Day Two: OMG! My Shih Tzu is a Perv!

Hello Cyberspace! Margaret again, still tackling Facebook, and now ready to move to MySpace because I found out that's where the Bay City Rollers are, and if I want to be their friend, I need an account there. Hey, I've made moves for lesser reasons! But now, on to the issue of the day....

My new shih tzu is a freak! No kidding. Looks innocent enough, doesn't he? But he's been going around to my staff (just the women, mind you!) and licking their ankles. Toes, too, if they're wearing sandals! (Which Kim usually does! Okay, that's kind of funny when I hear a little gasp from her office because Gizmo got her ankle! Am I evil?) Anyway, who'd have thought I'd be mother to a freaky toe-licking Shih Tzu! OMG! If he does that to a client, I'm gonna die!!

But foot fetish aside, he has been a great office dog. He's not freaked out by new people (very good with the number of folks in and out), and he sits very quietly while being petted. Downside is, I'm sure productivity has gone down 50% because everybody wants to play with Gizmo!

Even my mother, who used to come to the office to see ME, now comes just for Gizmo! Pushed aside by 9 pounds of fur! What a letdown! And did I mention that he tries to eat his own poo? My mother knocked me off my pedestal for this? (Sigh!) I should be used to it by now, I suppose. For years I lost out on Favored Daughter status to a poodle, so it should only make sense that now I've fallen from grace due to a poo-eating, toe licking shih tzu! And for this I went to Grad School?

Well, tenuous Mother-Daughter bonds aside, Happy Friday to everyone from the Divas and Gizmo!

Day One in Techno-Land

Margaret here. It's day one in the world of technology and social links. I just set up Facebook two days ago, then read about blogspot and thought I'd try this too. Why, you might ask? Because this whole way of communicating is just amazing to me. The Internet has opened up the world and made it feel a bit smaller, and that is wonderful! Now, I want to learn what the potential really is from both a social and a business standpoint. That's me - always needing to have a goal for anything I do. Too many years at university, I guess! Everything for me has to be researched and measured! I am truly a geek at heart whether folks believe it or not.

So, what will we do with this modern miracle? We're in the midst of setting up a fun website for businesswomen, and maybe we can try out some ideas for the site. I think we'd first like to test drive an advice column. Face it. We're what you'd call "experienced" businesswomen. Surely we've learned something we can pass on to the young'uns.

My first lessons would be these:

• Don't take things too seriously. Today's difficulties will most likely be supplanted by much bigger worries tomorrow, so relax!


• If all else fails, go have a drink at lunch with a girlfriend. You'll feel like you're being a bad girl, and that's always fun! (Don't forget the breathmints!)

Okay, so I realize the chances are very good that this message will go out into cyberspace, or will only be read by Kim and me. But who knows? Maybe someday 100 years from now someone will find our blogs and be inspired, and put us on par with Confucius, or, at least, Dear Abby!

I'm off to study now. Hoping for great adventures in the world of social linking. Feel free to comment, or ask any advice questions you like. I can't promise the answers will keep you out of trouble, but you know what they say:

A good friend will bail you out of jail. But a best friend will be right there with you saying, "Damn, that was fun!"