Dreams and Reality...

Sometimes when you re-examine an old dream, you may realize your dream was the reality you didn't recognize.

A great book about the Power of Thank You!

I'm in the midst of reading the book, "Thank You Power", by Deborah Norville.
Can you say WOW??!! Now I know why my Mom taught me to send out Thank You Cards growing up!

There are so many empowering lines in this book... but the one that caught me as something I can do 'right now'... not just wait to do... but can do immediately is:

"Say thank you to someone overdue to hear it."
(page 51)

If you have this book and haven't read it, or haven't read it lately... you've got to read page 51!

If you'd like... say Thanks to that someone by sending out a free card to them at my site. It only costs you your time :)

Happy Monday!

~ Kari Womack
Independent Representative 17766
800-510-0985
http://www.sendoutcards.com/joyfulnotes

E-books & E-mail - I love the real thing!

Amazon's Kindle was a very popular gift this holiday season.
It made me think of a newspaper article I read within the last two weeks that talked about things that have become obsolete (ie. typewriters & hand-written letters).

I don't know about you - but I love to read. But my reading 'love affair' is also with the book itself. I smell the pages... feel the paper & binding... notice the typeset... examine the front and back covers. Fold some corners - write in margins. Sometimes I love a book so much, I'll go to GoodWill and find another copy to send to a friend to read too.

Just as I like to read a 'real' book... I love to receive and send real greeting cards & written letters. I actually have drawers of letters from my international pen pals I wrote to while a teenager to prove it! Waiting 8 days for a letter to come back from France was torture back then! It's not suprising then for me to share that my love of writing and my love of mail led me to have my home greeting card business. I never tire of the phone calls I get that start off, "I just wanted to let you know I got your card!". Things are so fast paced now... Life. These cards allow me to remind people that they are special and important even in the midst of the fray.


-Kari Womack
Independent Rep 17766
Send a Free, REAL greeting Card on me thru
my Greeting Card biz link @ the top of the page :)
Send a Valentine, Thinking of You, Thank You... etc.
The person that receives it will think you are the best!

Holiday cards touch hearts

Have you been dreading your end-of-the-year Holiday card campaign because it's an overwhelming 'task' to re-connect with your clients and/or far-away friends/family?

I would be glad to show you a great way to manage your daily/weekly/monthly/yearly communications, which would ultimately increase your business through simple marketing actions :)

If this is for a business, just email me your name, your business' name, mailing address, phone # and website address, and I will send you a sample of our product with a free DVD.

If you don't have a business, and just want to know more because you are strapped for time, but want to reach out to friends and family this holiday season... still email me your name, address, phone # and website (if you have one) and I'll send you a free sample of our product with a free DVD.


~Kari

A funny thing happened on my way to registration...

Ok.

I decided I wanted to go to grad school. This decision was followed by a whirlwind of phone calls, emails and conversations with faculty from my prior college to ask for a recommendation, and of course sending my transcript to the new school. Complete the application (online in a lot of cases now) and WAIT.

By the time I found out I really have been accepted (not just to the university, but also to my specific academic program) - it's time to register. I go to register and find out the school requires proof of vaccinations. In my case... TN requires proof of the MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella).

I read about this on the day of my appointment with my advisor and figured I would just go get my blood drawn and it would prove I had immunity. I mean... they wouldn't actually keep me from registering for this, right??

WRONG!

Being that it seems I can never do things the 'easy' way... I found out I could only register for part-time status until the school's Health services had a signed form from my Dr. that I either had the vaccine with dates; was immune via blood titers drawn; or had the disease already with medical records documentation. OR... I could refuse based on religious beliefs. So off to the Dr's I went with paperwork in hand - had the blood drawn and waited 4 days. Got the paperwork signed by my doctor saying I had immunity and faxed that with the lab work and thought... NOW I can finish registering. I thought I heard the Hallelujah chorus of angels singing :)

But wait... it gets better.... lots better.

I call Health Services to make sure they got the paperwork because the system still wouldn't let me finish registering. I was told I still couldn't finish registering because my Mumps immunity measurement was dead-set middle .... the exact measurement fell between what the system considers Immune or Not Immune. But funny enough... my measles and rubella measurements showed immunity. Considering I would have had the MMR shot with all these vaccines rolled into one shot... wouldn't common sense tell you I was immune to mumps too?

Call my local Health Dept. to find out when I could get a vaccine and was told they didn't have any appointments open until December 22nd! Keep in mind that once I get the shot, I still have to wait another 30 days to have another titer drawn to (hopefully) prove Measles immunity!

Yes... classes start the week of January 14 :-/

I call my Mom. I ask her if she has my shot record. She says she gave it to me. That means it's somewhere in the garage. I am not ripping apart my garage for a shot record! Then she says I've already had mumps, but they didn't take kids to the doctors for every little thing back then.... so it was probably never documented. Wow... I'm nearly 40 years old, and didn't even know I had mumps!

So I leave work to figure out, who in the world will I call and either find my shot records, or medical documentation showing I've had mumps, or at the very least shows I've had the vaccine. I am drawing a blank. Call health services at the school and find out they will administer the shot, but I still can't finish registering until the blood draw in 30 days and lab work comes back showing immunity (figure 35 days round-trip for this!!)! Yes... this means I cannot finish registering for my classes until nearly Christmas! Boo :(

My personal lesson in this is that I should have paid attention to this detail as soon as I was applying for grad school and it's just 'good business' to know where important medical documentation is... no matter how 'unimportant' you may think it may be!

Hopefully... my personal vaccine crisis will get you to think about your own medical records :)
If you are even remotely thinking of going back to school - check their registration requirements. Not all states necessarily have all these restrictions - but check anyway :)

If I happen to find those shot records... I think my head may pop off anyway... LOL!

~Kari