Filed under: Personal | Tags: Broad Street Run, Brooklyn Half Marathon, eHarmony, I have mice, iphone, Mexico, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, running, starting a business, swine flu
Despite what the weather in New York would have you believe, it’s nearly July. And since this blog is all about “mytwothousandnine,” I think this would be a good time as any to do a six month review.
The highlights:
- Took hand-painted mousetraps from a half-baked idea to a half-baked LLC
- Pest Control Technology , Insects in the City, and Examiner.com agreed
- Met the goal of running the Broad Street Run 10 minutes faster than 2008
- One-upped myself and ran the Brooklyn Half-Marathon
- Got promoted
The low lights:
- Sat through a date where the man showed up with cat drool on his sweater (thanks eHarmony!)
- Spent roughly $700 in two weeks on iPhones (yes, plural – thanks New York Sports Club petty thieves!)
- May or may not be able to manage the triathlon swim within the next month
- Timed my Mexico vacation in conjunction with a swine flu outbreak
- Can’t manage to get excited for more than 10 minutes at a time about any major accomplishment
All in all, it’s bee a good ride. If the rest of the year is anything like the last six months, there’s sure to be a few more wins and a few more losses. Hopefully, they’ll balance out – and if they don’t, at least you can’t say I didn’t try.
I don’t want to jinx myself, but there is a “90% chance” that something HUGE is about to happen for Mousesnaps.
As such, there is a 100% chance I will throw up on myself.
Details – hopefully – to come!
Until then – check out our hand-painted designer mousetraps… before they were famous 
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: airports, cabs, compliments, New York City, portland, travel
On my cab ride to the airport today, the driver asked me where I was going.
As if he didn’t hear me when I got in, I said, “The airport!”
“I know that,” he said. “I mean, where are you flying to?”
Oh.
Portland! A weekend of fun, a few days of work and an Embassy Suites swimming pool throughout.
“I would have guessed California,” he said. “You look like you could be famous.”
I don’t think his compliment holds much merit because when I got here I was promptly told that my hair was “overwhelming my face” – but you never know, he could be reading Pest Control Technology.
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: Insects in the City, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, pest control technology, starting a business
We got a great message from our friends at Pest Control Technology this morning, letting us know that another blog, Insects In the City (no, I’m not kidding), has picked up the Mousesnaps story!
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: Facebook, fan page, I have mice, mice, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, trapping mice
For the second time in as many days, someone told me that I should create a Mousesnaps fan page on Facebook.
So if you are a fan of hand-painted, designer mousetraps, say it loud and say it proud via Facebook. And if you’re reading this blog and somehow not yet signed up on Facebook, well… get with it already.
(I’m talking to you, Mom.)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: crafts, Hello Kitty, i hate mice, I have mice, mice, Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, new business, World's Ugliest Mice
This afternoon, I saw a headline on MSN.com championing “The World’s Ugliest Mice.”
The catch, of course, is that there’s no such thing as a cute mouse. That and they’re actually talking about computer mice.
In related news, I would like to nominate the newest line of Mousesnaps as “The World’s Cutest Mouse[traps].”
View the listing on www.mousesnaps.com!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: FEIN, Mousesnaps, New York Sports Club, securing a federal employer identification number, starting a business, swimming
Things that are not as hard as they seem:
- Securing a federal employer identification number
Things that are way harder than they appear to be:
- Swimming 100 yards
Just speaking from experience, people.
Filed under: Fitness, Uncategorized | Tags: Fitness, floating, Physical Fitness Rampage 2009, swim lessons, swimming, YMCA
At my swim lesson last night, I asked the instructor, Arthur, what I should do if I have a panic attack in the middle of the triathlon swim.
“Just flip over and float,” he told me.
I figured that would be a good a time as any to admit that I can’t float.
So Arthur spent the next five minutes trying to teach me. Except try as he may, he couldn’t make it happen either.
“That’s really strange,” he said. “I’ve never seen a girl’s legs sink like that. It usually just happens with guys.”
And why is that?
“Guys usually have more muscle,” he told me. “But you must have really muscular legs – a little fat would help you float.”
I loosely interpreted that as, “Eat an entire pizza for dinner.”
So I did. And while I was doing that, I tried to figure out if maybe Arthur has been reading my blog.
Filed under: Mousetraps | Tags: Mousesnaps, Mousetraps, pest control technology
MOUSESNAPS IS THE “TOP STORY” ON PEST CONTROL TECHNOLOGY:
I guess that’s what happens when you’re the only hand-painted designer mousetrap in town.
