It’s Monday, where my posts are stream-of-consciousness and just for the hell of it. photo credit: Nicholas_T It’s so very overcast here. Again. Of course, I have SIXTY BAJILLION THINGS TO DO (did you see the blog where I’m sharing all the goss from my trip to Vegas?) but on days like these I’m generally…
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Amy Crook and Antemortem Arts
Hooray for Showcase Sunday, where it’s all about the readers who make this website awesome! What is your name and website? Amy Crook with Antemortem Arts, Who is your website for and what does it do? Antemortem Arts is a repository of my strange art for awesome weirdos. It gives people a daily dose of…
Doing more with less
New readers probably don’t know about Kevin: the smart and super-techy dude who started this shiny website with me just under a year ago. Unfortunately, his Day Job promptly ate him and he’s not been around too much. But magic! here he is. photo credit: LoopZilla I’m finally starting to get some traction behind this…
Drumroll, please…
photo credit: Bert K So is she or isn’t she? Can she or can’t she? To Vegas or not to Vegas, that is the question… Things aren’t perfect. I have enough money – JUST – to buy the passport (and the oh-right-I-need-to-OFFICIALLY-change-my-name-to-the-one-I’ve-used-my-whole-life-why-my-mum-and-stepdad-didn’t-do-this-when-I-was-three-I-do-not-understand paperwork – in a complete sidenote, in Australia you can legally change your…
Unenlightened Zen and the art of sorta letting go
photo credit: h.koppdelaney Zen masters are kick-ass at detachment, at the art of standing back from the eeee-eeee-eeee of a brain that wants a thousand things and like Veruca Salt, wants them NOW. It’s pretty obvious I’m not a Zen master. The situation It’s the last day of the Send Catherine to Vegas because let’s…
Awesome listening
Hooray for Guest Post Wednesday and the vibrant and insightful Jill! photo credit: dotbenjamin I’ve started a new online venture. I haven’t had quite enough punishment from the first one yet, y’see. From sifting through the ashes of my first online experience, I know I need help. So I find this expert, she’s going to…
To hell with someday-maybe
photo credit: geoftheref I lived for years in Someday-Maybe-Land. I had a villa. It was really nice: the views were great, the people were pleasant, and the soundtrack was a delightful retro-nostalgia mix. But all the time there was this weird feeling that I was missing out on something. That I was missing out on…
Mondo-mega Monday
Dear new readers: Monday is my Official Day Off, and so I have started writing a post with no real structure on that day to keep things fun. photo credit: pedrosimoes7 Today should be my day off, but it isn’t. I took all of yesterday off after an epic self-care failure. Short version due to…
LaVonne Ellis, the Complete Flake
It’s time again for Showcase Sunday, telling you more about the wonderful readers who make this website awesome! What is your name and website? I’m LaVonne Ellis and I have two sites: The Complete Flake and Speak Clearly Online Who is your website for and what does it do? The Complete Flake is for people…
Desperation: the only smell that travels across the internet.
photo credit: Alex E. Proimos People can sense desperation. They can feel the extra !!!! you’re putting in. And no matter how much they like you, or how nifty your thing is, people are always turned off by it. It’s a primate-level thing. Desperation is weakness; no-one likes associating themselves with weakness, and no-one values…