My friend Maggie is having a fall contest over at her blog! There are prizes of course! Quoted from her site all you have to do is:
1. Take a Photo that best describes Fall to you. Is it Halloween, is it leaves, is it pumpkins.. whatever it may be. Be creative it’s totally up to you.
2. Post your photo on flickr in her photo contest group. Located here
3. Leave a comment and a link to your blog here telling everyone that you’ve entered the contest and who you are.
4. Mention the contest at your site.
Here is a picture of my first entry, Anna actually helped me gather the leaves for this shot since our trees haven’t started turning yet in our yard.
I know there are much better photographers out there than me, so head on over and join in the fun!
Scroll down for more recent posts, please ***Sticky post/ Giveaway!***I’m sure you are seeing lots of sites and blogs across the ’sphere going pink. What’s all the fuss, you wonder? If you don’t know already, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It doesn’t matter what part of the world you are in, breast awareness is so important.
There are many sites you can check out and support, I happened to sign up for Blogger Talk and they sent me an email about Pink for October. Friday I told you about Feel Your Boobies, another site that I had found last week promoting breast awareness and self exams, AND National Feel Your Boobies Week is October 12-19. Also as you guys know I started Frisk the 15th a few months ago.
There is the Susan G. Komen Foundation, which is one of the most informative sites out there- not to mention the fact that they are the leading foundation for research, survivors and activists.
To encourage participation across the net I have decided to hold a little giveaway. Please leave your link below if you are participating in Pink for October. My birthday was on the 4th and I decided that for my birthday Iwould like to donate to The Komen foundation, so … the first 5 bloggers that went Pink and left their link in the linky below, were:
Even if you aren’t one of the first 5, please leave a link. I’d still love to see your blogs. So get going, and go PINK!
ALSO, I just found out about another giveaway at Slackermommy’sPink for October post. To enter her giveaway all you have to do is to join in on the Pink for October project, then leave you your link in her Mr. Linky. The prize? A pink digital picture key chain. I want it!
Can you telly I REALLY want to win a Nano? Tech Juicer is having a contest to win a iPod Nano in any color.
If you would like to enter the contest, there are 3 ways to enter. Quoted from the site:
Comment! Thats it. You can comment once and that will gain you 1 entry.
Blog about / link to this post! All you need to do is write and trackback to this post. If you cannot trackback just add a link and write a comment below with the link. Every unique trackback (1 link form each unique page). This will get you 2 entries!
Use one of our text numbers, selected countires unfortunately (see banner below for numbers). You can text in an infinite number of times. Each entry gets you 4 entries!
Also, there will be a second prize:
This prize will go to the website with the most referrals to this post! We will use Google Annalytics to determine this. All you have to do is refer users to this post.
The prize is a 125X125 banner ad on the right of this page. FOREVER! For aslong as TechJuicer.com exists you will have a banner ad!
So, if you click on the banner above, I will get credit for your referral. Even if you don’t enter the contest i still will get credit I think.
Again… fingers, toes and eyes crossed. Wish me luck!
Jason over at Success For Your Blog is having a a contest to give away an iPod Nano. When I found his page I was interested right away, his latest article is titled Make over $20,000 a month on your blog, how could I not be interested? After reading only a few minutes I knew that his blog could be a wealth of knowledge on how to run a successful blog and tips on making money.
I didn’t start this blog to make money, I really enjoy writing about the daily doses of daughter drama… but it doesn’t hurt to make a buck or two in the process. I’m sure I’ll be able to find something to perk up the old blog.
One of the requirements of the contest is to share some blog pimpage and a little linky love, so I think I will link to 2 really nice and COOL people I have just met in the blogosphere.
The author of the blog Pointless Drivel is having a giveaway in hopes that the word will get out about his award nomination for the Blogger’s Choice Awards “Best Humor Blog”. Mr. Fabulous wants us to not only vote for him, but he wants you to enter his giveaway by asking your readers to vote for him too.
To enter (quoted from his site) :
That’s where you guys come in. All you have to do to get entered into the drawing is write a post telling people to both vote for me and asking them to also write a post urging their readers to vote for me. Once you have written your post, just make a comment here with the url and *poof* you are entered.
Want to know what is at stake? An iPod Shuffle (plus a very *cough* interesting iPod accessory, go to his site to find out more)
How would you like to win $50 to spend in a vintage children’s store? Kailani of An Island Life is holding a giveaway to Warm Biscuit Bedding Company. Stop by before September 28th for all the details.
I personally loved the little purses and bags that they make since I have been making little purses the last couple of months that I am going to try to sell at craft fairs this holiday season. The designs at the Warm Biscuit Bedding Company are adorable, and you can have them personalized too.
While your at it, why not check out Kailani’s review site An Island Review. She has the inside scoop on giveaways and contests that are going on in the ’sphere.
I was reading Kailani’s site An Island Review, and I saw a post about this giveaway at It’s Write Now.I love gadgets, and love free gadgets even more so of course I am entering! If you want to enter you must link to her blog, link to The Contest Post, then leave a comment at the contest post. Pretty simple for such a great reward. I’ve got my fingers and toes crossed, how about you?
I was offered a chance to review a few books, but just from reading the title of this book I was hooked. I will admit that I am one of millions who plays the lottery, and though I do not play on a regular basis I still get a thrill; so the idea of reading about the dark side to business was intriguing.
Throughout the book Ugel struggles with the morality of the Lottery Buyout Business, but he also gets into the more technical underbelly of what he assures the reader is the full fledged business- the lottery. He describes where the money made from the lottery is actually used and the way in which it divided in most states, and he describes the fact that in most states the money that is supposed to go towards a state’s education is actually divided differently. Yes, the lottery does give the state their yearly cut, but it is the state who chooses to take the money, cut back and reallocate state funds to compensate. Where is this money going? Good question.
In this fascinating book, the author Edward Ugel also recounts his life before the business and the aftermath of his actions towards hundreds of lottery winners… and himself. Ugel is quite frank about what it means to really win these days for most people, which is to end up flat broke months after winning the lottery because they make the mistake of taking yearly annuity instead of a lump sum payout. He describes the good, bad and the ugly of lottery winners by giving many examples of the type of clients he normally bought lottery winnings from by buying their next lottery check (for a cut of course), so that the winners could get their hands on the money they so desperately needed. Out of seeing a need, The Firm was born.
The most important thing to take away from reading his book, and something the author stresses periodically throughout the book? Take a lump payment. With an annuity, you don’t earn interest on the money the lottery owes you, and though 200 grand a year for 20 years may seem like a lot- in the end you have to consider inflation and the value that dollar will have in 20 years. 200 grand isn’t going to be worth what it is today.
If you play the lottery even on occasion, I highly recommend this book. It’s filled with insightful information, grit and many funny anecdotes about his life in the industry. To read more reviews of this book, click the image to go to Amazon.com. Happy reading!
If you are interested in reading this book, let me know in comments. I will mail it to the the first person to ask for it.
I often wonder what my life would be like if I worked in an office… I am a stay-at-home-mom but I actually don’t think my life would be all that different. I mean I do have deadlines, demanding bosses, all vacation time must be approved months in advance, and despite many, many promises I have yet to receive a raise. Oh yeah, and the benefits package is complete pooh- pun intended.
I am always amazed at the people who can manage to work so hard in an office environment yet find the time to blog, and if it were me… this is what my day would be like:
Anyway, I was recently presented with the opportunity to receive books for free (Collins, an Imprint of HaperCollins Publishers), no strings attached except for reviews on the books that I enjoyed reading. Since school started a week ago I decided that since I have only one ankle biter at home, I might have a little extra time on my hands. Besides pondering what I want to be when my kids grow up, I thought I would use this time to catch up on a little reading! Cube Monkeys: A Handbook for Surviving the Office Jungle is the first book I have read for review, and considering I just watched one of my all time favorite movies, choosing this book to review was a hilarious coincidence.
Cube Monkeys covers all the bases to coping with life in cubicle hell, such as:
New twists on dodging the bullet for a day and Calling In Sick… “I can’t stop the ringing in my ears, so I can’t hear what you’re saying. If it’s okay I take today off, let me know. Wait, I can’t hear you. I know, if it’s okay I take a sick day, just don’t say anything. Did you say anything? I’m just going to hang up. Is that okay? If it’s…”
The origins of the Neck Noose and what your office Wardrobe says about you… “Beige two-piece business suit: Smart and highly practical, these suits can go from office to hamper back to the office because you didn’t have time to go to the cleaners after [your child] got his head stuck in a bait bucket. They usually have rich textures and subtle patterns- perfect for camouflaging baby vomit.”
10 suitable greetings for when you’d rather say “Leave me alone!”: ” ‘Give me just a second.” Close your eyes and say softly to yourself,”It’s okay to ask coworkers for money, it’s okay to ask coworkers for money…’ ” And, ” ‘I’m too busy picturing you naked to talk to you right now.’ “
This book contains many other hilarious sections such as:
Boss-to-English Translator
Fake Doctors Notes
Game: Blame The Temp
Defusing The Loaded Question
Hide And Seek: Advanced Avoidance Techniques for the 4:59 PM Assignment
Time Killers: How To Look Busy Even When You Are Not
So if you are looking for The Survivor’s Guide To Not Going Postal , this book is sure to give you a laugh- and on the bad days at least good chuckle- when you start to feel those neutral burlap covered cubicle walls closing in.
After all, you don’t really want to turn into this guy, do you?
I was just reading my blogging buddy Judy’s blog and she mentioned that there is a site giving away a free iPhone. Too good to be true? I think not!
I think that this giveaway is a brilliant use of internet marketing and given the fact that practically 1/4 (just a guesstimation) of the world’s population is dying to get their hands an iPhone, I think this giveaway should bring Mr. Gary Lee a lot of business.
Gary also has a new business called Bunkers Paradise where you can (paraphrased from his site) :
Keep track of your Golf game stats with their Score Tracker
Keep track of improvements in your game by using their Golf Handicap tracker
Get Tips and Drills so you can see where need the most improvement
Set up Leagues to Compete in and check out your friends stats and progress
As part of your entry for the giveaway, you also need to mention an affiliate of Mr. Gary Lee where you can check out free online coupons, and it’s called Pinkdeals. I was reading the idea behind the site, and I thinks it’s a wonderful idea. Pinkdeal was frustrated by the fact that she wasn’t able to find search site that met her needs and that wasn’t geared mostly towards men. So, she decided to open her own search site that IS geared towards women. Honestly, I am going to check this site out because what ever makes my life easier… I’m all for it!
Also, another interesting tidbit: If your blog/site has a page ranking of 4 or higher you will get 2 entries in the giveaway. How cool is that? For an uncomplicated Page Rank checker, go here.
