Twitter World Cup Hashtags

In addition to creating an awesome World Cup Twitter page, Twitter has created hashflags, which is what they are calling the hashtags that display little flag icons of the countries in the World Cup. The general hashtag for the World Cup is #WorldCup, which produces a...

Sprite’s “Liquid Freedom” Commercial

I LOVE this commercial:   Apparently, the ad launched in March of 2005… From what I’ve read, I’m guessing that it launched in Germany, because I’ve just started seeing the commercial over the past few weeks. There seems to be a lot of...

Inaugural Week of Sock: Chi City 2008

So, I’ve been in the Chi for a week, now… and it couldn’t have been a better week. In my last post, I wrote about my unexpectedly fun first night. I spent most of the next day (Friday) recovering on the couch, while watching Euro 2008 among doing...

SocK: Chi City

What is SocK, you ask? Why it’s Summer of cK, of course! 😀 I have to give props to my friend who originally came up with the “Summer of Jessica” when she recently had a long break from work. Ever since I graduated from college in 2003 and moved out...

It’s Been Awhile…

The title of this post currently holds more than one meaning for me… but, I’m just going to go into one, for now… It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on here… Over half a year, in fact! Since I haven’t been posting, I...

High School Hero: Claire Markwardt

This has to be one of the most inspiring stories of courage and determination that I have ever read: High school runner breaks leg in meet, crawls to finish anyway Ask Markwardt to tell you her memories from the meet, and the first thing she mentions is how perfect...

The Hills Of Los Angeles Are Burning

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Southern California fires by now. I hope so, anyway… it’s only the biggest news in the country this week. First of all, I want to thank those of you who have taken the time to call or message me to see if we...

Zoobs’ Short But Sweet Visit

So Zoobs, one of my best friends from college, came out from St. Louis to visit me in the OC for a little business trip. He was out here from Friday morning to Monday afternoon. It was a good time. The purpose of his trip was to get started on developing a website for...

August & September 2007 Chicago Extravaganza

So, I was home in the OC for a short two weeks after the July 2007 Chicago Extravaganza before I flew right back to Chicago for six more weeks of pure extravaganzing. I’ve been back home in the OC for three weeks now and I finally feel like I’m settled in...