Leap Day is Ending... but May Your Leaping Go On & On!

Oh my heavens. What a day! I still have one important leap I've gotta fit into this dwindling evening. Besides being the day 50 Ways to Leave Your 40s leaped into the hands of the book-buying public (at least, those who paid for overnight shipping on amazon!) --- today was also the ridiculously optimistic "grand opening" date of my (Sheila's) other midlife baby: StudioFiftyForty.com.

As IF! Progress at my e-commerce website --- "the online gift shop for cool people of a certain age" --- is coming along u-l-t-r-a---s-l-o-w-l-y. But, as today's date adorns "The Studio's" welcome screen, I must LEAP over to there and post at least a little update.

I added a page for "WHO" the other day...

Wait, let me explain. Quickly! In setting up that original homepage for StudioFiftyForty --- a spotlit dancefloor, empty --- this fab idea occurred to me. Rather than title the pages like every other website out there (About Us, Contact Us, etc.), I decided to use the journalist's cribsheet: When reporting the news, a journalist is supposed to tell the "Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How" of the story. So... the other day I posted a first draft of the "WHO" page. Wanna see it?

OK, so now, being that it's the last minutes of this relatively rare date -- Feb. 29 -- let me leap off like one o' those proverbial Lords a'Leaping, and post something new about "WHEN."

Love, Laugh, LEAP!
Sheila

Check out StudioFiftyForty!

Hey, just a quickie to invite you to take a peek at my new baby. No, for once, it's not the book. This baby is still a bun in the oven. It's a companion to the 50 Ways website (indeed, it's temporarily "parked" at the 50 Ways website) and just the kind of thing you might expect from an old rock-and-roll DJ like me. Sorry the links aren't operational yet -- the bun is but half-baked! But have a look, anyway, would'ja? And stay tuned for your invitation to the Grand Opening of StudioFiftyForty.com.

Million-watt thanks to my friend Diane Arnold, who's finding time in her gruelling* schedule to teach me web design. (*She's training to do her first triathlon this year. Go, Di, go! What's more, this week she's "single-parenting it." Rest, Di, rest!)

Speaking of going, I gotta. I may not be running, biking, and swimming scores of miles weekly (nor single-parenting, thank God!), but as a web designer-in-training and a budding e-commerce retailer, I've gotta go pound pavement and push pedals in my own way. Gonna make a splash, don't-cha know!

Love all around,
Sheila

My Gift of Love to the World

Coming soon to an internet connection near you, it's StudioFiftyForty.com, a gift shop for cool people of a certain age!!!

Tonight I finally registered the domain name, and while I was at it, I also registered such variations on the spelling as Studio50forty.com, StudioFifty40.com, and Studio5040.com. Those'll all forward to the main domain. Was disappointed to find that two variations --- Studio_50_40.com and Studio50_40.com --- were already taken, but you know what? When you type either of those URLs into a browser, nothing comes up. In other words, someone registered those domains but hasn't actually created a website yet. So I went ahead with my registration of, and webhosting agreement for, StudioFiftyForty.com.

Next, I loaded up my DreamWeaver software and read through the QuickStart. I'll be hard-pressed to do my real work tomorrow, I can tell already! (I'm supposed to be applying to be on Oprah's show --- fairly important stuff for a new author --- but I can't seem to give it my full attention. Not when there are expansive New Vistas to explore!)

My html-savvy friend Diane is gonna school me on DreamWeaver this Saturday. Not only are we going to update the official 50 Ways to Leave Your 40s website, but, by gum, I'm gonna get something up on my brand-new, 10GB piece of cyber real estate, at www.StudioFiftyForty.com. Hold me to it, would'ja? Click on over there on Sunday or so, and see if I've kept my promise to the world, or what!

Hope you had a LOVERLY Valentine's Day. Mine was positively heart-warming -- thanks for asking!

Love x3,
Sheila

New Biz... New Biz Card!

Ta-daaah!

So, whad'ya think? I designed it yesterday, printed it up today, and handed a bunch of them out at a New Mexico Business Women's soiree this evening. It seemed to do the trick.

Of course, this is but one of 50 variations of my new business card, as each flipside reveals just one chapter title, one of the fifty "Ways."

Naturally, I chose the number that answers an earlier question on this blog (see Feb. 10, 2008). The cool coincidence is that "launching my legacy" is exactly what I'm doing right now, with this card and with the book -- and with this blog, for that matter. Don't'cha just love it when cool coincidences reaffirm how unbelievably swell life can be? I do.

Onward and UPward!
Sheila