It has taken some time for me to articulate my anger at the verdict in the trial of Vince Li and here's what I came up with:
Nothing.
There is nothing that can be said that would be any different that what the general consensus is.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Seriously, it's been a month already since I last posted? Gawd. Where is time going?!
Yeh, uh, about that last blawg.. heheh. Oh well, just keep swimming I always say! Well, Dory from Finding Nemo said it first but it's a catchy little phrase and I have adopted it!
So, yah. This is awkward. It's 4 a.m. and I'm updating the website because, well, because it needs to be done and I don't have time to do it later today.
I was at the Health and Wellness show this past weekend, not for MOM Magazine but to support some of the advertisers - and friends - who had booths. It was a big show, I was actually surprised at how many booths were there! Of course, there were a few MOM mags kickin' around because I like to get our mag out to the masses so I am hoping that we expanded our growing community a little more.
We have a few big things coming up with the magazine so I want to let you in on them before they go in the magazine!
International Women's Day Champagne Lunch
March 8 at the Devon Golf Course
12-3 pm
Master Cpl. Paul Franklin will be speaking.
Tickets are $20 and you can contact me (tamara@mommagazine.ca) directly if you are interested
FIERCE kick off is March 29
This is a champagne brunch that will be the introduction of the FIERCE group. I am hoping we get as many business women involved in this and make it an AMAZING networking business and wellness group. I have BIG plans!!! Tradeshow tables are sold out but you can still book for the next event in April. Contact me for tickets (tamara@mommagazine.ca) or check us out on Facebook and join the group.
Big Daddy's Birthday Bash in Vegas is April 30-May 3. Basically, Big Daddy and I are going to Vegas and I thought it would be a cool couples trip with only one planned event - GOLF! Check it out on the website under MOMs Time Out events. Plus, it's VEGAS BABY!!! Gotta love Sin City!
MOMs Day Before event
We're teaming up with Gingerlily Photography and Arbonne to have a PAJAMA PARTY of our own!
May 9
Marriot at the River Cree Resort
It will be the ultimate Girl's Night in! Hair & Makeup, Boudoir Sessions with Gingerlily Photography, Passion Party and sooo much more! Space will be limited to 10-12 MOMs. Once the details are finalized, I will send out an e-blast letting everyone know the cost. It will be first come, first served.
I think that's it for now... My March is shaping up to be jam-PACKED with events - I'm off to the Alberta Magazine Publisher's Association conference March 19-21 and am looking forward to learning some new and exciting ways to keep improving MOM Magazine!!
As always, I look forward to hearing from you...
Now, I must make coffee!!
t.
Yeh, uh, about that last blawg.. heheh. Oh well, just keep swimming I always say! Well, Dory from Finding Nemo said it first but it's a catchy little phrase and I have adopted it!
So, yah. This is awkward. It's 4 a.m. and I'm updating the website because, well, because it needs to be done and I don't have time to do it later today.
I was at the Health and Wellness show this past weekend, not for MOM Magazine but to support some of the advertisers - and friends - who had booths. It was a big show, I was actually surprised at how many booths were there! Of course, there were a few MOM mags kickin' around because I like to get our mag out to the masses so I am hoping that we expanded our growing community a little more.
We have a few big things coming up with the magazine so I want to let you in on them before they go in the magazine!
International Women's Day Champagne Lunch
March 8 at the Devon Golf Course
12-3 pm
Master Cpl. Paul Franklin will be speaking.
Tickets are $20 and you can contact me (tamara@mommagazine.ca) directly if you are interested
FIERCE kick off is March 29
This is a champagne brunch that will be the introduction of the FIERCE group. I am hoping we get as many business women involved in this and make it an AMAZING networking business and wellness group. I have BIG plans!!! Tradeshow tables are sold out but you can still book for the next event in April. Contact me for tickets (tamara@mommagazine.ca) or check us out on Facebook and join the group.
Big Daddy's Birthday Bash in Vegas is April 30-May 3. Basically, Big Daddy and I are going to Vegas and I thought it would be a cool couples trip with only one planned event - GOLF! Check it out on the website under MOMs Time Out events. Plus, it's VEGAS BABY!!! Gotta love Sin City!
MOMs Day Before event
We're teaming up with Gingerlily Photography and Arbonne to have a PAJAMA PARTY of our own!
May 9
Marriot at the River Cree Resort
It will be the ultimate Girl's Night in! Hair & Makeup, Boudoir Sessions with Gingerlily Photography, Passion Party and sooo much more! Space will be limited to 10-12 MOMs. Once the details are finalized, I will send out an e-blast letting everyone know the cost. It will be first come, first served.
I think that's it for now... My March is shaping up to be jam-PACKED with events - I'm off to the Alberta Magazine Publisher's Association conference March 19-21 and am looking forward to learning some new and exciting ways to keep improving MOM Magazine!!
As always, I look forward to hearing from you...
Now, I must make coffee!!
t.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Big Daddy's 40th Birthday Bash!
You're invited to help the villain of the magazine celebrate his 40th birthday ... what a better place to do it than SIN CITY!!!!
Join Big Daddy on the links at Rio Secco Golf Club Friday, May 1.
Included in the package is breakfast, transportation in a stretch limo, club rental and green fees.
Big Daddy's 40th Birthday Bash confirmed!!
So the villain of the magazine turns 40 (OMG!!) in April and to celebrate we are going to SIN CITY BABY!!!!
April 30-May 3
Golf with Big Daddy at the AMAZING Rio Secco Golf Club.
This is NOT a guys-only trip... so
Friday, February 6, 2009
Dear Diary, Don't Fuck with Me.
That's right, I used the word Fuck. OMG. Call the fuckin' Mommy police!
I got a letter from a disgruntled reader who decided to rip apart the magazine from front to back, even making a few personal attacks on some of the people in the magazine - who shall remain nameless because the woman who sent this letter was obviously a bitter and angry person who felt better about herself by judging and insulting other women.
Her comments really pissed me off. We get complaints all the time about our content, the language we use, the poor editing, the jumbled design, Big Daddy and his obviously chauvinistic ways... the list never ends. Normally, I write a nice little email back to these haters telling them to be responsible and recycle!
But this women who wrote this letter... well I have chosen to look deep within myself and NOT respond at all because nothing I could say would make this person happy. Plus, I can't be bothered to waste my time or energy ... THAT is what I have a blawg for!
I actually did draft a response to this women because my initial reaction was one of, "Are you fuckin' KIDDING me???!!! Who the hell do you think you are!" So my email response was going to be something like this... ahem.
"Thank you for taking the time to pick apart our imperfect magazine. Generally, the women who read MOM Magazine take the stick OUT of their ass before flipping through the pages."
I had a few other choice comments in there but once I got them out onto e-paper, I felt better. Calmer, in fact. I chose not to hit send and instead sent her letter to a few of my friends/clients for their feedback.
They agreed that her comments were not constructive and in fact, malicious, judgemental and overall asshole comments. Well, I think they're asshole comments and I can say that because it's my magazine.
Another issue we've faced is that our mag has been pulled from the Tri Leisure Centre in Spruce Grove. I was told the mag was not a good fit with their vision of a community centre. Huh. So Maxim, Cosmo and Glamour magazines are OK but MOM Magazine with it's use of the words "crap, screw, and bullshit" are not.
You know what I think? I think SOME people expect us to be all Martha-friggin-Stewart because we are published in Spruce Grove, Alberta. Well guess WHAT!
It's AIN'T gonna happen! If anything it only validates what I am doing with MOM Magazine because there is such a stereotype associated with being a MOM. You have to have the MOM haircut. You have to get the MOM uniform. You have to speak properly and not swear in front of your kids.
To all of THOSE moms, go pick up Good Housekeeping or watch the MOM show.
MOM Magazine is for REAL women who don't put on a pretentious facade and try to be something they're really not just so they'll fit in with the other dummy mummys.
For all you haters, keep the letters coming. It only adds fire to my already explosive ambition.
t.
I got a letter from a disgruntled reader who decided to rip apart the magazine from front to back, even making a few personal attacks on some of the people in the magazine - who shall remain nameless because the woman who sent this letter was obviously a bitter and angry person who felt better about herself by judging and insulting other women.
Her comments really pissed me off. We get complaints all the time about our content, the language we use, the poor editing, the jumbled design, Big Daddy and his obviously chauvinistic ways... the list never ends. Normally, I write a nice little email back to these haters telling them to be responsible and recycle!
But this women who wrote this letter... well I have chosen to look deep within myself and NOT respond at all because nothing I could say would make this person happy. Plus, I can't be bothered to waste my time or energy ... THAT is what I have a blawg for!
I actually did draft a response to this women because my initial reaction was one of, "Are you fuckin' KIDDING me???!!! Who the hell do you think you are!" So my email response was going to be something like this... ahem.
"Thank you for taking the time to pick apart our imperfect magazine. Generally, the women who read MOM Magazine take the stick OUT of their ass before flipping through the pages."
I had a few other choice comments in there but once I got them out onto e-paper, I felt better. Calmer, in fact. I chose not to hit send and instead sent her letter to a few of my friends/clients for their feedback.
They agreed that her comments were not constructive and in fact, malicious, judgemental and overall asshole comments. Well, I think they're asshole comments and I can say that because it's my magazine.
Another issue we've faced is that our mag has been pulled from the Tri Leisure Centre in Spruce Grove. I was told the mag was not a good fit with their vision of a community centre. Huh. So Maxim, Cosmo and Glamour magazines are OK but MOM Magazine with it's use of the words "crap, screw, and bullshit" are not.
You know what I think? I think SOME people expect us to be all Martha-friggin-Stewart because we are published in Spruce Grove, Alberta. Well guess WHAT!
It's AIN'T gonna happen! If anything it only validates what I am doing with MOM Magazine because there is such a stereotype associated with being a MOM. You have to have the MOM haircut. You have to get the MOM uniform. You have to speak properly and not swear in front of your kids.
To all of THOSE moms, go pick up Good Housekeeping or watch the MOM show.
MOM Magazine is for REAL women who don't put on a pretentious facade and try to be something they're really not just so they'll fit in with the other dummy mummys.
For all you haters, keep the letters coming. It only adds fire to my already explosive ambition.
t.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
The soundtrack of my life
Music has always been important to me but not in the way that I was a geeky band kid or the lead in the school musical. More in the way that I have always related to songs and made them "my song!!" as in, "OHMYGAWD that's MY SONG!!! WOOOHOOOO!"
Yeh. Just like that.
I wonder if it's something that girls do because I asked Big Daddy if he ever did that and he just looked at me like I asked him to have a threesome with Colin Farrel. That would be, uh, no.
When I was 12, I had a group of friends who were instrumental (no pun intended) in the path my life eventually took. The summer we went into grade 8, we went to every movie imaginable: Stand By Me, Shag, Dirty Dancing, Eddie & the Cruisers, La Bamba... the list was endless. I had a real affinity for 50s and 60s music and made it my mission to get my friends to listen to Del Shannon, the Supremes, the Chordettes and Buddy Holly. They indulged me although they all had their own personal favourites.
In highschool, I was a fan of NKOTB. Yes. I admit it. I thought Donnie Wahlberg was hot. But that was when I began my love affair with R&B although techinally I guess it began in junior high because half of the music I listened to was the original R&B.
The transition between highschool and college became my night club phase where I loved Shaggy (Oh Carolina), Shy Guy (Diana King), and any other bump & grind music where I could strut my stuff and feel like I was the hawttest babe on the dance floor! I think I even had a temprrary love affair with country but I try to block that out.
As my tastes in music (and men) evolved I found myself listening more and more to rock, old rock, new rock, whatever got me pumped up.
As I look back now, I have come up with a soundtrack to my life! And how fun was that???!!!
Indulge me whilst I share it with you!
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Time of My Life -
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