Time to start packing… okay time to start thinking about packing.
I’m heading to BlogHer next week… IN NEW YORK CITY!
I’m super excited to:
- Meet @ScrappinMichele, @MultiTaskingMe, @RealLifeSarah | My room-mates for this big shindig!
- Run the BlogHer 5K, #TutusForTanner, I’ve been training for all of 2 weeks. If I complete the ‘race’ it will be a miracle. But dangit, I’m gonna rock my tutu!
- Bathe my face in the NYC August summer heat and humidity. Oh how I’ve missed it! (NOT!)
- Re-acquaint myself with the NYC subway system, while hauling my luggage, and walking in tennis shoes and dress pants. Nothing shouts TOURIST more clearly, eh? I’ll pull out my camera to be more obvious.
I used to live in Brooklyn, my oldest was born there, it would be awesome to connect with old pals there. But I won’t have time because all THIS is on my agenda….
Social Luxe Lounge 
Tutus for Tanner
Social Fiesta 
People’s Party
OpenSky 
CheeseburgHer
Green Affair
Does it look like I’ll be doing anything but party-ing?
This is hard work I assure you!
I’m sure I’ll have the blisters to prove it.
And pictures… ! I’d love to connect with you if you are going!
The CountDown is ON!
See the cute little Counter on my sidebar? It’s counting down to August 10th.WHY?
Because starting in August I will begin running my own little GoodNCrazy Store Front! How dang cool is that? In fact I REALLY need some help here… what shall I call it?
- GoodNCrazy Store (sheesh… boring)
- GoodNCrazy Shop (ditto)
- Ye Olde GoodNCrazye Shoppe (Juste kiddinge)
- GoodNCrazy Bazaar (Or should I call it Bizarre??)
- Chez GoodNCrazy(while I wear paisley)
Crap I’m in a hurry here. What do I call it??
OpenSky is an online ecommerce site perfect for bloggers to incorporate directly on their own sites. When I find a fabulous product (and I have several items I’m totally in love with and dying to share with you) I’ll simply beg OpenSky to create a relationship with the new product/brand. If they do, I get to list it in my shop. Making it easy for you to locate the same item.What better way to shop than to get a recommendation from a friend right?
Think fun and funky items that maybe don’t sell at giant retail outlets. Small companies making great products. I’m talking THE perfect gift ideas for your picky mother-in-law!
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not doing all of this for free. OpenSky is creating a business partnership with me. Here’s how it works: Pretty much they do all the work and I get to have all the fun! When an item is purchased from my shop directly, they split the difference with me. So yes, when I’m suggesting an item I’ve listed in my shop, I will receive compensation if the item is purchased.
Um. Isn’t that how a store works?? Yeah I know, just making sure you understand…
Here’s what I like the best.
First. OpenSky has been awesome to work with.
Second. They are serious about authenticity.
Third. This is in their Mission Statement, and I totally agree.
WE WILL
- Create goodness for everyone that interacts with us.
- Introduce only products that we love and believe are the best.
- Work only with passionate people who share our vision.
- Do well by doing good.
Amen huh?
Wait there’s a fourth reason… Their RETURN policy. Feel free to read all the details directly on their website. But the bottom line is a 365 day return policy. Think about that for a minute? A WHOLE year? And they will even pay for the shipping. Srsly. Can’t beat that with a stick.
Would you like to get involved? You can! Tweet with the #opensky community. Follow them on Facebook: The OpenSky Project. Or even sign up to become a shop owner yourself! OpenSkyProject.com.
(And don’t forget to help me with my shop name… I promise I’ll help you someday!)
Photo credit: laffy4k
I don’t text.
Wait. Zip that.
I used to NOT text. A lot.
As in, why? I have email on my phone, I can call you, voicemail you, Tweet you and send you a Facebook message.
Sometimes all at once.
Mainly I feel the need to keep my 12yrold away from the texting habit as long as I can. I never wanted to get her a cell phone in the first place. Then Jr. High came along and… well… she has a phone. We made it clear we don’t have a texting plan, don’t plan to get one. (My husband’s ‘company’ phone doesn’t allow texting anyway!)
She found out the hard way (ahem… $75 in texting costs on our non-texting plan!) Whoops. She worked that off in babysitting half the school year. Plus we put a block on her phone. When we asked her why she did it after she’d had the phone for months and never texted? Her answer: “Well, they texted me, so I had to return the text, right??” Um no.
Anywho… A few weeks back we were in Utah. First I headed to Park City for EvoConference. I kept getting texts from my room-mate, and from the few bloggy pals I shared my phone number with. Turns out in 2010 everyone assumes you have a texting plan. Whoops on me this time eh?? Oh well.. it was maybe $3.20 total. I can deal.
Then.. get this.
We head to Eastern Utah for a big fat Mormon family reunion. (I know I know, I promised photos… they’re COMING!) And who should I witness texting a little here a little there? MY MOTHER. MY 65yrold mother. She was finding out and sharing where en route my sister-from-Wisconsin was, how much longer til she’d be in town. SHE was keeping up with her 10 kids.. wait, minus one, she was keeping up with the rest of my siblings… all but me!?
Talk about feeling left out.
Kind of like the time my older sister blurted out the fact that I was the only kid (of ten!) not breastfed. But that’s another story.
I thought real hard about it. And well. My mom barely uses Facebook. She will not be using Twitter, I’m quite certain. She does check her email – sort of, but sees no point in getting a data plan for her phone to check it every ten minutes…
Could I be keeping up with my family better with texting? Check in on my mom more often? How evil can that be?
I called Verizon. $5’s worth of evil.
$5 for the smallest plan. Keep my tween’s phone blocked… for now. And they turned it on retroactive to the previous two weeks covering those odd conference texts. How very nice of them.
Carissa joins the 21st Century.
I don’t text… very much.
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NOPE.
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No more photos of me, thankyouverymuch…
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Seriously.
Why schlep to a social media conference?
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