Jenny On the Spot: Caffeinated mom, lover of dancing, glitter and glitter.

I just want to thank you…

A couple of weeks ago I submitted my application in a dream that I might land a gig with Verity Credit Union as their Verity Mom. This gig offers legit pay, a few perks (a laptop, a Flip, and a reason to live) and a tremendous opportunity for my personal professional growth.

I know. I wrote “professional”. Yes, we are all laughing. Jenny + “professional” = Whut the whut?

Continue reading ‘Dear Friends, Thank You!!!’

“Jenny??? Jenny On The Spot? What are you talking about?”… your query falls on understanding ears. I will tell you.

A local credit union) was on a quest to find a mommy blogger… a spokesmom, if you will — a V???? Mom! They want to find a woman who will listen (I have ears!)… a woman who will help Verity Credit Union learn from and understand moms better (I am a mom!)… they want this woman to connect people (I am a HUGE fan of people!), and in their Facebook ad, they… they… well, look:

V?????… you had me at “wildly creative”. I mean, have you seen my Swine Flu Mask video? Not only do I share my creative potential, but I also contribute to global wellness as well as global fashion.

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But first, a video:

Crazy, ehh?

This is a different world for us. For our children. How do we navigate this new social world?

I recently went on a bit of a social media fast. I am still processing what changed for me. Some quick thoughts:

• I feel like I lost ground… in the social media world. I lost some of my grip on the fast moving train, but I don’t feel like I fell off. I am still not back to Twitter like I had been. That could simply be due to the fact that life demands things of me where I simply cannot tend to that area of my interest… of my life.
• I feel like I gained ground. But not much. The laundry was never completely done, the kitchen was never completely cleaned, the kids were never completely satisfied.
• It was not a complete fast. I still had paid gigs to tend to and I simply could not abandon email. Not that I NEED email, but my circle of contacts and friends have come to expect email is as reliable as a phone message. I cannot ignore email.
• I found I missed Facebook. “No kidding” was your first thought, right? I find I missed it for a reason I didn’t expect. I felt left out. Like the kid who was grounded. I felt like I missed out on news and happenings… good news, sad news, writing birthday wishes on walls, jokes, banter… I learned Facebook has become a tool I really rely on to feel connected. That seems obvious, but  this “fast” showed me the extent it has affected my feeling of connectedness.
• Email is still my nemesis.
• It is hard to read all the blogs I desire to read. During this time my passion to try to keep up on other blogs was realized. Now the struggle is finding a system.

But what got me thinking about writing this was a post at Mashable, Facebook Quitters: Find Out When Someone De-Friends You.
Continue reading ‘Personal Thoughts on Using Facebook & Twitter’

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Why don’t we put great big “air quotes” around that “online break” part. I think “Chris Farley” demonstrates it best:

Aren’t you curious what I did with all my extra time? Well, I spent a lot of time on my pot business. I still didn’t get email squared away. You may have noticed new posts here, but those were scheduled… I got a lot of laundry done last Monday. Monday only. I made banana snickerdoodles and the ice cream part of ice cream smores.
Continue reading ‘What I Did on My Online Break’

Oh dear. This is a long one…. Practically a thesis. Maybe I should change the title to BlogHer 09 Thesis and Whatnot of all Silliness and Ramblings of Great Proportion. Or not.

I was gonna do a “BlogHer – The Friday” post. Meh. Who wants a day-by-day run down? I just want to show you how fabulous life becomes when online babes friends get to meet each other IRL (in. real. life.) At BlogHer, not only did I get to meet people I have grown to admire, adore and, yes… even LOVE. I also MET people at BlogHer who I now admire, adore, and even… LOVE.

I fell fast and hard for some of these people…

In no order of importance, but probably in order of how this pics loaded from my iPhone into iPhoto, or however they landed on my desktop as I stalked the BlogHer pics on the Flickr…

Chris, Kim (3 Giraffes) and Sizzle Says… gettin’ texty with it whilst we wait for our ride to the Sheraton in Downtown Chicago.

Continue reading ‘I Went to BlogHer and… Shazam! I Luvz Me My Onlinez Peeps!’

Post #1 of who knows how many.

I have put this off for a week. Not because I haven’t wanted to do my own recap, but simply because — where to begin?

Should I go chronological? Do I just post pics? Do I post just my own or stalk Flickr? Should I make a little iMovie of pics… other people’s pics I found on FLickr cuz allz I had werz my iPhone cuz I lost the battery charger for my good camera and the entire camera of my other camera. I also lost my cute white skirt. If my brain was not attached at the stem of my neck…

Back to my BlogHer09 Recap Post Dilemma…Should I post the video of me singing “Ice Ice Baby” at the BlogHer Cocktail party Friday night? Should I make it public? How about the video of  Brandy of askpatty.com and I being lead back-up dancers for SecondHandKarl. I was so brave. Then.

Also, why did I wear white pants?

*photo credit – jack’sdad – on Flickr*

OK, so that wasn’t so bad, butt…

Oh dear…
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…ucuz I’m classy like that.

Before I expound on my my wordage skillzesses… perhaps I will start from the beginning. OR… as a word creator such as my self might say… the beginnitives.

*dramatic pause*

My friend Carrie of the highly acclaimed Stop Screaming I’m Driving! put a little call-out on her Facebook for FB addicted moms, or whathaveyou. I was all, “I’m not addicted. I want to teach the world how I am not addicted, but rather an efficient and frequent user of social media!” And whatnot.

*dramatic pause*

Carrie had the privilege of, of… experiencing her first-time radioness (I am on a flippin’ new word roll!!!). The podcast of her smooth talkin’ can be found here. And as a result of her gig, she was asked by the producers if she knew anyone who’d be willing to make themselves vunerable.

Enter Jennyonthespot… a.k.a. “will do anything to get more people to hear her… giving no thought to reputation or consequence” or WDATGMPTHH…GNTTROC,  for short.

Prior to my interview on the the local station KUOW 94.9 FM…

…I had to give my kids the “what for”. Basically, if you interrupt my one shot at infamy, I will lose it… dear offspring. You owe me this, you OWE me!!!

*pops chill pill*

I took all three of my lovelies and told them,
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I had intended to post about all the hilarity of my children’s hand-made Mother’s Day gifts… until I heard about the dream my sister-in-law had about me. 

You want to know what she dreamed? Here, I’ll give you a list to choose from:

1. I made it to Broadway, landing the lead in Wicked.
2. I beat Elle McPherson in a modeling contest. 
3. I won a hot dog eating contest. 
4. I won a row of cake eating contest.
5. My family had to have an intervention to re-socialize me because I was spending too much time online.

If you picked #4, you very well could have been right. But you’re not. It was #5. 

*blinking*

Oh dear. It would appear it appears to my family I Have been chatting online with hot babes all day. Every day. Lucky. Me. SRSLY. I don’t see it. Really. No. Really.

The dream… Continue reading ‘Make Me Laugh Monday – She Had a Dream’

 It’s Make Me Laugh Monday. Anything funny out there? If you have something funny to share, please do! Just leave your name and URL to your specific funny post in the Mr. Linky at the bottom of this post. In your post, feel free to use the MMLM image you see here. Please link back to this post so we can keep the linky love alive and keep the circle of laughter rollin’! If you have a video or audio clip that is more for the grown-up folk, please give a courteous “heads-up” for those who might need to plug small ears…

Twitter, anyone? No? well, how about Flutter??? Could be the next big “thing” in social media. Ya think?

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I mentioned yesterday that I am not a huge fan of Valentine’s Day. I don’t even know if “Valentine’s” should have an apostrophe. Sheesh. If it wasn’t for the glitter I think I’d shoot Cupid with his/her (yeah, another reason I don’t “get” it) own arrow. But I am actually trying to spread some love in this post, and am failing miserably. It must be the blackness of my anti-Valentine heart oozing through the tips of my fingers. 

See. Can’t stop. I need to regroup. While I do, here is a love song for all my bloggy, twittery Valentines out there *swoon*

But I am not done with my gift to you, my bloggy pals! Have ya’ll heard of “linky love”. I know you have. Not only do bloggers do it for the comments, we also do it for the links/trackbacks, yes? C’mon… let’s be honest here. Well, I found a FUN site yesterday that will let me put some effort into my love for you. If you will leave a comment (yes a bit self-serving, but it really is the most efficient) with your twitter id and/or your link… I will send some linky love courtesy of http://linklove.hubspot.com. If you do not have a twitter id – no problem! Just make sure your link is included, and I will make it so. It is my Valentine gift to you. MWAH!!! MWAH!!! MWAH!!!

Continue reading ‘Happy Valentine’s Day. Really.’