Waking Up on East Coast Time

Well, we arrived back in Cincinnati yesterday, after a long day on various airplanes. In fact, we had to rise at 2 am to catch our 5:30 am flight out of Vancouver.

Today I'm trying to re-acclimate to our own time zone (something which doesn't ever come easy to me), catch up on an obscene amount of email, and try and sort through my 3.5 GB of photos and videos.

I hope to be back to regular blogging tomorrow.

In the meantime, if I could have a virtual round of applause for all of the amazing guest bloggers who filled in for me while I was gone. You guys rocked! And such a diverse selection of topics – thank you again!

All’s well that ends well

My huge thanks to those of you that stepped forward, either by voting or endorsing me or both, as I tried to land the Really Goode Job.

Alas, the dream job in Sonoma, creating social media for a winery, remains just that: a dream job.
I did not make the Top 50. And while I really am truly crushed about this, I wish those who succeeded well.

In fact, I think it's really cool that 50 folks did make it and I can't wait to find out who gets the Really Goode Job. So a huge congrats to all of you!

Meanwhile, I head to Alaska on Tuesday next week for a long and well-deserved vacation.
And while I still hope that someone looks at me, sees my skills, and realizes I should be marketing for a winery somewhere, I also still love being here in Cincinnati.

That Last Push … I Need Your Vote

Hey everyone! Sorry for the shortage of posts. I'm in DC all week on business and my fill-in posts didn't arrive as expected this past week. I can't believe it's Thursday already. I actually need more days in the week this week.

Next week I head to Alaska, but I think you'll like what we have in store for you while we're gone. Unlike this week, you'll never even know we're gone, we'll keep you so busy!

Today is the last day of Round 1 of the voting for the Murphy-Goode Really Goode job contest. I could really use your support. This is your last day to do what you've been thinking about doing for the last two weeks – vote! 

Go to http://bit.ly/reallygoodejob. Enter your email address and, unless you want information from Murphy-Goode, do not click the checkbox.

Next, go to your email. There will be an email from the Murphy-Goode webmaster asking you to confirm your vote. Click the link and voila! You're done!  You won't receive spam or anything from Murphy-Goode, I promise.

Tomorrow they announce the Top 50 (I have my fingers crossed) and immediately thereafter, Round 2 begins. And yes, the voting starts all over again.

You can vote once per email address. Since I'm out of town, I haven't
been able to get out the vote as much as I would like to this week. So
let's really show support now!

Cheers,
Michelle

Update

Folks, I just got back into town yesterday after spending almost a week dealing with my grandmother's arrangements and all those legal issues that crop up.

Tomorrow morning, Kevin and I are heading "to the Hamptons," which sounds pretentious until you realize we're just hitting a corner of Long Island, really. We're heading there for TasteCamp, which I'll post about tomorrow morning.  We're gone through Sunday night.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I'm in town and have every intention of posting – probably about our TasteCamp experiences – and then Thursday – Sunday next week I'm gone again. On that trip we'll be cleaning out Grandma's apartment, which I expect to be rather painful and sad in its own way.

After that, life returns to normal and I can update update update everything from the blog to the calendar.

Today I have to deliver two different presentations on Social Media, so that's where my brain is right now. Tune into tomorrow to learn why we're headed "to the Hamptons" and how TasteCamp came about.

Thanks for your patience and regularly scheduled programming should resume on Monday or so.

Interruptus

Due to another death in the family (my grandmother passed away), we'll be silent again through Tuesday. Please have some patience with us and we'll return to our regular programming as soon as we can.