This is the perfect summer no hassle hors’ devours.
Raspberry Chipotle Cream Cheese Dip
* One block of cream cheese
* Pour Raspberry Chipotle BBQ and Finishing Sauce over cream cheese
* Serve with crackers
We saw this woman at the zoo yesterday.
She has piercings up the back of her calves. She has laced her piercings in order to look like stockings!
So far this is the oddest thing I’ve seen on my trip and I just went to San Francisco. Salt Lake City beat San Francisco as far as oddities. Go figure.
Reunited with my kids, check that out over at So Sioux Me: Reunited.
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 Obama. She’s pretty much who I wanted to be when I grew up. She also wrote an article about girls and bras that I hope to link to on Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me when it comes out. She was very warm and I enjoyed her company.
These are executives from Essence, Redbook and Bravo (with our own Lisa from BlogHer - who I L-O-V-E). And yes I did run up to the front with my card and thrust it in the Redbook Editor-in-Cheif’s hand and yes I did stop her in the hall and say, Look I’d just love to have face time with you and then proceed to tell her all about my Empowering Girls writing!
And this is Ellen Gerstein, who writes Confessions of an It Girl and is also a real live book publisher who sat right next to me in the first Speakers Training. I H-E-A-R-T Ellen. She came to my panel - she has a daughter - and I went to hers and it was amazing and wonderful.
Tags: BlogHer08, ellen gerstein, Huffington-Post, mona gable, tracee sioux
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, really well.
Audience member: My husband is judging her clothing choices. I think that she’s a little girl, and I think little girls get to wear shorts. I don’t think little girls should be wearing a habit in the summer time when she’s hot. He has this way of messaging to her that that’s not okay, and I am very defensive of her right to be a little girl, and I don’t want her to be ashamed. “You’re a little girl, and you get to just be a little girl.” My husband and I go round and round about that.
Tracee: I have that same issue with my husband. We’ve been to therapy about some girl issues. We have to realize that their job is to protect little girls, but we as mothers sort of have to teach them … There’s this idea in society that if a girl covers up, nothing bad will happen to her, and that’s just plain fiction. Husbands want to do something, fathers want to do something, and we have to teach them. I don’t want her to wear the midriff not because I’m afraid of sexual predators but because I’m afraid you will judge me as a mother.
Truly, I had the best time. It was so encouraging to see how many women are thinking about the complex world our daughters live in and how best to approach the building/moulding of their selves.
Tags: BlogHer08, body impolitic, kimchi mamas, mocha mama, silenti, traceesiouxBecause 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.
Copyright Law a work is considered copyrighted and protecgted by the law as soon as it is created. Labeling is great, but whether you label it or not, it is copyrighted.
Fair use has to do with commentating and criticism and there have been cases in the news AP case and Harry Potter case. You can see both sides of it but there are 4 factors that the court looks at - what are the factors?
* Nature of the Work
* Amount taken
* Purpose of the Work
* Effect on the Market - really huge. effect on competition. Original creators right can be stiffled by someone else using pieces of their work in a non-fair mannor.
Creative commons - started the org. nonprofit, objective really allow for online digital remixing and creativity to occur even though we live with this weird copyright system. A way for online digital creative commons liscense - some rights reserved license - hand out - restricting access but always getting attribution. Urge everyone to look into that.
Respecting trademarks, likelyhood of confusion,not using it exactly but if it’s in your same market and it could confuse consumers that is a problem.
Liabilities. Starting or in business, comes with responsiblities and costs - not a single answer. What are the tax implications? Selecting management structure going to be like, what your assets are - just for yourself. What can you do from a financial standpoint and personal liabiliy. Limits your personal liabilty from the assets of the company - house and car protected from a claim from a preditor - corporate veil respected and running it as a company.
Terms of use: appropriate rights and taking care of liability.
Allocate risk in agreements everyone shoudl know they can negotiate an agreement. Read it understand it and ask question if you dont understand it and negotiate it. Not boilerplate the way it is.
Collaberative blogs, Silicone Valley Moms blog - not thinking through all issues- coblogging agreement.
Kelly Philips Erb - TaxGirl.com, b5media channel editor
4 times the length of the bible - the tax code.
Income is like everything you get, (even stuff to review) - unless it’s excluded.
1099s - paid you more than $600. If company doesn’t give 1099 you don’t have to report income - NOT TRUE.
IRS is prety smart - claiming large deductions for your work in blogging
Keep track yourself, report all income - worldwide taxation.
Includes services and products - very aggresive review on product reviews - if it’s disposable it’s not income for me. If I eat them it’s not income.
Like to see matching up - reporting deduction and income.
Ordinary and Necessary
Don’t be afraid to claim a duduction.
If you were not blogging yuou would not be at BlogHer - ergo BlogHer deductible.
Business Cards - that’s a deduction, except for your blog.
Laptop just for me and my work - deduction.
Expenses can be prorated amount of time for use on the blogg
Home office key is that it has to be soley where you work. Section is fine, dedicated works space. Caviate city occupancy tax - chome office deductions will expose you to business occupancy tax for the city. Tax your home office.
Have your income offset by your deductions - not uncommon to have a loss - if I lost $1,000 you can carry it forward for the next year. Do you have a business or a hobby? do you have a motivation to make money? Just for fun not marketing or treating it like a business.
Scan reciepts save it in shoeboxes - know your good with. Don’t buy the software if you’re eally going to shove the reciepts in shoeboxes.
Giveaways - a wash.
If you can physically control something the IRS cares.
Sabrina Parsons, CEO Palo Alto Software - We exist to help people succeed in business. Tools content and advice.
HOW DO I MAKE MONEY? How to I make my blog a money generating activity.
You should be putting a SALARY in the books as a loss. Biggest mistakes poeple make is not paying themselves a salary. Don’t actually have to pay myself $15,000 but put it in the books. Once you start making money you can take that money out of the next year . Figure out some price for the things you do.
Biggest thing you have to do is look at what you’re doing as a BUSINESS. No reason you should be working for free. Take it seriously. Make it your business and once you do that figure out your business goal and figure out what it’s going to take.
1st step to pricing your services.
Connection with freelance writing and consulting services. Seeing you as a person or expert. See what your competitors are doing. Just ask and they’ll tell you and there are salary websites. Salary calculators online.
Freelance websites where people are posting. Type in freelance writer in Google and trying to be a journalist and product reviews. There’s going to be people who want to have your attention. Maybe you’re charging them a commission.
Break it down: I want to make $10,000 then what’s my quarterly goal $3,300.
Become the spammer - contact the companies business development person and then say who you are and what they want. Go out and contact them - be in control of what you want - pick out the top 10 websites and present them with a package. they are soliciting it. Go out and soliciting it. Here’s who I am, this is how many page views I get, here’s my demographics. Use google analytics, you can do all kinds of things to prove what it’s worth.
My stuff is worth what I say it’s worth! Give it a shot - I’ll give it 8 weeks, to be in a relationship. We both bring something to the table. show them how they will be better off. Taking a few risks, maybe some free stuff to prove themselves. Make sure you set it up if you give it for free, you don’t have to give it for free forever.
Tags: blog fabulous, blogher, BlogHer08, kelly philips erb, so sioux me, tax girl, tracee sioux
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 as BlogHer is providing, or not freaking out if children show up when the sitter cancels. Just ask Lesbian Dad.
I HATE my . . .
Did you hear the echo of women everywhere responding with the speed of light?
Fat legs, flabby stomach, beaky nose, round eyes, thin lips, bulgy cheeks, flat breasts and on and on.
Last night I was indulging in trashy television, which I allow myself to do when my daughter isn’t home to witness it. I flipped to Dr. 90210, the reality show on E where plastic surgery patients explain what they hate about themselves and how they intend to fix it through plastic surgery.
What’s interesting to me is that most of these women are perfectly fine. There is nothing grotesque or ugly about their noses or their breasts, but they simply can not feel good about themselves until they fix their perceived flaw.
Sometimes there are really valid reasons for them to seek the surgery. Such as the 20-something girl who courageously opted to have a double mastectomy (removal of all breast tissue). She had it when she was only 18-years-old because her mother, grandmother, aunts and even some male relatives had died from breast cancer. For her, it was the only way she could look at her life and see a future that didn’t include a battle with breast cancer. Tragically, her surgeon botched the job and she was attempting another surgery to correct the fact that he stitched her two breasts together and made them two different sizes.
Diametrically opposed was Tabitha Stevens, former porn-star, who is a self-proclaimed addict to plastic surgery. You know when you touch-up some paint in a room and all the sudden you notice that really, the whole room needs painting because fixing the flaw had the effect of drawing out other flaws? Obviously, she’s an extreme case where she has had virtually every part of her body restructured and her issues are way deeper than cosmetic.
I am not opposed to women seeking surgery if that’s what they want. It’s risky though, the surgeon on last night’s Dr. 90210 said half (50%) of his surgeries are fixing the mistakes made by other surgeons. That’s an alarming statistic. Has anyone seen Meg Ryan with her new lips? This is a woman whose career is built on her cute little pixie face and her darling girl-next-door smile and she got her lips done to look sultry (at least that’s what appears to be her intent). It is not a good thing. I can’t look at her without thinking, You should demand a refund! Not that her previously pretty lips would be restored with a refund.
My real concern is the collective low self-esteem women are suffering from. Standing in front of the mirror and picking apart every perceived flaw has leaked into the collective conscience of our entire gender. It’s even leaking onto men and boys. The other day I heard a teenage boy say he had gone to the doctor for his check-up and they had congratulated him on gaining 10 pounds, as if that were a good thing, he said. The basic understanding for kids today is that it’s not a good thing to gain 10 pounds, even if they are growing in height. This kid will surely gain 50 more pounds before he completes adolescence and it really should be a good thing.
My concern with plastic surgery is that once you get it - what if you’re still stuck with your low self-esteem? I have one friend who got a boob job and she doesn’t regret it. It’s a nice job and it makes her feel good to have great boobs. Yet years afterward she still felt unattractive, though she’s stunningly beautiful and fit.
I don’t believe this is the fault of men. I believe the responsibility for women’s low self-worth rests solely with women. I’ve talked to men and really they just like breasts – big or small, whatever. They don’t even really care if they are lopsided. In my experience men, in general, are open to women looking different or carrying extra weight. They don’t really give our bodies the critical examination we do. They don’t expect us to be perfect and I don’t think they understand our need to be perfect. Think back on your experiences with significant others who have seen you naked – you may have felt fat or ugly, but it wasn’t because he said you were. (And if he did, then you should find a more accepting significant other.) It’s likely that he tried to make sure you knew that he thought you were hot.
Think back to the last time you were with a group of women. Or pay attention the next time you hang out with chicks. It’s just a massive complaint-fest. Do you have the friend who works out religiously and still won’t be seen in a swim suit because her body isn’t perfect? Do you have the friend who hates her curly hair or straight hair? Do you have the friend who can’t stand her thighs? Do you have the friend who constantly complains about her nose?
Of course you do. We all have those friends or those family members. And we look at their perceived flaw and think, really there’s nothing particularly wrong with your nose. They are looking at you and your perceived flaw in the same light.
I think the constant complaining is the source, or at least a major source, of our collective low self-esteem. When I am in a room full of women I listen to all the complaining and it tends to get more and more extreme – like a one-up-man-ship of who has the biggest flaw.
Oh you think you’re breasts are bad, mine have to be rolled into the bra after breastfeeding four kids!
At least you can fit into a size 6; I’m having trouble squeezing into the extra, extra large girdle!
There is no way I am wearing a swimsuit, I want to save everyone the embarrassment of having to look away!
It’s unhealthy! It’s funny, but I think the cost of saying bad things about your self is feelingbad about yourself. Who has time for that?
I truly believe we can change our collective low self-esteem by not indulging in self-criticism to get laughs. This really came home for me when my five-year-old daughter, Ainsley, started calling her perfectly-normal thighs fat. I realized when I started trying to lose weight after baby #2 and getting dangerously close to the dreaded 200 lbs mark that I had let my mouth run wild with self-loathing. I didn’t really feel all that terrible about my body until I started yammering on about how much pure fat I was losing by going to the gym. The more laughs I got from my hilarious descriptions about losing an inch of fat from my neck the more extreme my self-criticism became.
Obviously my incentive to stop this behavior was the fact that it was leaking into my daughter’s own body image. But, I think the same principle applies to our collective self-loathing.
I made a rule in our house that we don’t criticize our bodies. If we say something unkind about ourselves we have to write something good about ourselves and put it in a little box. It really wasn’t that difficult to stop the habit. I started trying to say something nice about myself, even where other women can hear me, where I run the risk of appearing stuck-up or conceited. The actual feelings about my self are becoming more positive as a result.
When another woman makes a self-loathing comment about herself I either simply don’t respond or I’ll say something like, I don’t have time to hate myself these days. It puts them off guard, but it stops the I’m uglier than you are war.
I’ll go first and say some nice things about myself.
I’m down to a size 12, and I don’t mean an Old Navy stretch 12, hurray for me! I’m feeling so curvy and voluptuous and healthy!
My hair transformed from straight to curly after my pregnancies. Hey, I spent the entire ‘80s trying to perm my hair to look just like this!
See how that’s different than what I would’ve said before:
I’m still a freaking huge size 12!
No one told me that my hair was going to get so freaking kinky and frizzy after I had kids.
Over the next month make an effort to try to change what you say about your body and I guarantee you will feel a lot better about it. I mean, really there are very few unfortunate people who are actually ugly and chances are you’re not one of them. If enough of us change the way we feel about ourselves it will inevitably leak into our collective conciousness.
Tags: BlogFabulous, Body Image, Dr.-90210, meg-ryan, self-esteem, self-image, self-loathing, tabitha-stevens, tracee sioux
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. . .so maybe I stand a chance.
We went to the Exploratorium and I was challenged to drink out of a toilet drinking fountain. This is me pretending to do it. It would have been no problem except for the floaties. I just couldn’t do floaties.
Thanks to That Girl for guest posting on Blog Fabulous today. That Girl lives in Louisiana and mothers two sons and a husband. She writes Hey You! Remember Me? where she takes us down memory lane with recollections about teenage life in the ’90s. Read her latest post Wannabe. I would post her beautiful photo, but she’s incognito due to the drug use and teen sex that comes up in bloggy memoir.
A couple of years ago my husband and I went through a pretty rocky spell. By rocky, I mean that I was constantly hurt and wondering “Who is this man?”… “How can he act like such a jerk while claiming his undying love for me?” As I drove home from running an errand one night, I heard Bill and Pam Farrel, relationship experts, discussing their waffles and spaghetti theory on the car radio. It was a revelation for me and there’s no doubt in my mind that God intended for me to hear it. In their book, Men Are Like Waffles–Women Are Like Spaghetti: Understanding and Delighting in Your Differences
“A man is like a waffle (each element of his life is in a separate box), why a woman is like spaghetti (everything in her life touches everything else), and what these differences mean. Then they show readers how to achieve more satisfying relationships.”
I haven’t read the book, but just hearing their radio interview opened my eyes to our communication flaws. According to the Farrels, men compartmentalize everything while we see everything as never ending series of related events. Just like a bowl of spaghetti, our experiences and emotions are all intertwined. Ladies, this completely explained these kinds of fights:
Me: How many times are you going to go to bed early and leave me w/ the housework and putting the kids to bed?! (@#$^#%@!)
Him: What’s your problem, I’m tired tonight!
Me: Me too! You ALWAYS do this!
Him: No, I don’t! Get off my back – I’m tired and I’m going to bed.
Me: It’s not just tonight! It’s every night!
Him: Quit over-reacting! Dang! Quit being a @%^#*! Just because I’m tired and want to go to bed!
See, from his “waffles” standpoint, we were arguing over his actions on just that one night. (Which, granted wouldn’t have been so horrible if it had been placed in its own little compartment out of context) But the way I saw it over in spaghetti-ville, we were arguing over a pattern…something repeated… something that had been building…something linked to related events from the past.
Later that night, I discussed this waffles and spaghetti theory with my husband and it has really helped our levels of communication and understanding. I told my husband that for women, there are no isolated events within a relationship. Each builds on the last to create the big picture. He takes stock of our relationship on more of a day-to-day basis, whereas I gather my conclusions from the complete experience.
The Ferrals also discussed the beauty of how these differences might complement one another within a marriage if we can learn to respect and appreciate them. For instance, men are better at focusing on one task at a time while we excel at multi-tasking. Also, those compartments become very handy when a man needs to tuck his fear into a nice little compartment to, say, rescue his family from a dangerous situation. And since we are so good at seeing the whole picture, we are the natural nurturers and caretakers. Of course, I’m not saying that women are incapable of rescuing their families, nor am I saying that men are incapable of nurturing. I’m saying that if you don’t want to keep on having the same fights over and over, it helps to understand and appreciate your partner’s natural inclinations and emotional tendencies.
Does this theory ring true for anyone else? Do you notice your husband easily isolating his emotions into separate compartments? Does he ever have a problem seeing how events are related to one another when it’s such an obvious connection to you?
I want to say a big THANK YOU to Bill and Pam Farrel for flipping a major switch in my own marriage.
For more information about the Waffle/Spagetti theory visit MasterfulLiving.com
Tags: bill and pam farrel, blog fabulous, empowering women, hey you remember me?, marriage advice, relationship advice, so sioux me, That Girl, tracee sioux, waffles and spagettiThanks to Mary Emma Allen for guest posting on Blog Fabulous. Mary Emma Allen writes four blogs for b5media: Alzheimer’s Notes Quilting and Patchwork, Home Biz Notes , and One Book Two Book.
“Setting my kids up for Alzheimer’s! No way! I’m a good mom,” you exclaim. “All the kids play soccer and football and sports like that.”
When I saw my granddaughter and her teammates stopping soccer balls with their heads and taking whomping hits, I cringed. That’s not how we played soccer in my day. (Yes, I did step into a depression on the soccer field and broke my leg during PE class. But not my head.)
Then there’s all that head contact when the kids play football at school and on community teams from a young age through high school. I’d wondered what damage results.
We generally wouldn’t let our kids beat their heads against a wall, no matter that we often hear that old adage about stone walls. So why in sports?
Is long term damage incurred in young minds and brains with head banging and concussions? Studies have come out that apparently connect football players’ brain injuries with memory loss and possible Alzheimer’s in older age.
The NFL, Concussions and Alzheimer’s disease
Ex-NFL players suffering from Alzheimer’s qualify for assistance.
Is this information something for parents to consider when they encourage their youngsters to participate in these sports, especially when there is so much pressure for winning teams, personal recognition and college scholarships?
What are your thoughts? If your youngsters play football or soccer or other head contact sports, does this concern you?
(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen
Tags: alsheimer's disease, alzheimer's notes, home biz notes, kids and sports, Mary Emma Allen, one book two book, quilting and patchworkd, sports and concussions, youth athletics
Please welcome my guest blogger Jeanne from Jeanne’s Endo Blog. Jeanne is a women’s health advocate, having suffered from endometriosis since she was 13 years old. She has led an endometriosis support group for 7 years. Visit Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me today to find out how Jeanne feels about media influences on her 7 year old daughter’s body image.
Hi everyone! I am honored to be guest blogging on Tracee’s blog. I’m a loyal follower of her blogs and I’m happy to be able to guest blog for her during her exciting trip to the BlogHer conference in San Francisco . I have chosen from Tracee’s suggested topics and I easily arrived at this one: “Self or Body Image Issues”.
From the age of thirteen, I have had symptoms of an illness called endometriosis. (I’m 39 years old now). While I was not properly diagnosed until I was 23 years old, I had symptoms that began when I was still a girl.
I won’t drone on about what all the symptoms of endometriosis are, how it is diagnosed, etc. Those of you who are interested in learning more about endometriosis and the many co-existing illnesses that can occur alongside endometriosis in the same patient can check out my new blog Jeanne’s Endo Blog.
However, I am NOT here to just plug my blog!! I am writing because my illnesses (starting with endometriosis) have affected me in many ways… including self or body image issues. I love Tracee’s writings/blogs to empower women and girls!
Having a chronic illness hit you at 13 years old has quite an impact. The teen years are enough of a roller-coaster ride without having an illness that affects what you can do (simple daily activities for healthy people posed a challenge for me as early as my teen years). Chronic illness is very common in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Taking just endometriosis as an example, there are an estimated 5.5 million women and girls in North America with endometriosis and approximately 89+ million worldwide. That’s a lot of women and girls!
Anyway, having endometriosis affected my self image because I began to view myself more and more as a “sick person” and I began to identify less and less with the relatively carefree child I was prior to age 13.
Years after my symptoms began, my psychotherapist and I were talking and she commented on how difficult it must have been to have my entry into womanhood/adulthood marred by this devastating illness. I had never really stopped to analyze it quite that much but she was absolutely correct! My self image was truly damaged by the illness (endometriosis) setting in at age 13.
In my 30s, I started really grappling with this issue. (I have been in regular therapy for almost 8 years now for various reasons). In that time I have learned a great deal through therapy! Self reflection is really important and helpful. Looking back (without dwelling on the negative!) is important. I began to really process all that happened to me with the endometriosis and with other chronic illnesses that have popped up since then.
I try very hard not to view myself as a “sick person”. This is tricky since being an endometriosis patient has become a part of my identity… whether I like it or not. Chronic illnesses can really take their toll on a person!
So rather than running, hiding, and burying my head in the sand… I have read, researched, networked with fellow patients, facilitated an endometriosis support group for almost 7 years now, and on June 1ST (2008) I began an endometriosis blog. These are ways I help myself and improve my self/body image. Writing is cathartic for me. If I can help others at the same time… all the better!
I’ll be the first to acknowledge that my self image isn’t as great as it could be. However, through psychotherapy and the support of loved ones/friends… I believe my self image has improved overall. I have learned the crucial importance of self-care! I used to push, push, and push to get things done. I used to force things. Sometimes I still do. I do TRY, however, to relax and let things fall into place more often than I used to. Therapy has helped me in numerous ways!
As far as body image, I have some room for improvement in this department but I’m basically at peace (for the most part) with my body image. Would I mind losing a few pounds? No. Will I obsess or deprive myself of food to lose weight OR to fit into an outfit OR to fit someone’s idea of attaining perfection??
HECK, NO!!
Image Source: Jeanne’s Endo Blog
Tags: blog fabulous, blog fabulous guest blogger, empowering women, empowering-girls, endo, endometreosis, jeanne's endo blog, so sioux me, tracee sioux
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!
Tags: blog fabulous, BlogHer08, chevy tahoe hybrid, roadtrip, so sioux me, tracee sioux
I think a mini-van boasts more actual space than an SUV.
An SUV sure takes up more room on planet earth, but there is somehow a lot fewer compartments, less luggage area and less leg room for passengers.
* Unplug everything so don’t use (pay for) vampire energy - check.
* Shave husband bald - check. (He won’t let me post photos!)
* Turn off air conditioner - check.
* Run dishwasher - check.
* Take out garbage - check.
* Empty fridge of left over food- check.
* Pick up clutter so clen house is waiting - check.
* Ask neighbors to call the cops if anyone lurks - check.
Road TRIP!
Tags: BlogHer08, chevy tahoe hybrid utah or bustShut UP!
That’s what I said when I saw this ‘08 Tahoe Hybrid and all it’s fancy shmancy features.
I said it when I saw the reverse camera and the XM touch screen radio and the GPS and the tire pressure monitor.
Well, read BlogHer or Bust! to find out just how opulent and extravagant a $52,780 car can be.
Image Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me
Tags: blog fabulous, BlogHer08, chevy tahoe hybrid, empowering families, empowering women, road trip, so sioux me, so sioux me family vacation, tracee sioux
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