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Catching Up With A Friend The Old Fashioned Way

November 22, 2011 By
Verizon Moms

Technology has made us hyper-connected at every moment in the day. We’re emailing, posting, tweeting, liking, poking, polling, hearting, reviewing, sharing, vlogging, commenting, voting, texting, pinning, messaging, checking-in and checking-out …phew. When do we have time to every truly connect and catch up with anyone any more? This month, as part of the #MidwestMoms program, @VerizonWireless challenged me to do something I hadn't done in way too long - actually call a friend and have a conversation the old fashioned way. I knew exactly who I wanted to call - my friend Lisa of My Thoughts, Ideas and Ramblings.  Lisa and I "met" online, and although we've been to conferences together and I've spent weekends at her house outside of Chicago, we mainly connect online through Gmail chat.  It had been a long time since we had spoken, so I called her using my Droid Bionic, which runs on the 4G LTE Network. I called her one morning after I knew her kids were off to school and … [Read more...]

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Friendly Friday 11-18-11

November 18, 2011 By

Welcome to Friendly Friday! Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there. To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect - this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! NOTE: My Google Friend Connect badge is in the sidebar, and I will follow back! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted. When people comment on your blog and let you know … [Read more...]

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Table for Five circa September 2005 – Where it all began

November 14, 2011 By

Blogging - I've been doing it wrong. I didn't make a big announcement or anything - which is unusual for me, I know - but I've stopped writing product reviews and hosting giveaways here,  and it wasn't even a big deal, I just...stopped.  I wanted Table for Five to go back to what it was when it started, a personal blog. There's just been one problem. I forgot HOW to write a personal blog. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. Personal blogging  in my mind became this HUGE thing, like if I didn't have profound things to say, there was no point in writing at all. I had built it up in my head that every post had to be a long discourse on deep subjects. And then this morning, while Kaitlyn was getting ready for school, it hit me.  I was remembering this blog the way it was in 2005 when it started, but was I remembering it correctly?  After the bus came, I opened up my dashboard to All Posts and filtered it to September 2005, and opened up Notepad.  Was my first month of … [Read more...]

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