i am so excited to be here in monroe, louisiana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i couldn’t WAIT to get back to the rv so i could write this!!  i am a little punchy from lack of sleep but SO don’t care!!  i’ve had the greatest day!

i started today with a 5 am wake-up call.  and my first press stop was KMLB am radio on newsday with greg gulyas at 6:30am!  thanks so much greg for the awesome time!!! 

then i went over to KNOE-TV with for an interview with heather and ”good morning ark-la-miss“!!  heather was so cool and sweet and ed the producer was wonderful!!  if it wasn’t so early in the am (about 7:30 by now) i would’ve had my first fried green tomato there! 

still with me???  okay!  onward!  by 8am i was on the coolest station K104 fm!!  john and toby… THANK YOU BOTH!  i had such a blast with you guys!!  i can’t believe you had me sing so early in the morning!  especially “joyful, joyful”!?!?   oh, and john…i will be making some calls today for you.  i hear a frisky movie company is looking for a new stunt uh, double… :O) 

at 8:15 am i was on air with the MOST AWESOME women, elizabeth and pat from windows a book shop!  they host a show called “the book report“.  elizabeth and pat are THE MOST kind, supportive, hard-working people!!  they are the ones responsible for all this WONDERFUL PRESS!!  AND betty jo, thank you for all of the school events and press!! 

at 9am, i had the honor to hang out with SO MANY awesome kids from west monroe high school!!  you guys were all SOOO GREAT!!!!!!!   could have stayed there all day!!   i so appreciate you inviting me.  i’m excited to hear from all of you!

still with me?!  i was driven BACK to the radio station by 11am!  here is where hollywood comes to monroe!  i wrote a tv show called “being bailey”.   a presentation of it is being presented to a few big companies..the problem was…how i wrote the presentation?  it required a teenage girl’s voice over… yeah.  and the company that hired me wanted MY voice for the presentation!  so what’s a girl to do?!?  HAVE ELIZABETH from windows a book shop save the day!!  that’s what!  she got me an open studio at the radio station and found the wonderful CISCO to record me!!  in  10 minutes, i had laid down two 2-minute takes (thank GOD with no mistakes on either one!)  and BAM!  i was running out the door and in the car to…

river oaks school!!!!! i was there from 11:30-1:15 this afternoon!  thank you all SO MUCH for hanging out with me!  i had so much fun talking with you all.  thanks for missing some of your lunch for me!!   

by the time i got back to my home on wheels (hehe, my honking big rv!) i had a magazine interview with justine magazine!  i am doing an event with them at the end of the month.  check back to my website and i’ll post when the magazine interview is available online/in print!

WOW.  monroe, you freaking rock!!  i cannot wait to get back out there tomorrow!!  i’m hitting tv and radio in the morning and then more schools! 

i’ll be at the windows a book shop (609 park avenue in monroe!) from 3:00-6:00pm tomorrow (thursday, 11/16).  i would love to see you so come hang out with me and say hello!   and again, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who invited me into their world today!!   you can email me at riley@rileyweston.com