December 3, 2009

  • Waiting For Dinner

    I’m sitting here waiting for burgers and fries at our neighborhood burger joint and checking out this Tumblr app. Let’s see if it works….

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  • The Best Article I Read in 2009

    I read a lot. Honestly I do. But there hasn’t been one article that has rocked my socks this year. Is that sad or what?

    The closest I can say is an article I read in last weekend’s New York Times about a long lost Ella Fitzgerald recording from the 50’s. I love Ella and soak up any and all tidbits of information about her. I’m thrilled that there is still some of her work out there that we didn’t know about previously. And I can’t wait to download that new album. I hope it’s on Rhapsody!

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    December 2, 2009

  • My Favorite Restaurant Moment of 2009

    I have eaten at a lot of fabulous restaurants this year. Like I said before, 2009 was a really great year. I hope 2010 is equally as amazing.

    My favorite restaurant moment of 2009 was at Tao in New York City. I was there with EA and was joined by other EA Sports Active participants and mom bloggers Renée Ross, Jessica Smith (now PR guru), Monica Brady, Julie Maloney and others.

    At Tao I had THE best sushi I have ever eaten and I had the best Chilean sea bass I’ve ever tasted. All of the food was delicious. So delicious! The decor was modern Asian fusion and it was wonderfully dark and intimate inside. I love eating in restaurants where the lighting is dim so you can concentrate on your table alone without worrying about offending others because we’re the rambunctious table of bloggers in the corner.

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  • My Best Trip of the Year

    I tried to make it through NaBloPoMo and failed! Miserably. To redeem myself I decided to partake in #best09, the brainchild of Gwen Bell. The main reason I decided to join is because Gwen has given us prompts for each day. I love prompts. I NEED prompts.

    This was an amazing year of travel for me. I traveled to California three times and also lived it up in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, and Atlanta. I had a really, really wonderful year. Hands down the best trip I took this year was to San Francisco with my daughters courtesy of EA Play. It was my first time in San Fran (I must go back!) and it was my daughters’ first time flying and their first time on the west coast.

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    November 17, 2009

  • Your Social Media Strategy Won't Save You 2

    I’m embedding this presentation by @missrogue because I won’t be able to find it again. Sure, I could bookmark it, but I still wouldn’t be able to find it amongst my hundreds and hundreds of uncategorized bookmarks. Plus, I wanted to share it with you because it’s brilliant.

    View more documents from Tara Hunt.

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    November 15, 2009

  • An Article About Mom Blogging...Again?

    So the LA Times ran an article about “greedy” mom bloggers.

    Yawn.

    This topic has been beaten to death, no? And is so predictable.

    Instead of wasting your time reading the LA Times piece, I recommend Kelby Carr’s post, Mom Bloggers Deserve to Get Paid. If you are a mom blogger you can learn a lot for Kelby’s experience. Read and take notes.

    À demain.

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    November 14, 2009

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    Ghosts, monsters, dragons: What to tell kids (I'm quoted)

    A new study in the journal Child Development suggests that reassuring kids by telling them scary images aren’t real is helpful for those around 7 and up, but for the younger ones it may not be preferred. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that when preschoolers get scared, they prefer to think of the fantastical threat as “nice.”

    Children ages 4, 5, and 7 were asked questions about stories involving a protagonist of the same gender encountering real and imaginary creatures such as bears, snakes and dragons. They found that the girls tended to suggest that the protagonist avoid the creatures, while boys wanted to attack them.

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    November 13, 2009

  • My Tech Updates -- Beta Testing and Review Units

    It’s been a very cool week as far as technology is concerned. After all I am a digital mom, so whenever I get an opportunity to test out new technology I am all over it!

    TwitterPeek

    Very soon I will be testing and reviewing the brand-new TwitterPeek. Can I just say I cannot wait to get my hands on it! I love my iPod Touch, but I also need Wi-Fi access to connect to the Net. While Wi-Fi is more readily available than it used to be, it’s not everywhere. The TwitterPeek is going to allow me to get on Twitter wherever I am and I won’t need a Wi-Fi connection. I am so thrilled about this! I can’t wait to share what I think about it.

    Eye-Fi

    After hearing so much about the Eye-Fi memory cards, especially during Blogher, I’ll finally be reviewing it in the coming weeks. Can’t wait to see how it works. I’ve heard so many great things!

    Brizzly

    I was lucky enough to get an invitation to test out Brizzly. It’s a great platform to post to Twitter and to Facebook. I am enjoying it thus far. It’s making my social networking life easier as I have several Twitter accounts that I use and/or maintain!

    MoonFruit

    I already have too many sites as it is, but MoonFruit seriously makes me want to start another one. Yes, I need help. Go check it out!

    Beta Testing

    by Jennifer JamesBeta Testing

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    November 12, 2009

  • Thank Goodness This Day is Nearly Over!

    I wish I had something profound to write tonight. Instead I can only rehash how my day was. It was so insane! It started off like any other day, simple and quiet, but ended up being full of phone calls, a flurry of emails, and ended with an interview with CNN.com.

    I love the hustle and bustle of a busy day. Days like this keep be excited and always keep me on my toes.

    Tomorrow I think I will take it easy, if I can. I’ll probably be shutting down early and relaxing with the family. But first, I have a lot of work to finish. When do I not?

    Hopefully tomorrow’s post will entail more than barely coherent ramblings about my day.

    I’m so very tired! See you on Twitter tomorrow.

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    November 11, 2009

  • Ready to Grow

    There are so many goals I have in my life, but I always seem to put them on the back burner because I know I don’t have the time to do them justice. One of those things is writing a book.

    I have wanted to write a book about blogging for a very long time, but I have instead opted to wait because writing a book is a huge undertaking. It’s not something you jump into lightly. You have to plan what you want to write about, write a proposal, get an agent and then shop that proposal around until a publisher becomes interested. Snob that I am, I don’t want any old publisher. I want a publisher we all know and recognize. That’s just always been my dream.

    I’ve never thought much about writing a book because of the time factor, but today I know it’s the right time in my life to finally take that path to becoming an author. My fingers feel like writing. My thoughts are beginning to flow again, and I am ready to take on a new challenge.

    This blog post is simply an acknowledgment to the universe that I am ready to write a book. We’ll see where it goes from here.

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