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The Joy

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We have discovered a silver lining in this sow’s ear of a move. Living within a few miles of the mother of THE Jory DesJardins… being able to see the childhood home of THE Jory DesJardins… being able to sit at a desk in the girlhood bedroom of THE Jory DesJardins…being able to wander into the basement that THE Jory DesJardins spent time in as a child… what a silver lining that is.

fireplace.jpgI mean seriously. Jory’s house… we walked in and we felt immediately at “home” even though the house itself didn’t look like my childhood home, it felt familiar and comfortable. But let’s not talk about the house. Or about Jory. Let’s talk about Joy – from Joy of Six.

joy.jpgJoy is awesome. She’s fun to work with and fun to hang out and chat with. We laughed and we laughed and we laughed, and we weren’t always laughing at stories about Jory as a little girl. We laughed about all sorts of things.

I still don’t really relish the idea of moving north but at least Joy will be there and she’ll let us come and hang out with her in that cool house and she’ll tell us stories about her kids and her grandkids and we’ll just laugh and laugh some more.

Silver lining.

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Contentious

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I love Amy Gahran. She’s good people. And brilliant. And I’m not just saying that because she mentioned me in her good people video. Or just because she mentioned TW. Or just because she mentioned BlogHer.

For years, I would send links to Amy’s posts to my boss and coworkers – trying to plead my case for the “company” moving into social media and social marketing – trying to convince “them” that we needed to have a discussion with people.

And then, there was that somewhat drunken cocktail party by the pool at BlogHerCon06 when Amy pulled her mic out of her pocket to record AllAboutGeorge and instantly he pulled his mic out to record Amy. It was brilliant. A fantastic example of what we’re all doing out here in the blogosphere.

And then there was the time when Amy started the whole buzz about whether or not it was professional to share personal details about your life on your blog or with your clients. That survey, do you remember the survey? Not only is Amy brilliant, she’s brave.

OK enough already, I need to get to work.

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How do I get paid to blog?

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I hear this question all of the time. All. Of. The. Time. The people who have taken my suggestions are making money online. (Some more than others, but that’s the way life works.) Those who ignore my suggestions are probably not making any money online right now. If you’ve ignored me because you need to hear from someone smarter or cooler than I am, here’s your chance.

Lisa Stone – watch this video first – and Susan Wagner – watch this one after Lisa’s.

These women are brilliant and I am very, very lucky to work with them. Very lucky. Now you’re lucky too because you can learn from them if you watch these ABC news pieces and take their advice.

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It’s a love/hate thing

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Michelle had some long discussion with TW about me, my “new” job and my travel opportunities. Apparently Michelle is hoping that BlogHer will send me on many, many trips because she is sure I love to travel and have really missed traveling.

Errr, ummm, weird, right?

Michelle came to this conclusion because I am always encouraging HER to travel and she thinks this means I wish I had traveled more.

Dude. I traveled. A lot. And still travel. A lot. More than I’d like.

It’s not that I don’t like going to new places or visiting friends and family and really cool people (like the BlogHers on the west coast), it’s that I’m a creature of habit and it’s hard to maintain habit when I’m traveling.

Take this last trip to California. Awesome, except for the really crowded flights and that whole orange juice spilled all over me – twice – and the really annoying woman who not only spilled OJ on me – twice – but argued with the flight attendant and many travelers about our flight being delayed because she did not understand that her cell phone was displaying east coast time rather than west coast time.

Awesome except my carefully created schedule was out the window and I really hate that. I hate not getting up, getting a cup of coffee and getting to work on my email, my blogs, my boards, my life.

This is why I don’t do vacation very well. I always feel like I should be doing something else, like my email, my blogs, my boards, my life! Business travel makes me feel the same way. It’s a problem, I know. I should get over it and just chill. And I do, mostly. But there’s always some niggling little thought in my head that if I was at home, I’d be doing X and I really need to be doing X – that’s why I do it every darn day.

So no Michelle, I really don’t wamt BlogHer to send me traveling a lot. Once in awhile is good – really good, and fun. But I’d really rather stay home. I like it here. You, however… you should travel. A lot.

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Cell phones and insanity

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It’s 11:45am ET and I’m a little antsy.

My iPhone has been in town, and on the FedEx truck, for hours and it is not here yet. FedEx always delivers stuff to us early. TW’s fob – here early. My contract – here early. Michelle’s iPod Touch – here early. TW’s laptop – here early. My iPhone – soooooo not here early.

I’ve been working all morning, keeping busy so I wouldn’t think about the iPhone that is here, in town, on the FedEx truck.

I’ve also been wondering why my “old” red cell phone hasn’t been ringing this morning. The darn thing rang non-stop yesterday. And, all last week. So much that I tripled my incoming call usage. Normally I’d think it was ringing, and I was missing calls. Ringing when I left it in the car – or in the bedroom while I was outside – or in the office while I was in the garage doing laundry. But no, it’s been in my pocket all day.

Do you want to know why it wasn’t ringing? I’ve got the answer.

It was turned off.

How the hell did that happen?

And where is the FedEx chick?

*Update:* It’s here and the delay was obviously caused by the fact that the delivery person was not the normal FedEx chick but a dumb man who thinks iPhones are dumb.

This is exciting.

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