I was visiting my sister for the past 2 weeks, who I may add is the queen of convenience. She needs to be as she has a 60-90 minute commute to work each day!

She turned me on to these Kellogg’s Cereal in a Cup! At first, I thought it was a little wasteful, but now I’m hooked. It’s not like I eat cereal every single day, but these are really convenient for those ‘on the run’ days. Plus, these are the healthier selection too.

So… give these Kellogg’s Cereal in a box a try! Enjoy, Betty

As many of you know, I was born and raised in Miami, FL. I love it – I love the culture, my family, the weather, the beach, restaurants, entertainment, etc.  And, you may also know it’s been almost 13 years since I left to live in New Jersey and now in Cincinnati. 

My husband, kids and I visit Miami often as we enjoy being close to my family and the warm and sunny weather.

So perhaps I notice something that most Miamians don’t, so I’d like point it out in the hopes we can make a difference.

Here it comes…. What is the deal with so many people in Miami being so mean? Does it really help to speed up and not let someone get in front of you in traffic? How does the 30 second advantage going to help you?  How does it help to speak rudely to customers?  Never heard about that in any sales training I’ve been to! 

My goal with this post is to spread a little ‘mid-western phylisophy’.  I’m hoping to pay it forward a bit so we can start to change the attitude, one smile at at time. Will you join me?

Let’s start by:
- allowing others to get in front of you when your driving if they have their indicator on.
- smiling and saying hello to the cashier when you purchase something
- saying good morning to the other person during your morning walk
- Saying ‘excuse me’ AND waiting for someone to move when trying to get through a narrow isle in the grocery or shopping center

What other suggestions can you contribute?  Post them here.  Let’s a make  difference together.

Yesterday was one of the crazy days… I’m sure you know exactly what I’m talking about!

I pulled this meal together in between emails and phone calls, and updated a recipe that I’ve made many other times. My challenge was using boneless, skinless chicken for the Arroz Con Pollo (Cuban Chicken and Rice) recipe without losing flavor and moisture! Beer to the rescue!

• Grilled Halibut with Black Beans and White Rice (make extra to freeze)
• Grilled Chicken & Zucchini (cut up cucumbers for kids who don’t eat Zucchini) and dinner rolls
• Beef Stir Fry over noodles
• Mac and Cheese with peas (make double batch and freeze the other half for another day)
• Pasta with Pesto and sun-dried tomatoes

Good friend of mine sent over this information via email: thought it was good information to share…..

By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com and/or www.truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites.

Below is their advice for us.

Advice from Snopes.com

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to ‘10′ of your friends, sign this petition, or you’ll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of ‘active’ E-Mails addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.

2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, a way to get names and ‘ cookie’ tracking information for telemarketers and spammers – - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future! If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM! Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound! You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let’s don’t make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition.

Hope this helps!  Feel free to share by posting this on your Facebook profile or Twittering about it

Come and collaborate with fellow Six Sigma and quality professionals at the Cincinnati Six Sigma Users Group!  June 11th at 5:30 in Blue Ash.

This month’s topic: Continuation of Designing MSA (Measurement Systems Analysis) for items and processes difficult to measure AND we might have a follow up to the Minitab discussion

Learn more and RSVP at: http://www.isssc3.com/cincinnati_six_sigma_user_group.asp#meeting

I just discovered that Howie’s Conversation Domination System sent a post to my Word Press Blog in which I didn’t give permission to post! I deleted it as I will not promote his product.

Howie’s tactics are what I would call black or gray hat techniques that I don’t want any part.

Twitter seems to be the new buzz word around business and social circles.  Non-twitter users ask me to main questions: