Thursday, May 31, 2012
Early Summer 2012
We had the BEST time at Kure Beach last weekend. The little place we stayed in was so cool and perfect, really nice. It came with bikes for everyone - we rented a seat for Weebsie from the local bike shop and rode all around the Kure neighborhoods. Devlyn was beside himself with joy. The weather which was supposed to be awful was fabulous the entire 3 days. The one brief rain shower we had produced one of the most incredible rainbows I've ever seen. Other pics are tball, the biggest garden snail I've ever seen and other random early summer photos. These pics are all jumbled up out of order b/c I downloaded them from a few different sources. We can't wait for more vacation!!
Railhawks
Our hometown pro soccer team, the Carolina Railhawks played the LA Galaxy Tuesday night. One of our clients is a big sponsor and our agency does work for the Railhawks so we got some good seats. Of course, my soul purpose for going was to gawk at Becks! Unfortuantely, he and another teammate were called back to LA to rest up so he didn't show up and I was forced to actually watch the game! I have to say it was pretty exciting - we ended up beating them by one at the very end. The boys had fun too : )
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Spring Photos II
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Photos
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
The Draper
Thanks to our new TV set-up (Netflix, HuluPlus and Playon only) Charles and I have been watching back to back seasons of Madmen - 2 or 3 episodes a night. It's been SO much fun watching a show we already love straight through from beginning to end. For those of you who aren't familiar, it's a show about Madison Ave. ad men and women set in the late 1950's early 60's. The acting is superb, the writing even better and well...it has Don Draper - there's not much else to say : ) Give it a looksy and you'll instantly understand. Don and Betty Draper are two of the main characters. Don commutes into the city every day and when he's at home (which isn't very often), they lead a very Fairfield County, greater-NYC life. A lot of quintessential 1950's suburban scenes. Men were men and women were women - none of this cross-gender multi-tasking we're plagued by today. It inspired me to invent a cocktail last weekend. It was a beautiful spring day, late in the afternoon. The boys were playing quietly to themselves (what!!?!) and Charles was outside mowing the lawn sans shirt. I found myself muddling around the kitchen, very Betty Draper like, tossing dinner ideas around in my head and thinking that the wifely thing to do would be to mix up a refreshing Spring cocktail and bring it out to my dear, sweaty husband slaving over the lawn. I mixed up some very strong Country Time lemonade, threw it over some ice, cut it with several healthy splashes of bourbon and added a juicy slice of blood orange as garnish. I call it the Draper and we drank them all weekend : )
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
A Return to Crack
Some of you know that, lately, I’ve been on a personal quest
to see just how cheap I can get.
So far it’s going well…I’ve canceled our cable television, our home
phone, the Sunday paper and, lastly, my personal cell phone & data service
with AT&T. All in all, I
chopped roughly $200 off our monthly bills. Giving up my personal cell service, though, would mean parting
with my longtime cell phone that countless people (business and personal)
know. Enter Google Voice. For a $20 flat fee, Google Voice ported
my 919-824-8458 number and canceled my cell service through AT&T. For the record, I have no idea what
“ported” means BUT I do know that within 24 hours I was able to logon to Google
Voice via my computer and set it up so that anyone calling or texting to 919-824-8458 is immediately forwarded to my work phone. It also automatically transcribes
voicemails left on that number into texts and sends them to me. It also has a cool feature that allows
you to listen in on people leaving voicemails an decide if you need to take the
call afterall. I haven’t figured
out how to do that yet but, hello, that’s pretty cool! Did I mention this is a free service (Google Voice)?
OK. Good. All positives, right? Now onto the crack. That last change means I have to switch
from using my beloved Blackberry to the dreaded, work issued iPhone. I do not mean to sound ungrateful to
have an iPhone from work. My kids
love it and I have to admit that, at first blush, I was excited to enter the
app world and see what it’s all about.
Well, I HATE it. I’ll tell
anyone who will listen and trust me, not many people want to. I’m still trying to figure out how
Apple has brainwashed the world to believe that iPhones are intuitive and
efficient. I’ve worked myself
around to the self-imposed and totally untested theory that most people who
love iPhones must not have ever
used a Blackberry. Aside from
multiple, basic, glaring errors in function, most anything u can do on an
iPhone, I can do 10x faster, more correctly AND with one hand while doing
something else on a Blackberry. I’m
three weeks into my personal case study (sample size of 1) and I decided last
night, that’s enough! I can’t take
it anymore – I’m going back to the Crackberry. My HR director laughed at me this morning as I sat in her
office begging her to please, please, please let me switch my company number
over to my personal Blackberry.
She agreed and I am so very relieved. I found this video on Crackberry.com today and had to smile. I’ve heard nothing but rumors lately
that RIM is going out of business or they’ve stopped production updating the
Blackberry. Well, it’s not true! Crackberry Kevin sums up
my sentiments exactly (while previewing the BB 10) in the linked video below.
“Blackberry is for people who have shit to do and want to
get it done.”
Thank you Kevin and thank you Blackberry – I have lots of
shit to do and love getting it done on my Crackberry!
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