Recently I read that its best to go to sleep before midnight, but for me that doesn’t work very well. I find that my body clock runs from Midnight to 8AM. If I go to sleep earlier I usually wake up within an hour or two and then have trouble going back to sleep. If I go to sleep somewhere between midnight and 1AM, I have a good chance of getting at least 5 or 6 hours of solid sleep before waking. If I can go back to sleep again great, if not at least I’ve gotten a solid 5 or 6 hours.

There’s a big Venician art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston covering the works of Tintoretto, Titian and Veronese. There’s an interesting look at Tintoretto’s Nativity and what was discovered with new xray technology on the website.

 http://www.mfa.org/venice/

"Get an education for a career that will survive hard times because the older you get, the more difficult it can be to stay afloat."

Hmm, and what might that be? At one time it was computer programming, that is until 2001 when offshoring took hold. At one time it was financial services - no explanation required. Management conultants still seem to be doing well, but as always if you haven’t gone to an ivy league school getting hired can be difficult. 

So what career is it that you think will survive hard times? 

In 2001 my cat Orie was diagnosed with diabetes. Because I had a hard time finding the right person to administer insulin shots and didn’t want to impose on neighbors, I stopped traveling and decided that since I was home I would help others who had the same problem. That was the start of a new business which has introduced me to dozens of adorable, loving kitties. You can see pictures of some of my furry friends in these places:

http://www.examiner.com/x-2171-Boston-Community-Examiner~y2009m5d19-Pict…

http://panther.sharedknowledgesystems.com:81/HandsofT.nsf/0/08AFCA33B13F…

Enjoy.

I would like to create a facebook page for my business that is similar to Wowowow’s, but don’t see how to do this. Is this a personal page with a business name or a business page? From what I’ve read, business pages have very limited functionality, your page looks like it has more.

I created a personal account and then a business page, but then everything I did like streaming my blog showed on my personal page instead of the business page. I find facebook to be the least intuitive of the social networking sites I’ve used.

Oh, and also on this topic -

you may be interested in checking out http://www.cosmeticscop.com

Paula puts out a good newsletter and isn’t pushy about having you purchase her products.

I started using supermarket/drugstore cosmetics years ago as a matter of convenience. I’ve never liked the brushes used by department store mascaras and have long used Maybelline’s Sky High Curves. Lip liners and eyebrow pencils that I’ve bought in drug stores have performed well.

I’ve still got many tubes of lipstick and gloss from years of buying the Clinique freebies even though I haven’t bought one in about a decade. I’ve supplemented these with purchases from other stores I’ve passed along the way, along with those given to me by my sister and mother. Stores like Bath & Body Works and L’Occitane also have products worth looking at.

Let’s see I use twitter to feed my blog postings, get story ideas and occasionally to let people know where I’ll be going the next day:

http://handsoftimeconcierge.wordpress.com
http://www.examiner.com/x-2171-Boston-Community-Examiner

I’ve been on LinkedIn for a long time and have gotten more active in the past year.

I looked at Facebook last week and was a bit baffled by it. I hit Digg, Reedit, StumbleUpon and Delicious a couple of times a week to promote my writing. It’s exhausting but a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do …