Tuesday, November 3, 2009
SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO COMPLAIN
This past summer we had our house painted. Although most of the painters couldn't speak a word of English and my Spanish was rusty, they got the paint job done right, except for the windows. I had given specific directions to the estimator and the lady on the phone for them NOT to remove my storm...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
SHELLYB SAYS ALL IS WELL, BUT HER MEMBERSHIP WAS CANCELLED
Shelly wanted me to let you guys know that she was well but couldn't blog because her Blogit membership got canceled. She doesn't plan to renew it right now, but she'll be back in the near future! She says hi!
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
REVIEWING THE SUBMISSIONS
This morning I've been reviewing all the manuscript submissions I sent out back in August. Some of the these submissions include poetry, fiction and articles. As I wrote in my Life According to Ariala post this morning, I have gotten a few poetry rejections, and one fiction rejection, which is not a...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009
I RECENTLY HAD MY HAIR STRAIGHTENED FOR THE FIRST TIME, SEE PHOTO
Although most people wouldn't know my hair has been straightened professionally, I do. I used to use a flat iron to get that look, but now, I don't really have to use one (as often). I got tired of frizzy hair, especially this summer with all the rain and humidity we experienced. No matter what...
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
CABIN IN THE WOODS?
In the last five to ten years, we've owned some land in the Ozarks and even had one place that had 5 acres and a cabin. The first place we owned had 16 beautiful acres but no cabin. Developers came in and wanted it so we sold it. The second place we owned had a cabin with no water. It had...
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
SLIDESHOW
Here's a little slideshow of the historical places I visited in Independence, MO
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
AND NOW FOR A LIST OF BLOGS AND/OR ARTICLES I'LL BE WORKING ON
I got it okay'd by the owner of the publising company to pursue my own course AND get paid by them for it. What can be better? I put together a list of 20 titles I'll be writing on, as well as an interview that will be published on AC - all related directly and indirectly to their business. Here are...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
PET PEEVE: DON'T COME TO WORK SICK AND SPREAD YOUR GERMS! ARGH!
People are coming to work sick...one guy who had the stomach flu and still wasn't feeling great showed up to work. Just now I met with a vendor who was all stuffed up and sniffing...her runny nose was hardly "containable" and I've been washing my hands with soap and water with furious intensity ever...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
SOMETIMES IT'S JUST NOT WORTH THE FIGHT
This past week has been something. It seems almost everyone around me has been in a bad mood, spouting things they shouldn't and just being downright rude (nothing new for one editor I work with.) Maybe Mercury being retrograde has everything to do with this? I dunno... I had the feeling one lady...
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Monday, September 14, 2009
BEE NEEDED
Last night, Mr. Ariala and I were out taking photos of insects. Here is a beautiful bee doing its work.
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