18th September 2009
I secretly (or maybe not so secretly if I am blogging about it) hate Facebook. I hate stupid quizzes, I don't want to keep in touch with everyone I went to high school with, and I don't give a damn that you just went to the gym. But I feel that if I'm n...
07th September 2009
I'm single and fairly attractive, so I do a lot of dating. I would love to teach a class for guys on dating - I swear I could save the world! Wars would end! Peace and love would reign! But I'm also afraid no guy would show up for a dating class. None...
27th July 2009
I've been to two huge trade shows recently so I have them on the brain. And what works on the trade show floor works in life, like it or not.
1.) You will be judged by your appearance. Cheesy, ugly booths did not attract the crowds that colorful well...
15th July 2009
I know you all have had them - weeks from HELL! That is what this week has been for me. There was a discovery of a database disaster, a man who cheated on me called, I saw a surgeon about my hip (very bad news), and just this morning USAA called to tell m...
09th July 2009
This is the second article on how to be free. The first article was an introduction to freedom and addressed financial freedom.
It also gave these two tips:
1.)You have to believe you are free.
2.)You have to have a source of income. You have to...
06th July 2009
I adore my freedom. In fact, I would go so far as to say it is my most important value. I agree with Christopher Morley who said, "There is but one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way." This, to me, is freedom.
I also think Ameri...
04th July 2009
I finally bought a Blackberry. The first few days I had it, I wanted to kill myself. I couldn't figure out how to send a text—the icons were different. It was weird talking into a flat slab. At least my flip phone seemed like a phone—something tha...
28th June 2009
You read everywhere that the world has changed; things will never be as good as they were; we have to get used to the new reality. Get faster, do more with less, implement more technology—run, Forrest, run!
I'm not so sure about that. I think the b...
26th June 2009
I know that to many people this seems like heresy - these are two goals that influence a great deal of human behavior. But we've all seen someone who has clearly lost too much weight. Often they think they still need to lose more. And while it would se...
08th May 2009
Like most consumers, from time to time, I have to call customer service. The strange thing is, the companies that offer the most promotions and fight the hardest to get new customers, seem to have the worst service. Hmmmm.......
Out of frustration (...
08th May 2009
I am doing something today that is out of character for me. I am going to the movies in the middle of a weekday. (You have no idea how wild an idea this is for me - I mean, clearly I should be working. Or networking or something!) There is nothing even re...
05th May 2009
Now I see no reason why chocolate can't fall into the category of a religion. I use chocolate as a way to "give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life." And there have indeed been times when I felt that chocolate was a higher power.
In order...
08th April 2009
For some unknown reason I have always been fascinated by the Peep (the cute yellow marshmallow chick put in Easter baskets galore). I can't explain it. But I am not alone; there are dozens and dozens of blogs and websites dedicated to the Peep.
I was...
07th April 2009
A few years ago I spent November (yep, the entire month) in Australia and New Zealand. It was the trip of a lifetime, and like all great journeys, it taught me many things.
Lesson One—turn pain into gain. I'd been talking about going to Australia f...
05th April 2009
Let's face it - life can be hard. No matter who you are, no matter what your circumstances - bad things can happen to you. Your heart can get broken, a business deal can fall through, or your investments can go up in smoke. (Not that THAT has happened ...
