January 6, 2011 In Uncategorized

BLR 3.0

This is Sarah, the BLR intern. You’ve met her before:

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What a goofball. I love this photo. She and I have been working very hard to give Blue Lollipop Road a new look and updated information. I owe her like, big time X 1,000. She’s stupendous.

Look up and click through the pages up top to see new stuff.

Sarah and I are off to do something really fun this weekend, so watch for photos and video next week. (Ooh I am so excited for this one.) Wait until you see what we do for our “company outing.” Nothing like some good old fashioned team building. Mwah-ah-ahhh…

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January 5, 2011 In Uncategorized

do coupons ever really expire?

Alicia, who runs Social Media for American Honda Motor Company left me a return voicemail. SWEET! You know I love a Honda.

Travis, the Founder and CEO of Gogobot. has returned my email and we have set up a time to chat via phone. YAY! You know I love a fun company filled with people that travel.

In the irony of life, they both asked if I could stop by and meet them within days after I left the west coast to come east for the holidays. Thankfully I have a Honda that’s reliable and great on gas mileage, so if it’s necessary for me to drive a quick 3,000 miles again soon, I am all over it. We shall see. These are some of the many surprises to come. Aren’t you excited? I sure am.

Who knows what the future holds. I don’t need to. What I do know is the best way to do something is to start doing it. How is Alicia at Honda ever going to know I love the product her company makes if I don’t tell her? How is Travis supposed to know I think it’d be fun and I am experienced enough to work with his company if I don’t say: “Hey there Travis! I think your company looks swell. I’d really like to work with you, look what I have done! Can we chat?”

Before I get to my point in case you haven’t gotten it already, I’d like to share some inside scoop with you: I AM NOT A GENIUS. (In fact, I just Googled genius right now because no matter how many times I type it, I still want to type it as “genous” incorrectly spelled.) So? When people are aghast and asked how I’ve “managed” to do something, I reply: “I know this is going to sound crazy, but I just did it.” (Go figure, those Nike guys have been on to something all these years.) Logistics? Sure. Planning? Sometimes. Actually doing, as in- asking, attempting, starting some kind of movement? Yes. There’s no other way.

If you like it, love it, or gotta have it (indeed this is in reference to the fun sizes at Cold Stone Creamery) then start squeaking. If you’re not squeaking for that cheese, the mouse in the next house that is, will get it every time.

Thanks Grandma. Your: “They always take expired coupons if you just ask. All you have to do is ask.” -theory really does work!

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January 5, 2011 In Photos

hello, i’m diane and i’m a stamp addict

I was so intensely focused on making sure I had everything just perfect before I sealed the priority mail envelope today, I forgot to take a photo. I wanted to fully document my passport renewal process, but now all I have to show for it is this:

Passport Renewal Delivery Confirmation

…my Delivery Confirmation Receipt. Better than nothing. I was thrilled to find out even though I had to send my current passport away, it comes back with the new one. When the woman at the post office told me I had to send my delightfully stamped, stickered and bent companion away to get a new one, I probably looked like a kid who just found out there’s no such thing as Santa Claus: horrified and heartbroken. She assured me that I’d have my precious blue book of traveled miles back in just 4 to 6 weeks. Whew!

When the nice girl at Kinkos handed the photos she took of me to send along, I thought- what?! THAT is the pasty white, winter skinned and chubby cheeked girl who will be staring back at me for the next 10 years on this mucho important document? Great. Then I remembered that I’d only ever be looking at that photo while at some kind of border patrol or customs station, which would mean that I’d be on my way to adventure somewhere. Suddenly I could care less whether I looked like a purple panda, a booger face, or a pasty white chunk head. I just happily skipped out the door knowing once again, that the world is my oyster…

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January 4, 2011 In Uncategorized

good things come to those who wait

At least that’s what they tell me.

I know, I think talk is cheap and I like results too, so I am here to say sorry to keep you waiting for the surprises I have been teasing you about. Turns out, things do take longer than expected sometimes. I promise when you log on and visit here this week, you will see some fun changes. There will indeed be a lot more goodies after that as well in this fine month of January to kick off 2011- so sit tight.

YIPPEE!

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