So Close, Yet So Far From The Pioneer Woman

UPDATE! Check out this video and article on the Pioneer Woman book signing event in OKC. I’m in the video towards the end taking a photo with my iPhone. (stalker) Coupon Princess is also mentioned in the article!

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Last Thursday evening, Coupon Princess and I headed out to the Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City to met the one and only Pioneer Woman, who was promoting and signing her first cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl.

The ideal scenario went like this: show up at the bookstore, get into a somewhat long line, wait, get our cookbooks signed, get a pic with Ree, then hang out with Ree at the Pioneer Woman tweet-up that followed.  Doesn’t seem like too much to ask, right? Except, I forgot one thing.  Ree is, like, a rock star in Oklahoma.  Okay, she’s a rock star, period.  So, yeah, she has a LOT of fans. [Read more...]