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  1. How I Can Make a Difference

    January 30, 2010 by Blondette

    QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life by John G. Miller

    My rating: 4 of 5 stars
    My company used to have a book club in which the entire staff participated. Prior to my becoming a full time employee with the company and being included in this activity, they read “QBQ!” The book continues to be referenced by executive management and our Account Service Department is reading the book together. Well, I couldn’t be left out, so I had to buy it and read it for myself. I learned a few of the principles in this book though my own failings earlier in life (okay, within the last 12 years) and truly believe in the power of personal accountability. I take away an even greater depth to some of the basics I’ve already embraced and something I can share as I coach my team at work. No, I can’t change them, but I can share this book. Favorites for me: you always have a choice (I’ve been saying this for years.) Stress is a choice. Think in “I” terms not them. Do not adopt victim mentality. It’s energizing to read a book and flip your thinking.

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  2. Memories Are Made of This

    May 4, 2009 by Blondette

    As I was driving home from knitting (where I knat knot) the idea for this post struck me. Yes, it was a force! (okay not really; it’s more like a gentle creeping thought that’s been lingering for a few weeks.)

    I can’t seem to pass a building, watch a movie, or hear a song without remembering an event or person. Usually, it’s a person. And usually, it’s a person I miss or am not as close to anymore. For example, I cannot take the exit from 152 an North Oak without thinking about: OFR, Tammi, vodka, and trivia. (bastards took away my trivia!)

    This evening it was a CVS Pharmacy that stirred me. Of all places to remind me of someone it was so not the likely candidate. But there you go.

    Let me back up for a minute too- yesterday was deja vu day (and you thought it was just “Sunday.”) I woke up and got a “wanna get coffee text.” (it’s been awhile so I was excited). That of course stirred thoughts of other times- breezy spring days, warm summer mornings, chilly autumn Saturdays filled with venti soy Pumpkin Spice lattes, books and giggles. Then I saw a dead bird by my stairs which reminded me of the time when I just kept seeing dead birds and started to get a little freaked out thinking that it had to be a sign of impending doom. When I got in the car I couldn’t flip to a radio station that wasn’t playing a song that was absolutely tied to one of two people.

    So, my whole being was pulsing with nostalgia. Has anyone ever talked about about how much nostalgia hurts? Cuz, it does. Nostalgia is not warm and fuzzy. It hurts in that maybe if my insides knot up enough they’ll form a vortex to the past and I’ll be transported back in time to when things were happy and when I didn’t know that someday I’d be thinking and feeling back to these moments wishing I could do something so crazy as feel so intensely that I erased the pain and made it all better.

    If you followed that, congratulations. And also, welcome to my brain at 11pm.

    My new quest is trying to make memories that are just about me and not tied to other people. I could say it’s me trying to assert my independence, but really, I think it’s because I want to have a few things in life that aren’t masked in the memory of others because nothing gold can stay.

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  3. 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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  4. 3 Months and 1 Week Ago

    April 5, 2009 by Blondette

    …I gave up booze and every day I am living a dual reality. I get up, go to work, come home. (Sometimes I go to the grocery store or Target on the way.) In one world, I’m bright, capable and in control. In the other world, I’m lonely and relearning how to live. My weaknesses and mistakes have lead me somewhere that I’m afraid to leave and in which I’m afraid to be trapped.

    I’m still trying to figure out how to be this person and this is likely to be a topic for while yet (that’s my way of saying,
    “get used to it–I figure things out through writing and guess where I write?”) There are some things that I can’t help thinking had to happen (bad things-things that make me hurt everyday-yay pain! oh wait, no, pain sucks), but I also have this Buffy-like hope that doing the right thing and making amends with the world will somehow set everything right again. And yes, I’m referring to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I’ve been watching nearly every day on Hulu. I’m hoping her ass-kicking will help motivate me to get off of my ass. Wouldn’t it be great if I channeled all of my road rage and angsty “I’m so lonely, what have I done?” life-transition energy into something like working out? What a great idea!

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