From 12/11-12/17/2011 you can get a $5 Award Card with any purchase of $50 in-store or on-line. Let’s say you didn’t win the last giveaway. You have a second chance! Go to any Kmart store between the dates of Dec 11 and 17, and spend at least $50, and you get a $5 Award Card. [...]
you can try again to win a $100 GC to @Kmart!
get a $50 gift card and use @UPS My Choice for the stuff you can’t deliver yourself
I like to give you stuff. Like, LOVE to give you stuff YOU? Like to get stuff! UPS is actually in the business of making the deliveries of stuff you like to get. This year UPS has gone even further to make getting your stuff more convenient. Now, because I’ll probably explain it wrong and [...]
being at @CallawayGardens was a GOOD eye-opening experience
Pete and I went to Callaway Gardens for the Harvest Moon Festival. I expected to enjoy things they had set up and it’s a gorgeous time of year to be outside in Georgia. It was pretty. We got to see the B-52′s! We ate a brownie. With carrots. and spinach. and orange juice. and flaxseed. [...]
Callaway Gardens Harvest Moon Festival winner!
So the winning comment was Thank you so much to everyone who entered to win!!
Win tickets to Callaway Gardens’ Harvest Moon Festival
*I get to give away TWO WEEKEND PASSES to this!* Callaway Gardens + amazing food by a Food Network star+ incredible music from over 20 acts + FREE TICKETS = *POOF* brain explode! I have the chance to make you a Weekend Pass-holders at the Harvest Moon Festival Fri 10/7 – Sun 10/9. Wow, you [...]
i give free kittens!
Don’t punch me, but I need you to click over to Babble and vote for me with a Facebook “like”. I wouldn’t normally do it, but this is a really good reason. Mominations is your chance to shine a light of recognition on an incredible mom doing good work, and put her in the running [...]
how we do things: the money bowls
<– Money Bowl The Mayhew kids went to their loving mother and said, “Mom, we’d like to do extra odd jobs to earn money to save for things like college or annuities.” Mom Mayhew clapped her hands in joy and showered the children in countless dollar bills. They all lived happily ever after. The end. [...]
Dear @BlogHer attendees & non-attendees
Dear people going to BlogHer, NOT going to BlogHer or wondering “WTH is BlogHer?”, Last year, Peter and I got on a plane and flew to NY to be at my first event post-strokes. NY was loud, it smelled funky and being able to be there was glorious. Being anywhere was glorious. Since that time [...]
Type-A-Parent Conference stands for Type-”Awesome”-Parent Conference
I spent the weekend in Asheville, NC at the Type-A-Parent Conference. It was a conference I always enjoy in a city I love with people I adore doing stuff we agree to never talk about. Unfortunately, most at this conference didn’t know there was a reason I hid away for this weekend. The morning we [...]
i could have been reading “War and Peace”
I went to Books-A-Million this weekend. Of the millions…no trillions…of pages of BRILLIANCE to be found, we spent our time busting a gut over things like: and Not to forget Please? Duh???!!! How many days till Father’s Day?
JC the @LittleAnimation
Have you ever wondered what I would look like if I was a cartoon? And smelled like AWESOME!!!! You’re welcome.
Pursey Galore (click if you misread that!)
There are lots of causes I’d love to have the money and time to give to, and then there’s the moment a cause just smacks you in the face with the sheer perfection of it’s tackiness. About 6 months ago I was first approached by Lori and she told me the story of how “Pursey [...]
own your nap
“You need to own your naps again.” Pete said this other day when we were talking about a lot of things that needed SOMETHING. I have this site and Aiming Low that I’m building up. 25 writers I love talking to each day. We’re organizing events at BlogHer and TypeAParent. The freelance thing I do. [...]
About Anissa
Erma Bombeck said something that pretty much defines my approach to life.... "When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and I could say, "I used everything you gave me." If you switch the word TALENT for LOVE or LAUGHTER or HAPPINESS....it still stands.
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