That’s right gang! We made it to our first bloggy birthday. I can hardly believe it. It also happens to be the birthday of Making Life Work for You. Both blogs started on Typepad, which was great software, but didn’t quite suit my needs. So, after a great conversation with Chris Cree, I shifted to [...]
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In a small midwestern conservative town, there wasn’t a place to get a drink for miles around, so a local entrepreneur saw an opportunity: He started to build a tavern.
Liking a “dry” town, the local church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. The businessman was [...]
This week, the South (Tennessee, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi) was absolutely devastated by the deadliest tornado outbreak in over 20 years. When the sun rose, people found their cars flipped into their neighbors’ yards, their homes completely ripped from the foundation and splattered across the streets, and some people lost their loved ones or [...]
Well, maybe I don’t ncessarily love gynecologists, but you’re reading now, so hear me out. Guy Kawasaki noted, “an email pitch from an entrepreneur named Sherry Couch of BizNiche brought a big smile to my face. First of all, how could I skip an email with a subject line like this one: “Everything you should [...]
Take a second to participate in this project- you’ll be glad you did! The tinyGIGANTIC blog shows us how to have fun with the five and a half project:
The project is called The Postcard Says. This super simple, easy cheesy project will make you feel great. C’mon- feel great!
According to tinyGigantic:
E-mail us@fiveandahalf.netwith “postcard please” in the [...]
Inspired by Slideshare’s World’s Best Presentation Contest winner “Meet Henry,” I’ve decided to give you a glimpse into who I am.
Click here to view “Meet Lani”
I would be most interested in seeing next “Meet April,” “Meet Liz,” “Meet Terry,” “Meet Jay” and “Meet Vicki.”
I don’t usually read email forwards, but this one from my friend Megan Dyson was short enough to skim. It caught my attention and I read it two, three, then four times. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, what a blessing!
A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking [...]
As our oldest approaches his 17th birthday, we have to cross our fingers and hope we’ve taught him about money, business, faith, integrity, etc. well. Our other kiddo is only 10, so we still have time to teach her the fundamentals.
In addition to Lifehacker’s great find on educating your children about business, I would [...]
I need your help! A Realtor posted a simple black and white viral marketing video this morning. I uploaded it to a site I write for. Now, it has stirred controversy.
Since many of you guys aren’t related to the real estate industry, I would love love love if you would head over to Agent Genius and take [...]
I’m not in the “Power Level” of influence in the industry in Mark Cuban’s eyes- he must not know who I am. I’m just not sure what to think about being fired from Mark Cuban’s Facebook Friends list… I might just buy into O’Reilley’s Cuban bashing!
On the other hand, I took a page from Cuban [...]
If you aren’t addicted to ICanHasCheezburger.com, please for the love of everything good, GET HOOKED, it makes every day brighter! If you don’t speak LOL Cat, it doesn’t take long to pick up. Below is my favorite LOL Cat and a great representation why April and I are addicted:
I was told recently that we’re coming up on the time of year where we begin writing resolutions and evaluating our progress for the year about to pass. We scribble goals on napkins (uh 1. go to gym 2. don’t eat cheetos on way to gym 3. work out while at gym, [...]
So, the oversaturation of social networking has hit the Internet led strongly by MySpace and Facebook while WE are all left to scramble. Where do we advertise? Which network should we join (we can’t join them all)? What types of ads work on these networks? What is the actual demographics of these networks? Should we brand our [...]
This has been quite an interesting fall for many of us and even before my brother was killed, I was already stressed. I’m not the only one. Whether it’s the challenges in the real estate market, family drama (this applies to everyone!), being sick for a freakishly long time, dealing with stupid people in general [...]
Humble April would never tell you, and she may not even know yet, but she is the third ever blogger to win the Nacho Blogger Award. Make sure to leave your congratulations (in Nacho Libre speak) to April- I’ve had countless emails from people suggesting that THEY win the award, but April could easily have been [...]
Baby McKenzie is home. She is banged up, bruised, and swollen, but she is with her family, comforted in her mother’s arms.
Some of the financial support you all are so graciously providing has is already getting to the family. Lani wanted me to let you all know how deeply thankful she and her family are [...]
Blogging is not a common thing in my neck of the woods. We have a few that I really enjoy – Chris Cree, Anne Hart, The Paragon Muse, and Creative Coast are my most visited. But, blogging is still cutting edge, so, many folks don’t “get” blogging.
If they had seen what happened around here this week – they [...]
Lani has been here at The Chaos for a brief time. But before that, she was my friend. During that time, she has become one of my best friends, my closest confidant, and you guys seem to like her being here too.
I usually write the way I talk…but I have no words…
Lani’s wonderful baby brother [...]
This article is a MUST READ from beginning to end, and comments are highly encouraged:
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Each Saturday, my husband and I head to mass because we’re both hard wired to sleep in on Sundays. Well, sleep in until 7:30am at least. Recently, I began taking RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) to become officially Catholic. [...]
A lot of tips fly around April’s Beautiful Chaos about how to increase your productivity and Lifehacker found this amazing list of the Top 100 Foods To Improve Your Productivity! It looks like every food on earth is included except for my favorite food- BEEF (I couldn’t call myself a Texan if I didn’t chomp [...]
I get hundreds of forwards from my stepmother, my kids, and my prayer group at church and not only do I usually delete them, I never ever pass them on. BUT, this happens to be an exception. Remember- I did not write this, but DANG if I didn’t need to read this today! Regardless of [...]
Yep, that’s me- a crazy person. I wrote this spring about ways to cure office boredom (#15 is my favorite), and I thought I’d share with you 10 MORE ways I’ve decided to torment my coworkers (keep in mind, my husband is the “boss” so it’s especially titilliating to me)!
1. Find the lone Mac user in [...]
Some may say that’s not nice, but I don’t care- I can denigrate myself if I want (especially if it’s not offensive to me)! Why am I a dork? Because not only do I have a fetish for office supplies, I want picnicmob.org to spread out to Austin. Picnic Mob is a virtual picnic which [...]
I’m totally serious. I have an uncontrollable office supplies fetish. I’ve known this since I was a young girl. I’ve always had OCD and I adore unpacking a fresh bundle of supplies and putting them on in their places on the shelves (but don’t tell anyone that I love the smell of packing plastic- it’s like [...]
1. DON’T encourage your kids to make stupid stunt videos, but DO encourage their friends to type in credits at the end of their videos on the off chance that your stupid teen is involved. Solid proof you were there, buddy- you’re grounded, give me your cell.
2. DON’T leave town for an extended period of [...]