Or should I say…how I spent my Sunday? Notice the eyes watching my every move.
Only feel like sharing one photo today.
Wordless Wednesday: How Much Do I Love My Dog?
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
What Do You Need to Know Before You Buy Your URL?
Okay, I twittered this, but 1) I haven’t blogged yet today and 2) I’m hoping to get some more answers still. So here goes…I’ve been asked to write an article about what one should know before even purchasing a business URL, let alone start up a website.
This is a big deal since many people immediately run out and buy a URL because their starting up a business and wind up spending a lot of money they don’t need to spend: paying more for registration, paying for services that you don’t need, spending more on a website than is needed, etc. So I’m hoping for this to be more of a tutorial/how-to sort of piece.
So I ask, any suggestions for your fellow webbies and bloggers?
Life Lesson – Spa Time
When partaking in spa time, be it a massage or body scrub, or well, anything involving oil or lotion to your body and your feet, be sure not to wear leather insoled flip flops. My feet hurt worse than when walking at the beach. No comfortable sand to soften your steps. I really think the instep of my left foot might be broken. Is that even possible?
I knew I should have just gone home and relaxed instead of trying to score a bargain at the Macy’s liquidation sale. It wasn’t even all that great of a sale (though I did pick up one cute top).
Off to the couch to give me precious tootsies a little break. Oh and after our 95 degree weekend, we’re 85ish today with a high of 65 (!!!!) tomorrow. No rain, just 65 degrees. How does one drop 30 degrees in two days without rain???
Sometimes Music Videos are Still Good
Even on a slow day, I can have a three-way. I’m so much cooler online…
I’ll listen to pretty much any kind of music. I’m not a fan of hardcore rap or of funkadelic jazz (no matter how many times I see Herbie Hancock live), but otherwise, I’m not too picky. I love 80’s new wave – what can I say, music was fun back then. Day to day (well, first and foremost, LA radio sucks worse than any market I’ve lived in before) I listen to mellow, singer songwriter stuff or country. Considering we don’t have an AAA station out here, that pretty much rules out listening to the singer songwriter, cafe kind of stuff. So country it is.
The other fun thing about country, they still do real videos and actually have channels that play them! Which of course means that those guys now how to have fun with videos like back in the day (man, sometimes I sound old). The latest video that’s cracking me up is Brad Paisley’s Online. It’s got a great all star cast and completely matches the humor in the lyrics. William Shatner cracks me up – is that blond Marcia Brady??
Check it out (sorry it can’t be embeded, it’s put up directly by BP’s people).
Help! I Need a Tortellini Salad Recipe ASAP
Well, maybe it’s not that big of a deal that I need to be all ASAP, but you I do need a recipe. I’ve got book club tomorrow in Santa Monica – no I didn’t read the book, but I did mean to – and I’ve decided to bring pasta salad. I have the cheese tortellini and can pick up anything else I might need, but really, I’m at a loss here.
Normally, I just use tri-colored pasta, add in some chunked veggies, some cheese, maybe some chicken or ham, and toss it all with some dressing or another by our good friend, Paul Newman. But this time around, I’m kind of stuck. I’m thinking that maybe something with a more creamy than vinegary dressing would be nice. But then what veggies? And no cheese because the pasta already has cheese, right?
Obviously, I’m going to flunk pasta salad making 101, so please, feel free to add any suggestions or ideas. Maybe I am a little desperate after all (it’s not like I can change my mind and bake something…we’ve got a forecast of low 90’s today and that means no oven!). So please, help a gal out…I’ll be your new best friend (she says in a sing song voice!) and I’ll be very, very grateful 😉
Do You Have a Diet Soda Addiction?
I only ask because I wonder this myself. Shine (you know, Yahoo’s new “womens” network) did a story the other day (thanks go input from Hungry Girl and quite a few folks commented regarding their own addiction to diet sodas. I’m not sure sure I’m an “addict” as I don’t seem to show any of the “side effects” that most talk about. To be honest, I can go days without caffeine without so much as a migraine (and I actually suffer from migraines from time to time). But I do wonder if many of the folks leaving comments about migraines and general aches are actually talking about a diet soda addiction or something more akin to a basic caffeine addiction.
If you are thinking about kicking the diet soda habit (I do hear that it’s quite bad for you – especially the aspartame) then let this list of alternative drinks over at Noshtopia help you out. Kelly the Kitchen Kop also has some helpful advice. Me, I think I’m ready to cut down (more than I already do). I think I’ll be going back to water or iced tea as my beverages of choice when I’m out of the house – I drank far too much Coke while I was sick for me to feel comfortable with myself.
Not Fair!!
Consider yourself warned that this will be the post where a grown adult bitches about zits…
Really. How is it even possible that continue to get zits when you’re damn near pushing forty? Isn’t it bad enough that I blessed with horrible skin through most of my adult life. Isn’t the fact that I have to pay a pretty penny to see a dermatologist (not covered by my basic co-pay) on a regular basis painful enough? What about the $60+ prescriptions that bleach my clothes and my bedding?
While I don’t mind the occasional, monthly, PMSy blemish from time to time. But really, the painful ones? The ones that take nearly a week to surface at which time you’ve dried up half your chin with the prescriptions, yet it’s still there? Come on, give a gal a break. Let me have some clear, blemish (and crater) -free skin for longer than a month please. Shouldn’t I at least be rewarded in some way for getting older and getting even closer to 40? When is it going to stop?!?!?!
*sigh*
Fun With War Crimes
My friend’s boyfriend has been hard at work creating a video series. Help it go viral – rate it and favorite it. Check out their trailer…
Here’s what he has to say about the series…
I’ve created a comedy web series that puts the Bush Administration on trial. It’s called “Fun With War Crimes.” You can view the first trailer for the series on YouTube. I think you will like it…
(Or just have people do a search on YouTube for Fun With War Crimes.)
If you’re a YouTube subscriber, rate the video, comment, make it a favorite.
The series launches on May 1st, the 5th anniversary of Bush declaring “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq. We at FWWC are reaching out to like minded people. So pass the link on to as many people as you can, and ask them to do the same. If we do our viral job right, by tomorrow, I will be in an orange jump suit in Guantanamo Bay.
But if you don’t like the trailer. If you think it makes me unpatriotic, a bad American. Please, pass the link on to everyone you think will despise it, too. We’ll take the hate views. (Does anybody know how to get a hold of Bill O’Reilly?)
Other places of Fun With War Crimes interest:
YouTube Subscribers: subscribe to the 8 part series
Our site: funwithwarcrimes.com (A teaser page. Our full site launches with the series May 1.)
MySpace: www.myspace.com/funwithwarcrimes
Thanks! And enjoy the trailer.
Bring On The Clients!
I just got back from a beauty, southern Californian outdoor cafe kind of lunch. I was meeting with Lisa Steadman, of the BreakUp Chronicles (and author of It’s A Break Up, Not a Break Down). She’s a fellow LWLer and I wanted to catch up with her so that I could interview her for my site later.
Overall, it was a wonderful lunch (well, my salad was a little lame, but the company more than made up for it). We covered everything from women in business just starting out, the upcoming LWL Live event, service menus, coaching. You name it. I have to say, she really gave me the motivation I needed to get focused about turning my free workshops into making some real income.
I’m really pumped to get moving on this business thing. In fact, I had already schedule my May off from leading the free LWL workshops (though I am still considering doing Santa Barbara ones). I figured I would take the time to 1) celebrate my birthday ALL.MONTH.LONG of course and 2) focus on learning how to line up some paid workshops. So this was all perfect timing.
Also, for anyone in the LA area interested in getting some help getting a business going, the good folks at PerfectBusiness.com will be leading a free workshop Saturday the 19th in downtown LA. I’ll be there as well hoping to get some insight. With luck, I might even be able to swing a speaking engagement out of it. It could happen.
Okay, enough procrastinating. I still my article on blogging to finish up. I just need my closing paragraph and it’s ready to go to the boss lady. I have to say though, writing a 700ish word article on blogging basics…not so easy when it all depends on certain basic knowledge. Hopefully it will go over okay.
PS – I really need to purge and merge my categories. Since merging the two blogs I have far too many duplicate categories and it bugs me.
Blog, Blogger, Blogging
As you may or may not know, I’ve been teaching some workshops for the LWL group on blogging basics. For the most part, I’m working on introducing the blogosphere to these busy, start-up, business women and letting them know how blogging and commenting in blogs can help improve their business (or at least their search engine rankings).
It’s been pretty basic thus far, but I’m ready to reach out further and expand my horizons. So in the process, I’ve been reading a lot of blogging blogs, women in business blogs, business blogs and well, tons of books on the subject as well. I’m taking it all in wherever I can.
So currently, I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
It covers:
- The best blogging techniques.
- How to get traffic to your blog.
- How to turn your blog into money.
I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.