Look at this post I found hiding in my drafts, just waiting and waiting for me to give it some attention. Poor neglected, abandoned post! Here’s the story:

A couple of years ago, IZEA (though they were only known as PayPerPost at the time) had a call out for pictures of ‘posties’ for their new office wall. They had just moved offices and wanted to decorate this big, blank wall in a special way and those of us that posted on our blogs for them were known as ‘posties’. (Hmm…are we now ‘Sparkies’? Cuz that’s way cute!) They were calling it ‘The Great Wall of Posties’ and everyone who sent in a picture for the wall was sent a ‘Postie Pack’ – which was a box of uber doober shwaggy goodness! Here – you can read this post that was another call out to posties to send in more pics: The Great Wall of Posties.

Now, over the years, I’ve gotten several Postie Packs from them, for different things, and sometimes just as a surprise. And the last two I received were sent from Ashley Edwards, a very sweet guy who works over there and who is a blast to hang out with, though I’ve only gotten to do so virtually, so far. (We used to have lunch every Thursday, remember, Ash?) And in his last two packs, he taped a picture of himself and Veronique (super cool chick who is PPP employee #1!) in the first one and in the second one was a picture of himself and two other sweet girls from there whom I can’t remember. (Bad postie! Bad postie!) Well, I do know that one of them is a cool hippy chick like me and may even be vegetarian. I just can’t bring her name to mind. Ack! *

It was such a surprise when he did that – when I opened up the first pack, I laughed so hard!! I thought it was really awesome – so up on the wall it went! Then a few months later, when I got the other one, up on the wall it went. And now I have begun my own wall – ‘The Great Wall of IZEA’!


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Ted Murphy, CEO of IZEA, is one cool guy. And he’s also a funny guy and I just know he’s got to make one damn fine uncle, because, he’s always making kids laugh with all of his antics! And now, he has gone so far as to ‘become’ Flat Stanley! Or he’s become Waldo – or you could even say Carmen Sandiego! Whatever the deal is, Ted is traveling the world – and this time he’s doing it without any of those airport hassles he’s always telling us about!

See, Ted wanted to have a photo gallery on his blog of all of his readers that he’s met. Only, that would not really represent all of the readers of his blog – so he decided to just send himself to us – and that way he could have pictures with all of us! Ted’s been excited seeing all of the places that he’s ‘been’. It’s been pretty darn funny!

And when Ted came here, to Northeast Alabama, he decided he’d like to go to band class with some local sixth graders, my Sammie-girl included!

The first picture is Sammie in the car – practicing “The Ted”. Oh no, you can’t just do “The Ted”! It’s a very specialized technique that takes some practice! Ha!

The other two pictures are of Sammie and one of her best buds, Lacy – and you can see that Ted just decided to come flying right out of their instruments! He was a high C out of the Sammie’s trumpet and a low B out of Lacy’s trombone! Yessir, yessir, let it be known – Ted Murphy makes his own music! Ha!

I’m always telling my kids that I’m a ROCKSTAR, but, for some strange reason – they’ve never believed me. See, I’ve been buying these RockStar Energy Drinks for quite a while now and if the kids are with me – I tell them that, of course, that means Mom is a ROCKSTAR! Duh! What’s with kids these days, anyway? Don’t they know COOL when they see it?

Well, now I have proof – that’s right! I’ve got proof! Proof of my Almighty Rockstarness!! And it comes straight from the coolest crew in town – the IZEA Crew! Yep – they say I’m a ROCKSTAR and they’ve sent me an award to prove it. Those silly kids don’t know who they’re dealing with! Pshaw!

And that purdy little award is sittin’ on my desk right now – shouting to all who come this way just how COOL this dorky little mom is!

Wait a minute…

**shakes head**
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Recently I told you about Ash (Ashley) and V (Veronique) being some of the coolest people on the IZEA team – and I never really got around to telling you what inspired me to share that with you! They are both two very nice ‘faces’ to the company – they are both personable and approachable. And now they have started ‘having lunch with all of us’ every Wednesday, via webcam and chatroom. It’s been a really fun experience!

At one of the chats, I asked them if I sent in some goodies, if they’d send me some updated schwag. I’ve got PPP schwag, but, I haven’t gotten anything with the cool, new parent company name or logo on it. (The new parent company is IZEA. All of the fun, useful, goofy, awesome companies that get started over there, fall under this umbrella, IZEA.) And without missing a beat, Ashley told me to email him my shirt size. Now how cool is that? Without even a second thought, he was gonna go to the trouble of picking out some goodies for me and sending them my way! And they got here so quickly, too!
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