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The New Look of the Blog and Why
It has been 3 or 4 months in the making and I’m glad that it is almost done. I have had this idea for some time because my blog looked outdated, buggy, and resented the fact that I it had so many issues after going back and forth with the previous designers. The Reason for…
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The Big Blog Post of The Month is Complete, but…
It is already done, it has been actually edited a couple of weeks now. I have given it out to a couple of people. The thing though is that it just isn’t safe for me to post right now. If I didn’t work where I work and if times weren’t tuff as they are now,…
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December: The Last Month of the Year
I actually wrote this post over a week ago. I need to be better about posting, I’ve gotten use to writing, saving and closing my computer to repeat the same task the next day. I now all I have been writing about lately is about my novel and how difficult it is and all. The…
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A Good Day at the Tea Shop…
The smell and taste of Matcha green tea filled my body. I didn’t know a table size of tea at the local tea house was a damn kettle size. I played it off by continuously drinking one cup after another. There were many people in the tea house, most of them were hippie-like, eccentric young…
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What I’ve Been Up to Lately
Here are a couple of activities I’ve been up to the past couple of weeks. –House Hunting – I’ve been looking for a house for the past 3 weeks or so. This was sparked by my trip to Austin (well Buda), visiting old college friends. I’m at the point of actually looking at houses. I’ve…
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Business Experiment Has Begun: Etsy.com
I am officially in business! After nearly two weeks of getting my first batch of purses and handbags (22), I finally put all of them online. I haven’t gotten any emails or purchases yet but know with a little of marketing, the business will start to make me money. I can’t tell much difference from…
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November: 2 More Months to Go
It has been a month since I’ve started my challenge of writing my novel. I learned many things about myself and the dedication that I put forward towards this challenge. If I want to do anything, I can do it, it just depends on how bad I want to do something. I don’t need to…
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Day 1 – Road Trip, East Coast: Part 1 of 2: Detroit
The first day was slow, but picked up quickly. It is hard to imagine how long a full day actually is. I woke up around 5 or 6. Started packing and took a shower. Loaded up on bagels (3), a pastry and a half, raisin brand cereal, decent coffee with sugar creme and my pick…
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Day 2 – Road Trip, East Coast: The Road Trip and NYC!
The alarm was jingling around 12:30 a.m., early Saturday morning. I knew it was time for me to do something I’ve never done before, or more accurately, done something that I’ve never done for a long time. I made some coffee, turned on my laptop, and started writing. I would have to say that I…
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Day 3 – Road Trip, East Coast: Last Bit of NYC and Albany, NY
All photos are finally up. From 1400 down to 404 photos, enjoy! I stayed in New York longer than expected. I was fatigued of walking and knew that I had to continue my journey. The Hollanders could have walked the whole day and not feel exhausted (late teens to early 20’s and in great shape).…
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2nd Quarter Review and What I’m Planning
This post was written 2 months ago and have been busy doing other things. It is funny, though, once you write something down, things start to happen and relatively quickly. The second quarter has come and past, I’m already into the discovery of my next step in my life. I’m not going to explain what…
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Research Series Week: Part 2 – Making Work Work for Me
We know how much work sucks, whether we want to admit it or not, we spend so much time there and results in being super tired when we finally get home. But, there is a way pass all of this, there is something we can do about this whole dilemma. What I Learned from my…
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Part 3 of Making Work Work for Me
The experiment is done. I will continue to do what I need to do in order to get better. But, what did I learn from this experiment? Between the planning, doing, and development of systems, I have noticed there will always be distractions. I wanted to get so much more done, but with planned meetings,…
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Ecommerce, it has begun.
It has begun, I have set up the account, thought of a name, and am ready for business. I saw what my brother was doing and knew it was time for me to get into the game of ecommerce. I rejected the notion of even participating, and even was almost bullied into doing something I…
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The Trip to the East Coast: Detroit to New York…Solo Road Trip…All I Want to do is Get Lost…
I have been thinking about this for some time. Everything made sense, when I sat down and decided what I wanted to do for a 4-5 day stretch. I could chill in Houston and be totally rested, travel to California that I have done so many times, I could visit friends who I haven’t talked…
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Road Trip Discussed: 4 Days and Counting!!!
When it came time to plan out this trip I had many options. I could have went to the west coast and visited some friends or even took a road trip on the Pacific Hwy (would have taken forever, but who cares), take an exotic trip to a beach town in Mexico, trip to Canada…
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Day 1 – Road Trip, East Coast: Part 2 of 2: Detroit
Link to the photos: Here Once I finished talking to the man near the river, I was ready for some more exploration. I continued to drive through the no-one-in-sight places of downtown. I got lucky when I managed to make it to the nicer part of the river side. It was more welcoming to me…
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One More Day and Counting Til the East Coast Road Trip
One more day until I start my east coast road trip. My emotions change left and right, and now they are near the scared-as-shit side of the meter. I know it will change throughout the day and also the day of. I still need to get a hotel room in Detroit and New York. I…
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Part 3 of California Trip May ’09
The Last Bit of my Vacation This is the last post of my trip to California that happened a couple of weeks ago. I go back and forth when it is the best time to write my vacation trips. Some of them are right after, others are a couple of months later, and at times…
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The Eventual Future…
The Future Becomes Clearer, As Each Day Passes By It is the end of May and so far this year is going well for me. However, as I keep thinking of the future and what it may bring, I think of the next step for my life. I mentioned it briefly in the last post,…
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48-hour Film Festival…sorta gone bad, but…
This photo has nothing to deal with the post down below. I just wanted to let people know I went bald, actually a couple of weeks now. This new appearance has given me the balls to do more and to express myself. We will see how long it last, but I’m diggin it! The Start…
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My Upcoming Road Trip!
Road Trippin from Oaks Real on Vimeo.
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My Typical 9-5 Day!
My typical week. I am always fascinated of how people use there time during the week. 5 out of 7 days is spent at work and it does determine what we do after we clock out. So, I’m going to see how far this goes and hope to get more people involved in seeing what…
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Burger Brawl Competition, This Past Weekend
I have talked about my weekends quite a bit lately, actually I usually write about my weekends every Monday. I learn so much from the experience of being away from my job for a couple of days. For the most part, like everyone else, it is a time for relaxation, reflection, catching up with friends…
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This Weekend: A “Night and Day” Experience
Photo By: klearchos During this time of the year there are constant changes of weather. From winter to spring and at times a glimpse of summer, also a period of perpetual transformation that brings 30 degree weather for a day or for a couple of hours, to sunshine and a cool wind breeze for the week,…
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The Weekends Are Special!!!
Saturday is a day of rest and to do other things other than think about work. I spent 5 days doing that very thing and usually spend my weekends recharging and resting. But, getting up this past weekend was very similar to getting up during the past work-week. However, this time I did get up…
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What I Have Been Up to Lately!
This year has started off great, I have changed some things in my life that has allowed me to do more, but not over stress myself when I go to sleep at night. I am thrilled with where I am going and will see if possible I can push myself into the direction and place…
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It is Thursday night
Man oh man, there is so much to life to be continuing being in a routine. Not just I’ll do this on monday, tuesday, wednesday, and so on night, but hell I will do this every single day. I am glad that I have also started this blog. I have been talking about starting and…