One Stop Boy Shop

I’m having to fit a lot into one post.. make sure you have your caffeinated beverage of choice handy.

Fitness Friday – I’ve started going to a physical therapist and she is showing me some core strengthening exercises to hopefully help me with my neck and lower back problems.  I swear I’m falling apart (remember I told you I’d be writing a manual for it and I really am!).  I’ve been doing the exercises every day that she’s recommended.  I did not get on the treadmill or exercise bike, but I did accomplish a LOT of manual labor like staining the deck and mowing the yard.  I haven’t been near a scale but my appetite is decreasing because I’m weaning off those horrific headache pills that made me a ravenous fiend.  They caused a 22 pound weight GAIN!  In 2 1/2 months.  Horrific.

Now some news!

You remember that button that I begged everyone to push for me in order to vote for One Stop Boy Shop in the Leading Moms in Business Competition at Startup Nation?  Well I won!!!  Not first place or anything but any of the top 200 is considered a “winner” and I’m one of those 200!  So thank you, thank you and THANK YOU!  I’m not quite sure what that did for me because all they said when they announced that I’d won was send me a sample template for a press release and advised me to submit it to media in my area.  I sent my press release to the local papers like the pr people at StartUp Nation recommended but unfortunately, I wasn’t very news-worthy and no one ran my story.    I added a new tab on the top of my blog “Press Info” and that contains the complete press release (instead of the paired down one that I sent to the media) and if anyone wants to write about me, GREAT!  If not, that’s ok too… lol  but heck, I might as well try.  If you happen to know anything about PR and have recommendations of other things I can do with my news, please let me know!

Next is only good news for me and my family.  Tomorrow we embark on our several time per year trip to the cabin in northern Arkansas.  We’ll have a lovely week of no t.v. and attempts at forcing our sons to love each other.    I do have internet access so even if I don’t blog as much (but I might) I’ll still be reading!

I’ve also made some advertising merchandise available for purchase if you’d like to show your support of One Stop Boy Shop.  You can check these out at

http://www.cafepress.com/onestopboyshop, I will be adding some “Trouble” shirts soon.  But for now there are dog t-shirts as well as adult shirts and onsies.. some of the onsies are pretty darn funny if I do say so myself!  hehehhehhe

What else was I going to tell you….. hmmm I’ve probably made you all close your browsers by now anyway.

Oh well, I forget.  But happy week to you all and I’ll see you in the blog-osphere!

I remember!!!  I’ve lost some blogs that I liked and didn’t bookmark.  I know that I found them from other sites blogrolls.  I was hoping some of you could help me relocate their blogs.  One was a couple who had just had a baby (I think a girl) and they were from the U.S. but living in Germany and renovating a farm house.

Another was a retired couple that were fixing up a stone cottage that they had discovered.  They had to completely gut the place.