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Getting to Know You…

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…Getting to know all about you…

I’m considering myself tagged (‘cuz I wanted to play along).  I saw this over at Bella’s Beyond the Map and thought it would be fun to share some lists of fours.

Enjoy!

Four Favorite Movies:

  1. Valley Girl
  2. The Sweetest Thing
  3. The Sound of Music
  4. Somewhere in Time

Four Places I’ve Lived

  1. Albuquerque, NM: My first big move, completely on my own.  I was jobless, friendless and homeless.  It was scary, but still empowering and I wouldn’t have changed a thing about the move.
  2. Kennesaw, GA:  I actually enjoyed living here, though I hated the actual house (and didn’t so much enjoy living with my dad).  I lived so close to my work (various jobs) and school. Plus it really was close enough to Atlanta to be fun.
  3. Peachtree City, GA:  Moved here from Jersey and what a shock.  Talk about living in the boonies – yet probably just as close to Atlanta as Kennesaw was.  Scary money out there as well.  But hey, I got to drive a golf cart everywhere!!
  4. Bound Brook, NJ:  I have very few memories here as I only lived here briefly while my mom had custody of us.  For some odd reason, I went to Catholic school and my older brother went to the public school across the street.  Very odd.

Four Shows I Watch:

  1. Lost – yeah baby!  Need I say more?
  2. The Hills – what can I say, I’m a sucker for that LC and the Speidi insanity.
  3. Grey’s Anatomy – can’t decide if I love it more for the storylines, the music or the McHotness.
  4. Entourage – but we don’t have HBO, so we have to wait and watch on DVD *sigh*

Four People who Email Me:

  1. My best friend and former roomie, Julia
  2. The hubster
  3. Matt, my closest friend from high school
  4. Jen with Ladies Who Launch since she led our Incubator and still keeps in touch

Four Favorite Eats:

  1. Chocolate
  2. Pizza
  3. Salad
  4. Cheese

Four Places I’d Rather Be:

  1. Shopping with Julia
  2. Visiting Joanna in Spain
  3. Mendocino with the hubster
  4. Hanging out in a warm climate with plenty of water around

Four Things to Look Forward To:

  1. Jim & Cheryll’s visit later this month
  2. My Birth-a-Versary in early May
  3. Our first trip to Europe (this year dammit!)
  4. Matt’s wedding in early June

If you want to play along – come on, all the cool kids are doing it – considered yourself tagged.

The Energy is Shifting

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I can feel it.  And no, I’m not talking about Super Tuesday (though I’m sure things are shifting there as well).  I mean things in my own life.

I’ve always been a spiritual person.  I’ve always believed (and have said it over and over) that things happen for a reason – even if we may not be able to see that reason at the time.  Looking back, I can now see how starting up my site has brought me to be the person that I am today.  And the good news, I’m really loving the energy.

I’ve been putting it out to the Universe that I’m looking for some bloggers to write on my site (in exchange for the free advertising/link back to their own site).  I’ve had great email response.  Quite a few women are interested and I already have three posts ready to go!  I met with one of my new bloggers today over coffee and much chitchat.  Just sitting down and talking with me, getting a feel for what I’m looking for and she already thinks that she has four other bloggers for me – including an advice columnist!!  How cool is all that?!?!

So yeah, the energy all around me is most definitely shifting.  And in a good way.

Now I just need to sit myself down and finish up the one post I was writing myself about online tools.  Come on girl, no more excuses!

Got a Few Minutes?

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A friend of a friend is in a short story competition over on Amazon.  Her first chapter is up for review.  Why not take a minute and read it (14 pages) and drop her a comment?  It’s off to a great start!

Full disclosure:  I’m hoping to get her to blog some of her dating advice for me.  So the more we show her some love, the more she might be inclined to share her expertise over on my site.

Be Careful What You Wish For

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A while back I’d been wondering to myself how I could defrost our small, stand-alone freezer (more than once). Well, on Thursday, it died a sudden (and stinky) death. I just now finally got around to emptying the thing.  We must be throwing out at least $100 or more of food (yes, tons of meat).  Talk about wasting stuff.

Now I need to contact a repair guy to see if it’s cost-effective to fix it, or to just run down to Costco to buy a new one.  This time though, I’m going to keep a list on the side of the freezer to keep track of what’s in there.  I totally forgot some of the stuff that we had in there and could’ve eaten – turkey burgers, lasagna, chili, stew, leftover roast – all vacuum sealed.

*sigh*

Our words and thoughts are very powerful.  So be careful what you wish for (or think out loud).  I guess this means that I can clean up over by the cat’s litter box and feeding tower since I can finally get in there now.  Oh joy.

Freezer Mishap

Yes We Can!

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We knew about this while it was still in the works (notice Herbie at the end), but I see that it’s just now starting to make the blog rounds. I’m not the most politically active gal on the block, but I do pretty much keep up on things. Seeing this video for the first time the other night, I have to say, I think it’s mighty powerful.

And yet again, Will.I.Am has done an amazing job in organizing the entertainment industry together for a cause. He’s a cool ass guy and knows how to get folks involved!

Madder and Madder, Hotter and Hotter

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We had our last Ladies Who Launch Incubator yesterday.  It was quiet nice. Amy Swift was there to talk about what LWL can do for us now that we’re out of the incubator program.  She also encouraged me to lead some “round tables” on utilizing internet-based services to increase one’s online visibility.  I’m pretty psyched about that as 1) I feel like I have something that I’m knowledgeable about and love to share with people and 2) I have a way to jumpstart providing services and earing some big bucks (lol – gotta think positively!!)

The biggest part of yesterday’s gathering was to share our vision.  You know, that thing that I kept putting off and putting off?  Well, I finished it and I loved how it read. My only complaint with it, was that since I chose to write it as an “about her” kind of article, I wasn’t able to say “and she is rolling in the dough!” It just felt out of place. But I’m going to edit my own copy so it says something like that.  Again, just for that whole if you put it out there, it will come, belief.

After we shared our visions, we gave everyone a gift.  On one hand I thought this was a bit odd.  On the other hand, I get the meaning behind it…it’s all about affirming success and giving freely so you’ll be open to receive.  I had to keep reminding myself of that when I was considering what to get everyone.  I decided to go with some feng shui goodies…a three-legged frog that brings success in business, a Chinese coin for the frog’s mouth, and a jade charm to represent happiness (as money can’t buy happiness).  I presented it in a Chinese take-out box with a fortune cookie to go along.  Too bad the dog thought it was all for him and he devoured two of the boxes to eat the damn cookies.  I guess he needed some good fortune more than my friends.

In return I received some handmade soap and body butter (her new business), a new deck of cards for readings (this was a pleasant surprise to say the least), a Julia Sweeny DVD, a cool necklace representing the keys to success and happiness, and a beautiful poem.  I wanted to share the poem since it was so fitting with some of the crap I’ve been going through lately. I just loved it…

 And of course I am afraid, because
The transformation of silence into
Language and action is an act of
Self-revelation, and that always seems
Fraught with danger.  But my daughter,
When I told her of our topic and my
Difficulty with it, said, “Tell them
About how you’re never really a whole
Person if you remain silent, because
There’s always that one little piece
Inside you that wants to be spoken out,
And if you keep ignoring it, it gets
Madder and madder and hotter and
Hotter, and if you don’t speak it out one
Day it will just up and punch you in
The mouth from the inside

– Audre Lorde

Not too Bad

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I managed to pull it together and actually get some shit done today. Go me!

I’ve been wanting to create a vision board for the past couple of weeks now, but I’ve never really been able to commit to it. Or maybe I just didn’t have that creative vibe going on. Well, I still did exactly get a vision board/map up and running, but I did go through a bunch of magazines and cut out a bunch of empowering words and phrases. I figure that’s enough for now. Now I just need to figure out how to glue things onto the papers (told you I wasn’t feeling all that creative).

I did realize though that right now, I think I want to focus on my sites’ blog and doing some digital coaching (which I’ve discussed here before). I figure that right now, it motivates and excites me (that’s a HUGE plus) and let’s me kind of ease back into lifestyle coaching. Who knows, maybe I’ll try my book that folks having been lecturing on being inside of me since I was around eight – yes, the reading today mentioned the book yet again! Either way, it will give me a bit of a break from all the recent drama and let me build my self-confidence back up again (how humilitating to admit that).

This of course, is part of the reason that I’ve yet to write out my business vision – or so I seem tell myself. It’s amazing how we can let fear get in our way some times. I mean, I know that deep down, I’m good at what I do. I also know that I can succeed at anything I put my mind to. But for some reason, I just don’t seem to want to commit to writing this vision. Don’t get me wrong, the perfectionist in me won’t let me not do it (it’s a homework assignment after all). So until then, I’ll see how much longer I can procrastinate here with my little ‘ol blog.

Or maybe I’ll tidy around my desk for a bit first. Really, there’s only so long that someone can be expected to function well while being over-run by cases of wine and stacks of magazines needing to be filed. That should buy me a few minutes. I’ve already [finally] gotten out of my PJs (yet another embarrassing tidbit to share), taken out the trash and dropped the crushed boxes (from behind my chair) off in the recycling bin. Oh and I need to dig out the warranty papers for our freezer and deal with all that before our house starts to stink something fierce.

Crap, I need to get some fruit for the fruit salad yet too!

I’ll get to my Vision, I promise…

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ETA:  It’s now 7:07 and I am finished!! The office is cleaner, my gifties are all done, and my LWL homework is finished.  I have a Vision all written up and dammit if I don’t rock my own socks off!  😉

Is it Just Me…

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Or has this week just blown on by?  I’ve been behind in my blogs all week – to the point that no matter how many I read, every time I look, my Reader says I have 100 (give or take) still to read.

One of our LWL homework assignments was to create a list of five things that we need to accomplish this week (biz related) and you know, accomplish them.  Um, I’ve only done one thing.  Though in my defense, I’ve done it to excess – I said I’d contact 5 potential blog writers and I reached out to 16!  I have meetings scheduled with two of them next week and have that second interview to work through as well.

And of course, this isn’t even counting the rest of my LWL homework I still have to do – my vision, re-do one of my elevator speeches and I still have to finish up my gifties for everyone.  I also have to make a fruit salad for tomorrow’s final meeting/party.  Whew, I’m tired already and it’s only 11:00!

Oh yeah, I also have a reading to do in a bit (assuming she can still do it since she left some wacky message about being confused with the times).  I don’t do many readings any more, so once I finish up here I’ll need to get myself in the right frame of mind.  And of course, looking around casually while I type, I don’t see my cards jumping out at me.  No wait, found them.

And in frazzled closing…our upright freezer (you know, FULL of food) died last night.  I heard a weird noise, then a weird smell.  And well, now our FULL freezer is useless and of course, we have buttloads of food to throw out, including the yummy soup I made the other night with all intentions of freezing.  I don’t get it though, we had an upright when I was a kid (back in the day when shit lasted, I’d guess) and that thing was rock solid for years and years.  I don’t think it died until I was in my mid-20’s.  And this piece of crap, not even five years!  That’s just wrong.

Okay, time for me to get busy.  Happy Friday to you all!

WooHoo!

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I’ve just received word from one of the publicists that I contacted late last week.  I have my next author interview lined up!!  This one will be conducted via email instead of via audio (I think the topic lends well to that platform – and less to edit!!).  I also have one outside blogger confirmed to write 1-2 posts a month for us!

Things are really starting to move along.  This is so freakin’ cool!!!