Do you remember that friend you had in college? The one whose birthday was right around exams? And everybody really wanted to celebrate his birthday but was just too slammed to do it right, and you guys did something a few weeks later, when things had calmed down a bit? Wasn’t that nice?

Do you think we can do that with Jesus?

I mean, I want to celebrate The Birth Of Our Lord and all, but I’ll tell ya, it’s pretty inconvenient timing if you ask me. I mean, my mother-in-law’s birthday is the 19th, my brother is the 21st, my brother-in-law is the 26th, not to mention before-Christmas shopping, after-Christmas shopping, Santa visits, and passing Michael around from relative to relative like a tray of cakes. There’s just no time! Read More

Mom, Dad, and son, approximately five years old, are having a cozy evening shopping in Walmart, four days before Christmas. Son is quiet, well-behaved, and co-operative.

Mom: Oh, honey, those are the ones on rollback!
Dad: [silence]
Mom: Ooh, come look.
Dad: [silence]
Mom: They’re on rollback, honey!
Dad: [silence]
Mom: Come on, let’s go look. I’ll be quick, I promise.
Dad: I’m not getting in that line to buy a fucking bath mat.
Son: Yeah, Mummy. He’s not getting in that line to buy a fucking bath mat.

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One day, I will have my shit together. Today is not that day.

I got an email last night from a potential client. In their email, they asked for the phone number for my home business. It was 3 in the morning. I was in a bad mood. I also might have thought I was emailing someone I know far better than this lovely person who might have paid for my children’s orthodontia. My husband, say. My response?

“It’s on the website.”

That’s it. That’s what I said. That was the full body of my email.

Moral of the Story?

Never listen to anything I say ever again.

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Please read this one, guys. It’s important.

It would appear that people think I’m funny. Well, strangers think I’m funny. My family thinks I’m a pain in the ass. Maybe it’s like that for Seinfeld, too. I like to think so.

Anyway, the last few days have been exciting ones in IttyVille. Nataly from Work It, Mom! did an interview with me, and subsequently posted about me, and a bunch of other amazing women entrepreneurs and bloggers, on her own blog and on Huffington Post. Lylah did a post about me on her blog, as did Deb, and people are nominating me for Funniest Blog in the Performancing blog awards. Traffic’s up a smidgen. (That’s sarcasm, by the way. Thank God I paid my hosting this month.)

This is exciting stuff, and the pressure to perform is intense. Is this what men feel like? If so, on behalf of womankind, I apologize. Read More

The nice people over at Performancing have announced their call for nominations for the 2007 Blog Awards. Thank you to the ass-kicking people who have nominated IttyBiz so far. If you’d like to nominate – it doesn’t look like there’s voting, just nominating – click here to head on over and leave a comment. You have to log in to comment but if you’re into blogging, you should probably be a member there anyway.

Here are my nominations. There are 27 categories, but these are the only ones I feel I can speak with any level of intelligence on.

The Best Overall Blog – Zen Habits
The Most Influential Blogger – Seth’s Blog
The Best New Blog – IttyBiz
The Best Blog Community – Amalah
The Best Blogs You’ve Never Heard Of – Remarkable Communication and Shane And Peter
The Best Writing/Blogging Blog – Skelliewag
The Best Business/Money Blogs – The Simple Dollar
The Best Family and Parenting Blog – Amalah
The Funniest Blog – Dooce Read More