When you are rushing around like mad trying to pack for something like, oh, a week-long business trip to New York City while juggling eleventyhundred things and then have your world implode in ALL ways right before you leave causing you to want to do nothing but cry, curl in the fetal position and throw chocolate at yourself?

You might want to look EXTRA HARD at the label on the box of BIKINI underwear you pick up at 2 am the night before you leave.

Because when you get to New York you MIGHT discover that instead of the bikini underwear you intended to buy, you ended up with underwear that is pretty much the equivalent of an eye patch and some dental floss.

AND THAT MIGHT END UP SUCKASUCKASUCKING FOR YOU.

Contrary to popular belief?

Teeny-eye-patch-heiny-floss-underwear IS NOT FOR EVERYONE.

Just so you know.

So make sure you enter! Leave a comment with a question about McDonald’s, my trip, or just something you love about The Golden Arches! (Ends August 10th)

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The best inventions, in my opinion, are those that when you see them they are so obvious you think, “Why didn’t I think of doing that before?!”.  And I found one this week that I am so excited about, I had to share it with you all.

This week I have been in New York City forBlogHer’s annual blogging conference (more on that later), to run an AMAZING suite sponsered by NuSkin (more on that later as well), and to promote the December launch of Where Women Cook.

(Yup. You got it…more on THAT later, too.)

(I know. It’s annoying to write teasing blurbs like that and not expound.)

(Consider it a strategy to keep you all tuned in and guessing.)

(I mean, my lack of desire to expound at the moment has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that I got up at 4 am to catch a flight home and feel like there are forks being stabbed in my eyes and Mariachi boys playing covers of Metallica full blast in my head right now.)

(For reals.)

ANYWAY.

While I was at the conference, I met a woman named Tauni and because she loves me n’ stuff, she gave me THE BEST INVENTION OF ALL TIME.

Well, it’s the best invention of all time if you work in a business where you have eleventyhundred business cards thrown at you during conferences and social situations that normally end up wadded up in the bottom of your purse or suitcase because you are the most unorganized person ever.

Which is normally what happens to me.

BUT NOT THIS YEAR.

Know WHY?

Because Tauni gave me THIS:

It. Is. FABULOUS.

Besides the fact that I ran around all day in a tutu and tiara and am promoting an amazing magazine, I would say that this little doohicky was the most talked about thing about my conference weekend.

It’s SO SIMPLE but SO USEFUL.

It’s a big circular ring that has a paper punch attached to it, and with laminated dividers that name the conference and have catagories like “Blogs to read” and “Companies to follow up with”. You can attach it to your purse, conference bag or even your belt loop. (She was going to add a Sharpie mini to it but ran out of time.)

IT ROCKED MY WORLD.

I talked and talked and talked and talked about it and even gave a few away.

Tauni is already planning many improvements to this fabulous little thing.

I seriously think it should be in the swag bags next year and make the “things to pack” list, don’t you?

I heart it.

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