I’m giving away Prada AND Chocolate!

 

This is the most spectacular and exciting giveaway I’ve done yet.

Complete details at MomGadget

I’m having too much fun with this one!

 

Tags: prada, chocolate, valentines, giveaway, contest, blog contest, free

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Now That’s Just Freaky!

For the last five weeks my hubby and I have been unemployed because we are seasonal workers.  We have been spending our time reading, going to the library in town a couple of times a week.  He started out reading Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn.  I read Naomi Wolf’s “End Of America” and Al Franken’s “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them”, before I moved on to several cookbooks.

One day we were watching Iconoclasts on TV. The particular episode we were watching featured Deepak Chopra and Mike Myers.  I had heard a little bit about Chopra in the past, but Jim had never heard of him. In the show, they were discussing a little bit about his philosophy and talked about one of his books, “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind”.  So, the next time we went to the library we checked it out.

Jim is very impressed with the concept of everything being connected that Chopra  stresses in his book. He is especially interested in learning more about Aryuveda, and in the aryuvedic way of eating practised in India.

The freaky thing that happened is that because I had checked out a cookbook on Indian cooking, I had a list in my head of new herbs and spices I wanted to get the next time we had a little money to spend on such things. We were given several Wal-Mart gift cards for Christmas and went grocery shopping with them. While we were there, Jim came over to me in the spice aisle, and said, “I want to get some ginger, some curry powder, and some Chinese Five Spice Powder.”  Those are the exact same three that I had on my list!!! Freaky!!

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Shopping Is For Girls

I can’t believe it. I can only attribute it to the fact that since my son-in-law, daughter and their kids moved in, bringing the grand total in the house up to 13, I have been sleeping erratically, trying to fit in blogging, trying to finish Christmas stuff…trying to figure out WHEN Marc’s boss is going to be visited by the ghosts of Christmas -past, present and future…

I can’t believe I did it …and I think it is the bad influence of…The Girl.

The Girl likes to shop. She likes to get her hair done. She likes to get her nails done. She likes pink fluffy things….she likes clothes with names on them like Antarctic something or other…she likes shoes…makeup…she is…a girl.

I have never been a girl. Not in those terms. I had to grow up very fast. I have always been responsible for someone. I can run a chain saw, throw a bale of hay, or hammer a nail. I have trimmed horses hooves, helped goats give birth, and been there for everyone who ever needed me to. I am a mom…a wife…a writer…an artist…a friend…a Christian ..but a girl?

Never. Toss me a pair of jeans, joyfully bought for $3 at Salvation Army Thrift store..hand me a sweater or a flannel shirt …and once I get my make-up on I am good to go. My morning routine takes 4 minutes, 36 seconds.

So..there is no explanation for what happened yesterday. None. Other than the evil, pink, fluffy influence of..you know who.

I got 4 inches cut off my hair. Granted, it needed it. I have not been into a hair cutter place since i was pregnant with #6 who just turned 9. I got all of the dead ends and breakage cut off AND had a deep conditioner treatment…while The Girl was having her hair done. And then…good-night, I am embarrassed to type it….I took us to get our nails done.

I was a nail virgin. Now I have these appendages at the ends of my appendages. The scary thing is that the people that do nails have really heavy accents! You go in for your nails and pretty soon they are attacking your eyebrows with tweezers and scraping your cuticles off and handing you a bill for $75 all because you nodded at them when you thought they said “Isn’t it a nice day?”

And then? Fredericks of Hollywood for new underwear..Only they do NOT call it underwear there. And the woman cashier complimented my hair AND my nails…She really thought I was a girl.

I am sitting here looking at my nails and feeling the lightness of my head (and in it) and feeling much like I think people must feel on Monday morning when the find out that they got drunk the night before and were now married..and they have no clue what their spouse’s name is.

And worst of all..I am thinking of going and having my hair colored.

Pretty soon I will be wearing jewelry.

I am so heading out to the back today and chainsawing up the tree that fell. Maybe after that I will change the oil in the van..it needs it.

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An eBay Beef - No, not beef on eBay…

My good friend Char has created a monster in me. I’m completely addicted to NICE handbags now and LOVE playing around on eBay to see what prizes I can snatch up for the best price.

Psst, Char, if you’re reading this… I’m really feeling like a million bucks lately, thanks to you!

A couple of weeks ago, I won an AWESOME Dooney and Bourke handbag. It’s so darned CUTE! Don’t you think?

Anyway, I waited and waited on my bag to arrive - no notice, nothing. I finally broke down and sent the seller an email on a Thursday. She stated she’d send it out Priority Mail the following Tuesday which she did. From payment to arrival, it was 19 days.

Now, I do love the handbag so I gave her positive feedback with a “slow to ship but worth the wait” notation as my comment.

She responded back with feedback for me with this notation: “Quick payment…Cannot help P.O. SLOWNESS !!!”

Now why would someone purposely lie like that? And on the feedback of someone who knows the truth?

I know people lie, but gosh darnit, don’t lie and attach the deception to me!

Did I ever tell you how much I hate liars? I know I shouldn’t take such things so darned personal, but dangit, if someone can tell a white lie so easily, doesn’t it make you wonder what else they could lie about?

I’d much rather someone slap my face as to tell me a lie.

Ok, I’m done now. I feel SOOOOOOO much better!

Now back to the bag… cute huh? And I snagged that baby for a cool $65

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God Love Tommy Hilfiger

From clothing to shoes to shades to skin care, Tommy Hilfiger has taken the world by storm for well over a decade now, using hotties like Beyonce and Enrique Iglesias to sell his stock.

And even though he is best known for making women everywhere smell like “Tommy Girl,” this is one fashionista who is fed up with companies using sex to sell style.

“I think in many cases is has become tacky and tasteless and it goes way too far,” Hilfiger told Pop Tarts last week. “Wholesome is healthy and still sexy, and I realize other people have different opinions. But controversy makes the world goes round — however, the selling of sex with fashion is something I think is trashy.”

Hilfiger says he wants to propel the industry from promiscuous to patriotic.

Take that with ya to the mall why don’t ya?

I LOVE Tommy!!!

Via Fox News

Tags: Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, Tommy Hilfiger, shopping, sexy

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9 of the Weirdest Christmas Items Ever

And one really cool one…

O.k..well, Jennifer did her happy post and Deb did a public service announcement…so I will fill in with the Holiday Awards For The Most Wasteful Products Ever. I have time to do it, the family is at church and #7 child and I are home battling his germs with a copious intake of PBS…

So I was sitting here surfing, something I rarely have time for and found some odd things. Being the generous soul that I am I thought to share the stupidity.

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Milking maids are darned expensive

While the origins of the Christmas carol “The Twelve Days of Christmas” may be a mystery, one thing is certain: It’s getting more costly to buy your true love all the items mentioned.

It would cost $78,100 to buy the 364 items, from a single partridge in a pear tree to the 12 drummers drumming, repeatedly on each day as the song suggests, according to the annual PNC Christmas Price Index compiled by PNC Wealth Management.

For those who can’t remember the entire song…

On the twelfth day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
Twelve drummers drumming,
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings,
Four calling birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves,
And a partridge in a pear tree!

Makes me glad I have four teenagers!

~*~*~ Gayla ~*~*~

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