If you ever want to bring a little energy to your wedding one of these days, just take a look at this video of a very creative way to enter the church for your wedding march. I’m sure I could have never gotten away with this with my mother-in-law, but I’m sure everyone in attendance will remember this wedding.
Have you done anything fun like this at your wedding or a friend’s? What’s the best thing you’ve seen at a wedding?
Uncovered by Ryan Crozier at the Indianapolis Wedding Blog
Today is my 35th birthday. Not a really big deal, but this year I noticed something I haven’t noticed in previous years. I got A LOT of emails from places that I do business with throughout the year that wished me a Happy Birthday by giving me free stuff.
If you haven’t done it, I really recommend you lookup the business you do business with all the time and register for whatever they have. These can be restaurants, online retailers, bricks and mortar retailers, golf courses, etc. Just about anything you can think of really. Here’s a list of some places I received email from this week with freebies.
That’s just a short list. I haven’t pursued many of these places, just signed up for things as it’s come around. There’s probably $100+ in savings just in that list alone.
I would recommend setting up an email address with an one of the free, online services to use as your email address for these types of things though to help control overwhelming your primary Inbox with these types of things and to help provide a bit of a filter for spam.
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How many times have you been mindlessly surfing through the web and halfway oblivious to the world around you? You’re paying attention but you’re almost numb to really what’s happening in front of your eyes. Then you see it. It kind of catches you off guard and immediately you’re alert and perhaps irritated. You’ve just seen a SparkWord.
A SparkWords is something you read and you’re immediately "sparked" with emotion. It could be a variety of emotions, but you immediately feel something inside of you.
The SparkWords site allows you to jump into the topics of interest for you. Share your thoughts and be challenged by the thoughts of others related to these words and phrases.
It might be a particular word or controversial phrase that gets you fired up while you’re reading a blog, skimming a story, reviewing a product, or crawling the social web.
Whether you’re into sports, politics, business, celeb gossip or anything else, SparkWords let you ignite, jump into, or follow debates and discussions on topics that matter to you.
I like the idea, but I think they need to expand the functionality and ease with which you can jump into the conversation. I think they should be using twitter and you can be alerted via the micro-blogging tool when one of your SparkWords is shared online. I also think tools to let you quickly add your own SparkWords to the conversation through a toolbar or right-click contextual menu.
It’s still in beta so I’m sure the features and development will continue.