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I have issues: email
See that blog post title above? Yeah, I’m gonna just venture out there and say that I will be able to come up with content to do a regular series called “I have issues.” It’s really not going out on a very long limb. Cuz I do have a few issues. Today’s issue: email kicks my ass. I sign up for so many customer loyalty programs or subscribe to blogs or register products or enter contests that my email has become unmanageable. Last night I spent about 4 hours sorting out my Gmail account. It went from about 1,500 emails in the INBOX alone to 239. I deleted a crap-load…
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A Taco, a Duck and a Sushi walk into a bar …
This isn’t a post about a joke. This is a post about nicknames. A friend sent me this saying last week and I instantly connected with it: We all have a friend who only gets called by their nickname … it sounds weird to even say their real name. That describes perfectly me and two of my good friends. Just about anyone who knew us in high school calls us by our nicknames: Taco, Duck and Sushi. We are all now in our 40s. Taco I picked up the nickname Taco in a junior high Spanish class. I was in Mrs. McDonald’s first period taking a quiz on vocabulary…
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Kegel vs. kugel: choose your words wisely
So some kegel-y things have been happening lately, which I take as a sign to write about the kegel. Kegel-y thing #1 I’ve been tweeting for a few months now, working on building a community there. Follow me @melindaschnyder. I’m up to about 340 followers. About a third are people I met at a blogging conference last fall. Others are friends or colleagues, or people who are following me because I follow them. Tangent: Digital Underground is following me y’all! I tweeted about the Humpty Dance song and he saw it and followed me. If only that would work with Rick Springfield… Then there are followers who I have no…
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Trip pix: Once, twice, three times a horse
Here is one of the all-time favorite travel photos I’ve taken. I knew as soon as I took the photo that it was going to be a favorite of mine, and it also gets a lot of comments from friends and family. We have this hanging in our house and I’ve used it to made notecards for friends. In the summer of 2007, Lee and I drove from Wichita, Kan., through the southern part of Colorado and into Utah. Our goal was to visit Best Friends Animal Sanctuary — the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary — in Kanab, Utah, and to see the national parks in the area. It was our first…
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Polyester pants & a visor: a drive thru of my first job
A video of a fast food drive-thru prank is making the rounds online and the looks on the employees’ faces crack me up! It reminds me of my days working at the Taco Bell drive thru on the business loop in Columbia, Missouri. Good times, good times. Taco Bell was my first job outside of a paper route and babysitting. I started working there the summer I turned 16 and worked off and on during the school year and the next summer (I played volleyball and basketball so there wasn’t a lot of time to work around practices and games). It actually wasn’t a bad job because I was able to rack up…