Hooray for Sista J
Posted: September 2, 2013 Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: Birthday, Janet Carter 2 Comments
It’s my youngest sister Janet’s birthday today. She is my sister who can do anything and does everything. When we were kids, and by that I mean when she was a kid because I am over eight years older than she is, she was the worker bee of the family. As the baby she in no way was the coddled one, quite the opposite. Janet could drive the tractor at age five, would stack firewood, run the snow blower all without complaint.
She still is the hardest working person I know, but now she is also the best taker of holidays too. Janet is a professional traveler and makes the most of her off time by going on the best vacations. If I ever need a travel recommendation she is the one in the know. If I mention I went somewhere cool she say, “Oh yeah, did you swim with those nice dolphins there?” Because without my knowing, she had already been there before me.
Janet is a most important member of our family, always looking out for anyone who needs something. Although she has no children of her own she is a very cool Aunt to Carter. Christmas with Janet is like having an extra Santa in the family.
Fun is always close by with my Sista J, one of the many nicknames she has. I don’t think I have ever met anyone who does not like her. Unlike me, if you are not her cup of tea she keeps it to herself, a trait I wished I cultivated long ago. Janet is funny and at the same time thoughtful. I can honestly say I can’t think of a time we had a cross word.
She has always been exactly who she was born to be without any apologies. When she was in middle school and would wear English driving caps to school and get beat up on the school bus for doing so, but she would not change her hat. She would get right back on that bus the next day, hat on her head and face off any bully. Being able to stand up for herself also made her great at standing up for others. She is the person I always want by my side.
So on this her special day I want to tell the whole world that she is an amazing sister. If you know her give her a shout out, if you don’t you can give her one here if you want. I hope that you are lucky enough to have such a great sister as I do, but I have to say it would be hard to, that is unless you are my other sister Margaret.
Shavers, My Sister and Radio
Posted: August 23, 2013 Filed under: Diet- comedy | Tags: Anysharp, Janet Carter, radio, Shavetech, Travalo 3 Comments
Just when I have no idea what I can write my blog about that won’t get my child kicked off a team or make my husband’s back hurt anymore something falls in my lap. I opened my computer to write and saw an e-mail had come in from my sister Janet with a link to a download for a radio interview she did today. It was a show out of Los Angeles called Tee It Up, which as you can guess is about golf. Now my sister loves to play golf and has at one time or another been quite a good golfer, but not so much recently so I was really curious what she was being interviewed about on this radio show.
The download completed and the host started talking about shaving. Ahhh…. I thought. This is a show guys listen to; Janet owns a company that sells a shaver called ShaveTech, an electric shaver that plugs into a USB. So for about ten minutes I listened to Janet talk to two men about shaving. This was not normal radio, it was infomercial disguised as a conversation. After all the shaving talk they spent a couple minutes talking about another one of her products, a knife sharpening tool called AnySharp.
Janet did a great job keeping the conversation casual about how men can keep this razor in their desk drawer at work in case they need to shave before a big meeting or a date. These two radio hosts loved the USB charging capability since you did not need to carry adaptors and it works anywhere in the world. On and on they went about Janet’s products and how they make great presents at $30.
How did my sister get in this business? She went from telecom, to owning a women’s clothing store, to marketing consulting and now owns a business that sells all kinds of stuff from travel perfume sprayers called Travalo to Shavers.
All of a sudden a vision came to my mind of a time when Janet was about three and she practically cut her thumb off playing with my father’s razor. I remember my mother screaming for me to get a towel to wrap her blood gushing hand in so she could drive her to the emergency room. Little did any of us know she would grow up to sell electric shavers, which are much less dangerous than a razor with a straight blade. What kid plays with razors anyway?
We just never know what path life is going to take. If you asked me twenty years ago if I would ever hear my sister being interviewed about men shaving I would tell you absolutely not. She’s really not that into men shaving. But listening to her tonight I got a real charge, no pun intended, to hear carry on such an interesting conversation about something so mundane.
I wonder in Janet even remembers almost cutting off her thumb or her fascination with razors at a young age. I guess we should walk the path that is in front of us and eventually you are going to get somewhere. It might not always be where you thought you were going, but it might be more fun than you expected.
Less Dana, More Good 