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.
Want Something? Just Ask!
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.
Good and Cheap Kale
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.
Shameless Promotion: Post Summer Cold Edition
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.
This Week In Business: Tough Love
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.