Month: July 2006

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Random

Help a stranger, take a survey

Dr. Donna Lillian of Eastern Carolina University is conducting a survey on women’s courtesy titles (Miss, Ms., Mrs.) and surnames. This is part of a 40-year study to observe change over time. It only takes a few minutes and you get to think interesting thoughts about everyday terms that I know I hadn’t really analyzed much.

Take the survey today!

I got this call as part of the American Name Society mailing list, in case you’re wondering.

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Kids/Parenting

Hayden’s latest discovery


After five weeks of playing with his feet, Hayden finally made the monumental achievement today. Check it out.

In a word: nummers.

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Work

Some cool work articles

I got a couple articles in my inbox today for work that I really liked, which isn’t a very common occurrence. At least not 2 in one day.

  • MarketingSherpa’s SherpaBlog: What’s not to love about SEO/Internet marketing analogized to matchmaking? Or maybe I’m just as silly as Anne Holland is here because my anniversary’s coming up.
  • ClickZ: Search Results. I prefer to call this one SEO Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum. Mike Grehan’s point here is not only that “the sandbox” probably doesn’t exist (or at least not how a lot of people think it does) but that SEO campaigns need to be part of an overall marketing campaign. Too many companies (are you listening, employer of my husband?) have no unified marketing strategy. “Oh, yeah, we’ll do some SEO here and we’ll do a magazine ad there and I’ll throw a dart at this dartboard to determine our next move and hope everything falls into place. Any exposure is good, right?” Not exactly.

Disfruten.

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Kids/Parenting Ryan/Married Life

A little more about me…

These are a few of my favorite things…

Wedding day, 2004
Raleigh (technically Apex), North Carolina


Family! Hayden is 5 weeks old here.

Hayden, age 4 months, with my mom, age 16 ;), aka Nana Diana.

“Discovery (4 months)”
I made over a photo of Hayden to look oh-so-very-artsy.
He really likes playing with his feet these days.

I decided not to post a picture of a cold glass of milk, although I do like that quite a bit, too. Having your refrigerator die on you makes you appreciate the little, cold things even more. It also makes you appreciate the freezer still running, especially with 23 pounds of raw chicken in the freezer. And the little fridge Ryan bought when he was an apartment dweller that now holds all of our food, even if it did freeze the butter and the vegetables.

Hayden’s looking mighty proud of himself—probably means I should change his diaper. Gotta get the little guy dressed for church.