Love Suddenly

Thought you all might get a kick out of this. It’s so true.

Get Your Sexy Name

Please allow me to pimp two very nifty people in this digital world of ours. Naomi of IttyBiz works from home helping very tiny businesses figure out how to tell the world why they’re awesome. While that sounds like it would make for a niche-oriented blog, her writing is accessible, engaging, and often very relevant. Sometimes she gets downright high-larious (yes, I’m channeling Jayne). She’s one of those networking people. She either knows something awesome, or she knows someone who does. I’ve found several interesting reads following her web of links around the net.

Which leads me to my next little bump. Wednesday, Naomi put up a fantastic guest post on motivation from David. First off, the post is excellent, so go read it, and then come back and I’ll tell you about David and his company. Go on… I’ll wait…

David runs a nifty little company called Postcard Perfect. Here’s the idea: upload your own photo, tell them what you want it to say, and where to send it, and then they print and mail it for you. You can do this from the internet, or insert the memory card from your camera into one of his kiosks. Imagine a personalized “Wish you were here” card, with a photo you took just ten minutes before, with none of the hassle of buying stamps or finding a post box.

I was impressed by both his post, and his idea, so I shot him an email to give him some kudos. Every struggling entrepreneur (are there any that aren’t?) needs a high five every once in a while. He got back to me within minutes, and he came across as one of those pleasant people. When I’d mentioned that I was less likely to use his service, as most of my friends live close, he replied that it was his goal to get people to see mail, real hold-it-in-your-hands mail, as something of value again. He says he surprises his wife with cards all the time.

He was gracious enough to give me a free trial, so I shall return and report (and hopefully pimp again) when I’ve given it a test run. Until then, check these peeps out!

For three or four days last week, I had a little spider doing laps around my bedroom ceiling, teasing my poor cats. Then I discovered he’d made his way into the bathroom, and I decided to get some pictures to see if someone on the net could tell me what kind it was. I’ve posted the good ones on my flickr, and yall should check them out. He was really small, so a lot of the detail in the pictures wasn’t visible to my naked eye. I’ll refrain from posting them here, as I know one of my readers doesn’t like spiders, and I don’t want to freak her out. Just a link. Enjoy.

I’m going to audition for Into the Woods (it’s a musical) next Saturday. I will actually be vastly surprised if they give me a second thought (honestly, I have no experience, and I will have had five days to practice my music of choice. Which I haven’t chosen yet), but I’ve decided to go for it anyway. Fortunately, I have some excellent resources at my disposal, and my dear friend was kind enough to take pictures for me to use as a headshot. I was going to post the one I picked here, but he beat me to it. Go there and check out my sexy.

I know a few of you who read this blog are also fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I’m sure you all have been agonizing over the lack of updates. I was starting to think they’d just up and canceled the show. But I was WRONG! Avatar Chapters has two new episodes! YAY!!!!!111one one

If you haven’t watched the show before, I highly recommend checking it out. A few of the episode links are broken, but anyone with minor search engine skills can find the missing ones. I’m just happy they’re updating again! *does a little jig*

I have given in. I started back up on Twitter. Some background for those who don’t know: Twitter is a mini-blogging site. You have 140 characters to answer the question “What are you doing?”. And it’s addictive. Especially since I discovered you can post to Twitter from GTalk. Think Facebook meets Blogger made tiny.

Why? you ask. Because I have dreams. Secret ones and not so secret ones. And because I like knowing that people are watching. Thus far, the people watching are few, so I avoid the negative reactions that sink into the gravitational pull of the larger, well-known bloggers out there. But again, I have dreams.

If you value your time away from the internet, I’m not sure I’d recommend the site. It takes a little while to find that happy balance between “I haven’t updated in so long I should probably just blog about it” and “Here, let me document every moment of my life for your voyeuristic pleasure.”

You can find me at http://twitter.com/lovesuddenly. Let me know if any of you are over there and I’ll follow you. Feel free to drop a line and follow me as well! (Yes, they call it following, and yes it can get that… creepy.)

Just a post to say hello to any new readers I may have found through my shameless self-plugging FLAK! This is my little corner of the blog-o-sphere, and you’re welcome to hang out as long as you’d like.

Breakdance/Capoeira meets Gymnastics with a mild contortionist twist!

WordPress doesn’t like the embedded player, so I have you send you to this link. It’s nifty, I promise!

While I don’t entirely have the hutsbah (however you spell it) to commit to blogging every day for a whole year (Go Rick!), I do like the idea of blogging every day for a month. Months are small edible bites of goodness that I can swallow. November somehow became the month of choice for several different month long (insane) ventures.

It started with NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, with a goal of putting 50,000 semi-coherent words on the page or screen in the name of just getting it done. Its popularity has grown exponetially every year. It has spawned several other writing projects for the writers of other-than-novels. Bloggers, screen and script writers, and short story authors all have their own month, or share November.

About two and a half years ago, a blogger decided that novels weren’t her thing, and created NaBloPoMo. National Blog Posting Month. Through what must have been sheer force of will, she kept track of all the blogs that decided to participate, and all the people who graciously donated prizes to be given away to random participants, or to those who met certain conditions. (The first baby born, or the first pregnancy announced for example)

Last November she started a Ning community to do much of the work for her. Yesterday she sent out an email letting everyone know the rules of NaBloPoMo have changed. She’ll be putting out a new theme each month, and inviting people to kick-start their blogging by posting every day. She’s tending to her sanity by limiting the prize to a $20 certificate to the winner’s choice of several online vendors. November will still be open to all the user-donated prizes.

The theme for March is lists. I plan on giving it a shot. And who knows, by posting every day for a month at a time, maybe I’ll make it a whole year. It’s a good time to start new for me. One year since my divorce, one year with BF. I dreamed of getting back together with him the other night. Working hard, being devious, doing whatever it took. When I woke up, I knew it was just a dream and I went on with my day. It was good.