INSTAGRAM INSANITY!!!

Yep, as my title says , this week has been all consuming by an APP!!!! Yes my friends, in 2 days I have gone from complete amateur , to #tagitlikeaboss thanks to the help and tips by Ms. +Peg Fitzpatrick herself. 

That being said, I have totally neglected my other platforms such as Twitter, and Periscope and at the bottom of my list poor, poor, poor +Pinterest . Instagram is like a bullet train , Poor Pinterest is like the locomotion.(choo-choo) Sad. but true. So here is my 2 cents or should I say in all caps CAUTION!!! Instagram will run your life. Why ? because you want to capture , video , post every living moment of your being. Talk about being in the present. Then you get excited when random ppl like your posted pics of your cat, then start following you. Thats where the anxiety sits in . Omg I am a Star ! In 2 days I have almost 200 followers. Now lets be honest here, there is no way shape or form that this would have happened to me on Twitter circa 2009. No way. And you know that, probably by now.

There are a variety of topics that absolutely mesmerize me: bullets please:

• book worms
• architecture
• photography
• other business owners
• men
• +Grumpy Cat 
• +Kat Von D's High Voltage 
• +thekatvond 
• and drum roll: makeup , makeup, makeup.

On this last topic of makeup: it will consume you. Please do not fall into the Makeup vortex like I did and ordered every single liquid lipstick and glitter galore. Yes folks I am currently waiting for my makeup to arrive. This is where they get you!!!

So stop breathe , smell the roses. Pause and then think of the next picture you will post, sorry I have to get back to +Instagram 

xo +latinabug nj 

GOING TO DISNEYWORLD? PREP PPL...

MY MIND WHILE "PREPPING"

Well Hello M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E! Remember the Mickey Mouse show?!! I think it was on 2 centuries ago. Anyway, I haven't been to Disney world since 1994 , so do the math. I wasn't aware of all the "prep" you actually need before arriving.
The "prep" or Mise en Place (meeze-on-plahs) definition: means to have on hand all the ingredients measured and prepared- we are going to need bullet points for this:

• Here I am thinking of all nights, I am just going to pick up the phone and voila there will be a Disney Magic Kingdom table reserved and ready for me before midnite -not . Make sure you call way in advance to make your dinner reservations. I am lucky enough to have a fellow tweep that hooked me up with a wonderful app : My Disney Experience- whatever you do download this! Of course after putting in my date and refreshing the screen after 100 times, I got a dinner reservation at 9pm!! woot!
• Another term or event that you may be unfamiliar with: Maximum Park Capacity. Meaning you will actually be turned away, regardless if you got there as early as 10am. Yep, so we are getting there at 7am and we are planning to stay there way past midnight.Gasp
• Now in the event you are not app friendly , you have the option of calling for dinner reservations: which of course I did: and you are greeted with harps and twinkle and magic and a unicorn and rainbows. Then the customer service rep comes finally on the line. This is me: Hi! I want to make reservations for Magic Kingdom for NYE. Insert unamused emoji here. Ok no places available. Me: Check Epcot! Check Animal Kingdom! Customer Service rep: Mam Epcot is not Magic Kingdom...

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•  Who knew after 20 years things would be so different. But they are. Remember in 1994 there were no apps there was only Mickey & Minnie and Pluto and well you get the picture.
• Oh and also if you think you will get into a drunken stupor on NYE forget it the only place that you can get a beer is at "Be our Guest Restaurant" which is book till 2020. We will only have coca-cola (wink)
• Oh and I have included a link below on how to enjoy Disney w/ the Whole Family (yes there is a You Tube channel for that)
• And it goes on and on and on....geez sometimes I wish it was 1994 again.DISNEY PARKS YOU TUBE CHANNEL NO REALLY 

So guys, I will keep you updated... this is really a work in progress...
xo @latinabug_nj

TROLL EPIPHANY ON THE SCOPE...

Awwww so you guys missed me , you really really missed me. Yep by one day. So anyway yes my "epiphany" was as follows:

This is all regarding Periscope, and how happy I was to see that I had close to 1,750 followers. If you tweet organically like I do , meaning its me folks not a bot, then you would be jumping up and down if that was your real follower count. And believe me it took me a way long time on twitter to actually get to the two thousand mark . Way too long. To my amazement , and after just a few months on the Scope a.k.a Periscope my follower count was on the up and up. That was until this past Thursday when I watched a live scope done by Mr @raygcreative and mind you that this was after 10 pm when I'm usually getting ready to sleep and on a weekday. What was happening on Periscope was a troll invasion, like a virus I was getting new followers but upon close inspection my followers looked something like this:
SEX CHAT
SEX CHAT
SEX CHAT
So Thank you Ray for opening our eyes , because Trolls come in all shape and sizes. And some of them look like supermodels. They even have FAKE VERIFIED CHECK MARKS!!! FOR REAL, (Thank you Ray for pointing this out to us) Another way to spot a troll or "fake follower" is when they have 4 followers and they follow more than 6000 ppl , yeah you do the math ratio. After watching the Ray scope , it took me until 1am to block all the trolls one by one. I even was tweeting to Ray and giving him live updates.
Bottom line: I went from 1,700+ followers to 614, now that's a lot of blocking!! But it needed to be done.
Mission accomplished, not really , its still a work in progress. Just ask Ray
xo +latinabug nj

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A TROLL MAY LOOK LIKE THIS....

MEETUP- AGEISM IS ALIVE AND WELL PPL

PICTURE OF 57 YEAR OLD WOMAN LOOKING AT AN APP

Ok , so like my title says Age-ism is alive and well ppl. Yep indeed. I attended a monthly meet-up for Techies such as myself with 3 presentations:
I'm sure not one of the 5000+ members is blogging about this, but picture Candice from Portlandia with her mouth wide open:
So it went down like this:& yes I took notes like any good journalist would do:
Presentation #1: mind you that these are all Start ups looking for VC (Venture Capital) $$$$$
ok back to Presentation 1------> Quriquant is for Traders as in Stock/bonds/smart guy very on point/ new his craft
Presentation 2------> INJII----> I loved this guy . He was soooo nervous, but I actually understood his concept . Bravo.
Presentation 3------->> LABRADOR CONNECT: guy walk up to stand grabs mic, starts walking around the stage like the salesperson that he is. Ok, ok lets see what hes got, I'm thinking.The man started out with this
a picture of (and I kid you not) a and I quote "a 57 year old woman squinting at a screen" All of a sudden, I looked to my left then to my right and everyone was chuckling. This is the part where I should have stood up and said " this is the Sexist and most ageist presentation ever" what if this started with "imagine a Millennial squinting at the screen" It really is NOT about being a senior citizen or a millennial. Its about you starting a presentation w/ a picture of a woman with her Ipad on a couch squinting
Yes women and men all loling at the picture of the 57 year old woman looking at her Ipad screen. I was so pissed off that I should have got up and walked out right there and then. But writing a blog is a way to bring awareness of the epidemic that is Ageism and Sexism
So FYI , I will ck out this guys direct competitor BOOMTOWN!
So check it out Brian, after you started your presentation chuckling at the expense of the 57 year old woman staring at her I-pad, I completely forgot what you were presenting
I suggest that you watch the video below , I am Candace. And if you don't know who Candace is... then you need to start watching Portlandia and watching ALL WOMEN FOR THAT MATTER.
WE ARE ALL THE 57 YEAR OLD WOMAN
Brian  (not the Air Conditioner Man) WATCH THIS
Click on the Brian tab to understand what I'm talking about
xo @latinabug_nj

PODCASTS PART 2 !!! LISTEN & LEARN....

Thats right, just like my header says, Listen and Learn PPL.
Just added Fabulous Podcasts to my already long list!!
First of all I'm sure on my last blog I mentioned +LENNY this is in newsletter format it comes into your email inbox: just subscribe lenny@lennyletter.com, Speaking of Lenny please subscribe (if you have an Iphone-Itunes account) to : Women of the Hour with Lena Dunham -OMG just listened to Episode 2: Body- Woah
Also: on my to listen list:

• Happier with Gretchen Rubin
• The Del and Emerson Show
• StartUp Podcast
• The Reboot Podcast
• Re/Code Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher
• The Bitch Bible
• Hidden Brain by NPR
• Savage Lovecast
• Hispano Entrepreneur
• This Week in Barron's
• The Love & Sex Report with @pattistanger

• and of course Straight Talk w /Ross Mathews
• Mattieologie

SO MUCH FUN!!! It never ends because on my phone the I currently have 14 unplayed episodes, so many podcasts so little time, this is really getting worse than +Netflix

ahhhhh, exhausting but in a good way :) kinda like sex
This in no way shape or form assures you to get your "mojo" back , but at least you will be certainly entertained in the meantime
xo +latinabug nj 

CAUSE FEMINISM RULES???!!

EXCELLENT READ! BUT HMMMMMMM

 

 

 

 

BOOK TITLE: FEMINISIM: The Essential Historical Writings
PUBLISHER: RANDOM HOUSE,Inc. -New York
FIRST EDITION: YR 1972

So I picked up the above book at my local library for a whopping ONE dollar, took it home, got comfy and opened the first page , I purposely read the following from beginning to end, what I usually do is read who wrote it first , then the year. But this time I said no I will read this quote from beginning to end and not see who wrote it and what year. Here it is:

"We who like the children of Israel have been wandering in the wilderness of prejudice and ridicule for forty years feel a peculiar tenderness for the young women on whose shoulders we are about to leave our burdens...The younger women are starting with great advantages over us. They have the results of our experience; they have superior opportunities for education; they will find a  more enlightened public sentiment for discussion; they will have more courage to take the rights which belong to them... Thus far women have been the more echoes of men. Our laws and constitutions, our creeds and codes, and the customs of social life are all masculine origin.
The true woman is as yet a dream of the future.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON
at the age of 72 , speaking to the International
Council of Women, yr. 1888 

I highlighted and wrote this last sentence in BOLD. Why? Because of the date. When I got to the bottom of this I was appalled that Ms.Stanton had said this in the 19th Century. I really, really thought this was going to say something along the decades of the 1950's or 60's related to the Mad-Men era. But WTF, we have not made progress! Case in point: myself. How demeaning and alive chauvanism is. 
Example:
"Well they sold you a Lemon because they see you are a woman" - Insert surprised emoji look here to mechanic.
"Excuse me are you a sales-rep for Bayer, cause I see you are at this conference"
"Are you a lawyer, ? I'm asking because you are dressed in a pant-suit"
"Are you a nurse?" Because you seem to know and speak the medical lingo

This happens to me everyday, and so with more frequency than the average lady, because I am a woman and a Minority in business. And I am proud of this. 
I am glad that other women like myself are writing newsletters , airing podcasts galore!!!
Example: LENNY NEWSLETTER
Brought to you by @lenadunham (from @girlshbo fame) +Jeni Konner
everyone should subscribe: lenny@lennyletter.com
or on Twitter : +LENNY 
Please we need the 21st century to start TODAY!!!
LADIES UNITE
xo +latinabug nj

THE EGO HAS LANDED AT BROOKFIELD PLACE NYC!!!

PEEK-A-BOO

This is Me in a pattern - take that Kanye !!

Yep, Take that Kanye! The Ego has landed to Brookfield Place, NYC. See a few weekends ago I attended the "MOVE!!" event w/ my Dear new BFF +Vicki oh joy!! The description: A spectacular event where art meets fashion, pairing world-renowned designers and artists to create engaging participatory installations. In other words Vicki and I strolled over to the Fab DVF booth where we got changed in DVF wrap dress of our choice and had Free Hair and Make up done!! Check it out!

@mybigfatmouth in Action!!

Prep time b!tches

Voila-Finished Model ehem me! Guuurrl make sure you follow @brookfieldplny for more info on upcoming events!