Chatbug Karen

I am so excited! In a few weeks, I will be attending The Women of Faith Conference. I just found out that my favorite comedian, Chonda Pierce will be there! She cracks me up! Her faith exudes from her body as she tells of everyday stuff that women go through but puts her take on it. Then she puts it into her act. I am always rolling when I listen to her.

When Stacy was involved in modeling, she had professional shots taken because she needed the best quality photos to show an advertising agency what she was capable of looking like in different lighting, poses and colors of clothing. Headshots are so important for a person who wants to get started in the modeling or acting business. Not just any photographer can take a good headshot. With that in mind, if you are considering any type of acting or modeling, get the best photographer to take your headshots. These pictures are what you are going to use to promote yourself. Experts at headshots know what the agencies are looking for. Headshot Studio has photographed major stars and are hoping to launch the careers of Hollywood’s next biggest stars.

So, if you are wanting to break into a new career or need a headshot for the job you hold now. Let the professionals at Head Shots get a great shot.

Marcus is running a 101 post series on 101 steps to better blogging. I am following each step and let me tell you, it is so easy. Thank you Marcus! I have noted my stats and I am excited to watch them improve as I follow along with each step. The first thing I did was put popuri on my blog so I can check my stats. Check it out and join us!

Stacy, Greg and Tina, I cannot stress enough the need for you to follow Marcus’s steps. Start with step one and follow along! Write a post about his project and leave the post link to it in a comment on his blog. He will add you to the names of the bloggers following along.

I was thinking about a service industry that is badly needed. I wish there was a company that was set up to help people who have a hard time hearing. It is amazing how the correct phone can make a world of difference to someone who has trouble hearing over the phone. My mother in-law has started using her speaker phone because she cannot hear through the hand piece of her phone.

The Phone Resource is known for their Avaya business phone and now I can happily announce that they have phones and accessories to help meet the needs of the hearing impaired. The Phone Resource is an online provider of conference telephones, assisted hearing telephones, and special needs telephone devices. Woo hoo! I can’t wait to get this news out to my mother in-law!

I ran across an interesting post on Melody’s blog The voice in My Head. She talks about how men think it is flattering to women when they honk at us or hollar greeting to us. She tells of how, in reality, it embarrasses most of us. Check out her post and see if you agree.

I feel so bad because my son tagged me and I can’t find where he told me. I need him to email me and tag me again.

Rebecca tagged me and I think this is going to be fun and easy.

The answers have to be in one word.

1. Where is your cell phone? table

2. Relationship? nice

3. Your hair? messy

4. Work? ugh

5. Your sister? friend

6. Your favorite thing? sleep

7. Your dream last night? water

8. Your favorite drink? rootbeer

9. Your dream car? Crossfire

10. The room you’re in? family

11. Your shoes? on

12. Your fears? blind

13. What do you want to be in 10 years? retired

14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? Lynn

15. What are you not good at? tasks

16. Muffin? good

17. One of your wish list items? time

18. Where you grew up? country

19. Last thing you did? laundry

20. What are you wearing? crops

21. What aren’t you wearing? necklace

22. Your pet? dog

23. Your computer? smoking

24. Your life? busy

25. Your mood? calm

26. Missing? kids

27. What are you thinking about right now? bed

28. Your car? nice

29. Your kitchen? clean

30. Your summer? hot

31. Your favorite color? sage

32. Last time you laughed? today

33. Last time you cried? mad

34. School? nope

35. Love? life

Ok, now I tag hmmm I can’t think. Someone let me know if you’d like to be tagged! My brain is too foggy to think.

When it comes to thinking up gifts for men, I have a difficult time. That’s when I was glad to find Gourmetgiftbaskets.com. They have a grilling, barbecue and rib basket that I know my husband would like. It includes a roasted garlic peanut sauce and ginger finishing sauce that are sure to make any meal a delicious one.

Wouldn’t it be fun to have a sporting get together and bring out a beer gift basket to celebrate the start of a new season? The Around the World Beer Bucket comes in a larger galvanized steel bucket capable of holding twelve beers on ice. It is a fun way to try different beers because it contains beer from around the world. It also includes a range of carefully selected award-winning gourmet snack foods that are the perfect complement for fine beer. All the details have been thought of! You can sit back and enjoy the beer and conversation.

My kids and their friends would love the Microbrew Beer Bucket Gift Basket. It includes their favorite snack: beef jerky! This isn’t just any beef jerky though. This amazing beef jerky is slow marinated, dry aged, and uses only natural preservatives to create a flavor that words cannot describe. Oh my gosh! My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Gourmetgiftbaskets.com accepts credit cards on their secure site. Get over there and have fun picking out your basket! Hey! It can be a gift for yourself!

More and more people are getting cancer. I don’t know why this is happening. The studies show that we should all eat more fiber. It has been shown to cut the risk of getting cancer in half. Isn’t that worth making sure you eat enough fiber?

I just wish it were that easy. More of my friends are getting cancer and their prognosis is not good. I don’t know why so many people are touched by cancer. It used to be that if you detected things early things looked good. I hope that is the way it goes most of the time.

Greg will be moving into his new apartment and needs furniture. I’ve already told him that he can take some of our home furniture. The big overstuffed chair will be his! Now if we can find some lamps and end tables he should have what he needs. He is going to take his bed from his room. We think that the apartment complex supplies the grad students with a kitchen table and chairs. Some things we will find out when we get there. He used most of his graduation gift money to buy small appliances for the kitchen. He is into a red theme. He has a red slow cooker and coffee pot. His stoneware is a very pretty reddish black. I’m excited for him!

The days are being counted down as Greg is preparing to leave college. He has been at Butler for four years now and has made so many friends with students and faculty. It will be hard for him to say good bye. Many of the kids that he graduated with are leaving and going on to jobs or graduate school. No matter how happy they are to be going on to more things to be accomplished, it is always hard to leave the setting to which you have grown accustomed. Change is hard.