Mother-in-laws are fun!

The other day I was skyping with S. and in the background I heard a lot of commotion going on.

me - "what's all that noise?"

S. - "oh that's mom. she's doing laundry."

me - "are you helping her??" ::preparing to get on my soapbox::

S. - "no"

Me - "S! I know your laundry is in there - you know how to do laundry - you help your mother! or at least offer!"

about this time S.'s mom asks what I am saying as she can hear me over the speakers and understands my voice is louder and not as sweet (ha) as normal. he translates, laughing.

I hear her make a scoffing noise followed by some rapid Italian that I barely heard (read understood) until I heard the word "mammone". What? you don't know the word "mammone'? Well it means "mamma's boy" and is entirely fitting in many (read most) Italian men. God love'em. LOL

upon hearing her rant, I burst out laughing. His mom, surprised I knew what that meant, started laughing too. I could just see her rolling her eyes and making hand gestures at her own comment.

so I said to her via S. "what are we going to do with that man?"

Her response, translated from Italian was basically " Kick him in the ass. don't you agree?"

to which I replied "SI, certo!" which in my english translates to "yes absolutely!".

then we laughed together in complete womanly harmony. ahhh common bonds transcend all language barriers...

more later...

Fun with Mail

YAY!! they're heeeeeerrrrrrreeeeeeeeee.

Have you heard of Moo cards? My friend Sara, who is in fact a networking guru and always seems to be ahead of the curve with great ideas (I'm a little jealous), has talked about these cards for ages. I finally got around to checking the site out and it is so cool!

Basically, you can send them any pictures you've taken or created, crop it and make postcards, note cards, stamps, greeting cards and minicards. They print the order and zip them to you. It was the minicards that caught my attention. I decided I need to have just some "networking" cards with my info on them to pass out to people I meet along the way. If in fact I meet new people - lol.

However, I was too impatient to actually send them any of my photos. Well, to be honest, since my mac crashed I don't have too many on the computer and was too lazy to go thru my backups. (I will one day though) so, I used some pre-made designs available and came out with some REALLY CUTE cards!

Aren't they cute? So bright and fun! They are smaller than regular business cards, so of course I had to buy a holder too.

Anyway, I thought I'd share because I think it is a really cool idea. They take about a week to print and another week to receive them as they are shipped from the UK. But so worth it. They are reasonably priced too.

You should see the creative ideas people have with these cards. My favorite are the framed vacation pics that are actually minicards - you know like in one of those multi-pic frames? So creative!

Ok - this is my hip and trendy tip of the week. I'm not sure how many of these I can do as I am not as hip and trendy as I'd like to be. hehe Be cool with me - order some moo-cards!

More later...