Filed under: Fitness | Tags: ice cream, New York Sports Club, Tastykake, Turkey Hill, Utz, working out
Guess what.
Turkey Hill started making Tastykake-flavored ice cream.
It’s like taking the best Pennsylvania dessert and mixing it with the other best Pennsylvania dessert. If they somehow threw in an Utz potato chip, I might just lose my mind.
I know I really don’t have any business eating Tastykake ice cream – much less eating it at quarter to midnight, but I worked out for like 3 hours today.
That and as I was trying on a sweater at Banana Republic on my lunch hour, the fittng room attendent said, “What are you an extra small?”
Not at all. But I’ll take it.
And you should try it.
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: Etsy, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, valentines day, wall hooks
I will give $50 to the first person who can figure out how to turn a mousetrap into a wall hook.
I’m serious… As usual.
I spent a few hours on Valentine’s Day trying to figure out how to do just that, but only succeeded in nearly setting one of the traps on fire and snapping my own hand in the process.
But that’s a story for another time. Right now: wall hooks. Let’s make some. I mean, if only so that I can respond to this person (and his cat) on Etsy:
Hi,
We love your mousesnaps–maybe even a little too much! So we (me and my cat, Parker) was thinking that these must be purely decorative mousesnaps (on accounta Parker’s mad mousing skills an’ all), but that they would make AWESOME wall hooks.
Anyhoo, whaddaya think?
Our most kind regards and sincerest hope for you prompt reply,
Roy & Parks
If you’re not going to do it for me, then at least do it for Roy and Parker.
And the $50.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: coworker, gym etiquette, New York Sports Club, phsyical fitness rampage 2009, running, spanish
My co-worker taught me a pretty useful Spanish phrase the other day: “Yo voy en el gimnasio,” or “I am going to the gym.”
Perfect.
Once I had that down, he tried to teach me “Yo voy en el gimnasio something something something,” or “I am going to the gym to work out,” but I was having none of it.
I said, “What the heck else do you do at the gym? You don’t need all that extra business on the end.”
I thought that seemed like a very reasonable point, but I guess the world just likes to mess with me because last night at the gym, a woman stepped onto the treadmill next to me and proceeded to read a magazine for at least 9 minutes and 13 seconds before she so much as turned the machine on. I know this because I ran an entire mile in that time and was really irritated that she had to stand next to me and read – leisurely - while I was busy acting appropriately.
In any case, when she was finally ready to work out, she set the pace at 5.5 and – I kid you not – skipped for the next 12 minutes. While wearing a baby backpack.
I might have been willing to let it slide, but then, she splashed my leg with what appeared to be Tang as she was trying to put her sport bottle back in the holder. She didn’t even bother to apologize, but I really wasn’t expecting her to because she was clearly from another universe.
So. Tomorrow I might ask my coworker to teach me how to say “reading,” “skipping,” and “spilling Tang.”
And when I have all that down, I’ll ask him how to say “STOP.”
There is a man who lives in White Plains, NY.
He is most passionate about “Romance , cuddling .etc” and typically spends his leisure time “Working out , relaxing , making love.”
He most likely is the owner of an overstuffed, patterned mauve sofa and he appears to have a pronounced lazy eye.
And he wants. To talk. To me.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: beyonce, fashion, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, oscars, russo
Look at this – Beyonce’s Oscar dress is a lot like our Russo Mousesnaps line.
And she looks great and all, but I kind of like the mousetraps better.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Etsy, examiner.com, media placement, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, new product, public relations
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: eHarmony, macy's, Monday, punctuation, typos
I have a feeling this week is going to get ugly.
I say that for a few reasons:
1. I just noticed that the gown I bought today has a small stain on the bottom.
1a. I really don’t want to go back to Macy’s and sort it out.
2. I was away for the weekend and as soon as I got home, we ran out of toilet paper.
3. I had the following message waiting for me on eHarmony from Tyson, 26:
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I’m tyson and i find yo so beautiful , and i would love to get to know you better , if you’d be interested , my email , tgi@xxx.com
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Man. I find yo so annoying.
(And for heaven’s sake, use a period.)
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: co-workers, eHarmony, game night, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, New York, New York Sports Club, sales, singapore
So I just went to every CVS and Duane Reade in a four block radius of my apartment and bought their supply of mousetraps – 32 in all - because I need to duplicate the entire Mousesnaps inventory and send it to a woman in Singapore on Monday.
I know, I know. I blew my own mind with that one too.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to get to the gym before I head out to “Board/Bored Game Night” with my co-workers on the Upper West Side. And since I’m being ridiculous and having relatively good luck with it lately, I might just meet up with someone from eHarmony after that.
I don’t know how this got to be my life, but here we are.
I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it and at least you can’t accuse me of not trying to make it.
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: Etsy, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, sales, singapore
If I weren’t at work, I’d scream my head off right now. Why?
Because someone who owns a shop in Singapore just offered to buy every single item on the Mousesnaps store.
I guess I’ll just have to save my voice for when the order actually goes through.
Viva la Mousesnaps!
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: entrepreneurship, from patent to profit, garlic press, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, starbucks, strategic entrepreneurship
Back in November, while I was home for Thanksgiving, I went to Barnes & Noble in Philadelphia and bought two books: Strategic Entrepreneurship: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths and From Patent to Profit: Secrets and Strategies for the Successful Inventor (Third Edition).
Because I had nothing better to do, I decided to read 90 pages in the second floor Starbucks. I might have made it straight to 100, but some middle-aged man sat down right at my table and said, “Patents, huh? Know anything about the stock market?” and then proceeded to try to tell me his life story.
So I left – in a huff, of course – and went to a second Starbucks where I ordered a second cup of coffee and read another 50 pages until a much younger man sat down at the next table and asked me for a napkin of all things - and then proceeded to try to tell me his life story.
So I left – again – and as a result of being entirely hopped up on caffeine I walked the 40 blocks back to my brother’s house, rang the bell and shook From Patent to Profit at him from the front porch.
“Oh you should have told me you wanted that,” he said. “I have the Second Edition.”
He shrugged. ”I wanted to make a garlic press.”
This is what we do: mousetraps and kitchenware.
Surely, we’re a touched pair. But between the two of us, we will figure out how to file a design patent for Mousesnaps. And then maybe we can work on the garlic.
