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    <title type="text">thirtyo</title>
    <subtitle type="text">drink it up</subtitle>
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    <entry>
      <title>Finding my blog voice</title>
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      <published>2008-11-19T00:56:11Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-19T01:14:13Z</updated>
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            <name>mel</name>
            <email>mel@thirtyo.com</email>
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        <p>I&#8217;ve never been a fabulous writer.&nbsp; I blog, yeah, but that doesn&#8217;t make me a great writer.&nbsp; I blog about my life.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a pretty straight forward blog voice.&nbsp; People either like it and want to read about my pumpkin fetish and weight loss struggles or they don&#8217;t.&nbsp; That&#8217;s fine with me.&nbsp; As cliche as it sounds, this blog is for fun.&nbsp; It is after all just a blog.</p>

<p>But, I&#8217;ve been trying to think about my &#8220;blog voice&#8221; for the business.&nbsp; We have a blog but there isn&#8217;t much going on  <a href="http://www.emtwowebstudios.com/blog/" title="over there">over there</a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been thinking about that a lot lately and how I intend to change that.&nbsp; I want to be more active and contribute to &#8220;the community&#8221; but I&#8217;m not exactly sure what to blog about.&nbsp; That sounds silly to even say, but it&#8217;s true.&nbsp; </p>

<p>I&#8217;ve checked out other web design blogs to get a feel for what&#8217;s going on out there.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;ve listened, I&#8217;ve taken it all in.&nbsp; And what I found is that a lot of them focus on the design, branding, social media or consulting communities.&nbsp; But are they really my audience?&nbsp; Do my clients want to read about how to convert a PSD to XHTML or that Motrin pulled their babywearing ad due to the Twitterstorm from mommy bloggers?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t think so.&nbsp; But maybe I&#8217;m wrong.</p>

<p>Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t worry so much and just start with something and over time I&#8217;ll narrow in and find my business blog voice.&nbsp; </p>

 
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    <entry>
      <title>Nursing Kitten</title>
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      <published>2008-11-18T00:53:24Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-18T00:58:25Z</updated>
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            <name>mel</name>
            <email>mel@thirtyo.com</email>
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        <p>Well the kitten, Twister, has taken to nursing on Mama Misty lately.&nbsp; I noticed it the other day.&nbsp; And he just did it again moments ago.&nbsp; </p>

<p>Let&#8217;s back up here.&nbsp; Twister was born June 14th, so he&#8217;s 5 months old.&nbsp; His mother weaned him all by herself months ago.&nbsp; He&#8217;s remained here in the house with her the entire time.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve read a little about some kittens nursing later in life if they were removed from their mother too soon.&nbsp; This is not the case.</p>

<p>What concerns me most is that Misty isn&#8217;t stopping it.&nbsp; She&#8217;ll just lay there and allow him to suckle.&nbsp; It&#8217;s really weird seeing a cat nursing on another cat that is almost the same size.&nbsp; </p>

<p>I don&#8217;t want to punish him by yelling or swatting him away but I&#8217;m not sure how healthy it is for either of them.&nbsp; Anyone have any experience with this?&nbsp; I&#8217;d love to hear your story. </p> 
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    <entry>
      <title>Weight Watchers v  Something Else</title>
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      <published>2008-11-17T02:48:37Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-18T00:53:38Z</updated>
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            <name>mel</name>
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        <p>Weight Watchers has worked for me in the past and I&#8217;ve considered signing up again.&nbsp; But, I don&#8217;t really use the online tools that they offer, other than the food journal (or whatever they are calling it now).&nbsp; I like logging in and adding my food and watching my points decrease and knowing how many I have left for the day.&nbsp; But I&#8217;m thinking I really don&#8217;t need to pay to do that, so I&#8217;m looking into alternative.&nbsp; </p>

<p><a href="http://www.sparkpeople.com/">Sparkle People</a> looks promising.&nbsp; Anyone ever use it?&nbsp; Have another recommendation?&nbsp; Let me hear it!</p> 
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    <entry>
      <title>Slumber Party!</title>
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      <published>2008-11-16T03:45:07Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-16T04:54:13Z</updated>
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            <name>mel</name>
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        <p>Next weekend I am heading north to Virginia, to a small little cabin near the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/shen" title="Shenandoah National Park">Shenandoah National Park</a>.&nbsp; A few of my good friends from NY are meeting me there for a &#8220;Girls Weekend Getaway&#8221;.&nbsp; I am so totally stoked about it.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been almost a year since I&#8217;ve seen my BFF Sara and that is much too long.</p>

<p>This will be only the second time that Sean and I have been apart since we were married 3 years ago. It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;ve planned to always be together, it&#8217;s just how it turned out.&nbsp; I&#8217;ll kid with him sometimes and &#8220;inform&#8221; him that I know what he&#8217;ll be doing while we&#8217;re apart - look out strip clubs <img src="http://thirtyo.com/images/smileys/wink.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="wink" style="border:0;" />&nbsp; It&#8217;s all in good fun of course.&nbsp; He can go to a strip club tonight if he wanted.&nbsp; He just has to promise to take me along too because it&#8217;s not fair that he would be the only one getting to look at hot chicks!&nbsp;  <img src="http://thirtyo.com/images/smileys/tongue_wink.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="tongue wink" style="border:0;" /> </p>

<p>For his first weekend home alone he has scored quite the adventure.&nbsp; He invited his two nephews (ages 15 and 13) over for a weekend of Rock Band.&nbsp; And Sean is totally stoked about it.&nbsp; He&#8217;s already talking about practicing his &#8220;drumming skills&#8221; this week so he can try to keep up with the &#8220;young kids&#8221;.&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard work being 37 and competing against teens who learn faster and play better.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll whoop his ass. I&#8217;m almost sorry I&#8217;m gonna miss that!<br />
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    <entry>
      <title>My other 12 step program</title>
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      <published>2008-11-15T00:08:52Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-15T16:06:57Z</updated>
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            <name>mel</name>
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        <p>So besides <a href="http://www.thirtyo.com/index.php/site/i_can_change/" title="overeating and not exercising">overeating and not exercising</a> (ie. being fat), I have this other problem too.&nbsp; </p>

<p>I buy fonts like some people buy coffee everyday.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t need these fonts, I just like them and think I might need them one day so I better get it now before some font nazi comes and deletes all the fonts I crush on. </p>

<p>I don&#8217;t even want to calculate the amount of money I have spent for letters, on a screen.&nbsp; It&#8217;s a sickness and I need help.</p>

<p>Come to think of it, I also have a problem with the purchasing of domain names.&nbsp; That might even be worse.&nbsp; I&#8217;m such a winner, right?&nbsp; <img src="http://thirtyo.com/images/smileys/wink.gif" width="19" height="19" alt="wink" style="border:0;" /> </p>

<p>So, tell me I am not alone.&nbsp; What&#8217;s your secret?</p> 
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