I Blog, Therefore I Am

When I started blogging I think my friends and family saw it as an opportunity for me to vent, and maybe even get a little creative. The few I told about it gave me their full support. A few months later, I know they must have raised their eyebrows a bit. “Oh, you’re still doing that, huh. Why?” I’d vented about losing my job, and my creative side had given birth to a few heartfelt pieces of...

WDIBMM 2.0 – Now powered by Wordpress!

Well I’ve done it. I’ve moved to Wordpress. And changed my domain name. Well not so much “changed” as added a new domain name to the mix. When-did-I-become-my-mom.com will still work, but now it will direct you to WhenDidIBecomeMyMom.com. Why? Well that pesky “-” is hard to find to stick in the middle of all those words. Soo… Why Wordpress, you mean? Well I guess I just felt...

iPad testing review scam!

I’m still catching up on the blogs of my 200+ visitors a week ago, but I had to let you know about this scam. I just got an email from a company letting me know about an opportunity to review and keep an iPad. They were “apparently” referred by a fellow blogger. Be on your guard folks, this is definitely a scam. The problem is that it looks so realistic, and the personal...

Thank you SITS girls!

I had a fantastic time being the Featured Blogger on SITS yesterday! I’ve been lurking around some of your blogs and I’m going to be touching base with everyone who stopped by, but it’s going to take me a little while… So many of you stopped by and left me such great comments! Some of you literally made me laugh out loud! Yes, T&T can be a great place for Spring Break. And yes, a season...

It’s MY Day!

I’ve been singing it loud for the entire family to hear whether they care or not – It’s MY day today! Today, I am the Featured Blogger over at SITS.* Which means that for a lot of you visiting today, it’s your first time here! To you I send a “Warm Welcome from Trinidad!”  I know that while you may be new to Trinidad and new to my blog, many of you are all too familiar with...

Permission to be the Brand

I have long been lamenting the dwindling interest in historical sites and events in my area. Places that hold memories of my childhood where I was in wonder at this world around me. Places that this new generation is missing, stuck behind a Wii or TV. How to reach out and get them out there? Somebody has to do something. What can I do? Ideas were “bandied” about and, there being strength in numbers, an...

Hacked!

Ok so mere hours after I submitted that last post on the Trojan being used to carry out increasingly widespread fraud within the US, and the work at home scam that gets them their “mules”, guess what happened? Well you read the post title so you already know. I was hacked! My twitter account was hacked, and I sent wonderful Direct Message spam to literally like 100 of my followers. Can you say very red...

Through the looking glass…

I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, an amazing mother and a close friend for way too many years to count. After many years of us girlfriends being inseparable, she’s ended up migrating to another country and starting her family far away from home. We keep in touch via Facebook and Skype and email. Thank God for the wonders of technology! We’ve been able to video conference and see pregnant...

Year in Review

Ten years ago, I was planning to spend New Year’s Eve in some freezing computer room making sure the Y2K madness didn’t swallow all our technology and all our clients’ money along with it. TEN. YEARS. Where did those years go? Can it really be ten whole years since then? I’m happy to say that in those years I paid my dues. I don’t find myself planning to be away from the fam this...

Close… but no cigar

Meant to post this yesterday but had 2 kids down with stomach flu, and REALLY had to concentrate on getting them better before Christmas!Hi all my wonderful, darling bloggy peeps. Guess what… We didn’t win. On the last day, we took over 3rd spot from what I can tell, but PBD wasn’t bound by number of votes, and awarded the 3rd prize to someone else. It’s all good though, because we did WAY...