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  1. We Won: A Note to Jen Lancaster (because anything this short shouldn’t be called a letter)

    February 13, 2011 by Blondette

    Dear Jen Lancaster,

    In some cosmic twist of fate, we’ve won. We being the group of fans pulling for you to stop in Kansas City for your next book tour. The fact that you will be gracing us with your presence on Friday the 13th seems entirely fitting.

    Strangely, I feel like this matters.

    No pressure.

    Clandestinedly yours,

    Blondette

    PS. Clandestine is a little creepy. I’ll go back to HGTV now.

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  2. Giant Rat Protest in Kansas City

    October 21, 2010 by Blondette

    There is a giant, angry rat. He taunts me. He waits for me. But he does not tarry while I work. He is gone when I am free.

    Sadly, when I Google “giant rat protest in kansas city” the results are inconclusive. Is no one writing about this? HAS NO ONE SEEN THE GIANT FUCKING RABID RAT?! and the dudes with picket signs?

    When I Googled “rat protest” I garnered more interesting results. Apparently, giant inflatable rats are not uncommon when protesting. In fact, it’s a been a union protest symbol for years. Just so you know, it’s never good to be startled by a giant rat while driving.  A spider once dropped down from the ceiling of my car while I was driving to work and it’s some sort of miracle that I didn’t crash because I immediately forgot I was driving and panicked so the icky spider wouldn’t creepy crawl all over me.

    I’m not entirely sure who or what the protesters are beefing against, but I’ll try to focus on the signs tomorrow – it’s just kind of hard to read their signs when there’s a crazy rodent on the side of the road – well, one that’s at least 10 ft tall and not dead or eating garbage.

    Anyhow, I got tired of not being able to share the rat with anyone, so I risked life and limb to capture it with my iPhone while driving. Don’t worry, I swerved back into my own lane before colliding head on with a motorcycle. We coo.

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  3. Vacation Week

    September 7, 2010 by Blondette

    I haven’t taken a full week off work since about 2006 or 2007. The most I’ve taken has been 3 days consecutively and was at the end of October 2009 when I moved into my house. It was days spent packing, trudging back and forth, up and down the stairs to the dumpster and my car – in the rain.

    Anyhow, I took a few days off in August as well (3 Fridays and 1 Monday) but I planned this lovely week off to just be. I hope I can allow myself to relax. And I hope my employer can allow me to relax.

    So, most people ask “what are you going to do?” Well, I’m going to read; I’m going to nap; I’m going to get up and sit on my couch and drink coffee; I’m going to clean; I’m going to decorate!

    My goal is to finally get my bedroom in a lovely state and “Autumn-ize” my house. Hopefully, I will have pictures for you soon.

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  4. Slogans

    April 11, 2009 by Blondette

    On my way to pick up a salad for lunch today, I started thinking about my slogan and tag line. Currently, it’s “a girl in sales and marketing” which is in tribute to the song-spiration for my domain name. But, I don’t actually blog post about sales or marketing. One could argue that of course I don’t need to blog post about sales and marketing because the blog is about me, the girl. The girl in sales and marketing. (and come on, I spend 12+ hours of my day on sales and marketing already)

    Anyhow, it got me thinking, “to what would I change my slogan/tag line?” Here are a few of the ideas:

    • Big, Beautiful and Blonde
    • Making Blonde Smart
    • Because Blonde is Awesome and So Am I (okay actually I just made this up because I couldn’t remember what I thought up earlier)
    • Not all Blondes are Tiny
    • The Life of Katie Leas
    • Where Blonde Meets ___
    • Geeking Up the Peroxide Factor
    • The Dirty Side of Blonde

    There were two that were actually good that I, of course, cannot remember. This is the problem with being creative while driving- you can’t write things down!

    I decided to see if the Internet would help me with my quest- so I hunted down my two favorite time wasting sloganizers.

    1. http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi?
    2. http://www.sloganizer.net/en/

    Here’s what they came up with:

    • “Naughty, but Tremenous Blondette.” This came up a few times which is a bit frightening. I’m a reformed lady!
    • “For the Tremendous Blondette You Don’t Yet Know.”
    • “8 Out of 10 Owners who Expressed a Preference said Their Cats Preferred Tremendous Blondette.” Back to that cat lady thing.
    • “Tremendous Blondette Unscripted.”
    • “The Tremendous Blondette with the Hole.”  Is a comment really needed for this?
    • “The Tremendous Blondette Goes Straight to Your Head.”
    • “A Day Without Tremendous Blondette is a Day Without Sunshine.”  So true.

    So, what are your suggestions?

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  5. I Walked in On Someone in the Toilet

    March 6, 2009 by Blondette

    at Best Buy.

    Here is my lesson learned and my plea to all–design your public restrooms with stalls that allow people to see clearly (but not clearly) if a stall is occupied.

    Also, stall doors should lock. And you shouldn’t sit down to potty in a stall before checking to ensure that your stall does indeed lock– if there are 4 other stalls and you choose to poop in the one with the gimpy lock, well then, I feel less bad for opening the door on you.

    Thank goodness all I saw was your hand.

    Design smart people.

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