why my life is great

there are way too many reasons to list, but here are a few

- i started improv classes on saturday and I LOVE THEM! there is no doubt in my mind that this is what i was meant to do with my life. not blog, but improv.

- i am just happy in general. i left 2009 with a great outlook on life having had a great year and i knew that 2010 could only get better. this year is going to be great and i truly cannot wait for whatever it brings.

- on a daily basis i make people smile, and there really is no better feeling than to make people laugh.

- i am meeting more people who are interesting and great and just add so much more to life.

- my job is going great. i love what i do. i love who i work for.

- i met two awesome guys that i look up to and admire professionally and it was a highlight for the past week, month, year...

- life is just good. i have a great outlook on everything right now. i am happy. i am confident. i am lucky and loved.

i hope you are doing well too! if you're a little down, here is what i want you to do, "Take a breath of fresh air and sing at the top of your lungs. Let go of all worries and strife and live in the moment provided for you. Live in the moment that is now. In this moment do what makes you happy, what makes you feel. Because in this moment you are you. You are real. You are free. Make your life full of these moments so your life is real and you are you. Live for the moment that is here. Live for the moment that is you. Live for you. Live for real. Live!" - i wrote this a few years ago and never fully took this action, but now i do everyday and it is amazing!

-KT

First Video Yelp! Review

My roommate and I just started a new blog. We like to Yelp, which involves writing reviews for business and restaurants that we go to. So we've decided to start video blogs for Yelp! We want to bring a new perspective to the way people review. We want to you actually be there with us.

Here is our first review. We attended a Yelp event at Revolution Fitness club in Boston. They invited us there to enjoy the gym, drinks some cocktails and great food. Enjoy!

See our reviews on Yelp... Caitlin's Profile. My Profile.

First VLOG, if you will - January 16, 2010

I vlog, you vlog, we all blog on video blogs...

these guys get paid to get dressed in the morning. seriously.

if you haven't heard of these guys or haven't heard me talk about these guys, i haven't done my job. but i think i've done a pretty good job at spreading the word of how cool these two cats are... jason sadler (lives in florida) and evan white (california) get paid to wear t-shirts. yes you heard me correctly. in case you didn't hear me the first time, companies pay these two guys to wear t-shirts. iwearyourshirt.com is the name of their game. i heard about him early on last year and have been following his progress and stardom ever since.

starting january 1, 2009, jason started to charge companies the corresponding dollar amount to the day to wear their shirt with their logo and name on it. so January 1 was $1 and December 31 was $365. on top of that they have a sponsor each month which brings in even more mula. last year he made over $84,000. don't worry, i didn't do the math. someone else did it for me.

so what does he do in this shirt?: he blogs about the company that has paid for him to wear this shirt, he makes a daily video in the shirt and talks about the company, he wears it everywhere - to the movies, to weddings and funerals, to play basketball, to the mall, to chick-fil-a (nom nom nom)- he tweets about it all day long, he facebooks about the company in the shirt all day long, he hosts a daily webcast/chat where he interacts with this loyal followers.

this year evan white, is also wearing shirts - the same shirt. well not the same shirt as jason, that would be ridiculous and impossible. but evan does the same awesome things. he tweets. he facebooks. he video blogs. he chats. he lives. he breathes. it's amazing.

but it's genius. they are gaining exposure for companies that are big and companies that are small. some companies that are known and others that are not. it's an amazing integrated marketing business that is boding him well to say the least. it's public relations, it's advertising, it's marketing- everything all rolled into one awesome business. they hit every major social network and tear it up with marketing for the company. awesome. they've been all over the news. check out their press site.

today i tuned in to their live webcasts. each of them hosts an hour long webcast where they just interact with their viewers and usually give stuff away. it was the first time i was able to hang around for the whole thing. but i was literally laughing out loud. i was having to contain my laughter as it was not conducive for the work place. oops. during evan's live session, he decided to autograph some soccer trading cards (not of him) and then asked the viewers/listeners to tweet about it and he would chose a winner to receive the autographed card. obviously i did and i won! so i am awaiting my autographed soccer trading card from evan.

so you're probably thinking what everyone says when i tell them about these guys... why didn't i think of that? but seriously, it's the easiest thing to do. get dressed. everyone does it, but these guys beat us all to it! the cool thing about it, they are genuinely nice guys. i think they are awesome and you should too. i tried to get my company to sign up for a day, but well, we'll just say it's still on the table.

my recommendation to you, no my challenge to you, is to go watch one of their videos and if you don't laugh, i will give you a dollar. and i don't have that many readers, so i won't go broke. but seriously do it. i challenge you not to laugh and and i challenge you to not get addicted to jason and evan. it's impossible but i pose the challenge. good luck.

crap happens but it still sucks

I was introduced to The Sandbox morning show on WFNX about 7 months ago. The guys at WFNX - Charlie, Fletcher and Special Ed kept me company on my drive to work. Not only did they keep me company, they made me laugh. Never driving in the car on my own did I ever laugh so hard out loud.

After a long break during Christmas and New Years, I jumped in my car on Monday morning to head to work. I turn on The Sandbox and it's music. Then another song, then another song, then another song. I was confused. I get to work and Christen yells at me, "Katie! THEY CANCELLED THE SANDBOX!" It was devastating. The rest of the day we were keeping track of what was going on.

Apparently, WFNX got a new manager and in attempts to gain listener numbers and cut costs, they cut The Sandbox. In response, listeners have nearly revolted. There is a Facebook page and a Twitter account dedicated to bringing back The Sandbox and making sure management knows the listeners aren't happy. Special Ed has created a blog called The Empire where he and Charlie are also recording podcasts.

It is just as good as when they were on the air but there is no Fletcher. But it may be even better, they are still discussing the same things, still complaining about the same crap, and in this podcast there is no editing, they are cussing up a storm and it's great!

The fans on the The Sandbox fan page on Facebook are trying to get a party together to honor the guys. The party will be epic and Christen and I are ready to go.

But long live The Sandbox and it will be missed! It's weird to see something that is so popular be canned and just taken off the air like that. Like I said, crap happens, but it still sucks.

So now I have to listen to my cds, my ipod or crappy other radio stations that exist in the Boston area where they play Miley Cyrus and crappy-shits of the like.

HAPPY NEW YEAR or as the fellas say, bah weep?!

-KATIE

Christmas in the South - Proof my family is really my family!

My Christmas in South Carolina proved to be like any other Christmas. And by that I mean, it was good. I always enjoy being home for Christmas. The presents. The cookies. The Friends. The Christmas Tree. The Family.

Every time I am with my nephews and nieces and the rest of my family, I find they are more like me... as shown in these pictures...

These kids are great. And totally unprompted... sort of.

Then I figured out it runs in the family. Starting with my father. My dad is known for his quotes... I am pretty sure I need to start naming them Dad-isms. These included (pulled from Facebook):

- another dadism to make my day... "holy toledo!" - Merry Christmas everyone!

- oh i'm so home... dad just said, "you bet your sweet bippy"! LOVE IT!

And I couldn't forget my mother. Sitting at the kitchen table she looks at me and says, "Katie, which color coordinating glasses should I wear?" This was the tweet from this event. "My mom is so hip. Coordinating her reading glasses with Christmas - one pair red, one pair green."

And then there is my older brother and his wife and my youngest niece joined in... we did a little jig in honor/memory of the peanuts theme song. (the resemblance is uncanny)

So my family is lovely and I couldn't ask for a better one! They are crazy! There is no question that we are related. I hope you all had a great Christmas as well!

-KT B