So here's the deal, I now have the following forms of social media/technology:
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Blog
Email (2 personal accounts)
Pinterest
My problem here is, how to share the same thing on multiple platforms without uploading the same picture and typing a similar story/description of it 4 times?
I clearly have yet to master the full gamut of e-socializing.
Anyways, Instagram is super fun, if you aren't into it yet. Its bascially Facebook without all the games, drama, quizzes, etc. Its just photos of people you love.
And my vent for the day......OVER.
Mondays stink. Go eat some chocolate.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Through the eyes of a child
What a great weekend!
Friday night we checked out the Bellefonte Arts and Crafts Fair and ate some Scott's Roasting bbq sammies for dinner....holy crap were they good.
Then we wandered around and bought some Mocha Syrup from a coffee maker, can't WAIT to put that stuff on some ice cream.
On our way to the car, I stopped at 1 final vendor to checkout their gourd birdhouses, and I found these AMAZING vintage rose rings. I bought 3 :) Better yet....THEY WERE ONLY $2. Go ahead. Be jealous.
Saturday came the best part of the weekend. We went to my brother's house to babysit our nephew for the evening while they were at a wedding. He is a little over 13 months at this point, walking all over the place like a crazy man and jabbering constantly. He isn't really making actual words yet (however, I think he has "move" down pretty well when he wants to get through and Uncle E's feet are in the way).
Every time he walked my way and reached up for me to get him, my heart melted just a little.
Life is THRILLING through the eyes of a child, and for the evening I felt that way too. When we played, every single toy seemed like he had never seen it before. Dinner time was an adventure. Playing outside, riding in his new wagon was THE. MOST. EXCITING. THING. EVER.
He was smiling the entire time, as were we in seeing how much he enjoyed it.
We also discovered that guitar playing is captivating to a 1-year-old. Uncle E is a star according to this little boy*
Wish we lived close enough to babysit more, but we did get a solid 8 hours, and I must say, we did pretty darn great!
Then we wandered around and bought some Mocha Syrup from a coffee maker, can't WAIT to put that stuff on some ice cream.
On our way to the car, I stopped at 1 final vendor to checkout their gourd birdhouses, and I found these AMAZING vintage rose rings. I bought 3 :) Better yet....THEY WERE ONLY $2. Go ahead. Be jealous.
Saturday came the best part of the weekend. We went to my brother's house to babysit our nephew for the evening while they were at a wedding. He is a little over 13 months at this point, walking all over the place like a crazy man and jabbering constantly. He isn't really making actual words yet (however, I think he has "move" down pretty well when he wants to get through and Uncle E's feet are in the way).
Every time he walked my way and reached up for me to get him, my heart melted just a little.
Life is THRILLING through the eyes of a child, and for the evening I felt that way too. When we played, every single toy seemed like he had never seen it before. Dinner time was an adventure. Playing outside, riding in his new wagon was THE. MOST. EXCITING. THING. EVER.He was smiling the entire time, as were we in seeing how much he enjoyed it.
We also discovered that guitar playing is captivating to a 1-year-old. Uncle E is a star according to this little boy*
Wish we lived close enough to babysit more, but we did get a solid 8 hours, and I must say, we did pretty darn great!
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Oh Chicago
I spent about 3 days in Chicago recently for business, and although our conference was jam-packed full of meetings, lunches, seminars, group dinners, etc., I did manage to get out of the Hilton for a very brief time to checkout the few blocks nearby.
By a very brief time, I mean that I ventured out for about 20 min over the lunch break one day and walked 2 blocks in either direction of the hotel, just so I could really feel like I saw something, which I did!
On this little walk I saw, a fountain, a sweet little park, and got to pet a police horse named Francis.
We did have a dinner party at the Navy Pier one night, and this was the view of the sunset from the balcony
My travels were less than smooth, with flight delays, sprinting through the airport on more than one occasion, almost missing my layovers, having a broken seat which resulted in sitting in the very front of the plane with the flight attendant, but all in all, I ended up making it to my final destinations on time and in one piece.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Borrowing good reads
I'm sure that everyone has been to a library and borrowed a book at some point in their life.
I used to go to the Carnegie Library with my dad when I was a kid and borrow books all the time. For some reason I can still remember the smell in there, and when I open a hardback book from any library now, the pages take me back.
A semi-recent discovery I have made is borrowing books from other Kindle users. I, myself, have an iPad, but the Kindle App is free.
This is my second borrowed book.
Not all books can be loaned, but when you have one that can be:
The original purchaser can select to loan a book, put in an email address to send it to and then the recipient has (I think) 1 week to accept and then 2 weeks to read before the book goes back.
You can't both be reading it at the same time, so make sure you finish before you loan, and if you are the recipient, make SURE you read it all in 2 weeks before it disappears! This book, I'm at around 40% with only 4 days left and I will be pretty disappointed if I miss the ending, so I better get crackin!
Does it get any cooler than that?!?!?! YES IT DOES MY FRIENDS!
I have 2 iPads actually, a personal one and one that I use for work (belongs to my company), but I have the Kindle app on each, because when I travel or have my lunch break or take my work iPad home for the evening, I want to have access to all my personal fun things.
When I open my Kindle app on either iPad, and a book that I was reading on the other one, it asks me if I want to skip to the spot where I last left off on my other device.
That's right, they talk to each other and keep my same spot no matter which one I read from!
The joys of modern technology!
PS, these 2 books by Rick Murcer are GREAT if you are looking for a captivating thriller that is also an easy read.
Images courtesy of Amazon.com
I used to go to the Carnegie Library with my dad when I was a kid and borrow books all the time. For some reason I can still remember the smell in there, and when I open a hardback book from any library now, the pages take me back.
A semi-recent discovery I have made is borrowing books from other Kindle users. I, myself, have an iPad, but the Kindle App is free.
This is my second borrowed book.
Not all books can be loaned, but when you have one that can be:
The original purchaser can select to loan a book, put in an email address to send it to and then the recipient has (I think) 1 week to accept and then 2 weeks to read before the book goes back.
You can't both be reading it at the same time, so make sure you finish before you loan, and if you are the recipient, make SURE you read it all in 2 weeks before it disappears! This book, I'm at around 40% with only 4 days left and I will be pretty disappointed if I miss the ending, so I better get crackin!
Does it get any cooler than that?!?!?! YES IT DOES MY FRIENDS!
I have 2 iPads actually, a personal one and one that I use for work (belongs to my company), but I have the Kindle app on each, because when I travel or have my lunch break or take my work iPad home for the evening, I want to have access to all my personal fun things.
When I open my Kindle app on either iPad, and a book that I was reading on the other one, it asks me if I want to skip to the spot where I last left off on my other device.
That's right, they talk to each other and keep my same spot no matter which one I read from!
The joys of modern technology!
PS, these 2 books by Rick Murcer are GREAT if you are looking for a captivating thriller that is also an easy read.
Images courtesy of Amazon.com
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