someone please clue me in

I might be an alien, but I was taught to say please and thank you and do what I promise to do.

Am I crazy?

I don’t often get to the point I feel like I could punch a wall and today feels like one of those days. Instead of punching a wall, I go for long runs (which I am about to head out door to do now. I figure that’s more constructive than punching things.)

I am currently going through a time where people who say they will call won’t, promise things they don’t do, and generally are disappointing me. People are busy, shit happens, I get it. It’s not that. It’s the point blank empty promises and complete lack of respect or consideration that gets me.

I just don’t understand. Why bother with the bullshit? Who has time for that?

…off to pound the pavement instead of the wall. Perhaps while I am away from my computer and phone breaking a sweat, one of those promised messages will finally come in. If not I’ll just have a really nice ass, which hey- I am not opposed to.

jill won the makeover!

YIPPEE!!! Jill Campbell wins! (Well, one of the top 3 anyway. The Grand Prize winner will be announced the night of the makeover.)

I posted this last week asking you all to vote for my friend and she won! I’m convinced that the BLR followers helped tip her over the the line to victory! Thanks all! I am super excited for Jill. I’ll be posting the before and after photos here in a couple weeks after the big makeover day.

Stay tuned to see results!

knotty yarn

So I have told you all I bartended at this retreat called the Might Summit a couple weeks ago. It was near the Russian River at an amazing little resort called Boon. It was a quick gig, and I didn’t get to talk to many of the kick-ass women who were there. There were a couple of those women however, that even in our 5 second interaction I could tell were just NICE. The word nice, or kind to me is by far the biggest compliment. When someone can get a “nice” out of me, from a simple please and thank you, because it just hits you that they are a genuinely decent person- that’s a big deal.

Danielle was one of those people. Her blog is called Knotty Yarn. It has just gone straight and fast into my bookmarks. On her about page (almost scary the amount of similarities between she and I) there is a line that I so, so so (can I say SO one more time?) agree with and live by:

“I strongly believe that every day is a chance to change your mind and change your life.”

I will stop this post there. I can’t imagine putting together a better line that i will toast a thousand times to.

Thanks Danielle. You are nice, you write great stuff, and you have freaking awesome hair too.

secrets revealed!

Guess who gets to go to Tahoe this weekend for the first time ever?

For FREE no less.

Guess who got to eat filet, 3 chocolate lava cakes and about 9 glasses of good wine at a castle last week?

For FREE no less.

Yep- ME!

Guess what else? I’m not even that smart, cool, and this stuff doesn’t require me to get naked.

It baffles me when people ask things like “Wow, how in the WORLD did you ever get to X,Y,Z??!!”

You want to know the big fat secret? Ok. Drumroll please…

I ask, or volunteer. Period.

This means when someone I am around talks about something that sounds interesting, fun, or cool- I say “Ooh! I’d love to do that!” or “Wow, let me know if you ever need any help there.”

If I calculated the cost of wine, apps, a meal, more wine, dessert and entertainment at a castle for a night, that’d be a decent amount of bucks.

If I calculated transportation to Tahoe, a wine festival admission, and a night in a hotel. that’d be a decent amount of bucks.

What do I contribute to get this? A few hours of my time. As in like 2 or 3 hours, not even 8.

What do I get? All of the above and meeting, networking (we all know that any little interaction with the kind of figurative company you want to be in matters) and fun.

Simple formula. Totally not rocket science. If you want to go to/hang with/see something but you’re not sure how you can “get in” or afford to, try this system. It works every time.

I hope I haven’t disappointed you revealing that I’m not really secret-spy tricky. I’d love to hear about cool things you get to do like this and how you got “in” so send me some stories!

Happy weekend all. I’m off to pack for Tahoe. Yesssssssss…