Showing posts with label TheMultiCareerGirl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TheMultiCareerGirl. Show all posts

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Really? Here's my grocery list, people.

I laugh at how randomly interested people are in what I eat. Well, healthy. I love food, but really, awesometastic food. So, since I have had people contact me virtually every way imaginable to try to find this out, here you go. I just turned in a Schwan's order. I buy a few weeks worth of food at once and store it in a freezer. You can save money buying in bulk. Here's my grocery list:
  • Roasted Baby Bakers,
  • Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Fillets,
  • Fully Cooked Italian-Style Meatballs,
  • Fully Cooked Bratwursts,
  • MicroSteam Baby Broccoli Florets,
  • MicroSteam Roasted Peppers and Onions,
  • Fire-Roasted Vegetables,
  • Potato and White Cheddar Pierogies,
  • American Cheese Slices,
  • Southwest-Style Burritos,
  • Macaroni and Cheese,
  • Grilled Chicken and Vegetables with Brown Rice in a Honey Garlic Sauce,
  • Meat and Four-Cheese Lasagna,
  • Fully Cooked Seasoned Pork Sausage Links,
  • Pineapple Chunks,
  • Whole Blueberries,
  • Signature Dark Chocolatey Ice Cream Minis.
I also shop at the new Thrive Market. You can buy organic by mail through them. They deliver via UPS. They also have specialty groceries for the following diets: gluten-free, paleo, vegan. I had a short initial grocery list from them:

  • BBQ jackfruit,
  • curry powder,
  • kalamata spread,
  • pepperocinis,
  • capers,
  • tea.
Wal-Mart delivers via FedEx. I order from it about once per month. I rely on it for staples like coffee and pasta. Here is that grocery list:

  • Folger's coffee,
  • Starbuck's caramel coffee,
  • Barilla linguine,
  • flour,
  • cat treats for my kitty Silly,
  • Roma tomatoes,
  • whole black peppercorns,
  • Mediterranean sea salt (coarse).
I have pepper and salt grinders. I grind my own.

I do love bread, but Wal-Mart also keeps me stocked up on baker's yeast and sugar, so I bake my own. Speaking of which, I have to go check some dough. I am baking foccacia today in between writing creative pieces for my public relations clients.

So, do please stop with the security firms, part-time private eyes, the psychic (points for creativity though). I do not date and will not date anyone who has lived or does live in my research aeea. Really. I will not take back any ex-boyfriend, especially none who live or lived in Oklahoma. I will not date any guy I already friend zoned. I pick my guys. I am really choosy, but it is MY life, not yours. I do not care who likes ME. I care about who I like. I like handsome, successful, always on their grind guys who love running and working out. So, it does not matter what I eat or cook. Stop spying. I do not care about any guy in Oklahoma and the psychopathic methods have only shown me how right I was to nix everyone I have met as a choice. Now, if you are actor Ray Liotta and ever single again, hey, I'd love to cook you dinner sometime. Probably after the Ebay product pages project is done and my weather research project, too.


Carlie Lawson writes about tech, mobile and online video, entertainment, sports and fashion. She wrote for JollyJo.tv and Movitly for a combined seven years. A former newspaper journalist, she now mostly ghost writes for her clients via her company, Powell Lawson Creatives. Invalid Inputs is her first independent, formal blog. She earned BAs in Journalism and Film & Video Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She also earned her Master of Regional & City Planning at OU. She has also worked as a model since she was 17.

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

A Short List of Ways to Find Your Grind

You can make a great income and enjoy doing it. You just need to pick the right career. Here you'll find a short list of ways to find your grind.

Love Lists and Internet Searches


1. Make a list of things you do well.
2. Make a list of things you enjoy doing.
3. Compare those two lists. The items that appear on both form the short list of what you should do for a living (so long as it's legal).
4. Conduct an Internet search for the career/industry. Pay special attention to what is legal. (Really.)
5. If you did not have anything appear on both lists, choose one thing from what you enjoy doing to make a career out of and conduct the Internet search for it.
6. Go study how to do it properly. Take classes online, at a community college, at the vo/tech or attend Job Corps.
7. Decide if you want to work for a company or run your own company.
a) Apply for jobs with a wickedly complete resume and rocking cover letter, if you want to work for someone else.
OR
b) Research the competition and a million other aspects. Write a business plan. Buy proper equipment. Qualify and obtain the proper licenses. Advertise legally. Open your business. Be ready to - and do - work from sun up to sun down and then some because there are no (legal) shortcuts.
8. As Rhianna sings, "Work, work, work, work." The point of choosing what you love and rock at is simple - your work will not seem like work.

But Remember...


Two caveats:
  • Don't start before you know what you are doing because if you mess up you could end up industry black balled, or worse, in legal trouble or jail. (Nope. Not kidding.)
  • Don't choose an illegal enterprise or turn a legal enterprise into an illegal one. How, you ask?

It Would Have Been Legal Except

Running a security or private investigations firm is legal - so long as you obtain the appropriate licenses and don't violate the law. For example, you must vet your clients - investigate them before taking their case. Your client may be a woman's stalker and you conducting surveillance or investigating her makes you an accessory to stalking. Using hacking or spy applications to remotely view a person's computer or cell phone or tablet is also illegal. It's hacking. (Among those things they teach you in the coursework to become a private investigator are those things that you cannot do because they are illegal.) Wire tap of any kind by any entity, but genuine law enforcement, is illegal. Law enforcement must obtain a warrant for a wire tap to be legal.

Similarly, if a virtual assistant impedes their bosses work, fails to pass along correspondence or purposefully misrepresents their brand, company or person, they can (and should) be fired and sued civilly. If they imitated their employer, rather than signing for them appropriately as (using the facetious example) "Sally Secretary for Jane Doe," they can be sued civilly for misappropriation of name or likeness, plus arrested. It is a crime to pretend to be another person. It is a crime to use another person's state or federal identification. You'll run into really serious issues if your boss is/was law enforcement or military.

You might find my examples amusing but, they are, in fact, actual occurrences I have come across in the past few months. They're up there in illegality with the real estate firm that created a Facebook page with stolen photos of a gorgeous multi-million dollar subdivision The real estate firm represents a trailer park. The firm counted on online sales, either not realizing or caring that fraud is illegal and so is false advertising.
Earning a good income can be enjoyable. Remember to limit it to legal activities though. A bevy of agencies watch businesses - the BBB, DHS, FINCEN, FBI, IRS and local law enforcement. Do what you love - so long as it's legal.
Carlie Lawson writes about tech, mobile and online video, entertainment, sports and fashion. She wrote for JollyJo.tv, Keysian and Movitly for a combined seven years. A former newspaper journalist, she now mostly ghost writes for her clients via her company, Powell Lawson Creatives. Invalid Inputs is her first independent, formal blog. She earned BAs in Journalism and Film & Video Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She also earned her Master of Regional & City Planning at OU. She has worked as a model since she was 17.

Snazzy Shopping Finds

I shop rarely. I work often. When I shop, I want to share cool finds. In the past week and a half, I found some of the cutest things and I...