A Roundtable Discussion with Monsters University Producer Kori Rae Hidden deep within the production notes we carried along with us to the #MonstersUEvent, is a brief bio of Kori Rae, the producer of Disney Pixar’s Monsters University. The following intrigued me and I knew I would have to ask her about it: “With a background in education and coaching, Rae [...]
Having been a stay at home mom and now being a working mom, I finally have the answer to that age-old question of: who has it harder, Working Moms or Stay at Home Moms? (Clever use of capitalization of job titles for you to note.) And the answer is what I suspected when I first became a mother (and one [...]
Happy belated Workout Wednesday! Well I had a good strong three week run at Insanity! Does that count? I’m not quite sure what happened. I was hitting my stride! And then Monday came and honestly, I can’t even remember what happened after that. Last week was a blur, I can’t remember what happened there either. In fact, I have no [...]
Every Tuesday for us it is TACO TUESDAY! For a while there I thought getting rid of preservatives meant shopping at the natural food stores for most things because I thought it was *all* better for you until I realized soon that it wasn’t necessarily true. I did more label reading and then I became a brand-loyalist as I realized [...]
A Roundtable Discussion with Monsters University Producer Kori Rae Hidden deep within the production notes we carried along with us to the #MonstersUEvent, is a brief bio of Kori Rae, the producer of Disney Pixar’s Monsters University. The following intrigued me and I knew I would have to ask her about it: “With a background in education and coaching, Rae [...]
What to Do if Your Site is Hacked First of all I want to apologize to anyone who has gotten a Malware message from my blog over the past couple of days. I had a breach and it was ugly and it took more than a day to dig out of it. (You may notice my sidebars are still missing, [...]
She Swims, She Bikes, She Runs, She Moms, She Lawyers, She Writes… There is no better way to start off the new year than by recognizing someone AWESOME. And this person truly is AWESOME. First of all, it’s the first person EVER to have been nominated by a husband. (What a guy!!!) This person is, simply put, one of my [...]
Here’s the deal. There is only one thing worse than being in the presence of a giant spider and that’s walking into its web first. Gah. More than anything in the entire world, I hate spiders. It is half the reason I got married. So I wouldn’t have to kill them. Only thing is, I married someone who is [...]
Read more ›Welcome to my first video post for my training for the Miami ING Marathon sponsored by Girlz N Gear! It’s short and sweet and gets sort of into the details and there’s a surprise ending. I’m working on perfecting the “Dance Out.” Perhaps by the time I run the marathon I will have. Anyway, it’s only a minute long, [...]
Read more ›I’m doing some blog housekeeping today so you might see that it’s a little on the messy side. It’s one thing when you get to clean up and organize within the confines of your own home. It’s a whole nother story when your cleaning and organizing is out in the open for everyone lookin in and seeing your bidniz. You can [...]
Read more ›Vacation is just never long enough, is it?
Read more ›What to Do if Your Site is Hacked First of all I want to apologize to anyone who has gotten a Malware message from my blog over the past couple of days. I had a breach and it was ugly and it took more than a day to dig out of it. (You may notice my sidebars are still missing, [...]
Read more ›Well here it is, the finished product! My husband REALLY LOVED ME for this one. The ideas for next year are already flowing…
Read more ›Facing My Fears One Speech at a Time. If you’ve been here before, you know that I despise fear public speaking. It stems from my college days when I ran out of a performance class when I forgot my lines. The roots run deep, friends. Well it turns out that when I face my fears, usually, I give myself at least twice [...]
Read more ›What’s Going On at My Blog, By Christie O. Hey ya’ll! I have to say going to these three conferences this summer (Fitness & Health Blogger’s Conf, BlogHer and Fitbloggin) was an eye opening experience not just for me as a person, but for me as a blogger. The conferences made me really sit down and think about the direction [...]
Read more ›It’s National Punctuation Day! How Are You Celebrating?! Words, in my opinion, are like black pants. They can be dressed up or dressed down with punctuation. I’ll demonstrate. No, wait. I’LL DEMONSTRATE!!! (Did you see my use of jazz hands and sparkly headbands in there with that second example? You did? HOORAY!!!!) You see, I have a deep love and [...]
Read more ›As we continue through Tales from the Trenches week talking about pumping an all of its beautiful ups and downs like pumping in the car and being walked in on while pumping at work, it reminds me of why we do all of that and what happens if GOD FORBIDS IT SPILLS!!!! It reminds me of Tommy Boy when he can’t get [...]
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Read more ›How to Dazzle Your Readers with Your Blog. This is the final part to my four-part blog series on Best Blogging Practices, all tips I took away from the great speakers at the Fitness and Health Bloggers Conference in Denver in June. I hope they’ve been helpful so far, they were for me! We got great tips on blog [...]
Read more ›Join me for Foto Fridays! I so LOVE taking pictures, I literally upload hundreds at a time and so after a lot of thought, I finally I’ve decided I’m going to put them out here on “Foto Fridays.” I’d love it if you joined me with your pictures from the week, your favorites, your funnies, whatever you want. No theme, no [...]
Read more ›7 Tips to Responsible Blogging We’re back (finally) with another installation of the blogging series, and this time we’re talking about the best blogging practices. (More of them! Because there are lots!) These are more on the technical side of it all, the informational, if you will. Which reminds me of this Seinfeld episode because most things in life can [...]
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