One of the very few let downs of my new apartment was my basic cable package, which I found out  does not include Comedy Central, FX, ESPN, E!, or MTV- –There go my daily doses of Daily Show, Colbert Report, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sports, and my absolutely-necessary trash TV shows. Fortunately, the one channel I still have, which *almost* makes up for not having any of the others in my life… The Game Show Network.

#offbeat

Before going to sleep tonight I thought I’d look around Craigslist to see if there were any new postings for housing in Washington, DC… Had I known that I was going to run into this, I would’ve just gone to bed:

Talk about opportunistic …

While tons of people are stuck at home, tons of others are stranded due to the airports closing, and others are straight-up homeless; some cold-hearted schmuck is trying to make $400 A DAY off others’ misery??? Let me guess, you haven’t done a single thing to try to help the Haiti relief efforts either have you? Or maybe you’re selling “Help Haiti” T-shirt on some Web site I have yet to stumble upon?

#offbeat

I happen to think that all things happen for a reason. Two weeks before moving to my new home in Maryland, my car — or Dave, as I named it — moved on to a better place. A most untimely, unfortunate event. I have lived in College Park, Md., in and around the D.C. area, for a little over three months now. I love the city and I think part of it is because I’m always on foot.

*It's a blog!*

That’s the WordPress default title for the sample post that comes published with every new WordPress account. On the surface it’s a rather generic, upbeat greeting. Underneath the surface it’s an open invitation to allow yourself to run wild and to unleash your inner blogging beast all over your brand new, endless white canvas.

If you scroll down you’ll come to realize that this is not my first post. And yet it is.

What used to be “Andi Narvaez: Down and Across” is now “Andi Narvaez: Re-learning PR.” Welcome to my refreshed blog.

The most difficult thing of living in the United States is how far away I am from most of my family. Social media has bridged the gap a little bit but on day’s like today, Facebook wall messages, e-cards, Twitters, email and Skype phone calls don’t always cut it. But then I thought, “Hey! Don’t I have one of those blogs?”

Here is a little somethin’ somethin’ about the greatest woman in my life. I figured a blog post in her honor would get me closer to letting the whole world (or the 10 people that read this blog) know how much I love her.

This blog post (and the 29 more to come) is part of ProBlogger’s “31 Days to Write a Better Blog” challenge. Feel free to judge.

Write a List Post [Day 2 - 31DBBB]

One of my most brilliant moves ever was when I created an “offbeat” category for posts like these

In March 2009 I traveled to Las Vegas for 4 nights and 5 days. This was my second trip to Vegas and, because I learn new things every time, I have vowed to go there every year. Also, Las Vegas is in essence – escapism – and for five days out of the year, who can’t use that?

This blog post (and the 30 more to come) is part of ProBlogger’s “31 Days to Write a Better Blog” challenge.

Feel free to judge.

Write an Elevator Pitch for Your Blog [Day 1 -31DBBB]

A mutant offspring of the 20th and 21st century I have a multitasking sort of background in public relations, marketing, social media, writing, design and advertising. I have an undying passion for reading news, blogs and books and I force feed myself more mainstream media, brands and entertainment than anyone likes to admit most of the time.

Las Vegas 09: Day one.

How is Vegas you ask? Living up to it’s reputation I respond.

Our adventures started off with an adventure when we decided that we would walk to our hotel, Tropicana, from the airport. Bad call on our part but it turned out to be for the best since, after many turnarounds, dead ends and wrong directions, we were finally en route to our destination and able to stop by a store where beverages are sold and – not just that – Subway was right next door and we had ourselves the best dinner of our lives. No joke.

On Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 I came to my office desk to discover a small white box sitting on my desk, on top of my pile of files and papers. In the mystery courier’s defense, my desk was a bit messy and it has been a busy couple of weeks, which left nowhere else to set the box down but atop my pile of mess.

In the box I found a set of brand new business cards with my name on them and I must admit, I smiled… wide.

I don’t know where it started but I do know that a co-worker tagged me in his “25 Random Things” Facebook Note and that I’ve seen at least a dozen other lists of random things pop up in my news feed. Now, I don’t say this very often but – I give in.

My list is below but as long as I have your attention… How about them time-wasters? Could the time we spend on Facebook, Twitter, Blogs and Web sites be dedicated to more productive things?