Networking...need to put my feet up

La Grande has launched a new, local website and I'm all hip with trying to give them some love, so have submitted some of the articles I've written. And, if you go to La Grande Life on Monday, February 1st, and watch the Morning Drip video episode...you might get a glimpse of me. Yeah, I am there...somewhere.

So, I went to the local coffee shop where they were filming the Morning Drip to meet the guys and to get some pointers about how to correctly use their online editing tool for submissions. I talked to a few people and shot around ideas about how they could get more coverage, more clicks...ways to network. You would think I fancied myself a marketing person. Funny how I'm all about helping other people get their dreams off the ground and so crap-nasty at promoting myself. I'm sure there is a lesson on self-love in there somewhere for me to heed. And, I think also that being a social worker by trade and nature, local networking of resources is what we do best.

And...confession time...today needed to be a McDonald's fries day. Oh Yeah Baby...salted bliss!

Then I came home and searched out my new "friends" on MySpace and Facebook, sent some emails and even...yes, I'm saying it...I broke down and did it...I listed on my Facebook page, the links to both this blog AND my other writings. I wasn't gonna...out of fear of being judged for my thoughts and views, but I really do need to begin to live from my authentic self and let the chips fall where they may.

I already asked my husband "will you be embarrassed if your relatives find out I am psychic and talk to dead people and heal with my hands and all that strange stuff I believe in?". Being a man of many words he said "nope." I said "but what if they think I'm a weirdo, and feel sorry for you that you married me and don't like me anymore?" and he said "sound like their problem." Lordy...have I mentioned how much I love this man? See, MY family would be all about "don't embarrass our 'good name'", or worse, try to argue me into a different way of thinking...or the quiet whispers "have you seen some of the stuff she's writing? Oh My!". Not my hubby! He's all like "let your freak flag fly baby!". OK, maybe he didn't say that. That would be stringing too many words together at one time. But I know what he MEANS.

So, I've had WAY too much face-time with actual living bodies today. Face-to-face social networking....um...no thanks....not so much.

I'm still taking it easy and resting. Skipping the gym (oh how sad that makes me...NOT). I can't seem to keep the headache GONE. Sore throat is better though. I will see an energy healer tomorrow and see what she can do for me. I have several such connections in the community and we trade services a lot. I dig that.