Of course since I am now 'retired', I am put in the position to criticize the working folk...it's a tough job but somebody has to do it! Now before you get your hackles up, I'm pretty sure all of you hard working people will be taking my side at the end of this.
Scenario:
You are going to be starting up an online greeting card business. When it comes down to naming your company, you want something fabulous, catchy, cleaver, and obviously something to do with greeting cards.
Brainstorm ideas:
E-Greets
Card-o-rama
Send-a-smile
Cards for Cares
Snail Mail is for Losers
(I think you get the idea)
My brainstorm may not have provided a winning name but it makes me wonder how bad a brainstorm would have to be to settle on this name??
They say "Funky, fun, and free delivery" so I get the "funky" part but where does the pigeon come in??? I supposed they at least tried by having half of their name apply to their business UNLIKE this next greeting card company:
I'm all for being unique and having a catchy new angle on things but this is a bit of a puzzle to me. Do any of you get it?? What does a moon or a pig have to do with greeting cards?!
I have some guesses:
Either their brainstorm meeting took place in Amsterdam and they were all partaking of the local drug cuisine.
-or-
They are all a bunch of new parents and came up with a name based on the children's toys they pulled out of the couch one day.
Although, who has a toy pigeon for their kid?
*Side note: Thanks everyone for your kind thoughts and prayers. I don't have any further information since my last post so I'm just in a waiting game. Hopefully I'll be making my blog rounds today.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
A Difficult Monday
I received some hard news last night. My 2nd grade teacher, who is one of the most loving women I have known over my short life and has been a great family friend, is losing her life to cancer. I don't have a lot of details, but I have been told it's not going to be long. We'll see how it goes but I may not be visiting blogs or even blogging for a bit. I don't know what your beliefs are and I'm not one to shove my beliefs on anyone, but I'm sharing a favorite hymn of mine that I think is fitting.
Lyrics:
Precious Lord, take my hand
Lead me on, let me stand
I am tired, I am weak, I am worn
Through the storm, through the night
Lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
Lead me on, let me stand
I am tired, I am weak, I am worn
Through the storm, through the night
Lead me on to the light
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
When my way grows drear
Precious Lord linger near
When my life is almost gone
Hear my cry, hear my call
Hold my hand lest I fall
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
Precious Lord linger near
When my life is almost gone
Hear my cry, hear my call
Hold my hand lest I fall
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
When the darkness appears
And the night draws near
And the day is past and gone
At the river I stand
Guide my feet, hold my hand
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
And the night draws near
And the day is past and gone
At the river I stand
Guide my feet, hold my hand
Take my hand precious Lord, lead me home
Saturday, November 5, 2011
P.S. for the Weekend
I know I don't post on weekends (and I also know how odd that must seem since I don't have a job) but I completely forgot to mention in my posts this week that I made a small appearance in a couple of other blogs this week.
My good bloggy buddy Bodacious Boomer occasionally posts photos for her 'Bizzarometer'. I happened to come across a photo that I thought would be a perfect submission! Go rate it, give it your best caption, and wish Boomer well as she is recovering from surgery from having kidney stones! Poor thing!
Scope-Tech posted his breast cancer charity photo post and I am in it since I submitted a photo. It may be a photo of me in my wedding dress, but normally I'm a very modest woman who doesn't feel comfortable showing cleavage. Since I was drugged up on my wedding day (read My Love Story), I didn't notice or care that I was practically popping out of the top of my dress! It wasn't until we got photos back that I saw how bad it was. I asked Branden, "Why on earth didn't you tell me that I was showing that much cleavage!?!". He just responded with, "I thought you looked great!". Oh well, I ended up getting to use it for a good cause! Go check it out!
And finally, take a hop over to Elisa at Crazy Life of a Writing Mom. I was excited when she told me that I'm her featured blogger of the month! She has the ability to make you go through every emotion while reading just one of her blog posts. The stories about her kids are incredible and I can only hope and pray that mine end up half as creative as hers! Thanks for featuring me this month Elisa. I can't wait for your BOOK LAUNCH coming up this month!!!
My good bloggy buddy Bodacious Boomer occasionally posts photos for her 'Bizzarometer'. I happened to come across a photo that I thought would be a perfect submission! Go rate it, give it your best caption, and wish Boomer well as she is recovering from surgery from having kidney stones! Poor thing!
Scope-Tech posted his breast cancer charity photo post and I am in it since I submitted a photo. It may be a photo of me in my wedding dress, but normally I'm a very modest woman who doesn't feel comfortable showing cleavage. Since I was drugged up on my wedding day (read My Love Story), I didn't notice or care that I was practically popping out of the top of my dress! It wasn't until we got photos back that I saw how bad it was. I asked Branden, "Why on earth didn't you tell me that I was showing that much cleavage!?!". He just responded with, "I thought you looked great!". Oh well, I ended up getting to use it for a good cause! Go check it out!
And finally, take a hop over to Elisa at Crazy Life of a Writing Mom. I was excited when she told me that I'm her featured blogger of the month! She has the ability to make you go through every emotion while reading just one of her blog posts. The stories about her kids are incredible and I can only hope and pray that mine end up half as creative as hers! Thanks for featuring me this month Elisa. I can't wait for your BOOK LAUNCH coming up this month!!!
Friday, November 4, 2011
One Big Sensitive Dog
After sharing some stories about my parents yesterday, I had ever intention of blogging about my in-laws today...not an easy thing to do. Branden and I have been sitting on the bed brainstorming about how on earth we can even begin to introduce his parents. I mean this is a good way. His parents are wonderful and I love them to bits, it's just they are some of the most random 'characters' I have ever met. After throwing around some sasquatch, pirate, and alien invasion stories, we couldn't decide where to start, so we changed our focus.
Today you all get to meet Beauford instead. He's their 210lb. purebred St. Bernard. After you hear about his character, it will put into perspective how his owners must be even more complex!
He is the biggest baby of a dog I have ever met! Despite how huge he is (he has walked past me and hit me in between the shoulder blades with his tail!) he is absolutely petrified of Chihuahuas and ducks, and he used to have a fear of puddles but thankfully he got over that one! There are some Chihuahuas who live next door and when they started coming up to Beauford's driveway to bark at him, Beau didn't want to leave the porch for a week! He will start whining and shaking if he hears them barking.
Beauford may have some odd fears, but for the most part he is a happy dog who takes 2 hardcore naps a day and loves peanut butter sandwiches. Branden's parents have a big projector screen in their basement that is like a mini theater. Beauford loves to watch movies and gets very involved sometimes. I remember one time we watched "Wall-e" and Beauford started chasing the cockroach around the screen. He has his own movie that is basically some random footage at a dog park. Beau will go nuts jumping up after sticks, barking at the yappy dogs, and seeing how many butts he can try and sniff. There is one part though that we have to fast forward because he gets really upset over it. It's a scene of a male dog that is standing over a submissive female and barking like crazy at her to keep her laying down. Some other males come over and bark at the poor female too and this drives Beau nuts! He tries to bark the males away, and when they don't go away he goes up to each of us and tries to make us go stop them. He'll either nudge us, bark at us, or even softly take our hand in his mouth to 'lead us' to where the poor female is. Since he gets so upset, we just end up fast forwarding to keep him from stressing out.
Beauford and I quickly became buddies. He likes women anyway, but he has lots of fun dragging me around in my socks across the floor when we play tug of war. When we Skype Branden's parents, sometimes Beau gets really frustrated because he can hear my voice but he can't get to me. He will bark and bark at the screen and grab Branden's mom's hand in attempt to make her go get me. The other day when we were talking to Branden's mom, she put her laptop on the couch (facing towards the room) so she could go get something in another part of the house. When she left the room, I saw Beauford just laying on the floor, attempting to snooze. I started calling him and he soon got up and started groggily looking around. His first reaction to my voice was to go directly to his toys. When I didn't just grab a toy and start playing with him, he walked to the door to go see if maybe I was in another room. I called him again, so he turned around towards the computer, saw my face on the screen, and walked over to sniff my face. Obviously not smelling me (despite being able to see me), he walked away to go get Branden's mom to get me out. Branden and I were cracking up but also felt a bit bad for him since we got him a bit excited.
So that's my intro to Beauford Clarence (he has a middle name!). My big hairy buddy. I'll start on how to introduce my in-laws on Monday!
I don't know why his dad is making this face but I love this photo! If you look in the background you can see lots of hats hanging on the wall. This is one of our favorite restaurants because you get to wear random hats through your dinner! This was last Valentine's Day. We were with them and had a blast!
Today you all get to meet Beauford instead. He's their 210lb. purebred St. Bernard. After you hear about his character, it will put into perspective how his owners must be even more complex!
He is the biggest baby of a dog I have ever met! Despite how huge he is (he has walked past me and hit me in between the shoulder blades with his tail!) he is absolutely petrified of Chihuahuas and ducks, and he used to have a fear of puddles but thankfully he got over that one! There are some Chihuahuas who live next door and when they started coming up to Beauford's driveway to bark at him, Beau didn't want to leave the porch for a week! He will start whining and shaking if he hears them barking.
He was such a cute puppy! I wish I knew him at this time!
Beauford may have some odd fears, but for the most part he is a happy dog who takes 2 hardcore naps a day and loves peanut butter sandwiches. Branden's parents have a big projector screen in their basement that is like a mini theater. Beauford loves to watch movies and gets very involved sometimes. I remember one time we watched "Wall-e" and Beauford started chasing the cockroach around the screen. He has his own movie that is basically some random footage at a dog park. Beau will go nuts jumping up after sticks, barking at the yappy dogs, and seeing how many butts he can try and sniff. There is one part though that we have to fast forward because he gets really upset over it. It's a scene of a male dog that is standing over a submissive female and barking like crazy at her to keep her laying down. Some other males come over and bark at the poor female too and this drives Beau nuts! He tries to bark the males away, and when they don't go away he goes up to each of us and tries to make us go stop them. He'll either nudge us, bark at us, or even softly take our hand in his mouth to 'lead us' to where the poor female is. Since he gets so upset, we just end up fast forwarding to keep him from stressing out.
In the snow, he goes into "rescue dog" mode!
Beauford and I quickly became buddies. He likes women anyway, but he has lots of fun dragging me around in my socks across the floor when we play tug of war. When we Skype Branden's parents, sometimes Beau gets really frustrated because he can hear my voice but he can't get to me. He will bark and bark at the screen and grab Branden's mom's hand in attempt to make her go get me. The other day when we were talking to Branden's mom, she put her laptop on the couch (facing towards the room) so she could go get something in another part of the house. When she left the room, I saw Beauford just laying on the floor, attempting to snooze. I started calling him and he soon got up and started groggily looking around. His first reaction to my voice was to go directly to his toys. When I didn't just grab a toy and start playing with him, he walked to the door to go see if maybe I was in another room. I called him again, so he turned around towards the computer, saw my face on the screen, and walked over to sniff my face. Obviously not smelling me (despite being able to see me), he walked away to go get Branden's mom to get me out. Branden and I were cracking up but also felt a bit bad for him since we got him a bit excited.
He loves it when I crawl on the floor with him!
So that's my intro to Beauford Clarence (he has a middle name!). My big hairy buddy. I'll start on how to introduce my in-laws on Monday!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
My Parental Unit
As a lot of you saw yesterday, Branden and I went 'all out' to make a fun video for our nephew's 5th birthday. He absolutely loved it! Poor Chrissy has had to watch it 8 times (until the battery finally died in her computer) because her nephews have become hooked as well. My mom sent an email to us yesterday that had us cracking up (that woman is fabulous!). She did her own movie review and I can't resist sharing it:
Once again i was not disappointed in the creativity of this *our last name* classic. This couple never ceases to outdo themselves in their expanse of imaginational musings. I can truly say this is one of their best yet; blowing such others as "Little Bunny Foo Foo" and "Happy Birthday Ma" completely out of the water in epic proportions. To include a few bloopers gives it a rare twist and the creation of the moving backdrop was ingenious to say the least. I'd definately give this one 5 out of 5 stars----this film is a must see!
love,
siskel and epert
(ma)
ps. while trying to type this out, i managed to make 625 spelling errors, fall off my chair, and finally finish my first cup of coffee. I think I'm awake now.
I felt the need to share her email because maybe then my kind readers can start to understand where my humor comes from.
Then I ran across this old memory that I posted on my old blog back in July 2006:
My parents have been married for almost 26 years and would be absolutely lost without eachother. With that said, I have to tell on my dad. I'm sorry dad. You know I'm your little girl, but these are just too good to pass up!
About a year and a half ago, dad bought an airsoft assult rifle at some garage sale and wondered if those little plastic bb's actual hurt. Now a normal airsoft gun can leave a welt and sometimes a bruise when you're shot but the assult rifle is a bit worse! Dad first considered shooting the dog to see what kind of reaction he would get, but since that would be mean, he looked around for something more 'humane' to shoot. His eyes soon landed on my mom, who was all peaceful and content sitting in the house...so he shot her in the back! Mom screamed and jumped up! She ended up with a pretty good welt and dad learned that yes, those plastic bb's really do hurt!
About a month ago, my parents were finally settled in bed when dad realized that he left his shop unlocked. It's down a hill and through some trees from the house and since he was tired, he decided that he was going to just leave it. The next thing he knew, mom was getting out of bed to go do it for him, in the dark! He was too tired to stop her, but a bit after she left he went out there to go with her. By this time she was already headed back...in the dark...so dad got the "bright idea" to hide since she hadn't seen him. He crouched down, and when she walked by he let out a very low growel noise and grabbed her ankle! Mom fliped out and started crying because she was so scared. They live in a place with cougars and bears so I would have pissed my pants too! Dad felt so bad; he is still trying to make it up to her!
Once again i was not disappointed in the creativity of this *our last name* classic. This couple never ceases to outdo themselves in their expanse of imaginational musings. I can truly say this is one of their best yet; blowing such others as "Little Bunny Foo Foo" and "Happy Birthday Ma" completely out of the water in epic proportions. To include a few bloopers gives it a rare twist and the creation of the moving backdrop was ingenious to say the least. I'd definately give this one 5 out of 5 stars----this film is a must see!
love,
siskel and epert
(ma)
ps. while trying to type this out, i managed to make 625 spelling errors, fall off my chair, and finally finish my first cup of coffee. I think I'm awake now.
I felt the need to share her email because maybe then my kind readers can start to understand where my humor comes from.
Then I ran across this old memory that I posted on my old blog back in July 2006:
My parents have been married for almost 26 years and would be absolutely lost without eachother. With that said, I have to tell on my dad. I'm sorry dad. You know I'm your little girl, but these are just too good to pass up!
About a year and a half ago, dad bought an airsoft assult rifle at some garage sale and wondered if those little plastic bb's actual hurt. Now a normal airsoft gun can leave a welt and sometimes a bruise when you're shot but the assult rifle is a bit worse! Dad first considered shooting the dog to see what kind of reaction he would get, but since that would be mean, he looked around for something more 'humane' to shoot. His eyes soon landed on my mom, who was all peaceful and content sitting in the house...so he shot her in the back! Mom screamed and jumped up! She ended up with a pretty good welt and dad learned that yes, those plastic bb's really do hurt!
About a month ago, my parents were finally settled in bed when dad realized that he left his shop unlocked. It's down a hill and through some trees from the house and since he was tired, he decided that he was going to just leave it. The next thing he knew, mom was getting out of bed to go do it for him, in the dark! He was too tired to stop her, but a bit after she left he went out there to go with her. By this time she was already headed back...in the dark...so dad got the "bright idea" to hide since she hadn't seen him. He crouched down, and when she walked by he let out a very low growel noise and grabbed her ankle! Mom fliped out and started crying because she was so scared. They live in a place with cougars and bears so I would have pissed my pants too! Dad felt so bad; he is still trying to make it up to her!
Now married for 31 years!
Since I posted a funny photo of my mom, it's only fair that I share one of dad as well. Luckily his airsoft gun can't reach me 4500 miles away!!
This gem of a photo was taken on their honeymoon to Disney World. Look at those short shorts!!
I love and miss my parents so much. It's hard to be away from them at this time of the year but looking back on memories like these make it just a little easier.
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