Do you ever wonder...

what your outfit says about you?

Because last night, mine said, "I'm 56 years old and enjoy shopping at Talbots."

It wasn't one of my hipper moments.

Candy talks to strangers.

You might be interested to know that one Mr. Brandon Flowers is releasing a solo album this fall called Flamingo.

The buzz I've read about it is pretty unwaveringly positive, but there are the naysayers.

I think that Brandon Flowers is the best thing about The Killers, so for me there is no downside to this foray.

That is as long as B-Flow reunites with his matador buddies for just three or four more tours that pass by this way (which I hear is a pretty tall order).

image courtesy of last.fm

I don’t want to get old.

Today at work I got a phone call from an irritated industry veteran, angry and confused about why my team had handled an announcement the way we had. I explained our strategy and he told me he didn’t see how that could be considered a strategy. Simply put, we are doing things the new way.

I felt bad for him. I like things the old way too, but now we have the new way.

I love the new way. It is challenging. It is exciting. It is constant change. I’m not old, but I still find myself feeling behind from time to time. It takes work and you have to keep up. That is half the fun.

I don’t know who said it, but it’s true: you can’t stop technology, so you might as well find a way to leverage it for your use.

Someone else said you’re not old till you stop learning. I say you’re not old till you stop trying new things. I feared that if I had brought up Twitter on my appeasing phone call today, I might have put the person on the other end of the phone in the hospital.

I’m not saying that everyone needs to tweet about Bieber Fever on their iPads 24/7, but as soon as you shut out the next big thing, you’re making yourself un-relatable. You’re isolating yourself. What exactly are you trying to prove by not participating in Facebook, for example? You think that leaving yourself out is going to convince millions of people that what they’re doing is a waste of time?

If this is how people are talking, I guess you better join the conversation…if you want to be heard.

I’m fixating on technology here, but it goes for just about everything. Young people are the future, and if you want to stay young, keep asking questions. Find out what the kids are doing these days. It doesn’t mean you have to agree with what they’re doing. Even when I was a kid, I was disagreeing with what the kids were doing.

In short: curiosity is what makes youth young, and I hope to stay young by keeping curious about what’s current.

Anyone else run into this? Do you ever feel like you’re getting prematurely old because you don’t understand the new way of doing something?

Inspiration Board.

Today, Meredith at Just Lovely posted some inspiration boards that she'd made to help her decorate her newly remodeled house (and I cannot WAIT to see before and afters, lady!), and forgive me for riding on her coattails, but I thought it might be a good opportunity to share with you my new online inspiration board, The Nesting Doll.

Now, if you go look at it, be nice, and remember, it's just my inspiration board. Nothing is original (for now), just a gathering of pretty things from around the Web, but I always give credit. And for all of you nesting dolls (do you get that name? I hope people get it), I have a growing list of blogs full of little pretties that you can spend days drooling over.

I'm just starting and well...I hope I keep it up. Because it's fun.