Tips & Tricks

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I Made the Dumbest Mistake – Five Things I Learned From It

Earlier this week, I made the dumbest mistake… or at least my most recent one. I have a history of doing really stupid things. For example, when I was in grad school, I was running late driving from work to campus on an evening when I had a big exam. The campus was 30 miles…

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Cute Keychain – And Almost Free Too!

I was doing a bit of online reading shopping while getting my hair done this morning and stumbled across a great personalization website with some nice sales too. Clairebella lured me in with an offer of a cute keychain with free personalization. As a bonfide GRIT (“girl raised in Texas”) I’m all about monogrammed anything,…

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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

I’ve drawn a winner in last week’s contest to receive one free month of Rise, a one-on-one nutrition coaching app that I reviewed. Our winner is…. Marlene Marlene is challenged by gluten-free travel, particularly internationally. I loved her idea in the comments to print cards with dietary requirements to give to food servers. I’m newer…

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Time Management for the Insane

It’s Sunday and I’m wondering exactly where my weekend has escaped too, something I do all too frequently.  And then I remember that I fell into the rabbit hole of driving for UberX (including my live tweetalong last night which you can still read on Twitter via #virtualride) and keeping the content flowing here (something I do…

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Free Stuff for the Taking

We’ve talked about nutrition quite a bit here this week (when we weren’t talking about manufactured spending… wow, I really had no idea exactly how big that was until the comments started coming in!)  And on the topic of nutrition, there’s some free stuff I want to make sure you’d seen! 1. I’m giving away one…

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Mind Your Space – Etiquette in the Jetset Age

Summer travel season is hitting its final furious weeks.  Airplanes are crowded.  Airports are crowded.  Rental car shuttles are crowded.  Even the local Starbucks where I blog each day is crowded.  And everyone is clamoring for the same precious every shrinking space. It can make the average day downright frustrating.  Today I got to Starbucks…

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Big Pimping, Spending Gs – Affiliates and Me

Jay Z sings about “big pimping, spending G’s” and I’m pretty sure he’s talking about something different than credit card links.  Still, its hard not to read the roll of travel blogs out there some days and feel like everyone is pimping something and that everyone is spend spend spendy spend  spending in a grand…

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Personal Upkeep for Frequent Travelers

In my early days as a frequent traveler, one of my biggest frustrations was scheduling time for “personal upkeep”. Whether it’s simple things like a pedicure or hair cut with a favorite stylist, or more complex regular procedures with a specialist, it can be difficult to juggle appointments, especially when the hours those professionals keep…