You know how they say you should never push your child into doing something they don’t want to do, especially modelling or acting, that doing so results in spoiled rotten, early burn-outs with no morals…but what if your child truly loves the camera? What if she would rather spend 45 minutes putting an outfit together and then making sure she looks good from every angle rather than play games? My four year old “reads” Teen Vogue because she likes the clothes. She tears out pictures she likes and tries to copy them. She spent 20 minutes looking in the mirror this morning trying to perfect what she called a movie star smile. She loves make-up and dressy clothes and won’t leave the house unless she is all put together.she has an eye for color and is very artistic as well, singing and dancing all the time. She is as different from me as night and day but I don’t want to discourage her. So would allowing her to try out for theater or modeling be pushing her?

How can you be serious when you treats like “the look” by Roxette, I wanna dance with sombody/ Whitney Houston, Debbie Gibson’s lost in your eyes, the Ghostbuster theme…I am seriously disapointed in the hack who creates these lists. He obviously has no true appreciation for music.

“Dear Contributor, Thank-you for not sending us anything lately. It suits our needs.”

-Charles M. Schultz (From an unsolicited rejection letter sent to Snoopy in Peanuts)

I want to clear up a common misconception about short people. I am one at just barely scraping 5’2 so I feel somewhat qualified although you are more than welcome to add your own thoughts too. Ok, so I am short, and by that I mean specifically that I have short legs. Not just short really but embarrassingly stubby…talking about a 26 and a half inch inseam…that’s just over two feet so basically the capris pant might as well be my regular pants since everything else requires hemming, rolling, cutting…you get the idea. So enough about that. Most of my friends throughout my life however (including my wonderful hubby) have long legs. They take two steps, I take five just to keep up. They walk leisurely and I huff and puff to keep up. So back to the misconception- short people are often described as quick, energetic, full of energy, little fire-balls, etc. I wanted to clarify for those of you in the tall world, that while we may indeed be all of these things…it is not because we necessarily WANT to be. We are just trying to catch up with you! So please, give us a break occasionally…slow down. ;)

I have about had it with both Wordpress and GoDaddy! I pay to renew my domain name for my blog and they still allow someone else to purchase it - both are pointing fingers at the other refusing to acknowledge where the error occurred and all the while someone else is posting to my blog!

Ok, let me back up. I have been posting to my blog Everyday Public Relations since 2005 when I created it for a class project. I started it on Blogger and after a year or so migrated to Wordpress since I liked the options they provided. I owned the domain EveryDayPublicRelations.com right from the start however in 2008 - apparently a billing error (which GoDaddy admitted to) that occurred while I was moving my accounts from Wordpress to GoDaddy on the advice of a blogger friend (who swore up and down that GoDaddy had great customer service and would handle the hosting in a much more professional manner )caused me to lose my domain. I was furious but managed to purchase the domain Everydaypublicrelations.org and still keep publishing my blog with only a few bumps in readership. GoDaddy admitted that a billing error had caused the problem - that when transitioning it had appeared that I let my domain expire, allowing someone else to purchase the domain. (that person later tried to sell it back to me for $2500  - I declined).

I went on posting - using Wordpress as my hosting site while GoDaddy manages my domains (since I own several) and also two non-blog websites. Everything was fine until just recently. My blogs and websites are set to auto-renew. I got an email from wordpress that stated I needed to check on my domain mapping fee & renew because it appeared my credit card on file had expired. I logged in and paid. I received the confirmation and went on my way, renewed until 2013. I got a similar email from GoDaddy about renewing my domains - logged in, paid got the email confirmation.

So I was pretty shocked when I got a post from Everyday Public Relations in my inbox written by somebody else. I went to my site and sure enough my blog is gone. I logged into my dashboard and everything looks fine, but when I try to post, it just disappears. I check my settings and there in black and white it says yep my domain is renewed until 2013. WTF? I send an email to Wordpress about the situation and they send me back an email telling me that yes I own the domain - through GoDaddy, that they just map it and everything is fine on their end. I check my GoDaddy dashboard and there is no record of my domain - it has disappeared! I email their support and still have received no answer. Did they once again give my domain away? As for wordpress, how can things be fine on their end? Where are they mapping it to? How can I be accessing my dashboard which tells my my primary domain is Everydaypublicrelations.org if I can’t post to it?

Since I can’t seem to get a straight answer from them I went on the blog that has hi-jacked my site and left this comment:

“How is it that i own the domain for this blog - http://everydaypublicrelations.org - have owned it since 2008 and yet you have apparently hi-jacked it? I logged into my dashboard today to write a post and was surprised when my post disappeared. Yet your post came to my email today - as if I had subscribed to the drivel you are writing. (no offense but I am pretty pissed off about this.) I have worked a long time on this blog and it is like my baby so I don’t appreciate it being stolen. I have a confirmation on my renewals each year - and have contacted wordpress (which handles my hosting) and GoDaddy(which handles my actual domain). So again - how did you come to start posting here? Please immediately cease your activity or be prepared for legal action. I hope we can settle this amicably, considering I have both documentation to show my years of ownership as well as all my readers who have begun to contact me wondering what is going on. I would appreciate a quick response. “

Hopefully I will get some sort of response. But bloggers and web designers beware! Wordpress and GoDaddy have awful customer service and make errors that affect your livelihood and simply don’t care. I will be removing/migrating my products and will never use their services again.

“A meadow full of katydids fiddling their tunes on a warm summer’s afternoon can be quite pleasing to the ear, as if the grasses and weeds have joined together in a whispering chorus of pastoral tranquility and joy.” - the songs of insects

My son got a talking “Sorting Hat” from the movie Harry Potter for Christmas and of course began immediately to see which “house” everyone in the family would belong to. It seemed that everyone was a Griffyndor leading me to believe the hat was rigged. This left me feeling a little disappointed of course, I mean you have to have some variety or what good is the toy? How silly do the manufacturer’s think kids are, that they won’t get bored with the good guys? So I called my son over and said okay, let’s do me. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan too, having taking my boys to see the movies and read the books right along with them. I settled down, puffed out my chest a little, fully expecting to further increase the Griffyndor ranks when what should come out of the thing? Slytherin! I think I broke it.

My 14 yr old came home the other day complaining of being teased on the bus. He said he’d been listening to his Ipod and he guessed his fellow passengers hadn’t been appreciative of his singing skills. He said they thought he was being a smartass when he told them what band he was listening to. Confused (because he generally listens to whatever is popular) I asked him what he had been listening too. His answer: Don’t fear the reaper by Blue Oyster Cult. I had to laugh. I can’t wait to tell my dad that not only did he influence my musical taste he managed to infiltrate the next generation as well. I told my son not to worry about the kids on the bus. His taste in music is just fine. :)

I was playing on the playground with my 4 yr old daughter (on the swings specifically) and all of the sudden she is offended because of course I am not doing “it” right. She stomps off as I plead with her retreating backside and a little voice pipes up “you know my mom always pulls my swing back real far and then let’s me go so I go real high…” I turn and there is this kid, maybe 8 yrs old with a solemn look. I nod and start to walk away when he adds: “or you could just push forward and pull her feet up real high…my mom does that too.” Properly admonished I chased down my daughter. This time I would swing her right. Thanks kid.

opheliaswebb:

Holy god yes…