Too Cute Tuesday: Seashell Christmas Lights
It was a quiet night for Too Cute Tuesday as in it was just me crafting tonight. That said, I still had a great time making tonight’s craft: seashell Christmas lights à la Martha Stewart.
It was a quiet night for Too Cute Tuesday as in it was just me crafting tonight. That said, I still had a great time making tonight’s craft: seashell Christmas lights à la Martha Stewart.
So I have a business acquaintance who happens to have a sailboat. I’ve wanted to go on a boat all summer so a few weeks ago, I felt bold and messaged him on Facebook. I told him I’d wanted to go on a boat all summer and asked if he’d mind taking me sailing sometime. I offered to bring lunch and/or snacks and otherwise earn my keep.
He said sure and asked me when my next day off was.
One of my readers recently asked me why I haven’t written about food lately. Good question.
Truth is, I’ve been eating like a confirmed bachelor. I’ve been eating lots of quick foods, skipping breakfast in favor of coffee, and once even caught myself eating a jumbo marshmallow while standing by the kitchen sink. What is going on here?
I love food, and I love to eat healthy but I got busy and fell off the wagon as of late. As a result, I’ve been cooking way less and foraging way more. Eating small amounts and exercising is keeping me trim but I am not liking this lifestyle. So not me!
It’s definitely back on the eating-real-meals bandwagon for me and I couldn’t think of a better way to get back into it than kale.
Last week, I was slammed with the classic terrible summer cold. I am feeling better now but it did make me miss having sick days just a little bit…
Here are some interesting things I’ve read:
Pay What You Want Taxi @ Boston Gal’s Open Wallet
‘Freakonomics’ originally found that pay-as-you-go systems were actually profitable and here’s another example of that.
Sold! @ Rural Runway
I am often guilty for forgetting about eBay. Boy am I happy when I remember though. Just last week, I scored a fantastic brand new Anne Klein silk dress for $40. A fellow Maine blogger, the gal at Rural Runway talks fashion and how to sell it for fun and profit on eBay. Great tips.
Ideally, we all want feedback. We just want it to be good most of the time.
Sometimes though, a business has to be able to listen to honest negative feedback and step back from what they are doing to improve. And that is what I learned, or perhaps more accurately re-learned, this week.
I got honest feedback about my video, and I’ll have to reshoot portions of it. This is discouraging but good.
I pushed through and mostly finished the video for my site, or so I thought.
Something about it though didn’t seem quite right. So I emailed it to one of my most critical but kind friends. He called me half an hour later.
After some small talk, I asked, “So how was it?”
Pause. “You aren’t going to like this.” he warned, taking in a deep breath.