Friday, November 18, 2011

Sweet Commercial

We've had an incredible intern at CJ&P for the last 6 months.  She's a double major in Business and Advertising at UNC.  She's a native of Columbia and is fluent in 6 languages.  She's passionate about advertising and is always sharing her new favorite ads with us.  Here is one she showed us recently.  It's so sweet and, in my opinion, really nails the magic of Christmas.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Saturday Morning Snippets

This morning approximately 7am:

BLU - Knock knock!

Me - "Who's there?

BLU - Banana, pepper, pizza, pee pee, me!"

I didn't feel the need to ask banana, pepper, pizza, pee pee who!

Shortly afterwards, as everyone followed me into the bathroom, (awesome)  Devlyn decided it was time to weigh himself and then Blake.  He accidentally said, "Let's see how old you are!" as he stepped Blake up on the scale.  35.4 popped up.  Devlyn announced the number and Blake screamed, "I'm not that old!" with a horrified tone in his voice.

And now....my coffee (even if it is decaf)

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Wealth Gap Between the Young and Old Widest Ever

I'm a worker bee, always have been.  I've had a job of some sort on a steady basis since I was 15.  I live in a modest home and live an average American middle-income lifestyle.  I have not reached any degree of wealthy financial success but I am proud of what I've accomplished b/c I've worked my ever lovin' ass off to get here.  And like so many others out there, for the past few years it's been a fight to stay there.  I worry about day to day finances but, more so, I worry about long term scenarios.  College and retirement both seem like ridiculously unattainable jokes to me right now.  And that statement is grounded waist high in reality.  Lately, that reality coupled with all the bullshit I hear spewed by politicians from BOTH sides sparks SUCH anger in me.  I secretly covet retirees lifestyles - do they know how lucky they are?  Pensions and health benefits, social security and Medicare.  And yes, plenty of folks of retirement age these days have gotten screwed BUT as far as I can tell noone is going to get screwed more than my generation.  Nobody my age or younger should count on any of those things to be around to buoy us in our time of need.  You know, when our fabulous 401k's designed as tax outs for corporations and then passed off to us as "retirement" run out - if you even have anything left after the market implodes for the 10th time in as many years.  The pangs of fear thoughts like these send through me are overwhelming sometimes.  All of these, previously internal, worries were justified in an article I happened upon today:

http://news.yahoo.com/us-wealth-gap-between-young-old-widest-ever-050259922.html

Real uplifting stuff - just thought I'd share - ha!