How Not to Spend Your Sunday Afternoon
It was a beautiful, warm Sunday and the weather has finally decided to calm down here in the Phoenix area. I could have lounged under an umbrella and read a good book by the pool. I could have left the windows open and watched Football games while laying on the couch all afternoon. But sometimes work gets in the way of the best-laid plans.My partner and I headed down to the Ultimate Woman's Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center, to find future vendors for a Wellness and Beauty Expo scheduled for this spring for a client of ours. Spending time with Rada is always fun and we accomplished exactly what we set out to do, as there were many wonderful companies at this expo. But t

It's 10:16 am and the Main Reason I Cannot Get Things Done
I've been up since 5:30 am, walking Wrigley all over the newly-mowed golf course grass, answered all my emails, and now I am stuck in this weird zone that has captured me everyday for two weeks now.The symptoms:Spending at least fours hours glued to the computer "researching" resorts in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico with no end or trip in sight;Up at 1 am, channel surfing and ending up on shows like E! News with Ryan Seacrest until I fall back asleep around 3 am.Exercising in slow motion. Seriously, you try it without completely cracking yourself up looking at the reaction from the other people around you exercisi

Thought of the Day for the Empty Nest Mom
One day I will make enough money and all 10 of my nails will be well-manicured and groomed 24/7! The only problem, I may be 75 years old at that time, and may not care anymore about such things.

Go Away and Suddenly It Looks Suspicious
Okay, I have been a busy little bee and actually working for a living and haven't written a single word on my emtnester blog. It's not as if I don't have a million things to say and to tell you, it's just at the end of the day, I am exhausted. Two glasses of wine with dinner and I am like a jelly fish plopped on the couch. The computer is a million miles away and my fingers are like lead. It's not a pretty sight.I have a good friend who still comes to my website daily to check if I have written a post and to click on my literacy widget and yesterday, the message read that my blog was closed due to suspicious activity! Curious, I rushed over to see what I was missing. Every