How hard is it to create your own holiday? If you want to be all official about it, you can register your holiday with Chase's Calendar of Events. But even that's not a requirement. A lady I met at a speaking engagement in Orlando told me about her son who lives in San Francisco. In honor of his birthday, he started putting homemade signs up everywhere that said, "June 1st is Pirate's Day." That's it. He put them on trains, telephone poles, and other public hot spots. And sure enough, June 1st came around and people could be spotted wearing eyepatches and various pirate …
Archives for March 2014
Five Pin Friday: April Fool’s Day
Here are five pins featuring fun (and relatively harmless) April Fool's Day pranks. 1) Malfunctioning Mouse - Get your cube mate good. 2) Googly Good Morning! - What a great use of googly eyes! (We sell those, by the way.) 3) Post-It Car - Just a little reminder of where they parked their car. 4) Brown E's - A cruel joke for those who were expecting a chocolate fix. 5) Doughnut Seeds - Brilliant! I only wish they worked. Want even more Adultitis-free inspiration?... …
Virginia’s Birth Story
Jason and I are officially outnumbered! It has been a wonderful blessing getting to know our little Ginny Rose these last three months. I'd be lying if I said it's been all rainbows and lollipops. Sleep deprivation combined with the winter blues is a bad combination. I'll admit to having Googled at one point, "How do you know if your baby has colic?" The biggest disadvantage little Ginny had coming into this family is that she followed Ben, who was officially declared "The Most Chill Baby of 2012." Seriously though, Jason and I agree that he probably cried a total of an hour during his first …
The Two-Week, Twelve Buck T-Shirt Extravaganza
So I'm getting the itch to create some new products. Problem is, we are running out of space and I'm not interested in living in a warehouse. So for a limited time (just two weeks, to be exact) we are offering an insane deal on ALL of our t-shirts. At just $12 each, they are over 50% off! Priced to move, baby. Now here's the thing: when these shirts are gone, they're gone. We have no immediate plans to reprint them. (Because I'll be making new ones instead!) That being said, supplies are extremely limited -- especially for certain designs and sizes -- so act fast! …
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How To Be Really Famous (In a Way That Matters)
These days it seems like everyone wants to be famous. Which makes it kind of a bummer when you put up a killer photo on Facebook and only two people like it and one of them is your mom. Online, there are all kinds of resources to help you become "internet famous." You can learn how to increase your likes, followers, retweets, subscribers, page views...pretty much any metric you can think of. But just because something can be measured doesn't make it valuable. Now behind the desire to be “famous” is the desire to be liked, admired, or regarded as someone of importance. And that doesn’t …
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10 Pro Tips for Your Next Jell-O Cook-off
What do you get when you mix geology students and Jell-O? Amazing Adultitis-fighting fun to inspire us all! When Meredith Rhodes Carson was studying geology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, one of the highlights was the annual Jell-O Cook-Off in which contestants created geologically-inspired, gelatin-infused masterpieces. The photo at right is a copy of a stained glass window in Weeks Hall on campus. Some of the categories included: Tallest Jell-O, Best Representation of a Faculty Member, Most Wisconsin (one winning entry was actually made with beer), and Most Aerodynamic. (One …
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Small Rebellion #8: Scram Winter (aka How To Survive a Long Winter)
This year, Old Man Winter was especially diabolical. We got tired of waiting for him to leave, so we took matters into our own hands and invited others to join us in a Small Rebellion we called Scram Winter. The MISSION: Sometime between now and the last official day of winter, ignore the snowflakes and subzero temps and host a tropical party indoors! Do it with your family, some friends, or invite a whole cruise ship full of people; the only requirement is to be creative in your avoidance of the evidence of winter! Jack up the thermostat. Serve tropical drinks. Blow up some inflatable palm …
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Traveling with Kids: How to Not Get Conquered by Disney World
"Disney World is going to conquer you." Those were the words a "friendly" TSA employee working the airport security line delivered to Kim. First of all, who feels it's a good idea to predict a disaster to someone on their first day of vacation, the one their five-year-old has been counting down for over 80 days? Granted, Kim was holding a two-month old, jamming a half-folded stroller into the x-ray machine, and prepping four bottles of breast milk for a some guy with blue gloves to make sure they weren't laced with explosive material. And second, what if Little Miss Sunshine had …
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Meet Cheryl Murchison
The Small Rebellion is a playful group of escape artists who share a joyful, indomitable childlike spirit and are not afraid to let that spirit come out to play! They’re united by a common goal of fighting Adultitis and the doo-doo heads who embrace its ideals. Quite frankly, they’re pretty much the coolest people on the planet. Here's one right now... • My name is...Cheryl Murchison. • My hometown is... Houston, Texas. • My biggest dream...To live in Europe again. We lived in Germany while my husband was in the Army and we loved everything about it (aside from military …
The Day I Turned Down My Own TV Show
OK, so it wouldn't have exactly been my TV show. I would have been the host of an established show called "Talk of the Town" in which I'd get to interview cool people around Madison. I was offered the job by a producer at a local TV station who heard me speak recently. If I did well, there was an opportunity to branch out into other shows, and maybe even create my own. Kim and I spent some time imagining the seeds of a pretty cool program we could do highlighting fun Adultitis-fighting things in our area. While grocery shopping last week, I imagined what it would be like to be famous, …