Saturday, January 27, 2007

How to overwhelm anyone...

Yeah, it's a goofy title, but it's a true statement of how I feel these days, and it's my own fault. Something i'd like to say is that because of this feeling, i'm really energized, it's true!!

These past few days I've been concentrating on the business I hope to create this year. Energy for research has picked up and my mood changed (for the better) when I bought fish oil on Wednesday and started taking that again. I researched fish oil about 18 months ago, what I found was that it's almost like Prozac! LOL. Anyway, check it out when you get time. Fish oil is beneficial for your heart, skin and joints. Other areas as well, seriously, check it out.

We didn't have our meeting the other day, I ended up having to work late. I felt bad because I know the guys are getting antsy about getting a website up. Our plans are moving forward however, I believe that's the most important aspect.

The price on the camera I want to buy has gone down! Patience definitely helps sometimes. I'm quite anxious to start a serious attempt at being a free lance photographer.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Marketing!!!

I've begun learning more about online marketing...again, lol. We have our meeting coming up on Thursday, i'm really looking forward to that.

Trying a new font tonight as well, let's see how I like it.

Monday, January 22, 2007

It's cold now

Winter has surely arrived now. The highs are now only in the mid 20's everyday, a little snow but nothing that can't be handled.

Today was a lazy day. I may be trying to take on too much. Concentrating on one thing at a time might be the way to go. Photography and our internet business are what I'd have to decide between. I don't know, I still think I can do both. What I really have to make a decision on is Aruba...that's a hard one, I may not go. This Thursday we'll pick a product, Nick also mentioned we should choose a name for our group (company?.

Work is busy, but it's been good.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Moving forward again

I miss you Kaylee.

A small break came my way yesterday. A friend owes me some money from a previous project we had worked on together, he mentioned he's going to pay up some of it this week. This will work out great because I still may go to Aruba plus i'll be buying a new camera soon. Photography has taken too much of a step backward over the past month, but I still want to become a freelance photographer, I believe i'll be pretty good once I get the new camera, learn the techniques from the lessons I've been recieving and apply them. 2007 is going to be fun.

This Thursday we're having another Mastermind meeting to choose our product. We're on schedule I believe to launch it April 1st. I believe with the guys I'm working with this venture will benefit all of us. We'll make mistakes together, but we'll get better at what we're doing and become successful.

We had a meeting with the board of the Motor City Salseros the other day. Again it was productive, we have a great group of people. We're going to have our logo by Wednesday this week, i'll post it here when it's chosen. We have some pretty nice suprises coming up for the future socials. The Chicago Salsa Congress is approaching, that should be a great weekend.

Lots to come this week.

Friday, January 19, 2007

Goodbye my Rodeo Angel

I'm going to keep this short..

A girl contacted me on MySpace a little while that had an interest in salsa. To keep this short, i'm going to say is that she touched my heart so much so quickly. Today on Yahoo messanger we were chatting, she then mentioned that she had to leave to help some new ranch hands (she worked on a million acre ranch) with some bulls that got loose. She said she had to go and we'd talk later...no biggie...

Tonight I got a message from her boss that said while helping out the other ranch hands, a bull came from behind and stabbed her in the back, Kaylee passed away a little while later, she was only 25 years old. She was the absolute sweetest person I'd met in years...I'm going to miss her so much..

Sweet dreams my Rodeo Angel...

Monday, January 15, 2007

Moving forward in 2007

First post of the new year..been too long!!!

One word how I feel right now...WHEW!! This past saturday the 13th was the first salsa social the Motor City Salseros created and put on. This came about during the holidays when a bunch of people I salsa with were at a party on a Saturday night, we've said it together a bunch times that we needed a place to dance on a Saturday. So I brought up to my friend Elaine who owns Troy Dance Studio that she should have a salsa night. Elaine has been in business for a long time and I should've known that she won't do anything half ass, lol. She said she'd rather have a full salsa social, we agreed. She then said to get a committee together...I was voted President...oh boy! The name of the committee is the Motor City Salseros. Elaine had used the name for a previous group she had at the studio. It was put to a vote and we decided to continue using that name. We completed the committee except for a Treasurer and started to plan for the evening.

We had my friend Dana come and take pictures of the studio, put them in an email and sent out an email to a list that Elaine has built over the past year. Let me tell you, the evening was fantastic!!! We had well over a 100 people, all this from less than two weeks of planning and promoting! There unfortunately was a d.j. issue in the middle of the week, Elaine and Mirza took care of it quickly and like I said, the evening was absolutely great. The people I worked with really pulled it off! It was a long night because the studio hosted a business networking party beforehand that went really well also. The night ended at 3:30 a.m., it was crazy...crazy good!! We have a lot of plans for future salsa socials, I think it'll work out really well.

Ever since I went to the New York and Toronto salsa congress' last year i've been wanting get involved more...and now I am. Next month is the Chicago congress, Feb 16-18. http://www.chicagosalsacongress.com

Our next social is Feb. 10, then also there's a showcase at the studio on the 24th..busy salsa month in Feb! If Sensuality comes to town..that'll really cap the month off...