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Ford 400 NASCAR Cup and Prilosec OTC

Do you know someone who would love to watch Jeff Burton race in the NASCAR Chase for the Championship race in Miami, Florida the weekend of November 14, 2008? I know there are some serious race car fans in my family! The races are often on at our family gatherings - we love crowding around the TV and watching the races as they happen! It’s especially exciting when they’re racing at Talladega, as that’s only about fifteen minutes from us! But I know several of them would LOVE it if I won a weekend trip to this race! Hmm…the thought of them waiting on me hand and foot hoping I’ll give them the tickets…. *wrings hands* Oh yeah!

Ok, let me tell you how to enter now - and you can enter once a day! Go to the Prilosec OTC Winner’s Circle and enter your email address and you’ll get a chance to whack the windshield (you’ll see when you get in there…) and get a shot at winning once a day!

You can also put a Winner’s Circle widget to keep track of the game on your site if you want.

There are more than 100 instant winners will receive other great prizes, including an authentic NASCAR firesuit with driver autograph, NASCAR SuperStore.com gift cards and a race tire signed by No. 31 Prilosec
OTC driver Jeff Burton and the No. 31 team!

An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

My mom sent me this great video via email this morning! And even though it’s kind of long, as far as funny ‘email video things’ go, I absolutely loved every minute of it! It’s all you ever needed to know about living with fabulous felines! And more! ;)

I promptly emailed her back and thanked her for the wickedly cool blog fodder! Too funny, really, because, just the other day (Friday? I think) my dad emailed me some wickedly cool blog fodder that’s brewing and boiling in my brain! And you thought my folks weren’t good for anything! Oh…wait…that was me as a teenager…oh yeah….

Ok, let’s get on with the video - I just know you’re going to love it! Follow me….
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I Am A Labrador Retriever

What dog breed are you? I'm a Labrador Retriever! Find out at Dogster.com

For some strange reason, before even starting the quiz, I had a feeling that is what they were going to say! What are you guys? I’d love to know how many actual breeds they have possible in the answers! So let me know what you get, ok?

Momma Always Said I Was Born in the Wrong Decade



You Belong in the Baby Boomer Generation


You fit in best with people born between 1943 and 1960.
You are optimistic, rebellious, and even a little self centered.
You still believe that you will change the world.
You detest authority and rules. Deep down, you’re a non conformist.
What Generation Do You Belong In?

Now isn’t she the cutest little beatnik type? That picture actually reminds me of my mother’s wedding pictures and pictures of her in the first few years of marriage and motherhood!

Ya’ll take the test and let me know what you got in the comments!

What Color is Your Flip Camera?

Jim Kukral is always talking about his Flip cameras and how cool they are! I want one so badly! They’re so darned cute, for one thing! Ha! And now he wants to know what color yours is, if you have one! Just listen up here - to what he has to say about it:

So they’ve got pink, which is pretty cool, but, I would love a fuscia one! I just love fuscia!

Give Me Back My Words, Migraine!

You damn fool, migraine - sneaking into my beautiful Thursday morning and snatching precious vocabulary out of my brain! How dare you! That’s right - I know you’re there, I feel you coming. And more than that, my drastically-reduced mastery of the English language speaks of your imminent arrival! Be gone, you worthless bastard!

Look, you were just here on Monday - and in a BAD way, you struck me like you haven’t struck me in ages, forcing me to call my husband in tears, begging him to come home, because, it hurt so badly. Don’t you think you’ve done enough?! ….for at least a week or so?!

It’s a beautiful day, I’m starting the day showered AND dressed (oh, rareness!), my son gets to go to the Renaissance Faire, ALL three kids went to school (faire) in a GOOD mood (oh RARENESS of rareness!). I’m starting the day off happy and motivated - you should seriously leave now. You’re not welcome on days like today.

I know that my glands are still terribly sore and tender, and you view any neck or shoulder pain as a gold-embossed bloody invitation - but….

YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE TODAY! GET THE F*** OUT!

GO! GO NOW! BE GONE, MIGRAINE!

Flock Eco Edition for Earth Day

Earth Day I just downloaded the Flock Browser: Eco-Edition and I love it! I’m so excited about it! Today is, after all, Earth Day - no better day to discover such a simple way to not only give back, but, stay on top of all things Eco-conscious happening around the world! Now I don’t really know if their launch of this version was planned specifically for Earth Day, as it looks like people have already been using it. I happened to find it on Earth Day and I think that’s really cool.

The Eco Edition is really cool, because, it comes with all kinds of eco-news already loaded into all the cool feeds that Flock is known for having. Flock is the ’social browser’, made to accommodate those of us who are heavily into social networking on the internet. It is also very handy for bloggers, as you can blog right from your browser, if you would like. One of my favorite things is that you can drag and drop stuff from one place to another with Flock. If there’s a really great picture that I come across and I really want to share it with my dad, all I have to do is drag it into an email and send it to him. I love that!

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Great Big Alabama Snowstorm

Now I know my friends up north are looking at our pitiful snow on the ground with the grass sticking up through it and laughing! But we really enjoyed it - probably much in the same way that you would get a kick out of wearing shorts on Christmas! :P

We were actually lucky enough to have snow on three separate days this year, which was really great, because, last year we didn’t have any at all. And last year was our first year out here, having moved from Texas, and back home (last year) they got snow several times. It was just one more thing for me, as a mother, to feel guilty about. Every time the phone rang, and we were excitedly informed by a relative back home that they had snow, the kids glared at me! Rotten, I tell ya, they’re just rotten!

Well, the Universe came through for me this year and here is our little video with some of our snowy activities!
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PayPal Email Scammers Need to Go Back to Spelling Class

EmailLook people, if you’re going to have the gall to try to scam me through my email - could you please at least SPELL things correctly? Would it hurt? Damn creeps need to just stay the hell outta my email anyway!

Watch out, everybody - be super cautious when reading emails! Don’t just click links automatically - I know we’ve been told this again and again, but, as it’s still happening (the emails) - they must be getting somebody with their nefarious email misdeeds! And that, in turn, means that the warning bears repeating, as well!

And I am more than happy to do that, and include a copy of the make-your-eyes-bleed-with-misspellings email!
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My First WP 2.5 Post

This is so cool, I’m so excited about this upgrade! I’m mainly excited, because, of the cool stuff you can do with pictures! That will be extremely helpful on this blog, since I like to post lots of pics/vids for the family back home in Dallas, and my bro and his fam in Colorado. And it will be great on my husband’s business blog, too!

Scooter
I might even move my nieces and nephew’s blogs over here in their own category. Not totally sure about that one, though. I have a blog for the two sisters (my nieces) in Colorado, and one for my nephew in Dallas, each on Blogger. And I’m, number one, paring down my blogs, and number two, making my departure from Blogger. And I’m not entirely ready, at this point, to buy them their own domains - that will come in time.
Spidey-obsessed nieces!

Ok, those images didn’t quite do what I wanted them to, but, I’m working in another tab, on my son’s new site. We’re trying to learn Joomla. Argh. I’ll be back here to play around some more later!