Sorry, every time I sat to do run the numbers, I got involved in something, would shut down and then remember. So, before I shut down again...
The Winners of the Zoodles: Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
3 - Kimberly B
10- Renee
17 - Clarissa
12 - Gianna
7 - Marci
Timestamp: 2010-01-31 22:05:51 UTC
To see my review on Zoodles go here. I also posted an update after I got my first emailed report which you can find here. This is one of my favorite reviews so far. My daughter loves Zoodles and begs to play everyday. She has learned so much and can use the computer unassisted for an hour. She is 4 years old and didn't have any computer experience prior.
I totally stand behind Zoodles and think if you have kids, you should check it out. All the kid friendly, educational sites your child will need online, all in one place.
Everyday, I change what Goddess will be learning by sliding the subject bars either up or down.
Thanks to Zoodles for the review opportunity and the giveaways for my readers.
Congratulations to the winners. An email was sent and if you didn't receive it, please contact me directly.
It is so easy to explain. Not only do they carry an amazing collection of sexy lingerie, costumes, clothing and undergarments but they are one of the best priced around.
How cute is this Touch Football Uniform? All for $23.95! Tackle Me! So cute.
This one is called Blings of Love and would never look like this on me but it is hot! Hot price too $25.95
Are you a theme girl? Check out this Naughy Cupid costume! Adorable and super sexy.
Here is the one I got for review
For under $25.00, this Polka Dot Chemise Set is super cute, and comes in small/medium and medium and large. There will be no video review of me wearing this and you guys should thank me for that. It is really shear and the colors are so pretty but my favorite part is the lace trim. I have a thing for lacy things.
Have a sexy Valentines with your sweetie and a little assistance from Yandy.
So, whether you are a guy or a girl buying for yourself or someone else, check out Yandy lingerie. There is something for everyone's price range. Happy shopping.
This weeks MomDot question is: 6 of the worst films you’ve ever watched
Can I list 6?
Jennifer's Body - Really sucked! The folks behind this movie were just trying to capitalize on a pretty girl but the movie had no thought behind it and Megan Fox is pretty dull.
Observe and Report - As a fan of Seth Rogan I was hopeful that this would be good. I couldn't make it past 40 minutes. I really tried.
The Fountain - I got it because Hugh Jackman was in it but I have no idea what the hell this movie was about.
The House Bunny - Oh my God! Really???
I cannot come up with another movie that made me say that was aweful.
1. How long have you been blogging? Since June 2005
2. What made you start? I wanted to leave a comment for a friend who has started a blog. Assuming I needed to register to do so, I started one. It was pretty pathetic. Here is my very first post.
3. Who inspired you? My kids, I was inspired to document their every moment.
4. About how many hours a week would you estimate you spend on your blog? About 20 hours on my blog, linking, researching, reviewing, posting, photos, memes, commenting.
5. What kind of experience or background do you have with writing? I have always written. Poems, stories, journals. I got my very first journal (a Holly Hobbie one) for my 7th birthday. When I look at it now, I really wish I wrote more. There are so many empty pages and the ones that weren't empty, I was busy apologizing for not writing. This is my only experience!
6. Talk about how you come up with blog topics. Where do you get your ideas? Whatever is going on at the moment.I wish there was more time to actually just talk about random topics that sit in my head but that is not possible.
7. What or who inspires you and your blog? Me, me and me...I just want to write about my life, and talk about my kids. Everything else is just fillers.
8. Where and/or how do your brainstorming for your blog? Oh, you know...I sit at the table and look at my list of things to review or commitments I have for PR folks and put real life experiences on the backburner. A story about Goddess' first Valentines Day card from a boy story has been sitting with me for over 2 weeks.
9. Do you have any blogging rules or guidelines you follow? Nope
10. Is there anything you will not blog about? Nope
11. Do you have any sort of a publishing schedule in terms of day of week or topic? Nope, although someone tried earlier this week to get me on one and I declined.
If you are new to the meme, welcome. To find out why I began Self Portrait Sunday, see my first post here.
The rules are simple. Just post a picture of yourself linking back here. Hope to see your beautiful faces.
I took this picture tonight at Chili's. The baby girl is sick and had just woken up. Can you tell? About 3:30 today my husband asked if I wanted to go out to eat. Hello, are you kidding, you don't have to ask me twice. I love going out to eat, especially with my family. It is a wonderful experience to be out without the comforts of home and depend on each other. We are a family and it shows most when we are in the elements and function as one unit. It is also great to see how well behaved my kids are. It probably has something to do with the fact that we interact with them. My parents didn't take us out to eat often so when they did, they would pretty much ignore us as they talked, laughed and interacted with each other. We were pretty much on our own for entertainment which means we pretty much got yelled at most of the time. Hello parents, if you take your children out to eat, then you must go as a family! If you want an intimate, adult conversation, leave the kids at home.
Can you believe how fast this year is already going? The Superbowl is scheduled for February 7th and football fans are already planning for the party.
With all the appetizers, chili's, and dips on the menu, one thing you will need to pick up at the supermarket is Old El Paso Green Chiles.
Green Chiles are a simple way to liven up your go-to favorites. Green Chiles are not spicy, but will add a unique flavor to your dishes that the whole crowd will love!
Perfect for your dips and salsas, as well as your nachos and chili, Old El Paso Green Chiles can help you score a mealtime touchdown with your guests this year. For more ideas, check out these quick (with a prep time of less than 30 minutes each!) and delicious recipes that incorporate Old El Paso Green Chiles and will have your fans cheering for more!
Every year my husband makes his famous multi-layer nacho with all the works, Black Olives, Refried Beans, Jalapenos, Green Chilies, Meat, Shredded Cheese, Salsa and a big helping of Sour Cream. We never finish them but we make some nice dents. For me, it is the only thing to look forward to on SuperBowl Sunday until this year.
Thanks to My Sparks and Old El Paso I received this really awesome "Tackle the Taste" gift pack; two free cans of Green Chiles, as well as a football-shaped ceramic serving platter, two sets of football-themed plates and cocktail napkins, and a themed table runner.
Obviously, as you can see, the table runner won't be used as one in my house. My son confiscated it for his football play. Here is a picture as he is running after a ball he threw up in the air, now he is heading down field to catch said ball.
You can get a coupon for $0.55 cents off cans of Old El Paso here.
If you would like the chance to win one like mine, please fill out the form below and answer this question:
How would you use Green Chiles to spice up your favorite recipes?
To Enter fill out the form below before midnight, February 13, 2010.
US Only
For Extra Entries:
*Blog about this, and leave me the link for 3 extra entries
*Follow me on Twitter, leave your twitter name
*Enter another giveaway on my blog and let me know which one.
*Comment on a non-giveaway post and tell me which one.
Saturday 9: Everybody is a Star
1. Did you ever think that you'd be a star? If yes, doing what? I already am a star baby! In my own eyes anyway and isn't that really all that matters?
By the way, my photo is on the back of this box of cereal, but more on that later.
2. Tell us about the last time you had a romantic dinner. Hahaha...let's see that was sometime in the fall I think, my niece watched the kids and my husband and I went out for an amazing dinner at this place not to far away.
3. Tell us about your worst job interview. It was one were I failed a drug test. I have never taken a drug in my life, I know it and the Lord knows it. I called up my contact and told them (imagine those kind of guts at 22?) that I had never done a drug in my life and how wrong the test was. Fortunately they believed me and I worked there for a year.
4. Tell us about your stupidest date. Umm...I don't think I dated enough to have something called "the stupidest date." Oh wait, there was one where I drove down to South Jersey to met someone who thought he was God's gift to women. When I got out of the car, he asked me to do a little turn in the drive way so he could, what, I don't know, check out the goods I guess. We then got in our appropriate vehicles to head to a club. He gave me directions and said, follow me and you won't get lost. I followed, until I saw Turnpike signs and got the hell off. I had no idea how to get home but knew if I could get on the Turnpike then I would eventually get home. He was such a tool, I just couldn't spend one more moment there.
5. How much in common do you think you should have with a romantic partner? I don't think you have to have a lot in common, you just need to accept each others differences and sometimes step outside your own comfort zone.Although it is nice to have some things in common. Like I know friends who go camping, hiking, and rock climbing, all things I always wanted to do but never said so.
6. Tell us about a favorite meme that you loved but no longer posts. Meme's come and go...one of my favorites was one of my own...(if I am going to pick one, why not my own. Shoot me). It was called Week in Pictures or WIP, only thing was no one ever took as many as I did so no one ever played. It was simple, just post a picture and quick journaling of the photo for each day of the week.
7. How did you get into blogging? I should just cut and paste from a prior meme. A friend had a blog, I tried to leave a comment. Thinking I had to be a member to do so, I started a profile which lead to the beginning of my blog.
8. Do you share all your fantasies with a significant other? Fantasies like fantasy lovers come and go so they change all the time.
9. What change in your life would you like to happen this year? There are so many, but they are all for me personally. I want to grow as a person, take more chances, push the envelope and stop hearing past words in my head about how weak, pathetic, small, immature, greedy, and more that I am. I already know they are all bullshit but sometimes it is hard to turn off the negative noise that your mind replays at any time of the day.
Two weeks ago I told you that I become a member of America’s Toothfairy Blogger Team! The partnership is through National Children's Oral Health Foundation (NCOHF).
February is National Children’s Dental Health Month and NCOHF is kicking it off with a contest for their partners, that's me.
Could you please,
From February 1 - February 28, sign up for the monthly Toothfairy News eblast by visiting the NCOHF Contact Page at www.AmericasToothfairy.org - Why, well, because it is
filled with oral health tips and fun family events taking place across the country.
Please include Maria's Space in the notes section of your Contact form so that I am credited for the sign up (this is important!)
The winner of the contest will be the Blogger Team member with the most readers signed up by February 28 to receive Toothfairy News!
As part of my total disclaimer act for 2010, this is what I will win:
Maria's Space will be individually named and celebrated as the National Children’s Dental Health Month Contest Winner in both the NCOHF national press release AND e-news announcement that we distribute in mid-March.
A live link to Maria's Space will also be featured on the NCOHF homepage under Toothfairy News for the entire month of March.
A live link to Mria's Space will be included in all Toothfairy News e-news blasts for the entire month of March.
We all know how important tooth care is, and it starts early. Here are some important but easy tips to make sure your baby gets a great head start.
National Children’s Oral Health Foundation- Tips From The Toothfairy!
·Hold your infant while feeding and avoid propping the bottle with a pillow or other object to steady it in the infant’s mouth.
·Avoid frequent and long bottle feedings or use of a sippy cup with fruit juices, soda or other carbonated beverages, milk and formula as prolonged contact with these liquids encourages rapid decay.
·Children with special needs may require more frequent dental appointments.
·Infants should visit the dentist within 6 months after their first tooth appears, and all children should have their first dental appointment by age 1.
·Use a rear-facing infant-only car safety seat that is reclined at the manufacturer’s specified angle in the back seat until your baby reaches age 1 and weighs 22 pounds.
·Make sure all playground equipment frequented by your children is surrounded by a soft surface (fine, loose sand; wood chips; wood mulch, rubber mats) to avoid potential dental trauma.
·Avoid spitting on or licking a pacifier or a bottle nipple to “clean” it; wash the pacifier in warm soapy water and rinse completely with clean water.
·Many of the foods that help build strong muscles and bones in children also help build strong, healthy teeth and gums- fruit, raw vegetables, milk, cheese, whole grain foods, and unsweetened yogurt.
·Clean your infant’s gums with a clean damp cloth or soft toothbrush and plain water after each feeding once the infant is home from the hospital.
·Begin brushing your infant’s teeth as soon as the first tooth appears in the mouth (usually between 6-10 months.)
·Avoid giving your child bottled or filtered water (e.g. with a reverse osmosis filter) as neither contains the recommended fluoride content to keep teeth healthy.
·Replace your child’s toothbrush when the bristles flare, bend or become frayed. Worn toothbrush bristles will not remove plaque effectively and can injure gums.
Start teaching your child to drink out of a cup as soon as he/she has coordination of swallowing; prolonged bottle use increases likelihood for cavities
Look at my Handsome, he is too damn cute! I love looking at their baby pictures and seeing how much they have changed and how quickly too! It is amazing. This seems like yesterday.
This is my first week playing along with Friday Photo Flashback.
1. Wouldn't it be easy to just jump of this here bridge?
2. Life is better than ever!
3. I love the taste of Clary's Breakfast Special
4. The kids are helping their dad in the living room.
5. The first thing we're going to do is get the fire started. It is damn cold.
6. Do you hear that damn drip, drip, drip; it is driving me crazy.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to Spartacus, tomorrow my plans include sleeping till 7:00 and Sunday, I want to read!
Starting today, January 29th you will be able to get a free sample three-pack of Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max on Pampers.com. If the sample sent includes a diaper stamped Team USA (randomly inserted in select sample packs), your baby will win a year’s supply of Pampers diapers!
Pampers Cruisers with Dry Max has:
New Dry Max technology - our driest ever - to help lock wetness in up to 12 hours.
Twenty (20) percent less bulk, making it Pampers' thinnest diaper and our driest ever
Softer outer cover for comfort inside and out
Tapered design
Sesame Street® characters (Sesame street® is a licensed character with Pampers in North America)
Will be offered for the same price as current Pampers Swaddlers and Cruisers (Pricing is at the sole discretion of the retailer.)
Art gallery curator Joy Montgomery has never liked her body's generous curves. And she's always been too shy to explore her wild side. But tonight, everything is going to change . . . Desperate to save her job, Joy approaches bad-boy artist Ash Hunter and asks him to exhibit his erotic work at her gallery. Ash agrees on one condition: Joy must pose as his model. But business soon turns to pleasure, as Joy experiences a passion beyond her wildest imaginings and Ash finds more than just inspiration in his voluptuous new muse.
This is the second book by Lilli Feisty that I have read. The first being Bound to Please back in June last year. which was one of my favorite books out of the 60 or more that I read last year. Beside Twilight there wasn't another book that I talked about more.
In A Nutshell: When this book tour came up via, Hachette Book Group, I seriously wanted in. After Bound To Please I NEEDED to read this book. Joy and Ash are hot! The book is as sexy as I have come to expect with Lilli. The sex scenes are hot, the dialogue titillating and the storyline moves nicely. Yes, this is a book about bondage but with trust, beauty and love. The message: with the right lover, there is nothing we might not try. Joy and Ash both needed something from the other. Joy needed to feel beautiful and Ash did that for her. Ash needed someone to trust and found that in Joy. Dare to Surrender is a must read for lovers of the erotica romance.
*Follow me on Twitter, leave your twitter name
*Enter another giveaway on my blog and let me know which one.
*Comment on a non-giveaway post and tell me which one.
*Add me to your blog roll and leave the link
*Follow me under networked blogs (on my left side bar)
*Add my main button to your side bar
Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book Dare to Surrender from Hachette Book Group to facilitate this review. Hachette is also providing the books for the giveaway.
Thanks to a Family Review Network campaign, I was able to try out Caress' new body soap and body wash. Caress Evenly Gorgeous!
One Word! YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Body wash has an exfoliatant in it, which is especially necessary in the cold, dry, winter months.
The scent is burnt brown sugar and karite butter. The soap and body wash are excellent and beside the great smell they do a great job of moisturizing. Just take a whiff and relax in the tub. Your body wants you to.
This stuff is amazing and there is no longer a need to go to the mall and spend over $12.00 at specialty body shops when you can find Caress in any supermarket and drug store for $7.00 or less.
Thanks to Caress and Family Review Network, I am able to give away (1) set of body bars to one of my US readers.
To Enter fill out the form below before midnight, February 11, 2010.
US Only
For Extra Entries:
*Blog about this, and leave me the link for 3 extra entries
*Follow me on Twitter, leave your twitter name
*Enter another giveaway on my blog and let me know which one.
*Comment on a non-giveaway post and tell me which one.
Over the summer I purchased Vampires Diaries. Being a book reviewer there was never time to get to it. This weekend I picked it up and finished The Awakening and The Struggle.
This is the first time I have read a book after seeing the movie (or in this case TV show on CW). The book of course is better but I like the show too.
There are many differences between the book and the show.
In the Awakening, the first volumn of the series we meet Elena Gilbert (in the book she is blonde). Elena is the popular girl at school. We meet Matt, Bonnie and Caroline who is someone we wouldn't be friends with now but we know her since we were children.
When new student Stefan comes to school, Elena is very interested. He is attractive and doesn't react to her looks the way the rest of the boys in school always have.
She soon discovers that he is tortured vampire with a historic past. He and his brother Damon both loved the same women "Katherine" and when asked to choose between the two of them she turned them both into vampires so that they could all be together forever. The brothers fought over her which promoted her to kill herself by exposing herself to the sun. Stefan and his brother kill each other in a sword fight. Because of Katherine's blood they wake in the family crypt and spend the rest of their lives hating and avoiding each other.
Stefan is a self hating vampire who tries to fight his urge to feed on humans and feeds on animals instead while Damon loves his new self and relishes in the kill, his strength and skills.
Elena and Stefan are in love but when the town accuses him of murder he leaves.
Elena heads out in search of Damon who she feels is behind the murder.
In The Struggle, Damon wants Elena for himself and will stop at nothing to have including murdering his brother. AGAIN!
Damon tells Elena that he killed Stefan. Bonnie, who has psychic abilities has a vision and says she sees Stefan in water. They believe he must be under the bridge but upon checking he is not there. Matt tells them it sounds like he is in a well. When they find Stefan is is dying. Elena forces him to feed from her for strength.
Damon enters Elenas house and though protected by Bovein she lets him feed from her to protect her sister Margaret (yes in the book she has a sister not a brother named Jeremy). They exchange blood!
Like Katherine so many years ago, Elena is now tied to the Salvatore brothers by blood.
One night during a storm Elena feels something evil is coming for her. She gets into her car and tries to outrun it. As she is crossing the bridge her car goes off into the river and she drowns.
With Salvatore blood running through her veins she too become a vampire.
The books are funny and I can hear the characters from the show talking. They have picked the perfect cast to play the characters in the book. I can totally see the Damon character from the book and the one on TV as the same.
I can't wait to get the other books to see how it ends.
Anyone who loves Twilight will appreciate Vampire Diaries. BTW...I wish the show talked more about the Diaries, sometimes I forget the reason for the name.
Head over to the Vampire Diaries website for information on L.J. Smith, The Books, The TV Show and a really awesome contest.
Last week I received two products as part of a OxiClean blog tour through Mom Central.
OxiClean Max Force Power Paks
OxiClean Max Force Gel Stick Pre-Treater
The paks look like the kind you would place in your dishwasher. They are compact and easy to just toss in the wash.
The stick is a roll to pre-treat stains.
I had a chance to really test them out on my daughters beautiful, pink winter jacket. Her teacher took her class out for recess the other day. When I pulled up the teacher apologize for the mud. I thought, perfect, I get to try out the OxiClean!
I pre-treated four bigger stains with the OxiClean Max Force Gel Stick Pre-Treater, then tossed the jacket in with our normal detergent and an OxiClean Max Force Power Pak. The coat looked just as good as it did before recess. I am so happy with it.
OxiClean Blog Tour“I wrote this review while participating in a blog campaign by Mom Central on behalf of OxiClean and received a sample to facilitate my candid review. Mom Central sent me a gift card to thank me for taking the time to participate.”
