If you follow us on Twitter, you know every now and then we’ll post a link to awesome stuff we catch via iPhone and post on Tumblr for Phil’s grandma in New Mexico to see. I’ve been wanting to do video on our blog for a while now; I finally got around to trying it out this morning using this clip of Phil’s atrocious table manners. (He’s super cute, which makes up for being a little rough around the edges.)

If your site’s built using WordPress and you have a smartphone, I highly recommend downloading the WordPress app. It lets you write and publish posts and pictures on the go, and that’s a neccessity when fresh content keeps blog readers coming back. One thing I discovered this morning, though. It is awful at uploading video.

The workaround that I’m using to get video from your iPhone to your WordPress blog takes more steps, but works. Get yourself a YouTube account. Using the YouTube app, upload your blog video to your YouTube account. THEN, when it’s posted and public (it takes a little time to process, be patient!) go to your video’s page, and underneath the video hit the “share” button. Click “embed”, and you’ll see a chunk of code appear that starts with < iframe . Copy alllllll that code, go to the html view of your blog post, and paste. Voila! Video blog!

An added bonus to this is getting increased visibility to your site by having your videos on YouTube. Make sure to have your website link in your YouTube profile, so people that find you via your videos there can visit your website!

One thing is majorly different in life these days.

Ok wait, lots of things are majorly different in life these days.

But one thing… I never wanted to be the kind of person that needed coffee every single morning to function. To the point where I’ve gone through chunks of time where I’d stop drinking coffee for a while so any dependence I had on it would go away.

Nowadays, with the little one’s wakeup calls throughout each and every night, not only am I back on coffee but I have a cup every morning. And it’s delicious. But money’s tight these days, and time’s even tighter. Sometimes I just can’t make it to Starbucks for Fancy Coffee Friday, so I came up with a quickie fill-in for the mocha lattes I love so much.

Ready for the super easy how-to? Scoop 2 tablespoons of dry hot chocolate into your coffee mug. Pour your coffee over it, add a dash of half and half. Stir. Drank. Rinse. Repeat. Win!

Who else has tasty, easy coffee recipes to share?

About a year ago when I was commuting 40 miles south to Mission Viejo every day to a job that was in a less than positive environment, I started doing Fancy Coffee Friday. Instead of drinking the free coffee at work, I’d detour to the Starbucks on the way to the office, get a medium mocha with no whip cream on top, sigh, and pat myself on the back for making it through another week.

Now, a year later, I’ve kept that little ritual going. Except now I’m doing a job I love with zero commute (except for the occasional drive to L.A. for a meeting), and with the prego-ness I’ve made the temporary switch to Fancy Hot Chocolate Friday. It’s nice that the ritual has a happier tone to it now, a more “YAY it’s the weekend!!!” and less “Good god how am I going to do this again next week” feeling.

Do you have little weekly rituals like that, and what are they? Happy weekending everyone!

I sat down to get a couple of things done before work this morning, and I turned the news on as background noise. And thanks to CNN, every news show now has that scrolly bar of headlines that goes across the bottom of the screen.

One of the headlines caught my eye this morning – it was something to the effect of a scientific study finding that alcohol consumption has been found to lessen pain caused by rheumetoid arthritis. And it just really made me laugh, because uhhh… the pain is probably still there, but if the test subject is wasted then the arthritis pain is the last thing on their minds. They’re more interested in where the hookers at.

So basically, if science has taught us one thing, it’s this: have some wine, you’ll be fine.

this is too funny to not share with y’all – at dinner with gayle tonight, we were talkin baby shower. I tell her, “hey I’m cool with havin some kind of boozy drinks there if you think the ladies’ll be into it, I’m not that way where if I can’t drink no one else can either.”

it made it that much funnier that Gayle didn’t realize the perfect comedy that happened when she took a swig of her wine and said, “no it’s cool I don’t need booze to have a good time.”

three cheers to the winner of our we feel fine book giveaway, mr. brian sikorski of wonderful time photography! it seems random.org wanted to see his flaming middle finger just as much as we did, and brian was nice enough to oblige with a photo!

still bummed you didn’t win? it’s ok, you can still order a copy!

aw nuts, it’s been a couple of days since my last post! i’m trying to get back into the swing of writing every day like i used to; sometimes things are so busy it slips my mind!

like these past couple of days – wednesday night was my buddy shannon and i’s last chance to karaoke together before her move next week to denver, colorado! we went to clancy’s in long beach and it. was. awesome!

i’m getting ready for an open house right now because we’re trying to sell our condo, otherwise i’d give you the full and complete rundown of the night’s activities – instead i’ll just tell you that you should click here to see the pics we took!

by the way, if you or someone you know is looking for a condo in downtown long beach definitely check out www.1919beverlyway103.com and also please buy it! i’ll love you forever!

omg i am awful, it’s already a week into the new year, i’ve been home from vacation for like 3.5 days now, and i STILL have not updated anything on the blog!!

i’ll keep it short and sweet, but the holidays were a blasty! was bequeathed with a spanky new buttonmaker that will greatly expand the amount of stuff i can make for your artsy fartsy enjoyment, keep an eye out for all kinds of new designs soon!

a big ol group of us went to savannah to stay at the farm for a week and it was amazing. lots of good times all around – if ya wanna take a gander at our shenanigans, go here! if ya wanna see what celeb paid a visit to the ol’ farmstead, go here! if ya wanna see actual for real pics of our farm, go here! enjoy!

i did a crazy amount of reading on the trip out and back, so in the next couple of days i’ll have new book reports for you!

pow!!! it’s great to be back!

here’s part three in the they drink too much series – here we see the partybot way past his recommended intake of boozeahol, poor thing! this painting was also featured on the cover of the district magazine on january 2; how about you take home a piece of history?

they drink too much #3
8″ x 10″ artwork in black handmade strip frame
acrylic on canvas
$125

available through january 31 at siren
2240 east 4th street
long beach, ca 90814

happy weekending!

part one of a three part series, here we see the party just getting started!

they drink too much #1
8″ x 10″ artwork in handmade black strip frame
acrylic on canvas
$125

available through january 31 at siren
2240 east 4th street
long beach, ca 90804