I'm sitting in the hospital waiting for news about my nephew's birth, so I decided to blog about our secret event yesterday. My sister Stacey and I coordinated a surprise baby shower for Lesley at a lovely restaurant called Zupas. So yummy. Several of Lesley's friends came from Draper and Provo, and it was lovely that they came to support her.
My invitation:
My photos from the event:
Taken 27 July 2010and I took a picture of it with my iPhone about 11:30 pm last night. It arrived yesterday and I'm such a nerd for being so happy about this.
Hooray for an updated Chicago Manual of Style edition 16. What are the changes? Subversive Copy Editor gives some highlights.
My cute little niece got to explore the world of fireworks when we went down to our family's house last night to celebrate Pioneer Day together. However she had more fun playing with her second cousin in a little swimming pool and hauling around a bell from my aunt's back door. At least the bell made it easier to know where she was. :) What a cute little thing.
My mom has been volunteering me to make bridal shower invitations for people in the neighborhood who are getting married. So this was one of my latest creations.
Last year I wrote a post about how I feel bad when people send me unsubscribe reply emails that are ridiculously rude.
Today I read a post outlying the same idea, except that the writer actually felt like doing something about it. She took an incredibly rude response and turned it into an apologetic response. From her blog entry:
"I have been in charge of teams of people and had otherwise intelligent people say the nastiest things to me - as their supervisor - and then expect no ramifications. They always stammer when confronted on their rudeness and when pointed out that they would never speak to a superior, or anyone, like that in person."Why is it that people still think that they can act totally different online and have their manners be acceptable? Sometimes I try to kill people with kindness in other mediums, but I should try her approach with email responders and see how it goes. Unfortunately our customer service department serves as the middleman, which could either be a good thing or a bad thing... I'll let you know how it goes.
"I am not expected to answer people who send nasty rude emails because they think our emails are stupid or they wish to be removed from our email list. I usually just remove them and do not even answer since they don't want to hear from us anyway. Today was different. I am tired of people not using the same manners they would use face to face OR even worse yet, maybe they don't have any to speak of."
Last week I was thoroughly entertained by Old Spice Guy's personalized YouTube videos to the masses (as noted on his Twitter account).
Well, one of my favorite sequences was the interactions between Old Spice Guy and Alyssa Milano. Of course, Old Spice Guy's PR agency started it (here's a review of the entire campaign).
Here are the videos in order.
He really did send flowers. Alyssa posted a photo.
So Alyssa replied with her own video (that apparently can't be embedded here) and basically challenged Old Spice Guy aka Proctor & Gamble to donate $100,000 to the National Wildlife Federation's Gulf Oil Spill Restoration fund.
And her Twitter account has gone crazy with people asking her questions about this, asking if that guy has enough money to donate.
Later this message came up from Old Spice on July 15:
@Alyssa_Milano Apologies for dlay. I'm saving village by damming flash flood w/left pec while typing u this msg w/right pec. My ppl 2call.So now we're left waiting to see if Proctor & Gamble will come through with the donation. What do you think they're going to do?
This seems to be my kind of workout plan, considering how much time I spend on the Internet. (I did go down to the local rec center in RL last night for strength training.)
