Okay, so this blog really clashes with my supposedly Christian leanings, but I just had to feature this today, just because I’ve seen this blog bookmarked on a friend’s site before. I also saw this blog elsewhere, and it wasn’t surprising that I bumped into her blog when I was researching about the 3 Skypephone.
For what it’s worth, this woman (Girl With a One-Track Mind) is an interesting read and I am surely not surprised that she has been signed on to publish a book. She is more than sex and leather though: she has substance and had been through some rough patches in her life too. The point is, she’s overcome them, and she is the successful woman that she is today.
I like her because she is an empowered woman. Period.
Excerpt from Girl With A One-Track Mind:
Geek
I heard a text message arrive and scrabbled around my handbag to find my mobile.
‘Three phones?’
I looked up to see my friend D peering into my bag.
‘What the hell do you need three for?’ he asked, somewhat incredulous.
‘Ah. Well this one’s my personal mobile,’ I said, pulling out my Nokia. ‘I’ve had the same telephone number for fourteen years: how sad is that?’
‘That’s fine, but it’s a bit chunky,’ D remarked. ‘Looks like a brick.’
I shrugged. ‘But it has fast internet access and instant email…’
‘And the other two?’
I picked up my other (smaller) Nokia. ‘Ah. Well this one’s my Abby phone…’
‘Your “Abby” phone?’ he interrupted. ‘What, like a Bat phone? When you get a call, Abby Lee springs into action?!’
I laughed. ‘Yeah, something like that: it’s now my work phone. But I got it two years ago when my book deal surfaced and I became very nervous about protecting my anonymity. It was just easier dealing with publishers and stuff, having two different phone numbers.’
‘And two different identities.’
I nodded. ‘It took me a while to get used to people calling me Abby. I felt so fake at first having that pseudonym, but nowadays I answer to it without a second thought.’
‘Did it work?’
‘What?’
D pointed at the phones in my hands. ‘Separating out those two parts of your life.’
‘For a while, yeah: I felt secure in the knowledge that the personal phone was just my normal, private, day-to-day life and the Abby phone was my secret blogger identity – and never the twain shall meet. But when I lost my anonymity last year that all went arse up: the press got hold of both my numbers – and my home phone – and then all my phones rang off the hook constantly.’
‘That must have been horrid.’
‘I was freaking out, so unprepared was I. Honestly, I felt like I was having a breakdown: not knowing who was calling me or whom I could trust. As well as the press, people I hadn’t seen for over a decade were phoning me, telling me that the tabloids were on their doorstep offering them money for gossip and photos of me. It was nuts. I couldn’t keep up with it and eventually just stopped answering any of the phones at all.’
‘And yet now you have three?!!!’
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