FuelMyRoute.com - Find the lowest gas prices along your route. Everything You Never Knew You Needed To Know About Bras. I'm about to get as girly as this blog has ever been, guys, so fellas? Yes, you - I know you're out there! Yeah, look, unless you're a guy who likes reading about lady boobs and lingerie, you may want to skip this one. Although I promise to throw in some fun geeky bras every now and then, just to keep it interesting: See? Ok, so, the other night I was following a rabbit trail of web links - like you do - and I ended up on this fascinating Reddit forum about bras.
You know how you always hear that something like 90% of women wear the wrong size bra? Wrong. Did you know that a bra's cup size changes with its band size? More stuff I learned: - There are something called "sister sizes," or bra sizes that hold equal amounts of mass. It took me about five solid minutes of staring at that graphic to make any sense of it, but once you get it, it's great info to have - especially if you're in-between band sizes like me. NOT SO. This next one is one of my favorite bits: [*Technical term! How Saying "Hmmm" Instead Of "OK" Can Make You Thousands More Each Year -- Plus 10 Other Great Salary Secrets!
My friend and consultant Joe Grieboski isn't necessarily making me a salary offer here, but if he were, I would absolutely say, "Hmmm. " When I first graduated college, I had a paid internship at the Washington Post. The salary was set because it was part of their internship program. It was a good salary. I was psyched. So when I was rooting around for permanent employment after my four months in D.C., I was coming to the game not just lacking skills, but with an ignorance that eventually cost me thousands of dollars. Because up until this point in my life, I honestly do not remember a single person ever telling me about the art of negotiating salary.
I did not know this was a "thing. " And when I got hired at the Des Moines Register soon thereafter, I said two letters to the hiring manager that cost me a whole lot of money. I said "OK. " I accepted a salary of $28,000 in 1998. And I could have gotten so much more. How do I know this? I was horrified at myself after this night. What? OK, then. 1. 7 Networking or Job Pitch Emails I Have Actually Sent, Word for Word, That Have Gotten Me Or Colleagues of Mine Successfully in the Door -- Steal Away!
Madeline, Olivia, Annie and I had a rad time on Friday talking all manner of career and networking and jobby job-job stuff. If I were you, I'd skip past the first 15 minutes of the video which is kind of a hilarious shit-show of audio difficulties. But once we got going, we really got going! So even if you missed our first Google Hangout, you can check out below. We're doing another one this Friday (or next -- we're not sure yet) on relationships. So. Now that you've watched that, I'd like to give you specific language you can use if you're trying to get in the door for different job opportunities. Even if the jobs don't actually exist. Two magic words: "informational interview.
" Keep in mind, both Madeline and I didn't apply for traditional "jobs" at xoJane. Here is actual language I've used that has gotten me or friends in the door over the years. Also, try not to vomit as I talk myself up. Just remember: In jobs, it's all about cutting through the clutter. 1. 2. Subject: Introduction 3. What You Need to Know About Abortions After The First Trimester. Copy 'n' paste thank yous to make your friends & family feel all glowy & special-like. Photo by Honeysuckle Photography I am truly thankful for all of the gifts we've gotten, and having to write all of these thank yous to everyone is not something I'm going to whine about. But let's be honest — it's not easy to come up with crap to say when you have dozens of thank yous to write… especially when someone got you something really cool, but it's from your registry.
It's like, "Wow, thanks for getting me the thing that I picked out, it's GORGEOUS! I have such great taste! " Then there are things like kitchen towels/cloths that you really really wanted and got, and want to say thanks, but it's freaking boring to go, "OMG I WAS DYING TO HAVE THESE MULTICOLORED FOOD NETWORK DISH CLOTHS! Anyway, here are some stock phrases and other ideas I came up with during my own thank you writing process.
For gifts from your registry or useful household stuff: "I really love this XXXX. For gift cards or cash: "This will really help us out with some things we need for our new home. " How To Ace A Job Interview. Airline Seat Maps, Flights shopping and Flight information- Best Airplane Seats - SeatGuru. Airline Seating Charts - Best Airplane Seats - Seatmaestro. Diigo. I always loved the idea of bookmarking sites, where you can store bookmarks to sites you visit in the cloud, but I never wound up using a service consistently. I tried delicious, but never got used to how it organized your sites, and when it looked like they were going to be sold and shut down, I shifted over to Google Bookmarks. I loved their "list" feature because it was similar to using folders instead of having to tag every link like on delicious.
But then, Google shut down their list feature--just turned it off! All my beautifully curated lists were thrown into one big pile with one tag. Needless to say I was frustrated and looked again for another alternative. After surfing, reading, and researching, at the beginning of February I started up on Diigo. Like delicious, Diigo is a web-based social bookmarking site. The toolbar is easy to use. So before I saved a single site on Diigo, I wrote down a starter taxonomy for myself. Can Hospital Chains Improve the Medical Industry? It was Saturday night, and I was at the local Cheesecake Factory with my two teen-age daughters and three of their friends. You may know the chain: a hundred and sixty restaurants with a catalogue-like menu that, when I did a count, listed three hundred and eight dinner items (including the forty-nine on the “Skinnylicious” menu), plus a hundred and twenty-four choices of beverage. It’s a linen-napkin-and-tablecloth sort of place, but with something for everyone.
There’s wine and wasabi-crusted ahi tuna, but there’s also buffalo wings and Bud Light. The kids ordered mostly comfort food—pot stickers, mini crab cakes, teriyaki chicken, Hawaiian pizza, pasta carbonara. I got a beet salad with goat cheese, white-bean hummus and warm flatbread, and the miso salmon. The place is huge, but it’s invariably packed, and you can see why.
The typical entrée is under fifteen dollars. The chain serves more than eighty million people per year. I wondered how they pulled it off. I’m no exception. “No. Save The Words. Know Your Veils: A Guide To Middle Eastern Head Coverings.