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Male Reader requested this post, and since we try to give our Male Readers what they want (because we appreciate their participation…), here we go!

Scenario:  Male Reader (who wishes to remain anonymous) was recently dumped, and he feels that the reason she gave (not ready for a relationships) was different than reality (thought he was weird).

We think we ALL know by now that the ultimate reason for whenever things don’t work out is that he (or she) is just not that into you.  But let’s take it a step further, if you’re not that into someone, why? Any what did you say to explain it?

Three words – they sound so easy, yet they can be so difficult.  For all of you out there that love Julia Roberts as much as this Mystic Pizza loving 80s baby, let’s hear it.  What did you think about Eat Pray Love?  Did it make you want to jump for women’s lib joy?  Did it make you feel the travel freedom that comes from lifting your glass any place that doesn’t speak English?  Or did it make you want to Drink, Imbitter, Dislike (kinda like the Bachelor Pad makes us feel)?  For all of you out there that “just want to marvel at something,” did Eat Pray Love put the skip back in your travel bug prone little self?  Or did it feel more like food poisoning, church retreat, and the defeat of the 7th grade dance?

As many of you know, we have lots of famous icons.  From Katie Couric to Reese Witherspoon to Bethenny Frankel to ATL’s own Jenn Hobby for the Bert Show…we love some TV / radio / movie personalities.  Jenn Hobby co-hosted with Regis Philbin today!  We can’t wait to watch it on DVR.  If you missed it, you can catch the audio clips all online!

Yesterday, after taking the red eye back from Colorado, we arrived in ATL at 6 am only to realize that we were locked out of the car.  After calling a locksmith, and waiting an hour, we got into the car to realize that the keys were gone.  After being awake for 24 hours (and working for the past 8 days straight), we started crying and then got into a cab.  The rest of the day was a bit of an exhausted, crying blur that ended with Reader Melby driving us to the airport to meet the tow truck (7 pm – time awake count:  37 hours).  Four and 1/2 hours later, still waiting, (time awake count: 40 1/2 hours), we found ourselves sitting with Reader Melby eating salads and french fries from Houlihans and drinking some beers at the airport.

Yesterday was a complete disaster, and I’m not going to say I never said, “Are you there, God?  It’s me, elaney,” but eventually, I went to sleep so grateful that there is someone out there that will sit with me in an airport while I wait for a tow truck to take my car to get a $600 key made.  Key Takeways:  1) at the end of the day, it could always be worse.  2) Reader Melby is a good one to have in a pinch.

Being in marketing, we are perhaps acutely aware of our “personal brand.”  They say clothes make the man (and Kayne pontificates that “Before you speak, your suit be spoke”), and for better or worse, this is pretty true.  The way you present yourself leads people to draw conclusions, and we fear that as we are sending out texts, we are sending out the wrong brand.

After many moons of touting the better phone, email, and typing functionalities of the Blackberry, we are afraid that we can no longer handle looking like such an early 2000s accountant.  Plus, we are iPhone girls (or at least trying to be)!!  The cool, edgy, creative, Mac loving, early adopter… we’ve heard, “You have an iPhone, right?” for the last time!  Adios Blackberry…time for countdown to iPhone upgrade.

What do you have that you think is misrepresenting you?!