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    shirleyxu  54, Female, China - 301 entries
18
Oct 2007
10:54 AM EST
   

义卖会上妈妈娃娃行销大比拚

从敦敦上学起,每年一度的学校义卖会我都不会错过,这不但是做善事,也是我考验自己行销能力的天赐良机。记得有一年,在香港,我不幸滑冰摔着了,拄着双拐我的旧书店照常开张,还真别说,我的身残志坚行为,赢得了大量有丰富同情心的买主。每次书都卖得巨款,在一个固定的社区里卖旧书很环保,有好多旧书都被我循环卖了两三回。真是一本万利。

昨天,我奉敦敦之命,带了一大旅行袋的书,外加新买的游戏机Wii, 下午两点直奔上中校园,马上摆开我的书摊,我虽胆大,但没敢叫卖,因为我面临的是‘全球化竞争’,对面就是日本老奶奶的寿司摊,标价10元,看她们一幅胸有一根柱子的样子,我心想,谁不知道呀,寿司是孩子们的心头好,左边的中国老太太打‘爱国牌’,兜售布艺手工福娃,也是10元就有交易。右边是孩子们开的玩具店,最惨的是身后还有一摊,南韩阿妈妮叫卖3元一杯的柠檬茶,我心想,好在天不热,你的茶水火不到哪去。

知己知彼百战不殆,我先放眼望了望四周,不幸的是,有很多人卖书,但我发现,他们的货色不济,也不注意书的摆放,七分货色三分展示,对此,我自然心中有数。我用问候击倒了把手中代币攥出汗的小娃娃们,“告诉阿姨,你喜欢哪一本书,我送给你。孩子们经不起我这样的糖衣炮弹,纷纷拿出代币来买书,我知道国际学校的孩子们心算能力差,我拿出多年搞统计的看家本事,用各种算法把孩子们忽悠得头晕目眩,你买一本,8 块钱,买两本15元,三本只要25元,还额外加送一本书给你,心动不如赶快行动!先下手为强,不然好书就没了。” 结果,我的数一本不留,全部卖光,敦敦得意地夸他的老妈足智多谋,战绩辉煌。

敦敦自己也频有收获,他用Wii 吸引了很多小孩长时间驻足,间接地使他的同党的妈妈的薯条卖火了。受益不菲。

短短一个多小时,几个孩子和家长们,经过一番如火如荼的战斗,为贫困地区的孩子们义卖了上千元的书款。回家的路上,敦敦和我都感到很累,但也都兴奋得不得了。我告诉敦敦,当你真正用了智慧作了好事,取得一点点成绩都是值得骄傲的。

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    bballchic34  30, Female, Minnesota, USA - 3 entries
17
Oct 2007
4:09 PM EDT
   

no more publics
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    bballchic34  30, Female, Minnesota, USA - 3 entries
17
Oct 2007
4:08 PM EDT
   

omg i can't belive that she said that i mean on day shes all perky and the next pppppppppphhhhhhhhhtttttt
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    scarlett  36, Female, Bahamas - 161 entries
17
Oct 2007
1:19 PM EDT
   

oh, did i mention 22 hours back?
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    scarlett  36, Female, Bahamas - 161 entries
17
Oct 2007
1:18 PM EDT
   

so. 20 hours on a bus. i met many, many interesting people. I arrived in binghamton early and, when I called connor, he was still asleep and suggested that I find my own way to the college. ok. it's a damn good thing that i am not him and am therefore self-sufficient.i knew that he didn't want to figure it out and i certainly didn't want camden to have to get out of bed to come get me. i caught a cab and half way through the ride connor calls: offering to call a cab company. i tell him i'll be there in 10 mins or so. i arrive at the door in 10 mins. i text him and he takes another 10 mins to get ready and come see me. and i love him. and hugging him was the best thing id done in months. i had a wonderful time and i didnt want it to end. (except for one occasion where he alluded to the fact that hehad sex witherin...and it really wasn't necessary to bring it up). he was so sweet and he took very good care of me. we fit back together like we used to. and yet, im still conflicted. very conflicted. i love him so (so) much. but he seems so young. he so scaredaround others and so effing full of himself when we are alone. for someone who is too afraid to ask his brother to take him to walmart, he sure inflicted quite a few bruises on me. ....what am i saying? gah, wtf is wrong with me? this just doesn't make sense. i don't make sense. my whole life aches right now and i just can't quite poking it to see if it still hurts.
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    itsjustme  46, Female, Texas, USA - 37 entries
16
Oct 2007
3:46 AM CST
   

I feel like I am way in over my head.

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    Diane  48, Female, Iowa, USA - 26 entries
16
Oct 2007
4:43 AM CDT
   

PC 0.4
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    prissy  47, Female, Hawaii, USA - 75 entries
16
Oct 2007
11:14 AM HAST
   


... Answer: I don't know.And I don't care right now. All I want to do is put my thoughts down on paper... e-paper.

So I know in my heart I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Or be anyone's girlfriend. I want to be free to bring closure to some issues in my life.
And in the meantime, just have a good time, sex and all.
I think I kinda have a steady sex-partner. That would be Robin. I like his style of sex. And there's absolutely no strings attached. He's from freaking London. They do things the way a free spirit should! So it works out just fine... And I think he likes me a little.

Steve on the other hand, is ready for a full-blown relationship. Plus he's pretty messed up himself, so in a weird irony of sorts he's the only one I take advice from. And he's good in bed!

Neither Steve nor Robin are realistically ready to settle down with anyone. And we're talking girlfriend or wife.
So they're really in my category of "being with".

I have to moan the loss of Dean. My dean. I thought we were soulmates. But that didn't work the way I expected. Not one bit!
I think that maybe in a way I was using him for my own benefit. And in the process I started to care. The deathly caring for a guy that you like. Oh God! It's a disease, an epidemic. Then they start to grow on you, and that's all you think about. Then you convince yourself that you and he were meant to be. And you're really settling for second best. Not again! Never! I'd rather be alone, and miserable than go down that path again.

So I dreamed about John last night. That we were sort of friends again. That's not realistic. But maybe, once we were legally divorced it would be easier to get along with each other. So the possibility is there.
Then this evening I filed a motion for publication. Soon it'll be in the papers, then a hearing, and then it'll all be over. I'll be free. I won't have to lie anymore. Or at least those are the rules I set for myself. I don't really have to lie at all. It's just a matter of getting over myself.

I'm letting go. I'm setting myself free. Free to fly. Fly with the rest of the loners. Fly high, till you can't fly anymore.


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    brokenheart07  45, Female, Ohio, USA - 6 entries
16
Oct 2007
5:07 PM EDT
   

My life is a mess. Going through my second divorce, it's been over a year and still it is not final, getting closer but no cigar. Why do we live in such a world where it's so hard to find a decent man? Why is it that I can't find onenormal, loving, caringman out of the millions of menin this world?
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    Mallarie13  34, Female, Canada - 7 entries
16
Oct 2007
3:04 PM EDT
   

Wow my first entry well im suprised i never
really use journals, ugg ive a little head ache (i was thinking without my glasses)what a buissy week i have but its better then haveing nothing to do(i seriously would go insane).
OMG i just got called into work i dont mind but i have to miss karateand its fighting night oh well more money.
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