Links I Love: April 20
Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/iPad and enjoy :) CAREER Hated the Wolf of Wall Street, really liked this article: Why The Wolf of Wall Street's Sleazy Sales Pitch is Frickin’ Awesome and You Can Learn from It. (A Sales Guy) Also on the schmoozing front, though not at all sleazy: 8 Great Icebreakers for Your Next Networking Event. (Levo League) This is wonderful, and so worth a watch: Applicants for the World's Toughest Job Were In for Quite a Surprise. (Adweek) Sticking women with the office housework. (Washington Post) 10 Ways My Social Media Job Isn't A Joke. (XO Jane) Do Women Undermine Themselves With Punctuation??!!!!:) (Levo League) PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 10 Tasks You Should Never Put on the Back Burner. (Time Management Ninja) An App For Your Bucket List, Not Your To-Dos. So perfect for goal setting! (Fast Company) Real Talk: Do you want to be happy or do you want to be right? Because you can't always be both. Oh, how I need to read this at least once a week! (Yes and Yes) The Way to Find Real Happiness. (Daily … [Continue reading]
Easter Eve Cinnamon Coffee
I'm having a rather lazy Saturday morning, sitting around catching up on some reading and emails while sipping coffee. I ordered a new set of coffee mugs online that came yesterday, and I am in love with their bright, fun Easter egg-y colors. To further add to the laziness, this will be the shortest post ever. I just wanted to share a little tip I learned from my friend Kelli last weekend in Florida: when you brew your coffee, add a sprinkle of cinnamon to the grounds. It adds a great flavor to the coffee, and I find that when I do that, I don't need to add any sugar. Just a splash of milk and I'm good to go! Happy Saturday and almost happy Easter, y'all :) … [Continue reading]
Earning my bRUNch: it’s time to start running in Colorado!
Been a bit of a crazy week, work-wise, since we are approaching the end of our fiscal year. This year's performance review season is making me second guess so many things, and I've been a bit of a stress ball as a result. But on the plus side, I am flying home today, for the first time in two weeks! And, the even more exciting thing is, it actually does feel like flying "home." Hooray for settling in Colorado! Tonight, I'm headed to a Rockies/Phillies game at Coors Field (though sorry, I am not enough of a Denverite to actually drink Coors) with my friend Kelly, which should be a ton of fun. Then afterward, we're going to hit the bars in LoDo and check out the scene there. Craft brews galore, I can't wait :) As for the rest of the weekend, my plans are pretty up in the air. Sunday is Easter, so I do know that I plan to both go to church and resume eating ALLTHECHEESE that I gave up for Lent. In the morning, though, I'm thinking about making my entree into the Denver running scene by checking out the Westminster Half Marathon. It' s a trail run, but supposedly "flat and fast" and an "EASY course for beginning trail runners." Hi, beginner right here! I've done a few trails, and even … [Continue reading]
Sunny Surprise in Florida
Although my job sometimes has its challenges (see: only sleeping in my own bed two nights a week), there are some definite perks as well. One of my favorite is our "in lieu of travel" policy. Basically, since my company expects to fly me from home to Dallas every week anyway, I am allowed to fly somewhere else instead for the weekend, as long as the price of the flight is the same or cheaper. (The only catch is that the price of the flight is then treated as taxable income, so I pay about $100 out of pocket when I use this privilege.) Still, $100 is a small price to pay for getting to travel! I can be pretty frugal about some things, but I value travel very highly and that's what I spend most of my discretionary income on. This weekend, I needed to be in Dallas on Saturday afternoon. However, I didn't have any plans after 4pm Saturday, and since I'm trying to spend as many weekends as possible in Denver so that I can really settle into my new home, I decided to combine two away-from-home things into one weekend - and I hopped on a 5:30pm flight to Florida. Specifically, to Palm Beach, where one of my best friends from college lives. I hadn't seen Kelli since we met up in … [Continue reading]
