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Google Home Mini Review
I got rid of my normal alarm clock a couple of years ago in favor of a phone alarm, but I had trouble with it actually waking me up. That’s when I researched to see if Google Home Minis had alarm functions. Well, they do, and it works like a charm. I got mine from my grandparents for Christmas. I took it out of the box downloaded the affiliated app on my phone and was up and running in about 10 minutes, I believe. I like that it’s so small, simple, and yet, it can be quiet or loud. I love that I can control my alarm, music, news, and…
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Minnesota Celebrities
It was Prince’s birthday yesterday, and I was invited to a “birthday party” of sorts. It was all about his music and life, there were a bunch of people from hist inner circles there, which was quite cool. It got me thinking about Minnesota, and our celebrities, versus other states and place. As I thought about it briefly last night, and this morning Prince, Charles Schultz, Judy Garland, Jonah Frantzich (Marais), and Adam Young of Owl City were the ones that came to mind. This diverse cast of characters is interesting to consider, the different impacts they made the different parts of the state they came from and what not.…
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What to do With Used Clothes
I’ve been fortunate over the years to be given clothes, find good deals, and to have found some great pieces overall over the years. Though sometimes I wonder what to do with the stuff that doesn’t work for me anymore, whether my style has changed, or I’ve outgrown something or whatnot. So here are some ideas of where you can send clothes when you’re done Poshmark – For stuff that’s better shape and you don’t have a better place to give it. This website is easy to list on but if your stuff isn’t findable among the rest, or you can’t get good pictures it may not work, beware: you…
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Anxiousness and Time
I wrote the other day about being careful that time doesn’t pass before your eyes; that is, don’t wish away even seconds. But there’s another side to this: dreading various events, if you know something will come up don’t dwell on it, instead, prepare anything you need to, pray, and then keep going with your life knowing the time, and the event, will come and go. Right now I’m looking forward to an event that I was invited to by a friend, I don’t know much about what to expect, but I’m excited none the less. Here’s the thing though, I’ll have a friend there, I’ve already purchased what I…
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Fellowship for a Movie Night
A Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Review I just watched the first Lord of the Rings movie for the first time. It was good, but it was also very long. Holy moly, so long. But I digress. I appreciate how impressive the cinematography is and how impressive the acting and storyline are. Though I’ll admit it was hard to follow at times. I especially enjoyed learning where some famous memes and quotes came from. That was probably the most fun for me. From “One does not simply…”, to “You shall not pass!”, there are a lot of famous moments in the first movie alone, so I’m…
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Digital Guerrillas
Marketing is one of my passions, I’m fascinated by it, and I certainly haven’t learned everything yet. One thing that continues to fascinate me is guerrilla marketing. “Guerrilla Marketing is an advertising strategy that focuses on low-cost unconventional marketing tactics that yield maximum results.” (https://tinyurl.com/5r929m2) What I’ve learned more recently is that it can be more about making enough impact through the strategy so that it ends up on social media. There is an obviousness to it, but some companies, artists, and celebrities, have this under wraps. Take the case study of Kelsy Karter who faked a tattoo on her face of Harry Styles to get the publicity she wanted for her new…
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Growing Up
I recently remembered that I wrote a parable for an assignment back in elementary school. It was about a girl who wanted to grow up, and whose life couldn’t move fast enough for her at one point, and somehow I remember writing in that the character suddenly found herself growing up too fast. She suddenly realized that everything around her was going faster than she could experience or appreciate it. As adults we tell children to not grow up too fast, we also tell them to grow up and to learn, and to find their way in the world. Neither is wrong and although I’m not a parent, I see…
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Fickle or Faithful
Jesus plus anything else is not the gospel. We can’t turn the gospel into some personalized thing, otherwise, it ceases to be God’s word – it turns into our’s instead. This is what my pastor talked about this morning. In addition to mentioning that Jesus demands our unquestioned devotion. This does not mean we will never have doubts; instead it means that we can’t personalize the gospel to allow for our human weaknesses, we have to pick up our cross daily and acknowledge there are things that we may want that we essentially can’t have because of our relationship with Christ, but if we truly want to follow Him we…
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Digital First
I find a lot of value in the digital world, and although not everything I do or use is digital, for instance as I write this I’m listening to my record player…mostly because I just turned off my premium listening streaming service, in favor of saving money by listening to the free version for a little while. Calendars are another thing that I know really only use digitally nowadays. I use to use planners in high school, but since my school used the Google program suite, I started using google calendar or “g-cal” and just kept with it. I love that I can easily share my schedule and events with…
