Author: GenXBrat

  • Baby Boomers Defined

    ByGenXBrat

    Baby Boomers were born between 1946-1964, right? Well, sorta…

    Everyone seems to agree on what year Baby Boomers got started. Birth data, not to mention the end of a war, makes it easy. However, it’s tough to find a consensus on the exact year of when to declare that the Baby Boomers stop & Generation X begins.

    It makes sense though. It’s a lot like saying that the day before your 18th birthday you’re NOT an adult, but suddenly at midnite…ta-da!… you’re all grown up. Yeah right. …

  • Do You Know Where Your Children Are Planking, Owling, Balling, Tea-Potting, Pillaring, or Toothpicking?

    ByGenXBrat

    This is hilarious so I just had to share since this entire blog will be covering many of the fads that have come and gone over the decades of my life.

    I just read a post by a friend and fellow marketer that listed many of the crazy things people are doing today, specifically planking, owling, balling, tea-potting, pillaring, and toothpicking. The only one that I was familiar with (and only due to the fact that my sweetheart loves YouTube) was planking, so I went to Google and looked the rest of them up.

    From what I can tell, it appears that all of the newest fads are stemming from people who heard about planking, and are making an attempt to “one up” the fad. …

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    Halloween… Yay!

    ByGenXBrat

    Halloween is absolutely my MOST favorite holiday of the entire year! I’ve loved it for as far back as I can remember.

    As a kid, it meant at least one day of no homework so that we could dress up in really cool costumes, and get ready the school parade where parents were going to come watch us walk around the schoolyard. And it meant that my mom was going to get a few hours off work to come be my room mom and hand out treats to my friends! …

  • My Family Tree

    ByGenXBrat

    My family tree… hmmmmm… ALWAYS an interesting discussion.

    I’ve been using Family Tree Maker Software to deal with my family tree since I was on Windows 3.1. I find that it’s easier to set up the technical, genealogy side of my life than actually explaining the “family vine” that I call my family.

    I only have to go as far as my parents and my grandparents before I start confusing people and making them wonder if I was born in the back woods of Alabama or Arkansas.

    And before all of you who were born in Alabama or Arkansas start e-mailing me and calling me and telling me that I’m prejudiced toward your state… I am NOT the one that started this stereotype. …

  • Anything Else You Wanna Throw My Way?!

    ByGenXBrat

    I truly don’t know where my life decided to temporarily turn upside down, yet it has. I know it’s a minor setback, but I prefer to take on major life changes over a longer period of time than a few years. In spite of everything, I’m fairly sane…MOST days (Ok so fine, it might depend on who you ask).

    On those days that I feel like I’ve completely been run over by the semi-truck that I drive, I buy lots of chocolate and have a (thankfully) short “pity-party”. …