Letters home

Finally all caught up!

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:20:09 -0400

I finally sat myself down and spent a good three hours working on getting caught up with pictures and such. Whew! Added A LOT to Flickr and a few to Facebook. Had ones from vacation, our trip to New Jersey, Jenna's party, Screen on the Green ... pshaw ... I was way behind. A few favorites from vacation:

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I love, love, LOVE this pic of Ben.

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Family time at the beach!

me and dan

I do love my Dan. :)

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Mom and me in the garden at our house in Demopolis.

I'll (hopefully) be able to post a couple write-ups about Screen on the Green, etc. soon ... but for now ... to bed, fred! In the meantime, you can view all the latest pics here.

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Technology QotW: Technology & Success

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:28:27 -0400

What is the most important technology every business should understand to make his/her business successful?
Sponsored by HP.

Search.

It's like my dad told me back in the 90's, when the internet was becoming more mainstream, "Erin, the key to success is knowing how to do a good search."

And then, in 2006, after Google was WELL established and it turned out that search really was as important as he had forecast, he had this piece of wisdom to share: "Erin, now the key to success is knowing how to get yourself or your client on that first page of Google results."

He's so right. Hello, success! </wave>

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Summer of reading

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:07:02 -0400

I've read more books over the past week than I've probably read in the past year. And it's GREAT! I just got caught up on posting some brief reviews; feel free to take a look.

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Where's Erin?? THERE she is!!

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:26:35 -0400

I've been rather scarce for the past couple weeks. I (obviously) was working hard for a while there on my apartment. Moving around furniture; bringing in the new, tossing out the old, etc. But I was also consumed by the flurry of work that always precedes a VACATION. Yessirree ... last Thursday, I hopped a plane down to Alabama to start my Tour de South.

I started in my hometown: Demopolis, AL. Visited with family there for a few days before heading down to the beach with my sister and her family. And now ... I'm chilling in my Dad's house in Bay Minette, AL, with internet access for the first time in several days. So I thought I'd write up a quick post to raise a flag to my whereabouts.

Plus, what good would I be if I didn't post a few pics. ;)

First up, crazy Aunt Erin gave Ben a mohawk:

Mohawk!

And then, at the beach, Ben got sand on his nose and we all thought it was sooooo cute:

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Plenty more pictures (and some videos) to post ... later. Stay tuned!

P.S. The title refers to countless games of peek-a-boo with Ben. Gets him everytime!

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Random discoveries

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:35:26 -0400

You know, clearing out closets and such can actually be quite an adventure. I mean, consider all the COOL stuff I came across in my current bout of massive spring cleaning ....

Styrofoam platter, anyone? I only have 200, but I think I could spare one just for you.

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Yes, I have a sewing machine. Are you really surprised?

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It's an aBUNdance of BUBBLE wrap!!! (I didn't even take a picture of the stockpile of cardboard boxes I have stored up. I'm your one-stop shop for all your moving needs.)

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Two air mattresses. Count them. TWO. (It's totally necessary, man.)

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And my favorite thing to come across randomly ...

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And now to report on my progress. With great anticipation, I declare, "ALMOST DONE!!" I'm still waiting on one last piece of furniture to be delivered, which will house all of the jewelry that is currently strewn across the floor along one wall in my bedroom. And then I have several trips to the storage room, the trash room and Goodwill to get rid of the random piles of CRAP that occupy every open space. Then. With a sigh of relief. I will be DONE.

One last picture for tonight that says it all:

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All that stands between me and pure bliss ... is a pile of junk.

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Lookin' goooood

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:28:15 -0400

I spent most of today -- and well into the night --- working on stuff in my apartment. It's still an overwhelming MESS. But thanks to the generosity of the Kozel's (and Chris lending his brute strength and time!), I now have a new entertainment center. Yippee!

The progress continues:

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Making progress

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:15:49 -0400

Still picking through my living room, moving stuff around and clearing out some old stuff in the process. I know this will be very satisfying in the end, and I'll have A LOT less stuff in here -- whether it ends up in the trash, donated to Goodwill, or stashed in my downstairs storage locker. But for the time being, this is exhausting. It's like spring cleaning on steroids. Oy.

Believe it or not, this is progress:

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WARNING: Disaster Zone!

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:15:04 -0400

I bought a dining table and chairs last week. And I decided to rearrange some furniture in my living room to make it all fit a little better. But ... once I started moving things around ... I dunno ... I'm not in the right mood to do this tonight. Not feeling inspired.

So I'm taking a break and will work on it more tomorrow or Saturday. In the meantime, this is my living room:

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Nice, eh?

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Chicago!

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:57:37 -0400

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In Chicago for a couple days for business. The event, the people, the food ... everything has been great! I'm spending one more lazy night here and then will fly back to DC late tomorrow morning. I hadn't gotten my hands on a Chicago-style deep dish pizza yet, so for dinner tonight, I had one delivered from the award-winning Giordano's. Yummmm ...

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Oh, yeah ... running another 5K tomorrow

nobody@vox.com(Erin) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:36:15 -0400

I haven't been blogging as frequently over the past several weeks. Shame on me. Have been a tad busier than usual lately. Did get some really big news. :) (Which most of you already know about.) I won't go into all of it -- Robert was kind enough to blog about it a few days ago -- but I will say, I was FLOORED and very honored.

In other news, I'm running another 5K tomorrow morning. (Yay!) This is a "Run for the Rain Forest." Will keep you posted on how I do ...

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