April 29, 2009 at 1:20 pm · Filed under BlogHer Review, food and drink, giveaway, product review
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“This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Capri-Sun.”
7:00 AM – start getting kids out of bed
7:15 AM – start hollering because kids either aren’t out of bed yet or are moving at a snail’s pace
7:30 AM – Activating the Mayhew Law of Leaving: The faster you need to get somewhere, the more likely the kids are to find eleventy-billion ways to putz around.
7:45 AM – start doing the last minute haranguing about shoes and confirmations that teeth have been brushed and backpacks are packed and are, in fact, on the backs.
7:55 AM – begin herding children out the door, knowing that one of them will freak out halfway down the driveway about something they’ve forgotten.
8:00 AM – breathe a sigh of relief that we are actually going to be at school on time!
8:01 AM – realize that no one ate a decent breakfast.
FAIL!
As much as I know the tried and true belief that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, my kids are much like me and just aren’t that into eating a big meal first thing in the morning. We rush around trying to get out the door and a breakfast including more than a handful of fruit or a breakfast bar is beyond our reach.
As I am always on the lookout for a way to make the morning scramble easier on all of us, I jumped on the chance to check out a new product, Capri-Sun Sunrise, a new wholesome morning drink for kids.
Capri-Sun is a brand well known in my house, something I know my kids enjoy and I can trust for taste and value. Finding out that they provide a good source of calcium, 100% of the daily value of Vitamin C in the easy-on-the-go pouch just really made it a no-brainer.
So, now I don’t feel like such a breakfast failure knowing that I’m providing something that’s quick and easy they can grab every morning, better preparing them for the day.
If you’re one of those moms that gets up an hour early to make some muffins from scratch and whose kids look confused at the thought of a Pop Tart, this may not be something relevant to you.
However, if you (like me) struggle to get your kids to even THINK about eating breakfast in the morning, let alone something that’s good for them, Capri-Sun Sunrise may be a shot for you to sneak in something a little healthier into their routine.
Contest Details:
Thanks to this compensated review from BlogHer and Capri-Sun Sunrise, you have the opportunity to win a $250 Visa Gift Card. There are seven more opportunities for you to enter and win by going to the BlogHer Review Roundup.
How to win:
• Please leave a comment below, and IF you have kids share YOUR struggles with the morning breakfast routine
• Additional entry for Tweeting this contest and leaving the link in a comment
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments
Contest Rules
• No duplicate comments.
• This giveaway is open to US residents, over the age of 18.
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
• The contest dates are 4/29/09-7/8/09.
• Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct.
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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.
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February 11, 2009 at 10:00 pm · Filed under contest, giveaway, music, one2one network, product review
CONTEST CLOSED! WInner was The Mom Jen, but she was kind enough to let me know that she had entered several contests and won on two of them. So she is letting me pull again for THIS contest, and the new winner is Donna Orlando. Congrats to you, Donna!
Back in my very long, very unproductive dating days, I set the bar pretty high.
I wanted Richard Gere to climb my fire escape to swear his love and millions to me.
I wanted the giant ball of c.r.a.z.y. formally known as Tom Cruise to break into my father’s penthouse to sweet me away to a life as a bartender’s wife.
I thought my life would be complete if Jake Ryan ever handed my back my panties over cake. *le sigh*
I love me some chick flicks, and I’m not ashamed to say it.
I’m happy to get to offer you the chance to win a copy of this year’s hit chick flick “He’s Just Not That Into You” soundtrack. I’ve had a chance to listen to it (all the way to Chicago, thank you Ipod) and fell in love with it’s quirky, fun music hodge-podge. I haven’t seen the movie that hit theaters on Feb 6th, but I can tell you that the soundtrack is rocking!
A few of the artists included on the cd include: Corinne Bailey Rae, R.E.M., Talking Heads, Wilco, Maroon 5, Lily Allen, and The Cure…actually, there are a lot more, 17 tracks of girly, fun, swoony, goodness.
*booo moment: I take that back, there are 16 tracks of girly, swoony, fun goodness..and one track of “what the…?” And I will tell you that if you ever liked Jeff Buckley, please do not listen to Scarlett Johansson’s rendition…is not what I usually refer to as GOOD.*
So, of course, I get to give you something fun for this review!
Contest Details:
Contest begins 10 PM (EST) Feb 11 and ends at 12 AM (EST) Feb 17th.
You win a copy of the “He’s Just Not that Into You” soundtrack and a black promotional hoodie!
Ways to win:
- Leave a comment here telling me the movie that made your heart go pitty-patter
- Tweet it!
- Blog it!
Rules:
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No duplicate comments.
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This giveaway is open to U.S. residents.
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Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
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You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
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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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