On a recent overnight trip to Kennewick (Best Western, you rock), we stumbled upon the following business:
Drive through coffee and ink refill
Apparently, they are the ONLY drive-through Ink refilling station in town. In any town I’ve ever heard of, but whatever. They’re also a NASCAR gift shop, an espresso stand and a jiffy lube.
For more info on our trip, check out Room For Two <3 and happy trails to you 
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Eh, the play-on-words in this title could definitely lead to something more exciting, but mostly I just wanted to talk about the facebook friends lists.
If you’re not using friends lists, you’re doing a disservice to yourself. With my friends lists, I can easily see “Everyone I know in Las Vegas” or “All my friends who hula hoop” or “mom bloggers” or “Marketing reps” or “People who support my work” or “Other Freelance moms” or “Past clients” or “Present clients” Heck, I haven’t yet but I should make one for “Future clients,” huh!
The value of this is huge, for me it means I can target messages to groups of people who are interested, I can send articles out to the population of my friends who would appreciate it, I can send a note saying “I’ll be in Vegas next week” to solicit lunch dates.
Most of my lists are geographically centered. I’m trying to build a life of travel, so every time I add a new friend, I try to find out where they live, so I can group them appropriately.
Here’s How to Make A friends List:
If you click on profile, to view your own Facebook page (instead of your news feed) you’ll notice on the top of the left column that it says “Friends (1367)” Actually yours might not say 1367, what are the odds? Mine says 1367 because that’s how many people I have. Yours will have a different number, but the number is irrelevant… just click on the word Friends on that line.
OK- it will bring up a screen that shows you a list of all your friends and at the top of the list, on the right side, click the button that says “Edit friends”
OK then at the top you want to “create list” and just choose everyone you think should be included.
Later, when you request friendship with someone, you’ll get to choose “Add to list” before they even decide to accept or decline your request.
When you go to send notes, share links or photos, click the “sort by list” (I think that’s what it says?) and you’ll be able to pick and choose according to which list they’re on. Every friend can appear in more than one list, so if you have a list of “Friends from high school” you can still have them sorted by their state by making a statewide list
For more advice managing facebook, please check out a company I work with called Business Resource Alliance. We teach businesses how to manage their online presence.
Ok, perhaps over the past year or so you’ve noticed that I haven’t ACTUALLY gone anywhere except an East coast funeral. That’s not exactly a vacation, is it? Lack of travel can drive a gypsy nuts. Seriously. I’m not made to sit still. I blogged last week that I was getting a divorce, even. But so far all that’s transpired is that my husband is committed himself to making SURE I get to go places. He’s taken me out to dinner and at that time, he didn’t even know it was such a big deal to me. It’s working, so far we’ve taken a day trip and an overnight (the first EVER since we had kids). Plus he’s taken me out to eat a few times. I guess we’re falling in love again.
Next month, I will be traveling ALONE and I am so darned excited, my head could explode. I’m going to be speaking at the Life Rocks Conference in North Conway, New Hampshire. It was a difficult decision, to go without the kids, but I’m really looking forward to allowing myself to become immersed in the environment, with no responsibilities and the freedom to explore. My plane flies in and out of Boston and I’ve always wanted to explore Boston. I can’t wait. I’m so so so excited