Check it out! I got my little iPhone cozy and card holder today! I ordered it last week from Beckasoup.
OK, I don’t have an iPhone but I do have a Blackberry, the cozy still works for my phone. I am LOVING my new phone cozy. The only problem? The designer didn’t send enough business cards for me to pass out to all the other folks who love it too.
You can find her at Beckasoup on Etsy and she does other items as well; such as totes, custom gadget covers, card holders, makeup clutches, and more. She has a variety of fabric from which to choose.
My phone cozy has its main pocket where the phone tucks down into but it also has a front pocket where an iPod Nano could go or other things like business cards, an ID card, earbuds, or whatever.
It is lined which is nice, and well stitched. My phone cozy has a button on the front and the back so if I have it open I can fold the flap over to the back and fasten it if I want. Attached to the cozy is a pink ribbon to use as a wristlet. I’m tellin’ ya, I love my phone cozy. It is just so danged cute.
No longer do I worry about losing my phone down in my purse, or leaving it laying around somewhere only to walk off and forget where I left it.
I am a Brooklyn based wardrobe stylist and costume designer. I love beautiful functional things.
I first appeared on Etsy in 08 to sell my line of handmade jewelry rolls, make-up bags, and cozies- Beckasoup!! I love to design things I consider as cute as they are useful.
I also can be found on the vintage side of Etsy in my new store Beckasoup Vintage. I am selling a collection of vintage clothing, accessories, and housewares that I have picked up over the years.
Her handcrafted and original items make great gifts. I’m making a list.
What possessed me to enroll in such a class? Well, it is such a long, drawn-out, convoluted story that I can’t even remember how I got there. All I know is that I’m there now and I still find myself asking, “Why?” But I keep going back. Well okay, I at least made it back to the second class in the series.
I feel quite silly really. Why am I doing this? I can’t find a solid answer to that at all. I wish I knew. Maybe it is to try something new? Or to push and challenge myself with something I gleam as extraordinary? Or maybe my childhood dream-fantasy is trying to surface again. But I am too old for this stuff. I am not that little girl anymore. I have to find rest with this somehow.
But I digress…..
Last week, during our first class, everyone had to get up and get in front of the camera. I refused. Isn’t that absurd? I am in a film acting class but refused to get up in front of the camera? Okay, to be fair, I didn’t really “REFUSE” but politely declined and wasn’t forced to do it because I wasn’t an actual student just yet.
Today was a different story. I had to do it, or else. Or else I would have never gone back, coming up with some sort of silly excuse as to why I didn’t want to do the class anymore – (FEAR). Afterwards I’d have to live in regret for a while; a routine I had become quite accustomed to over the years and quite frankly I’m sick of it.
But man oh man, I have never been so on the fence about something in my entire life and this is JUST A FOUR WEEK CLASS. What the heck? OK, seriously I need to settle down.
So yeah, I got in front of the camera today and I can’t even tell you anything about it. I think I have blocked it out of my mind already! LOL
But here is something I can share with you; our hand-out entitled “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Now, having taken American Literature I knew what and who we were reading but damn, I had to read it a couple of times. Our assignment was to read this passage and jot down how we can apply to ourselves.
Here is the passage we were given,
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost,—— and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
Start listening to my inner most self and believe. Trust and do. Be open.
Short and simple, huh?
When the class discussion started I immediately thought of the time when I went and saw the remake of The Women, starring Meg Ryan. The scene where she is all distraught over her husband’s affair, she storms into the kitchen to find junk food, only to come up with a stick of butter and sugared cocoa powder, well…. that was ME! As gross as this sounds, and it is gross, I have actually done this in a moment of despair. I recalled it later in life when I wanted to “write something” and thought that would be a fantastic scene. But what happened? I got busy with regular, ordinary, every day life and just didn’t do it. Then I see it years later on the big screen and I about died. On another note, I have no idea if this scene was in the original film or not, I have not watched it.
But in class today I didn’t think that is what the instructor was looking for so I stayed quiet. He wanted something a little more realistic and thankfully another student was able to deliver. At any rate, I got the point.
I still feel silly. I’m 43 years old and in a film acting class. What? Yeah.
Here’s the thing, and maybe this can be one of my three goals in the class, I want my writing-self to become my every-day-face-to-face-with-other-people-self. I can write all day long and be OK but when I get in front of someone else I freeze.
Well, not yet but I will. I told Tammy I would do an early renewal. So next week I will renew this blog and keep it up and running. Cause why not.
I do like it here. I like this blog. I’m still working on a theme/topic but then again why limit myself? Right? Thanks Charlie for that consideration.
There is a direction I’d like to take this blog in but I’m not sure. I’ll just have to let that thought roll around in my head some more. Already my head is trying to talk me out of it, because I’m not an “expert” in the field I want to focus on, but oh well.
We shall see.
So stay tuned, tell all your friend, and keep coming back.
Besides spending all of my time over on Facebook, I just don’t have anything to blog about anymore, I also don’t have a theme or topic. Even if I did have something to blog about I just don’t have the time to invest. It is sad because I LOVE blogging. I do.
I have become so bored with THIS blog. Boring. No direction. No excitement. No readers.
And at the same time I feel like I’m sitting on a tremendous opportunity and I can’t focus to save my life. I do have a lot of other “stuff” eating up my personal time. Some things will end in May while other new things will start. So, in the meantime some things will have to be put on hold – blogging being the first one. Keep in mind, I’m just making this up as I go along. LOL
On the other hand, I see all of my friends being SUPER DUPER busy as well and they find the time to fit EVERYTHING into their schedule. I’m feeling inferior for not being able to keep up.
Yeah, see, there is so much more I want to say about this commercial but feel the need to hold back because of certain things. This is why I want to quit this blog and move onto something else.
I wonder when this blog expires? I’m ready to move onto something else. That and Facebook takes up most of my time these days. Blog?! What’s that?! LOL
OK then. That was that. I ran my half marathon today. Now what? I have no clue but I’m ready for another one.
Yes, I am sore this evening and expect to be even more so tomorrow. But man oh man, what an experience. My good friend Gina took me down and cheered me on. I am so glad she did. Other people ALWAYS seem to know what is best for me and I’m glad some of them have not given up on me and keep making me get out there and stay with me the whole time.
The half marathon experience was awesome. I was so nervous and very anxious in the beginning but once I got going it was like, “oh yeah, I’m just running, no big deal.” And I never knew Birmingham was so beautiful! I have to go back for a day trip just to get away from the rut and routine of the daily grind. It can be my miniature New York City. The big historic houses and that cute little artsy downtown area with a Starbucks like NYC has and a New York style delicatessen that really did look like a New York delicatessen. It will have to be a day trip for The Girl and myself one Saturday. SOON!
One of the coolest things today during the race was watching the FULL marathoners come racing past the rest of us. You see, the course we did was a 13.1 mile loop. So…. the people who were running the full marathon lapped us slow folks. The leaders came by with a police escort and what a site it was!!! Two tall gentleman with the strides the size of what seemed like the length of my car! They made it seem effortless. It was impressive.
Then there was the pregnant lady who ran, you could see her bulge and on the back of her tee shirt it stated, “SLOW, Baby On Board.”
Oh and cupid was there running in it as well. Yes, a grown man was dressed up in boxer shorts with hearts all over them, a blonde wig, pink wings on his back and carrying a little bow and arrow. He was in the full marathon lane.
At any rate, it was a lot of fun and I can’t wait to do it again.
I am a heavy sleeper. I normally have no problems going to sleep or staying asleep. I sleep hard.
However, on Friday morning at 0100 I sat straight up in bed from a dead sleep, panic stricken and an overwhelming feeling of pure fear instantly took hold of my whole being.
Why?
My thought was this, “Did I send in payroll?”
Part of my job is doing payroll for our company. When I do payroll it has two parts; one is to enter in all the data and the last step is to actually “send it in” which means it goes out into cyberspace and processes somewhere else and then gets sent to our bank in order to withdraw funds and distribute it to the employees accounts via direct deposits. This process apparently takes a few days and I have to “send in payroll” on a Tuesday in order to have it hit by Friday (our payday).
So on Friday morning at 0100 in the morning when I sat straight up in bed and out of a dead sleep and wondered if I had sent in payroll was a HUGE deal. Seriously, I have never ever been that scared in my entire life. I wasn’t scared for ME but for all the employees who I thought were not going to have money on payday.
I was all shaky, nauseous, sweaty, heart racing, and anything else you can think of, I hopped in the shower, threw on some clothes and went into the office, at 0130 in the morning. I had to make sure I sent in payroll and if I had not I had to figure out what in the world I was going to do.
THANKFULLY I had sent it in. WOW. Really? Because I don’t remember doing it, at all!!!!
I don’t EVER want that feeling again.
I’ve been stressed out a lot lately and I don’t know what to do about it.
Oh, so when I get home and back in bed (around 0300) I had a dream/nightmare. I dreamt that when I took my son back to school (he’s home for the weekend now) that when he got out of the car he only had his underwear on and I was screaming at myself, “I FORGET HIS UNIFORM!!!!”
What is wrong with me lately?
Ever since that early morning payroll scare I have NOT been the same.
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March 15, 2010 
Check it out! I got my little iPhone cozy and card holder today! I ordered it last week from Beckasoup. 
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OK then. That was that. I ran my half marathon today. Now what? I have no clue but I’m ready for another one.
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