Last July when I went to San Francisco for Blogher’08 I stopped in a tourist shop and picked up some San Francisco Sour Dough Starter. I gave my mother a package and another to a friend.

I kept a package for myself and began following directions. It said to put the starter in a warm dark place for several hours. So, I figured the oven would be great.

My husband preheated the oven for some wings. Plastic bowl melted all in my Sour Dough Starter and my foray into fancy breadmaking was foiled.

Now, it’s probably not that complicated for Marye Audet who …read more

So, Chevy allowed my family to drive a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid across the country, from Dallas to Salt Lake City, on our way to BlogHer08. You can’t imagine my gratitude (My 1995 van broke down right before we left and we just found out it will cost $900 to fix the air conditioner.)
I was very interested in the hybrid function of this shiny status symbol SUV. Would this type of car save us money in gas?
The answer is not really. It’s an SUV that gets regular milage. Which, is an improvement only in terms of SUV gas milage. …read more

Today is the last day of my family vacation. My brother, who I only see once a year, left this morning. My other brother, who I only see once a year, left last night.

Bitter. Sweet.

Sweet cause I did get to see them and we’ve had a great time with virtually no drama – but bitter because I have to leave them and won’t see them for a year. SAD.

But really, really bitter because I have to DRIVE home. UGH!!!

I do. not. want. to. drive. home.

Even in a black shiny Chevy Tahoe Hybrid with XM radio and a DVD player and …read more

When I met Sarah from Findable Blogs sitting next to me in a SEO training I said a silent prayer “Thank you God for Girl Geeks.” She showed me some really cool html code and taught me what a meta tag is and helped me find it. She also went with me to Google.com and now I know for sure, It’s NOT me screwing up my Adsense account – it’s YOU Google.

See the 3rd person from the right? That’s Mona Gable. She’s a political writer and she writes for The Huffington Post. This election she’s covered Edwards, Hillary and …read more

This is MY view from the panel. I don’t know if there is a picture of me on the panel.

So I had my big BlogHer08 speaking panel, Mirrors: Ours, The Media’s, Our Cultures’ and Our Kids’ speaking panel yesterday and it was a rush.

The panelists were Laurie Toby Edison of Body Impolitic, Tracee Sioux of Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me, Kelly Wickham of Mocha Momma, and Glennia Campbell of The Silent I (also Mom-o-crats and Kimchi Mamas).

Laurie Toby published the transcript on her blog and I’d love if you would hop over and read it. I think it went really, …read more

Because I love all my readers who ARE bloggers (and the ones who aren’t but might be interested) I’m posting my notes from the Taking Care of Business seminar at BlogHer08 unedited (because I don’t really have time to perfect it.)

Defamation – reasonable listener – something wrong with my meal and manageer was extremely rude and gave examples that it’s false – truth is an absolute defense against defamation – doing it with malace and to harm reputation. If your just saying but this is just my opinion that’s not enough continually show that it’s jut your experience and oponion. …read more

Best night ever.

So tired.

Anonymity gone.

Meet wondrous interesting souls. Women. Talk interesting. Fabulous.

Some people know me. Know who I am. Read me. Feels good.

Tomorrow 2:30 is big day.

Met panelists and BlogHers that I love to read.

Foot in mouth?

I hope not.

Caught smoking?

Only when I drink. I quit.

Note to BlogHer – PRINT A BROCHURE!!! Feeling lost or scribbling my own agenda on scrap paper may be more “green” but it kinda pisses me off that I’m mostly feeling lost about where to go next.

Note to most other professional conferences: there IS a way where you can acknowledge children exist – free childcare …read more

Aren’t his mirrored sun glasses great? I’ve been striking a pose in them all week. Little kissy face, little dramatic tossing the scarf around my neck, little boogie dance, little check out my cleavage in this top, don’t you wish I had 5 more?

We’ll tourist some more until this afternoon, when I get to go to the speakers training for BlogHer08!

They’re going to teach me proper etiquette when sitting on a panel of four with audience participation.

They’re also having a boxing competition on the Wii at the Speakers Reception. Winner takes Wii home. I’ve been taking that kickboxing class. …read more

Finally made it. 30 Hours in the car. 3+ tanks of gas.
Exhausted.
We stopped at Hole N’ The Rock, Utah where a couple literally build a cave home with 14 rooms. They chiseled the roof, floor and ceilings and it was amazingly functional and still in tact and decorated from the 1970s. Talk about working for your shelter. Check out the website at holentherock.com.
Image Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

I drove all night. Breakfast at McDonalds. Hopefully playground will buy us some quiet peace while I sleep through the next leg of the trip. I drove all night so hopefully Hubby will take care of Zack’s poopy diaper.

Yes, he did shave his head. Says he has two weeks vacation to grow it out if he doesn’t like it. I knew he could pull it off!