It is not lost on me that my blog is slowly becoming a platform to announce video chats. So I think I’m going to have to do some fast confessing so that you guys don’t all unsubscribe.
I’m getting married to the farmer. Yep. April 17. Well, not really. I mean, I can’t totally get married because at the beginning of Brazen Careerist, I funded the company by not paying my taxes, so I owe a ton of taxes, and if the farmer and I got married, the IRS would put a lien on his farm.
So we are having an unofficial wedding. Very small. I would tell you how small, but I am not allowed to write details about the farmer’s family. Suffice it to say that on my side, only two people are coming.
And my kids. The kids really want to see a wedding. They would actually like to see me dressed like Cinderella. Because that’s what they know about weddings and princesses, two things that my kids are pretty sure go together. Instead, we will just go out to dinner and bring a wedding cake. The cake will be extravagant, and that’s what will let the kids know something big has happened.
The event will be in Iowa. Well, sort of. In Iowa, if you just exchange rings, with no vows, you are still legally married. In Wisconsin, there’s no common law marriage. So we are exchanging rings in Wisconsin and having dinner in Iowa. It’s like bar hopping, midwest style.
So anyway, I want to tell you that I’m not the kind of girl who stops working to plan my wedding. And it’s true, I’m not. But the kids and I are moving to the farm in the middle of May. And it’s a big move. And we’re remodeling the kitchen and bathroom. And that’s why I’m not posting on the blog.
I wish I were posting on the blog. Because my dream life is living on the farm and posting on my blog.
But right now, it’s true, I’m only announcing webinars and then praying that I don’t do anything inappropriate when I’m actually doing the webinar. I promise I will start posting again. I just need to pick out a bathtub and a sink.
Meanwhile, in webinar land, the topic is how to interview. I think it’s actually something catchy like three things to do in an interview to get the job. I told Ryan Paugh the catchy topic, and then I promptly forgot it when the electrician came. I wonder if when I don’t answer the phone because I’m with the electrician, Ryan Paugh thinks I don’t answer the phone because I’m thinking really hard about doing a great webinar.
Wait. I almost forgot a link! Here: Sign up for the webinar here. It’s Thursday, March 25 at 9pm eastern.
Here’s why you should go to the webinar. Because the people who hate me most hate me because they say I don’t really do anything, I just talk a good game.
So let’s say they’re right. Then all of them should be listening to this webinar because I’m going to tell you how to talk a good game. After all, what else is the interview? It’s convincing people they are gonna love working with you. I’m great at that.
Also, we’ll run through questions that I get asked all the time. How to negotiate salary, how to deal with getting fired from the last job, how to deal with references when your boss doesn’t know your job hunting. And I’ll answer your questions, as you ask them in the webinar.
And you guys can also tell me if you think that pink in the bedroom is emasculating. The farmer says it is. He says that he read about a football team that painted the opposing team’s locker room pink. That’s his evidence. I think that pink is good feng shui — it makes the relationship better. This would be a good time for links to the pink locker room and links to feng shui sites. But instead, here’s a link to the rosebushes I just bought for the garden.
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Posted by yudhi on March 26, 2010 at 10:19 pm | permalink |
Penelope, I hope you realize that you are setting a horrible example for your children. You admittedly owe a substantial amount taxes, yet you fly to L.A. for haircuts and pay $50,000 per year for a “household manager”. Honestly, do you want your children to learn that this is how responsible adults manage their finances?
Posted by Lane on March 27, 2010 at 5:13 pm | permalink |
Lane, do you realize that paying $50,000 per year for a household manager may be what allows some people to go to work and make many times this value so they can take care of their families responsibly?
I wouldn’t be flying anywhere for haircuts or eyebrow shaping while owning taxes, but I wouldn’t judge people for doing that either, as long as they had made a deal with the IRS and were honoring that deal, which I think is exactly what Penelope is doing.
I disagree that she is setting a bad example for their kids.
Posted by Chris M. on March 29, 2010 at 11:12 am | permalink |
By any reasonable standard, PT is an atrocious money manager. I doubt even she would argue against that. That’s what makes this thing with the farmer so intriguing. By necessity he is far more careful. Can these polar opposites really make it work?
Posted by Bob on March 29, 2010 at 3:09 pm | permalink |
Congratulations on your marriage!
You’ve been through a lot together with “The Farmer” I’m sure it will be everlasting
Posted by Anthony Deluzza on March 27, 2010 at 5:30 pm | permalink |
omg! I was at an antiques store in Peoria and there was an old magazine cover, framed. The magazine was named The Farmer’s Wife. I thought of you and nearly bought it for you but then thought of several things:
1. that’s very fan-stalkerish
2. you weren’t married to the farmer or even talking like that, so it would have been pushy and presumptuous to send u that
3. i don’t have your address
4. why would you give your address out to a fan-stalker
and so on. so i didn’t buy it. but now i see that it was a sign. if you believe in those things. which i do.
congrats and happy life together
Posted by Nancy Imperiale on March 28, 2010 at 6:33 am | permalink |
Hi Penelope, just found your blog, and love, love it.
I too married a “farmer” (not his only gig) and we live on a Christmas tree farm. I totally get the bathtub pics and moving/transistion. You’ll have lots to write about, not that you don’t already.
So I have to put in my 2 cents on the pink, since that seems to be “hot” with your audience. I used mainly lavendar/cream, some pinks. My farmer says it’s soothing…
Congrats on such a partner and life. Look forward to more; glad I found you.
Posted by Diane Davis on March 28, 2010 at 9:25 am | permalink |
I just wanted to say that I’m glad for you. I hope that you’ll lead a happy life with your farmer.
But I also wanted to comment on the webinar thing you’re doing. I haven’t seen it myself, and that’s the problem. I don’t know how good it really is. Since you propagate total openness, at least openness about your life, you should take this to the next level by actually letting people in to participate without having to register for Brazen.
If I see it I might tip off my friends and it could spread virally, now that’s impossible. Besides youtube could be a great platform (if you subtract all the silly comments, but you get those anyway as you’ve written about before)
So do the right thing! Open it up.
Posted by Jonathan on March 28, 2010 at 9:43 am | permalink |
I think my comment got edited….
Posted by Jonathan on April 24, 2010 at 1:53 pm | permalink |
Congratulations, Penelope!
Posted by Brenna on March 28, 2010 at 2:43 pm | permalink |
My heartiest congratulations, Penelop!
I also happened to get married in April, but on the 8th. I think you have a really superb blog and many of the stuff you wrote do relate to people. Category “self management” is my favorite.
Many thanks!
Mere.
Posted by Maria on March 29, 2010 at 1:49 am | permalink |
Wow Penelope is getting married! Congrats. I’ve been reading your posts and this is the first time I made a comment – because you’re getting married and I just wanted to congratulate you. Anyway, I wish to join in one of your webinars one of these days. I don’t have the time right now and I think I agree with the others that you should at least post a recording of your webinars.
Posted by Jacob on March 29, 2010 at 2:26 am | permalink |
A huge congrats to you, P! An I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-a-wedding is as big a committment as you make it. Get some fantastic shoes to hide under your Cinderella dress, get your eyebrows done, and throw your heart into his pig-farming hands!
Then come back to your fans with a whole section of your life, sadly for us, censored for the love of your new pseudo-hubby.
Posted by Elizabeth on March 29, 2010 at 3:28 am | permalink |
Congratulations, Penelope!
You make me smile, it reminds me – I was at my fathers wedding too. I must say, looking back, it was an “interesting” experience for me.
I hope your kids will enjoy
Posted by josh on March 29, 2010 at 3:58 am | permalink |
Congratulations on your wedding, even if it is only a samll affair!
It’s your future that is the important thing.
Looking forward to seeing one of your webinars one day.
Posted by Hollyberry on March 29, 2010 at 11:01 am | permalink |
Congratulations on your upcoming wedding! Have a wonderful life with your farmer!
Pink not so good for the bedroom especially is he doesn’t care for it. How about a soft green with pink roses on the night stands?
Posted by Dr. James Martin on March 29, 2010 at 2:27 pm | permalink |
Congratulations, waiting for your webnair.
Posted by vps on March 29, 2010 at 2:31 pm | permalink |
“I funded the company by not paying my taxes, so I owe a ton of taxes” Considering this, I’m wondering what your position is on the social/societal obligations of corporate citizens?
Posted by Dave C. on March 29, 2010 at 2:34 pm | permalink |
Congratulations on the wedding, no matter how small it’s all about being happy! I hope everything goes the way it’s planned and you live happily married.
Posted by Ben S. on March 29, 2010 at 5:49 pm | permalink |
Wow, what a great blog! This is my first time posting here, but I love your honest writing and enjoy your topics thoroughly. Wishing you much peace and contentment in your upcoming transitions!
Posted by Corinna on March 29, 2010 at 7:44 pm | permalink |
Congratulations, Wish you a very happy married life.
Posted by sumaman Jane on March 29, 2010 at 11:35 pm | permalink |
Congratulations on the wedding Penelope. That definitely explains the blogging hiatus, but I am looking forward to you posting a bit more regularly!
Posted by Tom English on March 30, 2010 at 12:54 am | permalink |
Congratulations Penelope, Welcome to married life and wish you all the best.
Posted by Advice Spot on March 30, 2010 at 12:59 am | permalink |
well interesting post
good luck with your wedding and married life hope you will enjoy life better now he he!!
Posted by Bob Wilson on March 30, 2010 at 2:09 am | permalink |
This is a wonderful event. Wish you much happiness. Pink is very remarkable.
Posted by UK property on March 30, 2010 at 4:20 am | permalink |
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Posted by Alex Vazquez on March 30, 2010 at 6:56 am | permalink |
Congratulations, PT! And yes, lose the pink bedroom.
Posted by Erin on March 31, 2010 at 9:52 am | permalink |
Penelope, I just gotta say that reading your posts make me smile and laugh. Your writing is fun and refreshing.
Thanks and have a great Easter!
Posted by Rambles with Reese on March 31, 2010 at 3:10 pm | permalink |
You crack me up.
Congrats on the wedding. Two thoughts re: the pink bedroom:
#1: No, pink in the bedroom is not emasculating, in any objective sense.
#2: The most important sexual organ is the brain. Especially for men. If he believes that pink is not a color that, um, *energizes* him, then you could win the battle and lose the war.
Pick another color.
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Posted by illustrators on April 10, 2010 at 11:27 pm | permalink |
Hey Penelope,
great news! Wish you the best of luck in your marriage!
Lasse
Posted by Lasse on April 12, 2010 at 3:54 am | permalink |
That’s huge news! Congratulations!
Posted by Jesica on April 21, 2010 at 10:41 am | permalink |
Feng shui is idolatry. Wow! I can’t believe I wrote that! So the farmer has some good instincts about your unorthodox intentions. You’re putting him in a Catch 22 regarding the things that matter most. Namely, his wife and his religion.
That said, I have nothing against pink. Actually, I like to see some pink in the bed room. Have you considered pink bed sheets, and pillow cases? Some flowery decorations here and there (not everywhere) could help create a feeling of joy and love in the bedroom. That’s not a bad place for that feeling.
If he needs something to balance out the feminine, two large dressers from walnut or oat might help. Also a carved wood poster bed to match. Throw a giant, furry buffalo hide over the bed as a bed spread. Spray it with lavender oil every now and then – if you have moths.
Recently on my blog: A Fan Letter to Penelope Trunk and her farmer http://wp.me/pbg0R-qQ
Posted by Stan Faryna on October 6, 2011 at 8:36 am | permalink |
I admit to knowing next to nothing about feng shui as it relates to color or anything else.
However, I just read an article in the Wall Street Journal where Dish Network Corp. Chairman Mr. Ergen talks about the need for change in his business, and this fun snippet appears in the piece -
“But Mr. Ergen doesn’t discount the role of luck, which may be why he has several bottles of feng shui water in his office and says he has “feng shui-ed”—with rituals for luck—all his satellite launches since Dish first sent a satellite into the sky in 1996 on a Chinese rocket that was charmed by auspicious Chinese water and chants.” I thought it was interesting and therefore deserved inclusion in the comment section.
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