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Kirsten’s best friends challenge her to find a date for a long weekend trip. She has a month to do it in, but the thing is, she’ll have to find the date while staying with her sister in the Twin Cities, and taking care of her nephew and her sister, who’s broken her leg skiing. And it’s January, and freezing outside, she doesn’t know a soul in town, and her nickname isn’t “Cursed Kirsten” for nothing.
New Year’s Resolutions
By Kirsten (with help from Crystal, Jones and Emma)
- Survive the month at my sister’s house. Survive my 3-year-old nephew and crazy sister.
- Learn to ice skate better. Or not fall down. Or just get a cuter skating outfit.
- Find hockey-playing, winter-loving hottie. And invite him to the weekend cabin trip (a/k/a “Groundhog Getaway”) with everyone.
Oh, sure. No problem.
Fortunately, Kirsten’s sister happens to live in a very good neighborhood… for meeting guys, that is. Soon Kirsten has more than one date to choose from. Now if only she could find that elusive lost mitten.
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Sean just stood there, frozen in action, snow shovel poised in mid-air. Staring at me. Completely speechless. And I thought, Well, I can’t really blame him. He was here to shovel, not to look at someone who’d just rolled out of bed and probably had sheet-crease-face. Happy New Year, Cursed Kirsten.”
Finally! I get to set a book in the Twin Cities.
I probably got half the details wrong, since I’m still a relative newcomer (4 years).
I took a few liberties with details surrounding these places and events. Hey—I’m a writer. That’s what they pay me to do.
The book includes trips to Buck Hill and St. Paul’s Winter Carnival.
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What You Might Not Know
This is my godson. We tried to introduce him to the joys of outdoor skating at Lake Hiawatha Park one January day when he was 2. Maybe that’s when I got the idea to write this book. When I went inside to warm up, that is, and my brain thawed.
Donuts & skating? Yes, they do go together, but not at the Olympic level.
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