Archive for March, 2011

“If there is someone I can serve, put them in my path and I will serve them.”

I enjoy my blogging and I enjoy writing about things that interest me – it’s what I love most.  On St. Patty’s Day, just as I was cooking dinner (no, not corned beef & cabbage, but Newman’s plain cheese pizza), the phone rang.  “I need an emergency blogger,” said the caller.  What?  He explained that he had a web company that wrote blogs to promote other’s websites and had a project that had to be done right away – he said he’d pay me about $300. 

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Life is a White Board

I have two black pens on my desk near my “Dry Erase” white board.  One is a dry marker and one is a permanent ink Sharpie.  They look very similar.  I always look at the label before I write on my white board – or so I thought until this morning.  I picked up my eraser only to realize that all the writing in purple and blue came right off but the black permanent ink did not.  Oh, no,  I’d used the wrong pen!  My brand new white board was now ruined.  I’d just bought a replacement-  after learning that Windex ruins the surface – causing even dry markers to become permanent ones.   Learning the dos and don’ts of white-boarding aren’t as simple as you’d think.

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