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First practice down, many more to go…

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 28, 2012 in Nonprofits, Team in Training, Uncategorized | 4 comments

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well, I survived my first ever spinning practice this past Saturday morning, and I did, in fact, get my butt kicked, but not in the way I thought. Let’s just say that I learned very quickly that I needed to invest in padded shorts! (TMI, perhaps.) I almost forgot about the endorphin high that exercise gives a person. Afterwards I was in a great mood, and while driving home I heard on WYCD that they were...

Thanks to you, I hit the ground running (even though I’m biking), but I got a long way to go!!

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 24, 2012 in Nonprofits, Team in Training, Uncategorized | 0 comments

Wow, talk about a great start!! To say that I am both overwhelmed and yet grateful at the response I’ve had since announcing this endeavor would be an understatement. In twenty-four hours, my fundraising total is now up to $770!! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! It’s times like this where I am reminded that one should never underestimate the power of their network. I think we all take that for granted sometimes. I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I decided to do this,...

I just made a pretty big commitment, and I need your help.

Posted by that damn redhead on Feb 23, 2012 in Featured, Nonprofits, Team in Training | 7 comments

Let me just get this out of the way right now, because we’re not fooling anybody here — I’m afraid of commitment. There. I said it. I have a hard time committing to anything. AN-EE-THING. I changed majors in college a dozen times (and still regret not sticking with my first choice — veterinary medicine). In relationships, it’s not the guy, I’m always the one afraid to commit (the term “settle” is not in my vocabulary). Hell, I’ve had a heck...

Revisiting my 2011 tech predictions — FREE fake Jamaican accent included, mon!

Posted by that damn redhead on Jan 1, 2012 in Case Studies, Tech, Uncategorized | 2 comments

One thing that annoys the heck out of me about the end of every year is that starting in December, the entire blogosphere becomes Miss Cleo and obnoxiously tries to predict what will happen in the next year in social media/tech trends, fake Jamaican accent and all. (OK, maybe I just read them in a fake Jamaican accent to make them more entertaining and bearable. Try it–you’ll see.) Yet, seldom do most of those fake-Jamaican-accented, blogging tech prophets actually compare how well...

Thank you, Amazon, for remembering the Hello Kitty-loving grown men in our lives.

Posted by that damn redhead on Dec 19, 2011 in Funny, Uncategorized | 0 comments

I absolutely LOVE it when Amazon gives strange pairing suggestions. Like, “People who bought that folk music CD also bought this toaster!” Some of them I’ve seen are really funny, but I haven’t gotten any good ones lately. However, almost exactly a year ago today, I was Christmas shopping for my dad on Amazon and needed ideas. So I looked in their gift ideas guide under both “Dad” and “Boyfriend/Husband.” The latter category had a...