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March 25, 2009 at 10:00 am · Filed under contest, food and drink, giveaway, sample
**UPDATED** Winners were drawn and Amy from Assertagirl and Heather from The Spohrs Are Multiplying threatened me with bodily harm WON! Congrats, ladies, and thank you to all who entered!
When I started up this review site, I thought that maybe…JUST maybe…I’d get a chance to try out some new products, bring new things to the table for my readers and *hopefully* get to give some stuff away.
NO ONE told me there would be free ice cream.
MY life? Gets better every day, yo!
Last week I had the chance to get on a conference call with Haagen-Dazs (I know!! The Ferrari of ice creams, right?) to talk about a new line of ice creams they’re introducing - the HaagenDazs Five.
Ice cream is just ice cream…it’s almost like pizza, in that even when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.
But Haagen-Dazs does have a pretty high standard and a reputation for excellence and I often walk past it with longing in my heart before I go to the 45-gallon container of the store brand vanilla. Sometimes I’ll sneak back and pick up a pint…just one…for me to stash away.
The conversation with the HD people was fascinating. Their new line is simply called Five. Why Five? Because there are only five ingredients in each container of ice cream: milk, cream, eggs, sugar and then the “hero ingredient” - the flavor…THE FLAVORS!
Are you ready for this? The flavors include: Brown Sugar, Coffee, Vanilla Bean, Ginger, Mint, Passion Fruit and Milk Chocolate. Yeah, for reals.
Simple, pure ingredients…not a single thing you couldn’t find in your own kitchen and no artificial anything…in fact, they even post the ingredients right on the front of the package because that’s all you’ll find in there. If you ever stand in a grocery aisle and look at labels thinking to yourself, “Why would I buy something for my family that’s full of ingredients I can’t even pronounce?”, this is your ice cream.
The taste? Pure, smooth, rich, really unlike any ice cream I’ve ever tasted. It isn’t an overwhelming milky-sugary concoction, it’s sheer taste.
You may have considered throwing something at me by now, why do you care if I got to try the bomb-diggity mack-daddy of all ice creams?
Because this is your chance to try some too.
I’m giving away two gift certificates good for pints of the Haagen-Dazs Five ice cream to two different winners!
Let the swooning begin!
All you gotta do to win is:
1. Comment here about what flavor you’ll try if you win. *pssst, the brown sugar flavor owns my soul now*
2. Tweet the contest and leave a comment here with the tweet link, but use the #HDFive and @anissamayhew, please.
RULES:
Contest runs from 10 AM EST. March 25 - 12 PM March 29.
No duplicate comments. Winners will be selected by random draw and will be notified by email. You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected. You can only win one contest on this site once in any thirty day period.
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March 10, 2009 at 12:01 am · Filed under contest, food and drink, giveaway, product review, sample
Winner: Miss Britt! Who I love and will actually be seeing this weekend, so that saves me a trip to the post off. GO Team Slacker! But she won the random draw and I thank you all for your participation and I hope Splenda Mist comes to you soon.
There are things my household could go without for days…fresh milk, eggs, even bread (hey, kids, let me teach you this new pb&j trick…CRACKERS!) but if we don’t have Splenda for our coffee in the morning there is a real possibility that worlds could end and existence as we know it comes to a screeching halt.
At the very least, I am a total crab. Equally unpleasant.
I am dependent. An self-confessed addict. I don’t care what anyone says about it, I love Splenda and it loves me.
And while I was in Nashville I saw a friend pull out the holy grail of all sweeteners. FROM her purse.
Do you have any idea what she did with it?
SPRAYED it in her drink.
I was all fumbly-fumble, can-i-try-that-gimme-gimme-gimme!
And I coveted it for my own.
You know what happened then? I got one email and then a few more and then the mail guy showed up with a package and I ripped it open and THERE IT WAS.
For real, Spray Mist in a pretty little yellow bottle about the size of tube of lipstick.
I won’t even lie. Me, who’s had deliveries of free wireless printers and Build-A-Bears got all giddy happy over a container of spray Splenda.
Yeah, I am THAT kind of geek.
No more sitting in restaurants befuddled by their response of “No, we don’t carry Splenda.”
No more getting ticked off with Starbucks three blocks down the road when I find out they’ve forgotten to put in the Splenda.
I am now the Inspector Gadget of Splenda, yo!!
Go, go, Splenda Mist! <–if you don’t get that, you obviously are NOT a child of the 80’s. And you can’t be my friend anymore. Sorry. Ok, you can be my friend, but I will still snicker behind your back because you don’t get Inspector Gadget references.
ANYWAY.
I truly wish I had one for each and every one of you because this is one of the handiest and most awesome samples I’ve ever gotten my hands on. You’ll never realize how often you need it until you actually HAVE it!
I DO have one Splenda Mist to give away, want it?
- To enter, please leave me a comment below about a Splenda experience (or about how shiny my hair is)
- You may leave a link to your blog post, Facebook update or Twitter message about this contest in the comments for an additional entry.
- The contest will begin at 12:00 a.m. (EST) on Tuesday, March 10th and will end Monday, March 16th at 11:59 p.m. (EST).
- Make sure your email address is valid!
No duplicate comments. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents. Winners will be selected by random draw and will be notified by email. You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected. You can only win a contest on this site once in any thirty day period.
**Don’t forget to check out more of me at Hope4Peyton, and you may want to consider catching my RSS feed HERE because the giving is gooood.**
February 21, 2009 at 7:00 am · Filed under BlogHer Review, contest, coupon, discount, giveaway, music, product review, sample, software, stuff for kids
***Updated to announce winner by Random.com is #10 Belinda. Belinda has 48 hours to respond by email or a new winner will be pulled. Thank you all for entering, I sure appreciate your participation. I hope that you all have a chance to use Norton’s awesome software and come back for the next contest.*
Norton software is pretty much synonymous with computer/internet security…and there is nothing I want safe more than my children.
I was once helping Nathaniel Google information for a project on Indian villages and one seemingly innocent click led us to a nasty porn site. I nearly knocked him out slapping my hand over his eyes as quickly as I could. I couldn’t believe it and was thoroughly horrified.
Norton has a fix for this kind of thing…built-in safety for YOUR family with Norton Online Family. We have two ancient desktop pc’s for our girls and a laptop for our son and there’s a lot of setup to cover every computer, but OH SO worth it.
Installing the program on their computers allows me to have one web interface that I can use to control all their web activity: websites, emails, IM’s, social media, and stuff they’re not even trying yet. I can see what they’ve been to, if they’ve tried to access inappropriate things and I can set up each child with different access according to age and maturity.
Click on picture to check out the interface
This past weekend, I was out of town at a conference and I was able to see what was going with my kids and their computer use…which, as far as I’m concerned, the more aware I am regarding their usage, the safer they are.
If you’d like to start keeping your family safe, you can download the Norton software and use promo code: ACC10. You won’t regret it.
Contest Details
Thanks to BlogHer and Norton, I’m able to give away one of these!
You covet? Me TOO!
How to win:
- To enter, please leave me a comment below. If you have kids, please include how you stay in the loop with your kids and whether this new software will help you.
- You may leave a link to your post, facebook update or twitter message about this contest in the comments for an additional entry.
- The contest will begin at 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Monday, February 23th and will end Monday, March 9th at 11:59 p.m. (PST).
- Make sure your email address is valid!
Rules:
No duplicate comments. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents. Winners will be selected by random draw10 more chances to win an Ipod Touch from the BlogHer Review Roundup! and will be notified by email. You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected. Enter for
See the official rules for details: http://www.blogher.com/official-rules-check-out-norton-online-family-software-and-enter-win-ipod-touch
**Don’t forget to check out more of me at Hope4Peyton, and you may want to consider catching my RSS feed HERE because the giving is gooood.**
January 27, 2009 at 3:00 am · Filed under Uncategorized, contest, giveaway, inspiring creativity, product review, sample
I’ll go ahead and get this right out of the way now.
Should you ever need it, Hewlett-Packard has an awesome tech support team.
Ask for Gary, he’s nice.
*sigh*
BlogHer asked me if I’d like to do this review for the HP Photosmart All-In-One printer and I said, “Yeah!”
Then I found out I got to give one away…and I said “OH heck YEAH!”
“Oh, by the way, it’s a wireless printer.” I nearly died on the spot.
A wireless printer! In my happy, clammy little hands. It was almost too good to believe.
Because me and wires? We has a history.
It ain’t a pretty one.
I have cords from one end of my house to the other, straggling between rooms and around desks. With the sheer volume of electronics we power and network and recharge, my house is veritable MAZE of cords and wires. It’s a borderline safety hazard and drives me absolutely wild.
Do you see this? (And no, I’m not talking about my dusty file cabinet, thankyouverymuch!)
That one cord out the back of this printer is for power and that’s it. No more. NADA. ZILCH.
A beautiful thing.
Setting up this printer took all of ten minutes…and four of it was wrestling it out of the box. Nice job on the safe packaging there, HP. It does have USB hookup for those without a wireless router, but it was as simple as giving the printer the WEP password from the back of the router and the printer said, “RAWRR, look at what I can do!”
This is where I ran into issues…because, well, I’m ME. I spent the better part of the afternoon on the phone with tech support, where I developed a lasting friendship with Gary, trying to figure out why my shiny new printer would print from anything and everything BUT my laptop. After many hours of plugging, unplugging, rebooting and playing with cartridges it turned out to be a faulty disc with bad installation software.
Once the fix was made, I started having some fun with it!
From my living room.
I’m going to just go ahead and say that again for you…FROM my living room! Nowhere near the printer and without a single cord spanning the distance. *le sigh*
When they say “lab quality” printing, they aren’t kidding. You COULD NOT get better pictures from any photo development center…and most assuredly not as quickly or conveniently.
I might or might not have gone a little overboard.
But, clearly, you have never experienced this kind of technological goodness or you’d be going overboard as well.
OH wait! That’s right…you COULD!
Because thanks to the awesomeness that is HP and BlogHer, I get to give away one of these rock-on fabulous printers to one of you.
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ON TO THE GIVEAWAY!!
I am going to give you LOTS of chances to enter this contest!
1. Leave a comment below and tell me one awesome way this printer will make your life an easier place.
2. Leave a link to your post about this contest on your own blog.
3. Leave the link showing me you Twittered about this contest
4. Leave a link to a photo showing me your WORST cord/wire situation
Do any or all of the above and you get an entry to the contest for each one.
The contest will begin at 12:00 a.m. (PST) on Wednesday, January 28th, and will end Tuesday, February 3rd at 11:59 p.m (PST). Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct.
Rules:
- No duplicate comments.
- This giveaway is open to U.S. residents.
- Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
- You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
**Check out HP’s site for more information about their wireless printer products.
**You also have 7 more chances to win this same printer through BlogHer and 7 other awesome bloggers!
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