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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Yesterday, I took my “dog and pony show” on the road. My friend, Sarah asked me to be a guest speaker as part of her company’s “health & wellness” series because (a) she is a sweetie-pie and (b) she clearly needed a “filler” person to round out her roster. Even though I generally loathe public speaking, I couldn’t say no because, after all, this is my year of saying, “Yes!” to nearly everything that I am asked to do.
My lecture (in a nutshell) was about losing weight, following your passion and setting goals. Not that I am an expert at doing any of those things, but really what else do I have to talk about? Personally, I might have been interested in hearing about how to relieve stress by folding perfect origami cranes out of foreign currency from around the world – but sadly, “I” am a one trick pony – everything that I write about, talk about, blog about is all about me. Me! Me! Me!
Oh, I think it might be time for therapy.
ANYWAY, if you are a “Bacon” glutton and can’t get enough of my miscellaneous ramblings, I plan on to creating a little Youtube video out of my presentation. I seriously did not just put the lecture together for the 4 people that came to see me speak. Actually TWO people that came – the other two people there were my friends. Love you Sarah and Jeff. And I love the two other people that showed up too – they actually chose to be there. Or they were there for the raffle.
Where’s the number to the therapist again?
Until I sequester myself away for an afternoon of video editing, here’s a little picture of me (that I used in the presentation) in 1987:
That’s me, a perm, the Golden Gate bridge and about 20 sessions in a tanning bed. For the love of God.
Tags: blogging
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
April 4th marks the one year anniversary of my last day employment at the job that sucked the light right out of me.
After quitting, I took a small business/entrepreneurship class. (You know, cause I had nothing to do for the first time in 7 years.) As part of the 10-week curriculum, they asked each student to create a “visual representation” of their career goals. Most people pulled together a makeshift vision board made up of newspaper and magazine clippings. I decided to paint something:
I very rarely paint – maybe twice in the past 10 or so years. In fact, I completely forgot I did this one. I found it when I was sorting through a pile of paperwork to be recycled. There it was, shoved in a 3-ring binder from the class.
I can remember telling people that I wanted to blog for a living. People would say something along the lines of, “Blogging? What is that? Is that some new exercise? Is that a hobby? No really, what do you want to do?” Even I was a doubter.
12 months later, here I am. It’s crazy. Maybe I haven’t accomplished all of the things that I set out to, but I am well on my way.
Here’s to dreaming.
Tags: blogging, happiness, Milestones
Posted in Daily, Milestones | 19 Comments »
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
I was just writing a post that was about a call that I got from the principal’s office that involved “inappropriate display of affection” and resulted in a lunchtime detention. The situation was fairly innocuous (hugging is not allowed in school) but I actually stopped myself from writing about it because I felt as though it would invade Paige’s privacy. This got me to thinking about “blogging the teen years” and when/where to draw the line when telling a story. I haven’t been blogging enough to distinguish what is right for me. I know I’ve read blogs that are no holds barred and ones that are pretty conservative about privacy (i.e. pseudonyms only).
I am putting it out to the blogosphere and Twitterverse – where do you draw the line when writing about your loved ones? When have you regretted writing about something?
I wanna know.
Tags: blogging
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