Friday Rambles – Aug 27

Wow, where did August go? Next week is September and Fall is starting! The weather here has finally cooled off so we can start enjoying the outside again. Yay!

It seems like there has been a lot to catch you up on as the last few days/weeks have been busy. Actually life has gotten too busy that I have decided that I needed to cut back in some areas. The first step I did was decided I needed a break from school, as I was getting overwhelmed with the classes, the homework with my  job and then all the traveling I was doing. So I’m not taking a class this mini-mester. I’ll start back up at the beginning of October. This has given me a little more time to focus on my blog (hopefully you have noticed my posting has increased a little!) It’s also given me some time to try to make some more contacts for the non-profit that I wanted to start. No, I haven’t given up that dream! More on that later. I’ll try to be somewhat organized in my post today. (Haha!)

Blogging

I am trying to get back into the habit of blogging at least three times a week. I read a blog recently where she was honest with her readers on her struggles with Chronic Fatigue and how it affected her blogging. It really struck me and hit home. It was just really honest and raw. While, I don’t suffer with Chronic Fatigue, I do deal with chronic migraines. They affect my life and blogging but I do my best with what I have. I don’t want to dwell on that. I am really trying to find better ways to incorporate technology and design into my blog. So I am doing more research in that area and would like to have at least a weekly post that is more technology focused. We’ll see how that goes! I am excited about the possibility but nervous about finding things!

Non-Profit

Since it has been awhile and I have some new readers, I’ll do a quick recap of the non-profit that I want to start here in Atlanta. I want to create a “design firm” that creates designs for children who are ill, have diseases, etc where they cannot leave their room much. These designs would redecorate the children’s’ rooms and create a happier and more peaceful environment. So that was my grand idea. After I had found a few people to talk to in current non-profits, they suggested not to jump in and start a non-profit first. But to rather try to find other current non-profits and see if I can offer my assistance to a project or a need. I think I found a place that might need me at first and I contacted them yesterday but I got an Out of Office. So I probably won’t hear from them until next week. I will keep you posted on how things progress! Again, I feel like I’m repeating myself but I am excited about this but also nervous!!

New Writing Opportunity

Well if you follow my Twitter, you’ll see that I got excited earlier today and posted that I will now be doing a weekly post over at Today’s Mama in their Local Perspective Section (for Atlanta)!! I filled out all my paperwork today, so I don’t know when I’ll officially have my first “post” but I will definitely let you all know so you can go look at it. It’ll still be style related for the most part. And no, I’m not a Mama but I have perspective!

Pinterest

I was over at Spring Inspiration today reading about Pinterest because I have always heard good things about it but didn’t really know what it was about. And as I found out, Carolyn is obsessed with it! I went to sign up but found out that I  had to be put on the Waiting List! So in my comment on Spring, I mentioned it and how much I hate waiting. Ben, one of the co-founders of Pinterest, read Carolyn’s post and saw my comment and told me to email him and he’d try to hook me up with an early invite! Seriously? How cool is that!?!? So of course, I emailed him right away, and he was so nice and gave me a super secret invite but guess what – he also said he would be able to hook up some of my READERS! So my dear readers – if you want to join Pinterest too and don’t want to wait in the super long line, let me know. Isn’t Ben the best? If you have no idea, what I’m talking about when I say Pinterest, go read Carolyn’s post at Spring as it’s awesome. I’ve just started playing with it and so far I really like it.

Giveaways!

Lastly, as part of our BlogHer experience, we met a LOT of vendors. But it was all good and a lot of fun. It was also good for you all! Because a lot of the vendors wanted us to review products and then pass on products to our readers! So I have already contacted (and been contacted) by several vendors and have some giveaways in the works. There will be one starting on Monday that will be giving away two great bags of Eucerin products! So there will be two winners for that one! Twice the fun! I will always post the disclaimer on the giveaway that the products were given to me for free to review and also given to me for free to give away. I am not being paid in any other way for my opinion.

I hope you all have a great weekend! I wish I had one day to sleep in. Oh well!

Night my ChicGeeks!

Images: 1. KindOverMatter originally uploaded by ingrid0411 2. My image and cannot be reused without my permission. 3. KindOverMatter originally uploaded by Rebecca Tabor Armstrong 4. KindOverMatter originally uploaded by So Wrong It’s Sara.