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Why hello, Isabel!

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Grant and I just got stopped on the street by a lovely woman named Isabel, who spotted my Card Caddie business card holder. We got started chatting about Lovebug — she was particularly fascinated and almost disbelieving that we had met on Craigslist. All in all, it was a fun little conversation, in which we both got spontaneous stranger hugs!

There are worse ways to spend a Saturday night. After having been out of the country for two weeks, and off the radar for waaaay longer, it sure was nice to get a bit of positive business interaction!

Hopefully it’ll spur me on to bigger and better things come the new year. As it is, I’m busily working on a Lovebug book, and trying to get through all the holiday travels and parties without getting too frazzled or going broke!

Happy holidays and hugs to everyone… I hope to be back to consulting more often come January!

More hooliganery

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

This day had to come eventually, I suppose… now my lovely $40 magnets are all gone.

Well, two out of three of them. I got one for each side of my car (so that the arrow pointing to the Card Caddie would go backwards on each side for optimal placement). They were a pretty good deal, but they still cost a pretty penny!

The very first day I applied them to my vehicle, the driver’s side one went flying off my door in the 520 wind. Oops!

So Grant ordered me a replacement. Which just got stolen (I think last night when I was parked in Pioneer Square for my high school reunion.)So, uh, classmates/drunks/hooligans of Pioneer Square, can I pretty please have my magnet back? It does me a lot more good than you!

I mean, c’mon… the card thing in the parking lot was at least amusing. Sort of. But answer me this: what the heck are you really gonna do with a magnet advertising someone else’s company? I’d like to think you could at least make your vandalism useful, like the hacked McDonald’s sign Grant spotted today. You can do better, vandals! Show me your A game!

Kids these days…

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

…And their altruistic/mischevious guerrilla marketing. I was parked at the Southcenter Mall for a couple hours this afternoon, and when I got to my car, look what I discovered! Some kids had taken it upon themselves to remove most of the cards in my Card Caddies, and stick them under the wipers of other cars in the parking lot.

The silly kids actually stuck a couple cards on my car, too -- not the best thinking in the world, but hey.  A for effort.

At least, I assume it was kids. That’s exactly the sort of generous yet snarky thing my friends and I would do in our bored, antsy, mildly rebellious teen years. Heh.
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