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Floored: A House Transformation Story (Part 1)

November 1, 2012

When Chris and I first began our house hunt in the summer of 2010, we put together a list of things we’d like to have, things we had to have, and areas we’d be willing to live. That list of requirements plus an added filter to include only potential foreclosures and short sales, pulled back a short list of houses, which we immediately went out to scout. Four houses in, we came across one that had all of our must-haves,…

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Slice of Life

Something Good

October 26, 2012

Anyone who knows my engagement story will know that it’s pretty difficult to surprise me – I’m a pretty observant and empathetic soul, so when people (especially Christopher) are trying to hide stuff, I usually recognize pretty quickly that something’s up. However, after six years of unsuccessful attempts to pull the wool over my eyes, Chris FINALLY succeeded. October 25, 2012 – a day that may forever live in infamy (at least as far as the two of us are…

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30 Before 30: Reading List (#27)

August 29, 2012

As with all bibliophiles, I’m constantly on the look out for stories to add to my arsenal, so when I stumbled across this list of books put together by the BBC,  I knew I’d have no rest until I’d read them all. I’ve included the list below, crossed through any of the titles that I’ve already read and will continue to update the list as I make my way through them. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Pride and…

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The List: Tackling 30 Before 30

August 28, 2012

  I’m pretty new to the idea of creating a “Thirty Before Thirty” list, having just learned about the concept about a month ago from a friend, but I have to say that taking the couple of days that I did to put all of my ideas down on paper was pretty cathartic. I don’t think I realized just how many activities, goals and projects I’d been adding to my mental catalog of “to-dos.” As a list-lover and task-tackler, I…

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Social Media & Tech

Helping FSU Students Feed Their Brains

July 31, 2012
Feed your brain.

Special thanks to Professor Ebe Randeree for inviting me to participate in FSU’s STARS Alliance ‘Feed Your Brain‘ series on Monday to discuss the role of social media in advertising, and for allowing me to be part of his ’10 in 10’ series for his new social media class being offered for the first time this semester at Florida State University. I’m a pretty quick talker, so my responses didn’t exactly add up to 10 minutes, but the twenty-minute discussion…

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Crafts & DIY Home Improvement

Home Office Makeover

July 8, 2012

Putting together my home office/craft room has been on my to-do list for almost a year, and I promised myself before Chris and I celebrated our second anniversary in our “new” house, that it was one item that would be scratched off the list. After scouring the paint samples at both Home Depot and Lowe’s, I settled on the color “Celery.” Surprisingly, it was one of the first colors I was drawn to nearly two years ago when we were…

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Insanity: Our Summer Fitness Challenge

July 8, 2012

Over the course of the last nine months or so, I’ve come to the startling realization that I’m a workaholic. Probably not a revelation to my friends and family who put up with me, but somewhat of a surprise to me. You see, I’m a social media strategist, which is to say, I get paid to spend 10-12 hours a day managing and driving conversations on a variety of online communities using Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc. I’ve always been…

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Slice of Life

Adventures of a Foster Mom (Part 2)

July 1, 2012

For the last seven weeks, my husband, our animals and I have been working to prepare Sandy, kitten extraordinaire, for adoption. The first week was probably the toughest – for both her and our crew – as she spent countless evening and early morning hours caterwauling from our master bathroom. As she became more accustomed to our daily routines, we slowly introduced her first to our feline bunch: TicTac, Pixel, Sushi and Kyo. While Pixel and TicTac were grumpy and…

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Courting the Muse

The Witching Hour

June 30, 2012

Tonight finds me restless, missing the solace of your company. I stride out into the street searching for distraction, filled with the intense desire to feel your presence. A breath of wind catches in the leaves of a nearby oak, teasing voices from its branches. They whisper your name, and I cannot help but sigh in exasperation. There is no escaping this longing; this ache of your absence. I find myself driven to pacing the length of my drive as…

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Social Media & Tech

Facebook Allows Admins to Update Page Usernames

June 27, 2012

Keeping up with changes to Facebook Pages can be a challenging juggling act for social media managers, especially when Facebook’s testing mechanism causes existing functionality (such as posting or commenting  as a Page) to fail resulting in errors like sending out messages from the admin’s personal account in lieu of the Page itself. However, those hiccups aside, the changes that Facebook has been working on seem to be part of a concerted effort to make the management of Facebook Pages…

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