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i-FFICIENCY

Last year I joined a great networking group called Smarty OC which has monthly events with guest speakers.

One of such speakers was Chris Van Dusen of i-FFICIENCY. He did a presentation last summer on what you need to know to start working “smarter” and apps that can streamline your day to day business needs, make communication easier and other “tech” secrets.

I was so bummed I had to miss this event but fellow Smarty members raved about what they learned so I connected with Chris on Twitter recently (he can be found @ifficiency) as I had some questions to ask him about making my potential first Mac purchase. He recommended we meet for coffee to talk about my business and go from there.

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fitbook fitness journal {& giveaway}

I recently met Angela, the owner and founder of fitbook, a fabulous fitness + nutrition journal, through a networking group I joined.

Seeing that I am now officially training for my 3rd half marathon as part of Team Tiny Oranges to benefit pediatric cancer research this coming May 1st I thought it might be a great tool to use in my training. So Angela kindly gave me one to try and it has been completely eye-opening.

Incidentally, Angela is also going to sign up to run her first half marathon with our team on May 1st! Go Angela! I love it!

fitbook helps you to track your goals, workouts, nutrition, water intake and so much more. And what makes it even more beneficial, it also gives you the space to also journal how you felt AFTER each workout, meal or snack, so you can start to track patterns. This is HUGE.

One of the most useful tools for me is the food pyramid tracker at the bottom of the page, which counts servings of the different food groups, glasses of water, vitamins, etc.

When I started journaling in my new fitbook I realized…

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Irvine Park Railroad Anniversary {& Giveaway!}

Irvine Park Railroad is having it’s 15th anniversary this Saturday, February 26th and Sunday, February 27th and they want to celebrate with you! In honor of this special event – they have given me tickets to giveaway – make sure to read and enter to win below.

For this weekend only, they are rolling back prices to the original 1996 prices…
including $2.00 train rides!

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Refer 5 and get $25 to Gelson’s Market!

Since I love Gelson’s (the super market) I wanted to share this special deal going on today on Plum District!

It’s simple.

Refer 5 friends to Plum District (it’s free) and if they sign up to receive the emails by the end of this deal, which runs today only, you will be mailed a $25 gift card to Gelson’s super market which can be used at any of their 18 locations.

Click here to read more!