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mufan96 Going to sleep, like I was before that pesky earthquake. 44 minutes ago from web

Anyone in Central Ohio feel the earthquake this morning?  Channel 6 News a woman in Dublin was on the phone, she recognized it as an earthquake. 

The quote above is from Twitter.  People I “follow” in the mid-west are talking about it.  Here’s the story about mufan96:

About
Name Evan Courtney
Location Mattoon, IL 61938
Web http://www.evanco…
Bio Family Life Pastor in the Midwest. Blogger, Youth Ministry, Apple, Bigfoot Seeker, Guitar Hero Thrasher

Map from mufan96 via Twitter - April 18, 2008 mid-west earthquake

The local news said because of the rock we sit on in the mid-west the area where we can feel an earthquake is 10 times as large as when we hear about California earthquakes.

This Columbus redhead has no beef with the Wendy’s logo… perhaps many have no idea I have red hair… I don’t have the usual Realtor penchant for plastering my face and the mop that sits on top of it everywhere… but I do have a photo of me on MaureenMcCabe.com and on ActiveRain (a real estate social network) and I do have red hair.

Redheads protest Wendy’s Logo
Maybe I am not joining in the protest against the innacurate depiction of redheads…

because Wendy’s is local… based in Dublin Ohio.

because I have so much respect for Dave Thomas.

because at my roots I am really not a true redhead.

Last summer when I tried to go lighter red I put my hair in pigtails…  trying to look like the  Wendy’s logo… but my friends did not get it.  Really I would rather look like the Wendy’s logo than Ronald McDonald.

Yes I do come by the pasty skin naturally and given some sun I will freckle… so maybe I am really a redhead at heart…

Thanks to  Chris Griffith of Bonita Springs Florida (Chris grew up in NE Ohio) for tweeting the protest video.  It is funny.

Ubuntu

I’d never heard the African word ‘ubuntu’ until reading Columbusite KairaSturdivant Rouda’s new book ‘Real You Incorporated’  The book is published by John Wiley & Son’s Inc.

Kaira’s  personal history as a business woman and entrepreneur is the basis of the story, but it is not all about her. Partly inspiration, partly a work book for creating a business of your own, partly the history of the Real Living brand (a real estate company), Real You Incorporated is in book stores now…

I got an email asking if I wanted to read the book Real You Incorporated by Kaira Sturdivant-Rouda about  five weeks ago. Kaira is the resident of Real Living, a real estate brokerage based out of Columbus Ohio. I am a real estate agent for Real Living HER, the Central Ohio division of Real Living. I responded via email saying “yes” I wanted to read the book and that I would review the book… on on of my Columbus blogs… duh! I’ve never reviewed a book and did not have a clue how to review a book.

Could I, would I say so if I did not like the book? Kaira is my bosses, bosses boss? Or something like that.

It was difficult for me to get into the book initially… Kaira is blonde, pretty, rich, smart, connected…she “has it all” and I am the kind of person who will think about that as I read. I admit as I read the book I would say to myself “Of course they hired her” as I read about Kaira’s early jobs in the advertising industry,  in public relations,  as a writer and as an executive with a national company.  The Real Living website says:

“Rouda is a magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University and a graduate of Leadership Columbus. She resides in Columbus with her husband and their four children.”

Luckily I could get beyond my mindset and learn something about creation, branding and business in reading the unedited manuscript of ‘Real You Incorporated.’

Partly inspirational Kaira wrote about sixteen women entrepreneurs including some women entrepreneurs I knew of…

Judi Sheppard Missett of Jazzercise

Jeni Britton Bauer of Jeni’s Ice Cream

Tripti Kasal broker owner of Real Living Infinity in Chicago

Sue Doody of Lindey’s who has also written a book about her business

Barbara Fergus of Mid West Auto Group (MAG)

Other names I did not recognize but their stories inspired me like Kelley McBride Quinn… a pilates and yoga instructor who developed a program for girls to deal with “female relational aggression”… that’s “girl bullying.”

“Is this woman someone from Central Ohio?” kept going through my brain as I read about the women entrepreneurs that Kaira featured in ‘Real You Incorporated.’  Some are from Central Ohio, some are from other parts of the country.

‘Real You Incorporated is about empowering women.

The subtitle is ‘8 Essential of Women Entrepreneurs.’   There are also twenty-four life lessons… and the definition of ubuntu…

I said “Happy Mardi Gras Columbus”  on Fat Tuesday….

I did not wake up Tuesday morning itching for a fight about how ”fun” Columbus is or whether the parades are up to snuff.    

“Happy Mardi Gras” is not a controversial subject calling for a debate.  I should have deleted the first comment Tuesday, rather than publish it.  Live and learn.

Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

I moderate all comments on this blog.  Your comments show your IP (your internet service provider or employer.)  If you are leaving comments from a computer at work know your comments reflect on your employer.  

This is a blog about Columbus Ohio.  Posting comments here trashing Columbus is childish.  

I was memed by Lola Audu of Grand Rapids Michigan: Moi??? I’ve Been MeMe’d???
Lola was memed by Linda Scanlon of Fort Worth Texas: Moi??? I’ve Been MeMe’d???
Linda was memed by Ginger Wilcox of Marin County California: MEME- It shouldn’t be about ME, but today it is…

What is a meme? Joseph Ferrara on Sellsius°Real Estate Blog defined meme:

“A meme (rhymes with dream) is a catch phrase representing a contagious idea that spreads virally in a culture, like transparency, Web 2.0, Long Tail or maybe unzillowable. The word comes from the Greek meaning “mimic”. In the blogosphere, it’s a game of topic tag. You answer the topic question and pass it on to others to do the same. “

Seven random things about me…

1. I was the Mardi Gras Queen a couple of years ago. My office Central Ohio real estate office celebrates Mardi Gras. Happy Fat Tuesday…

2. I am very, very good at board games. Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit etc. I don’t play cards… can not remember how a game is played, one time to the next … I just don’t get it.

3. I took guitar lessons for years and can not play. I can’t read music. I can’t tune a guitar. I could play chords if someone would tune the guitar for me.

3. I don’t eat wheat. I am gluten intolerant. That means no Italian restaurants… No pasta, no pizza… but it also means no Chinese restaurants… lots of soy sauce has wheat. I eat a lot of Mexican food thanks to corn tortillas. There is gluten free pasta, gluten free soy sauce, gluten free bread, cookies, crackers etc.

4. I cheat a lot…on the gluten free diet. If you ever see me eating pizza or a doughnut slap me upside the head. I will be pay for eating it later but I don’t get as sick as some people do obviously or I’d just say no to wheat, barley, rye etc.

5. I’ve lived in Milwaukee WI, Waukesha WI, Madison WI, Green Bay WI (twice), Rockford IL, Akron OH, West Carrolton OH (Dayton area) and Columbus OH. I worked at a Girl Scout camp in Central Wisconsin one summer too, so I guess I lived there.. I think the mailing address was Westfield WI.

6. My middle name is Rose… (I am really, really scraping here.) I try my darnedest not to use my middle name.

7. I have been memed a lot… please no more…

Meme me up Scotty

Meme

Meme me once, meme me twice… meme me once again…

A Reading Rut - my top five books of all time

Media Consumption Diet - Central Ohio

Yeah it’s supposed to be for people on ActiveRain who blog outside of ActiveRain too… I see lots of the same people being tagged… by multiple people so I am going to tag locally… change the direction of the viral idea…

 I tag:

Haochi Chen of Googlified.com
Dave Scarpetti of Dave’s Beer
Tina of Omphaloskepsis
Paul of It’s a Paul World

Those are all local but Bonnie’s not… I miss her… Blogging Bonnie of Real Estate Snippets in St. Paul MN.

If you would be so kind as to play along… if not it’s OK. I’ll still love you… I mean your blog.