Biggest lesson of 2009

Honesty is always better.

You can avoid all sorts of unnecessary drama and heartache with a tiny little dose!

Clearly, this is not something I realized during 2009, but rather a few hours ago. I don’t think the full truth will ever become public, but that’s okay. I know. And it’s okay.

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Twenty Ten

Well, it’s 2010. A new decade, a new month, a new year… a time where we all try to break the habit of saying ‘two thousand…BLAH’

Yeah, everyone’s been over this already. Which is probably why I’m writing 11 days into the new year/decade/month trying vainly to avoid rehashing topics that have already been beaten to death. There’s quite a lot of other stuff to say, some things that I swore I’d never mention on this site, but besides my Twitter that updates quicker than I know what to do with (even though all that updating comes from me), this is the only other record I have of anything happening in my life.

I’ll start with a picture, so at least we can look at something pretty before all this rambling I know I’m going to be doing.

HS Friends on NYE 2010

HS Friends on NYE 2010

And from left to right: Michelle (TasteAsYouGo.com), myself, Anya (FromRussiaWithFood.com), John, and Jason. First NYE I’ve ever spent not with family.

This was probably the most fun I’ve had all year, so far. This year starts as tumultuous and confusing as 2009, except I’m already single, I didn’t need to break anyone else’s heart (mine’s a different story), and I had a job.

I’m still hoping I’ll get to realize my dream of being a social media marketer… paid, of course :) or get back to working at a PR agency. I’ll keep applying, seems to be a fair bit more openings around now than there were a few months ago.

I’m more optimistic about finding employment again than I am at finding unexpected awesome new friend.Someone once told me that when it happens, you don’t question it, just roll with it, and let it happen. I really wish we did that.

I had so much bigger plans for this post than I did. But there are things to be done tomorrow. So I’ll be off to that. I guess I really just wanted to post that picture?

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I saw Avatar

In IMAX 3D, no less.

The best part was anything involving the visuals of Pandora and the Na’vi (or the Omoticaya — spell check please?). But that was about it. Nothing else really moved or excited me.

Well, besides recognizing actors. Like the guy who played Norm Spellman — it was that intern guy on Bones! I squeed a little bit.

Other than that… I think I’m justified in not really having any desire to watch it again. It was meh.

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It’s confirmed: RIP Brittany Murphy

NY Daily News

Brittany Murphy, actress. dead at 32 from full cardiac arrest. Was it drugs? Was it an eating disorder? No details yet. But TMZ confirmed it not too long ago — and the news is ALL OVER twitter (no surprise there).

I loved her in Sin City. And, not gonna lie, am a huge fan of her dance single ‘Faster Kill Pussycat’.

RIP Brittany

TMZ

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Blizzard of the year?

Yeah, I believe it.

Now that my fingers have sufficiently thawed out enough to type — though I can’t say the same for the rest of my body… I have to say I’m actually impressed with the weather people for once. There have been way too many times to count that they hype up a HUGE STORM… and after all is said and done — this HUGE STORM only delivered a few inches of snow.

BLIZZARD OF DECEMBER 2009! (Or, as the Twitterverse puts it — SNOMG or snowpocalyse) The snow is still falling, the wind is still gusting, and at its lowest non-plowed/shoveled point seems to be approximately 7-8 inches.

Also, as soon as I got off my bus and managed to cross the street, I fell into a snow drift that was at least 3-4 inches above my knees. Which was more than likely the reason I fell into it. It wasn’t like I had anywhere else to walk. Through and into and push forth were my only options. A stroll that normally takes me less than 7-8 minute became nearly half an hour, possibly more, due to the less than desirable weather conditions.

I didn’t have much of an issue with the snow. I spent most of my college years in upstate New York, so I have experience trudging through plenty of snow drifts in freezing temperatures. The wind on the other hand… Snow by itself is pretty. And soft. And generally nonthreatening. Throw snow into hefty wind gusts? (20-35 mph, I think… too lazy to check weather.com right now) It becomes a weapon. A natural weapon of crippling devastation. The thing it was attacking? My face. Which at the time of this writing, still has not thawed out yet. My nose and ears still don’t have much sensation to them, neither do my cheeks/lips. My eyes were spared due to glasses. So I walked backwards.

I still think I did good on the layers though. A nice thick pair of socks (which was probably the only single layer thing I wore today), and my trusty 11 yr old Dr Martens, which have seen me through many a New England and upstate/central New York (that’s by the Finger Lakes, Westchester people…) winter storm. Legwarmers, flannel pajama pants, and jeans. Two tank tops, a long sleeved tee, a short sleeved tee, a hoodie. A hat and 3/4 length down coat. And fingerless gloves to my elbow with hands stuffed into deep fleece lined pockets. And a scarf. Considering that it’s just my face that still prickles from a thin sheet of ice (I didn’t really believe it myself until I looked in the lobby mirror), I think I did pretty well.

And if it’s still snowy/windy/stormy out tomorrow, I think I’ll do it all over again. Why? December 2009 - NYC Hot Chocolate Crawl. Nothing beats the frozen chill of an awesome blizzard like a good steaming mug of quality hot chocolate. I’ll definitely be blogging about that tomorrow (after my fingers thaw out, of course)!

EDIT: 12/20 234p - I didn’t get to go :( Too wiped from last night’s foray. Need to finish Christmas shopping though.

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SEO in 2010

This morning, albeit it groggily, I checked my Twitter (yep, I’m totally that sort of nerd). Sure enough, there was a Scoble tweet (first user I followed, also the first one I complained about tweeting too much… HA.):

Scobleizer: Blog: 2010: the year SEO isn’t important anymore? http://scobleizer.com/2009/12/16/2010-the-year-seo-isnt-important-anymore/

I didn’t realize I’d been waiting for a moment like this for a while. Granted, I started in this new fangled interactive industry when it was admittedly in toddler-hood (and started dabbling in social media and social networking and the like back in its infancy (I have a proven online presence since early 2000 — as I seem to keep mentioning))…

I am honestly amazed at how quickly this industry has grown and evolved, when it feels like others take ages to grow. This one, MY industry evolves on practically a daily basis. I’ve never seen something become obsolete in less than a year (and sometimes even quicker than that). In 2006, I wrote a step by step guide for SEO and SEM (Google, Yahoo, MSN). One person. One person who just learned it. Within a year, that guide was obsolete and way too simple to what it had become. In 2007, I came up with the idea to include social media marketing into the fold for my next employer. I felt that the business was becoming too one dimensional, and our views needed to be expanded. I got the response that ‘we don’t see any profit coming from this’. Um. Yeah. It’s now one of the pillars of their online marketing offerings. I see social media marketing/strategy positions being posted for minimum wage or less. And this is about 2 years when it started being the new big thing. It’s not so big anymore.

It’s bigger to be able to find the next new big thing. But in a world of information at your fingertips, at your phone’s beck and call (I DID check Twitter from my phone this morning, while still in bed), where things evolve on a grand scale practically weekly — how can you be the first person to discover it? And how long will it last?

Maybe I need a career change. :/

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I am obsessed with my hair

And I don’t even have that much of it! (anymore…)

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I tend to twitpic a lot. And the two things I twitpic the most are food (whatever I happen to be eating and need to share the joy of my food with the world) and my bedhead. It’s not even to take a GOOD picture of myself — just my previously epic bedhead. Unfortunately, my hair seems to have grown JUST enough to not defy gravity quite so much anymore. I figured I’d condense all pictures into one post, just because it amuses me. And let’s see how many OMGI’mnotawakeyet faces I can make in one post.

Sometime in Nov

Sometime in Nov

NOT bedhead, but I love this wig so frickin much. This was me getting ready for Dir en Grey concert (went with Anya of From Russia with Food and her bf). It didn’t make it all the way through the concert. Headbanging is not wig friendly at all, unless you plan on supergluing it to your scalp — which i DO NOT RECOMMEND!

And for anyone curious, the lipcolor is Retrofuturist from Lime Crime Makeup (a post on that later) (probably later today).

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One little comment

Nothing like a comment from someone who actually follows your blog (Hi Kelly!) on a post for the first time in more than 2 months to make you feel good about finally posting (fluff) again.

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The difference

between blog posts and tweets is that you don’t need a title for your tweets. You just go, and there it is.

But, at least you have the license to ramble as long as you please in a post, and tweets limit you to 140 characters at a time. Blogging takes too much thought… but right now, I’m just trying to get the drive back.

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Overwhelmed with a whole lot of nothing

Glaringly obvious that I haven’t posted in more than 2 months.

Why is a very good question… it’s not like I haven’t been doing anything. I’ve gone out, seen shows, visited friends, seen movies, ate my way around NYC, tweeted and foursquared my way around the area, dabbled in talent management and background/extra work and modeling, street team marketing, invented recipes, celebrated birthdays (not my own), enjoyed the freedom of having my own place, …etc…

It’s not like I don’t have the site open on one of my various tabs  everyday (nerdily, I actually DO do this).

I’m not sure where my inspiration to write went? I attempted NaNoWriMo yet again this year, but came way under my usual 3k word wall. Is Twitter taking up all my time? Am I just so overwhelmed with everything and nothing that my desire to blog has just been snuffed out?

Oh, and another thing… I see on the news that okay, yeah November had the lowest record number of jobs lost in the last two years — but what does that do to the 15.4million (and growing) unemployed? Just makes them even more despondent that there aren’t any jobs to be had. Way to go mass news media. Why don’t you just up the number of depressed (and situationally depressed) people just in time for the holidays?

Maybe the key is to keep my posts short, like my tweets. I may be able to squeeze out daily (ok, I won’t put myself up to that standard… yet…) biweekly posts yet, by the end of this year.

And don’t even get me started on the love life. Blech.

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