Posted in Slices of (my) life on November 24, 2007| 2 Comments »
I was shopping for something I really needed when I saw them.
Fresh clean white gym socks.
I have gym socks. Plenty of gym socks. Of course, they’re kinda old and snaggly and grey. And a couple pair have been mine since before I moved to this state. Ten years ago. But I don’t really need gym socks.
But then I thought: I’m worth it. So I bought those new gym socks. Cute little white ones with pink embroidery. Three pair.
Then the next day I bought
Posted in Slices of (my) life on November 18, 2007| 3 Comments »
I know that it is hard to believe that I do anything besides working on my two web sites, Too Good to be Threw and How to Consign.com but here’s actual proof that I do get away from the computer sometimes.
That’s me as Lizzie Webb Guptill on the porch of the 1901 Guptill House at Historic Spanish Point, a 30-acre museum on Little Sarasota Bay, in Osprey FL. Heritage Holidays showcases natural and historic holiday decor and living history portrayals and this year, I do a monologue as a harried housewife in 1907 who has (more…)
Posted in Slices of (my) life on October 4, 2007|
I’ve never been a fan of television, but it does pass the time when you’re on the
torture machine treadmill at the gym. What struck me this morning, though, as I sweated through my daily 34 (well, almost-daily) minutes of heart-enhancing exercise, was how %^&# TOXIC most television is.
Does it really enhance my life, my well-being, and my health to know, thanks to Late Breaking News for Those in the Know, that a 13-year-old beat his brother to death, with accompanying visuals of a soul-leaching public housing building? Or that some “star” has done something I’d ground my 11-year-old for (if I had an 11-year-old), and gotten rewarded with freaking HEADlines for? Do I gain a thing by watching two actors effuse over a kitchen appliance that does nothing a spoon couldn’t do (except of course, make the manufacturer rich and clutter the world’s kitchen cabinets)?
We won’t even discuss the talk shows (although I admit, I do tend to get sucked into Oprah if that’s when I’m at the gym 😉 ).
What’s wrong with a nice Animal Planet show. Hissing cockroaches at least are interesting. Discovery Channel may be talking about medieval sewage systems, but they’re not suggesting it’s normal human behavior to go swimming in it.
They don’t let me have the remote at the gym. You’d think, with what I’m paying to put myself through sheer torture life-enhancing exercise, they’d at least let me watch what I want.
Of course that’s not me in the picture above. If it were, I’d be lying on my couch eating bon-bons and reading. There’s nothing good on TV.
Posted in Slices of (my) life, tagged resale shopkeeping on September 20, 2007|
I’m looking forward to devoting a little more time to my hobby, which is writing my historic novel. (The Picker Who Perished, a TGtbT Consignment Shop Mystery, has readers hollering for more…or mercy…at least they’re all shouting…)
And the absolute BEST reference material for my planned novel set 125 years ago? Personal reminiscences. Also known as journals, diaries, and autobiographies. Nothing beats a great recollection for the flavor and details of everyday life. What people wore, ate, thought, loved, hated; where and how they lived; why they married, babied, died is best told as it happens.
I was reminded of this when I ran across this article. Take a look. Perhaps you will be inspired.
I hope so. In the year 2132, your journal could tell a tale as remote, quaint, and eye-opening as the accounts I am now reading about the Florida frontier.
Interested? Inspiration: Artist journals are fun… even if you don’t consider yourself an “artist.” Some journaling is about the inner life (here’s some topics to get you writing) and other journals are slice-of-life oriented like this one on the daily life of a California farm family. More tips at the site where this photo is from.
Whichever way you choose to write your journal, know that somewhere in the future, people will find SUVs, Pizza Hut, Tai Chi classes, and (dare we imagine it?) resale shopkeeping absolutely fascinating.
Gee, think I’ll go write now.
Posted in Slices of (my) life on September 9, 2007| 2 Comments »
A lot of resale shopkeepers 
want to give their clientele something to remember the shop by, but don’t want to spend a lot. Others despair of knowing what to say in e-newsletters (see my recommendation for a service for emails at the bottom of my home page at TGtbT: if you click there and after their free trial, sign up, they’ll give you, and me, $30 credit) or simply, how to make their shop a household word.
It is so easy, it’s fun…and tasty. Everyone, especially (more…)
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