Annette Price

 

ABOUT ANNETTE

Annette Price is a business owner, educator, artist, journalist, wife, and mother of three.

She started Speeding Bullet Comics in 1998, near historic downtown Norman, Oklahoma. Speeding Bullet, known for its family atmosphere and community involvement, has been nominated for the Will Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award, the highest honor among comic book specialty stores.

Annette enjoys teaching both children and adults. As a certified eBay Education Specialist, she helps beginners sell products online. She also teaches cake decorating at the beginning and intermediate levels.

Food artistry is another entrepreneurial avenue. Her professional cakes and confectionary carvings win festival awards and take the spotlight at weddings.

Annette is an editor, writer, graphic designer and photographer by trade. With a magna cum laude degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma, her credentials include the prestigious Dow Jones Newspaper internship and experience at major newspapers in Arkansas and Oklahoma.

Annette and husband, Matthew, celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in 2007. They live in Norman with their three daughters: Rachel, Audrey and Miranda.

 

LINKS

 

Speeding Bullet Comics features over 5,000 graphic novels in stock -- giving the store one of the largest selections in the Midwest. You can learn more about the store at www.speedingbulletcomics.com.

To learn more about Annette's Selling on the Internet classes, see her listing in the Education Specialist directory or find her class at Moore-Norman Technology Center.

Annette's cake decorating classes are offered at the South Penn Campus of Moore-Norman Technology Center. Her cake and cookie decorating class for the Summer Youth Academy is designed for 9- to 11-year-olds. Visit her Flickr site to see photos of her cakes.

To visit Matthew's web site, visit www.matthewlprice.com.

To contact Annette, click here.

Thu Jan 10

Please, give me a pass

I’m not sure which part of raising kids kills brain cells. Is it the pregnancies? The sleep interruptions? The mundane repetition of picking up toys and reading the same children’s books every day?

Yes! I had my baby. On Aug. 3, Miranda was born. I would have told the world, yet I couldn’t remember the password for my website. Almost six months later, I’m finally getting things sorted out and hope to post more regularly.

The password dilemma is nothing new. I have started a password file on my computer. Of course, the password file is saved under an alternate name — a password for the passwords. Want to know the name of the file? It’s the code word Matthew and I have agreed upon in case either one of us suspects the other has been replaced by an impostor/clone/robot. In this Matrix world, one can never be too sure. (It has been tested once or twice.)

Currently, I have almost 50 passwords recorded, and I know I’m missing some. This boggles my mind. I try to make them unique, but I’ve run out of ideas and there are clearly the ones I don’t care that much about hiding — my Southwest Airlines frequent flier ID for example. I don’t think I’ll be getting away enough to cash that in anyway.

Last month, I had to call the bank to regain access to my online checking account. The bank had forced me to change the password the week before. When I entered the old password by mistake, it automatically locked me out. Furious at what should have taken me only a couple of seconds to check my balance, I took it out on the bank operator.

“I can’t take money out of my account online. I can only check the activity. Not only do I have to remember a password, you keep making me change the password, I have to answer a dozen security questions, and I have to verify the same picture of a hairdryer everytime I log in,” I complained. All I got was a lecture about how the bank is committed to a high level of security.

Remember “Super Password”? I used to watch that show every day. It was the 1980s, and Bert Convy was funny. I was so good at that game. But then, that was before I had kids.