Y’all. It has been a minute. This here blog has been up for close to 14 years, since 12/27/07. It has never been down for more than hour, and yet we have just gone through over two weeks of an outage that I couldn’t prioritize finding the time to fix. And we were just starting…
No, Really, You Can Drink More Water Sitting in the airport waiting on our third amigo to drive out to Asheville for the bachelorette weekend, I spotted Cassie drinking out of a Reduce WaterWeek water bottle. “Cass! Is that the refrigerator bottle from Cait?” “Yes, we all have them. My parents, my brother, everyone.” “Those…
Feel Good Friday is a roundup of the things that made me feel good or that I’m grateful for all week. Join me and leave your Feel Goods in the comments! Boot socks: finally found a pair to try at Target for just $5. That my friends are funny. Email: thought you’d like to know……
Thanks to Crystal Light for sponsoring this post. To learn more about how Crystal Light can flavor your day with 30 refreshing flavors, visit http://www.facebook.com/crystallight. People always talk about taking time for yourself. It’s super important for personal peace, personal growth, and personal happiness. And stress relief. I’ve never thought of myself as a stressed…
Mark your calendars for this Thursday, November 5: Do your RSVPin’ (they WILL close the list when they reach Mohawk’s capacity) right here, or head to the facebook invite to scope out the other attendees and click yourself attending. As you can see on the flier, my lovely Austin Post is an event sponsor, so…
I’ve got two different opinions that sprang from the 2010 Ford Taurus Meetup Sunday at Opal Divine’s, and both I agree with. Here we go (originally posted on AustinPost.org) Frank says: Ford Tackles Consumer Confidence: Can It Really Be as Good as Foreign Cars? I was 16, looking at buying my first car, and the…
Last weekend, the SXSW-meets-Bonnaroo-meets-a-Sample-Sale of the female blogosphere happened: BlogHer ’09. BlogHer, simply stated in their tagline, is a “Community for Women Who Blog.” More thoroughly explained, BlogHer is: “Founded in February 2005 as a labor of love by three bloggers, BlogHer’s mission is to create opportunities for women who blog to pursue exposure, education,…
This is big news for the blogosphere: the Federal Trade Commission is looking into regulating bloggers. The proposed official guidelines are at: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2008/11/P034520endorsementguides.pdf. Basically, bloggers that don’t disclose they received freebies could become the target of an FTC investigation. Historically, it’s been up to bloggers themselves to outline their own ethics codes (in their heads)…
This event is going to be badass all around. Starts out with some of the biggest names in music blogging (hello, Gorilla vs. Bear practically started the blogging movement, then propelled hundreds of bands to national recognition!) talking about how they became mainstrean–so helpful for a blogger, so fascinating for a non-blogger. Then there’s a…
Today is Blog Action Day 2008. Never heard of it? Me neither. BUT it’s a good thing: bloggers (grrr, I hate being called a blogger) unite against poverty, in whatever way a particular blogger wants to. I’m going to use it as a jumping off point to encourage you to check out kiva.org. Kiva has…