share this top secret info.
jk. lol.
anyways, i was gonna start the fansite like two weekends ago but then the person who was gonna help me set it up was busy. and then last weekend a relative of mine died. so now, construction on it is at a complete halt.
tootles, callie
Wow you had a busy day!!I Hope you get your evil cabinets fixed soon.
Dominique
that sounds sooo exciting Ally!! kinda lyk one of your books maybe you should work a little of it into gg4 or something!! dat would be cool!! i can totally relate wiv u on car break downs..... my dad's car seems to hold a grudge a against me... it always breaks down when he's driving me somewhere important and though the teachers @ my school won't acceppt it, it's the cause of 3 out of 4 of my lates this year :(!!
ur house sounds sooo cool. even w/ the evil cabinets.
and that story idea was awesome anonymous. mayb U should rite the story. u thought up the plot.
ooohhhh, i no!! we should have a fanfic contest! rite ur own version lof lyky 4 fun u no!!!! that'd b sooo cool.
adyosi, any
(did i spell adyosi rite??)
Ha ha! Sounds like you guys had fun!
<3 Renee
wow ally. that sounds like a jammed-packed day. i got in a car accident the other day and the person that hit us ddn't have a drivers licenes, no insurance, and it wasn't even his car!!!!! we also had to call AAA about the car. luckly my house was only a block away so i walked home. hope you get rid of the evil cabinets!!:)
-curly
Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Ha! I am reading The Squad right now! Cool!
Anyways, it sounds like you two had quite an adventure. That's too bad you had to decode a phone number. Seems awfully spy-like to me, but that's good, considering that's a topic you both write about. :)
Aww.... sweet message! Love stories like this... and the way you tell them is really funny. I heart you!!!
<3 Priscilla
P.S. (Those are my initials)
P.S.S. I also took your advice and bought both of the books in THE SQUAD serires and I'm still gonna read it!
P.S.S.S. I also found a nother book called the specialists - about spies! And they're undercover model spies!
P.S.S.S.S. I am OBSESSED WITH BOOKS ABOUT SPIES!
Great I was the second comment, so much for being special! Ha-ha I told my friends to read this they laughed so hard on the phone, her parents thought she went insaine! Thanks for recomending "The Squad" series I just finished "Perfect Cover" saturday and started "Killer Spirit" sunday! Call me a read-ahollic!
Oh, and also, do you have any other recomendations on spies books?
=] thanks...
OMG!!
I live in Ohio like gallagher.girl and it is awful. We didn't have a snow day today but we should have, I'm no car but I was stuck in snow up to my knees on really slippery and deep steps. At least you and Jennifer weren't stuck in the snow. Keep trying to de-evilfy your cabnets and of course GG3!!
Ally, I blame the tennis balls.:P
LOL I'll take stories like that over a deleted scene any day!!
I'm so excited though because I just signed the lease for my brand new apartment complete with friendly cabinets AND a pantry! hooray! thanks for your help ;)
i agree with comment one. and now for a stupid question- why are your cabinets so evil. i have seen my fair - ok. more than my fair share- share of evil cabinets.
wow. sounds like you guys had some fun! maybe this "coveops mission" could be used in future gg books. :)
and it seems like you learned a very valuable lesson. i am so proud. ;) haha
love you ally!!
Bat signal! haha, my family is like that too, all you need is one person but all of a sudden you have the entire family clan converging on you.
LOL! You're always soooooo funny, Ally!!! Just wondering; are your 'diary' entries edited or 'raw'? Like I said, just wondering. You don't even have to answer that if you don't want to. Have a great night!!!
TTFN, Gallagher Girls!
That was really random, but really funny!
owww. that was so fun! I wish I was there! Uhh. I went to an author's blog and I think she slipped from telling where you now lived. Anyway, Jennifer Lynn Barnes' books are so AWESOME, too because The Squad and The Gallagher series are mostly similar. She even have a line where Everybody-knows-Toby said something like don't tell anyone or she will kill you. I wish she will continue to write another The Suad series.
People who love Ally Carter's books, please read Jennifer Lynn Barnes' The Squad:Perfect Cover and The Squad:Killer Spirit. It's as exciting as Ally's Gallagher books. So please read it so her publisher will see how much her books sell and so she can write a third one.
oh..coool!! does this always happen to you??? when the car doesnt start? and do these days happen often?? what a fun day! i wish i was there.
xoxo,
gallagherspy
that was the funniest thing I've ever read!
Ally, you are OFFICIALLY on my top like, five favorite authors. My friends and I came up with a list at school. You should be happy. (Not that it means anything to you, but it means that we really, really, really like your stories.)
Cassidy
I have to say when stuff like that happens to me, I always end up with a good re-tellable story. Thanks for sharing. It's great that you are in a place with helpful, supportive people again. (Even if cabinets have yet to be exorcised...)
Liz Gr. :)
hahaha ally good story!
funny but hoping it doesn't have to happen again lol
GET NEW CABINETS! hahaha
Nice Ally. Funny story. It's kinda like the time i was in Disney World on a school trip and the bus broke down in the middle of and intersection we were their for 3 hours stuck while we should have been in magic kingdom watching a concert but no stuck on a bus in the middle of an intersection. so much worse!
Hayden Christenson (I might have probably most likely spelled that wrong) is a really bad actor in Star Wars, so I don't see why he would be any better in Jumper.
At least you had friends to help you home. :)
I was trying to not to cry while reading this it was so funny! It sounds like something that Abby and I would get into and have gotten into, at one time or another. Sorry you guys had a car trouble, but YAY! for being back in a place where good people surround us!
Ally i TOTALLY agree with the Brad Pitt thing (even though he's a little bit 2 old 4 me ;) loll!!) it mite sound wierd but whenever i read about zack i think of brad!!! loll i think its the scruffy but neat and good looking at the same time thing plus the way zack keeps his cool with his "i kno sumthin u dont" smile- it just so brad!!
good luck with ur cabinet exorcisum!!!
--kit cat
hahahahah lol
OneMillionthConfirmation-Your cabby's are EVIL.
That's amusing and made my day although it was probably a somehwat confuzzling experience for you too.
Also I read the Spellman Files by lisa Lutz. AMAZING. So good. I would definetley reccomend it. I got 3 people in my class reading GG so TSF shouldn't be too hard.
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