Ahem, I now put two espresso shots in my coffee. Read Yesteryear. Couldn't put it down. The idea of being "a good Christian wife" terrifies me. Jeep Gladiator didn't pass inspection. Need new tires. Do you know that new tires cost $1,000??? Bench Warrant out for my arrest. Almost. Apparently you need to put "RENEW CAR REGISTRATION" in big, fat letters on your calendar. I'm such a hardened criminal! I didn't have a car for twenty years while I lived abroad. Can you tell? Trying out ElevenLabs....
2 days ago â˘Â 2 min read
Finally got a webcam that doesn't make me look like I'm starring on a sitcom from 1982. (Though I literally have crimped hair right now, so maybe I AM starring on a sitcom from 1982???????) Shot on this camera, mid-lesson in Claude for Business Owners. Unedited. The camera is 4K cool kid cool and makes you seem like you allllllmost have a DSLR set up even though you definitely don't because that requires all sorts of things like "capture cards," "continuous power supplies," and "HDMIs that...
16 days ago â˘Â 4 min read
Fun new announcement! đŁ No, I'm not switching to T-Mobile. (Though, I do have their wifi, and it is better than cheese.) Rather [she says while pulling a handkerchief out of her blouse] I've just added some exciting new must-have lessons inside of Claude for Business Ownersâwhich starts this Monday, cowkids! đâbased on the intake forms of students who have already joined. [Thank you to you!] We are going to have so much fun upskilling the hell out of ourselves. I think you're going to love...
25 days ago â˘Â 5 min read
Every time I stare at the screen like a dummy (like I am right now), I have to remember: IT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT. That's always the reason. Zero creativity? Zero original thoughts? Zero ability to, like, get things done? I have to remember it's because I was up since 2am thinking about Discourse. Yes, the forum app. (What do you think about in the middle of the night, lol???) And also the wallpaper I bought for the guest cottage. There are VERY LARGE CRANES. Will the cranes be...
26 days ago â˘Â 2 min read
You know what's weird? The only things I Google anymore are the hours for restaurants and, like, antique shops. (Okay, fine: and probably wine shops.) Like yesterday. In the Catskills. This ******* place didn't open until noon. (And then I was so disappointed, because it was less antiques and more "here are some vinyl records that will make you look very, very Brooklyn cool.") (I mean, I want to look very, very Brooklyn cool, too, but I ALSO want a vintage oak apothecary cabinet that smells...
27 days ago â˘Â 4 min read
Photoshoots are SO MUCH FUN. đ¸ That said, they are also one of those things you put off like you put off writing your will: not that you don't need one, but you're always waiting for some imaginary far-off time in the future when you have the gumption, the time, the headspace. Ha. And yet! Amateur headshots are still one of the #1 things that absolutely murder conversions on small business websites. They totally drag the whole thing down to the pits of hell and wreck all your hopes and...
about 1 month ago â˘Â 3 min read
It's SO embarrassing when someone stops by and you've got 4 different paint colors slobbered all over the wall, a stack of boxes piling up in the corner, dishes in the sink, and a half-eaten box of chicken nuggets sitting on the counter. (No one was supposed to see you eat those.) My mother would have never been caught dead in in that situation, loafing around the house in sweats with a greasy, day-old ponytail. She was the kind of woman that kept a loaf of Italian bread in the freezer at all...
about 1 month ago â˘Â 2 min read
Okay, so you know the email sitting in your inbox that you JUST HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO REPLY TO YET (cue groan) because it's suuuuper long and suuuper thoughtful, so then you feel obligated to send a suuuper long and suuuper thoughtful response in reply, which basically means you will set it aside for the next six-hundred weeks "until you have more time" while mentally torturing yourself every time you log in and see it sitting there, like a bomb??? Why do we terrorize ourselves like this? LOL....
about 1 month ago â˘Â 2 min read
I hate that I have to say this, but I have to say it. Gurggley gurggley, gurggley, gurggleeeee. (That's me clearing my throat. I think.) First, background! I bought an old colonial farmhouse from 1872 in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania and am currently renovating the damn thing, AKA making it look worse, probably. You should see how many gallons of paint I currently have sitting in the downstairs hallway. Walking around them is an art form. I am pretty sure that if I don't start using some...
about 1 month ago â˘Â 3 min read
SAVING FOR TAXES, UGHHHHHHHHHHHHLYYYYYY. Let me just put that in big ol' caps up there, because we all know that saving for taxes when you work for yourself is right up there on the task list with "drinking slimy brown mildew sludge straight from a dish drying rack that hasn't been cleaned in 3 months." (You know that 𤎠film I'm talking about? If you don't empty that thing out constantly and clean it? NOTHING makes me want to vom more. Which is why Clorox is now my BFF. Sorry, vinegar...
about 1 month ago â˘Â 3 min read
