Another Try, Shall we?

Ok, people. I'm going to give this giveaway business another shot!!!! This time we have a sponsored Giveaway.
First and foremost go check out Simply Bags.

Here are a few of my favs:

LARGE TOTE

Laptop Bag

Large Damask Tote
{great for the Beach!}

Aren't they great? I have a feeling a travel bag/overnight bag/Lap Top bag could be in my future. You know with all of the traveling ahead. EEEK! (excitement)

So here's the deal. I will be hosting a giveaway for an Insulated Lunch Bag (value of $19.99).

Here's how it is going to work (some of the same entry rules as the last failedgiveaway):

1) Follow ME on Twitter: SamS_live
2) Tweet this giveway
3) Blog/Post about this giveway (including a link to Simply Bags)
4) Follow Simply Bags on Twitter (they have many of their own giveaways from Twitter also)

So you have four possible chances for entries! Each entry must have a separate comment on this post including links, where applicable.
This giveaway will close one week from today on, Sunday August 22 2010. All entries must be received by Midnight. Winner will be chosen via random.org and announced ASAP (hopefully Monday 8.23.10)! 

Lets see if another sponsored giveaway does the trick!! :) 

Family

I am a person, who believes very strongly in family! I believe you should never openly (more specifically on social networking sites) put your family down. Busting your husband, sister, brother, mother, cousin, nephew ect,out on Facebook isn't cool. It's simply unnecessary and immature. What bugs me even more are the passive aggressive Status updates/Tweets. Just come out with it... hell if you insist on airing your dirty laundry at least do it in a way that everyone reading can actually understand.
I digress.
I can't control other people or what they choose to put out into the universe.

All that I know is that family is precious. I have learned that people, even sometimes the BEST and greatest of friends let you down or dump you.* I know it, you know it, we've all experienced it. The way I was raised, family is forever. Whether you like them or not, or even love them today or not, simply does not matter. You always have their backs and know that no matter what they will be there for you.

It saddens me when I see things on Facebook from members of my family that diminish their relationships within the family. I will never understand this? If you really have that little respect for your ______ (whatever: husband, sister, brother, mother, cousin, nephew ect) you should (in my humble little opinion) figure out what is broken within your situation and fix it. I am a reasonable person, people. I know that life is not this black and white. I know that all things cannot just be fixed, just-like-that.

I am also a person that believes very strongly in respect. If you no longer love or respect your _____ (whatever) than respect and honor what you once loved and respected about that person. What was once good about it.

Sorry for being "preachy" today. I had to get this off my chest though!

*this post is not meat to, in anyway diminish the GREATEST and BEST of friendships, so don't take it that way.

TGIF!

Something else I MUST add, since I'm bitching about social networking sites is WHY, WHY do people Tag themselves in YOUR pictures? Does this bother anyone else BUT me? C'mon... seriously, I know it can't be just me. Now in the big scheme of things, is this a big deal? Absolutely not, but it does aggravate me! 

I WANT it Wednesday...

Ok ladies, it's our first addition of "I Want it Wednesday" with the new digs!
Can you feel the excitement? I'm stoked! haaaaHA

I want....

Canon Rebel XS start "kit"... oh yes I found a fabulous deal on this and will be picking it up by the end of the week!!! Soooooo excited!

I want....
People to call for appointments to see my house!
I want....
Someone to buy my house!
It's been on the market almost a month and no calls. In all fairness it wasn't listed at a competitive price until last Friday but still! NOT. A. SINGLE. CALL. I'm starting to feel the pressure folks. I know we have some time, I was just really hoping for some more traffic! :(

I want....
to go here:

for New Years!
Kev and I will be in Germany by this time. I'm making peace with the fact that we'll be stuck in crummy temporary lodging for Christmas without our personal items. (sad face) But New Years would be a perfect opportunity to do some GREAT sight-seeing. And what better place to ring in the new year (in a new place country  continent)??
I am extremely excited about the idea and hope to start the planning ASAP!

I want....
to win a small amount of money in the lotto. I mean I'm not greedy I don't need 200 Million to myself. I would be over-the-freaking-moon for a measly $200,000.
Just putting good things out into the universe... I'll let you know how it works out for me! haaaHA

Happy Hump Day!!!

Disappointed.

Yes, lovelies I am terribly disappointed!! Booo!

I fear that my beloved, Kellan Lutz is a LAME tweeter.
I know... say it ain't so!
(but it is)

I cannot for the life of me understand why he isn't Twitpic-ing himself constantly. He tweets approximately 4 times per week about charity business. BORING. While I do appreciate that he's giving back and advocating for great causes these are not the kind of tweets which attracted me to Twitter! On top of Kellan being lame-o, Diddy is just over-the-top! He never sleeps, or he pays people to take "shifts" on his twitter account. It could really go either way. Jesse McCartney (yes I follow him, because I have a secret crush on him and he loves me, just doesn't know it yet) on the other hand is not boring and tweets about fun things like his new Girl... no need to fret it's a Mercedes. Joy. Because knowing what kind of car he drives is a necessity in my daily life. Speaking of which, I'll have to go back and see if the license plate was visible....? hmmm. No, I am not a stalker! :) I also find Jeremy Piven (a.k.a The one and only Ari Gold!) quite entertaining and wish he would do more tweeting!

Since I'm being overly critical of others' Twitter I suppose I should mention the fact that I also suck at Tweeting! I don't do it very often. I kind of feel like I don't have anything worth tweeting about. All the same I'm going to make more of an effort to tweet more. Follow me, if you feel so inclined. =)

Happy Girl

I'm a happy girl, folks!

There's a soft rain falling outside, my husband is out of my hair upstairs, the house is clean and I can just relax the  rest of the weekend away! :)

I woke up this morning feeling rather unmotivated to breathe or move or think or do anything really. I'm not sure if it was he thought of having to wake up tomorrow and head back out to work or the fact that Aunt Flo came a few days early- I hate when she just pops in.... She's evil. All the same, after the hubs and I had breakfast outside on the back porch he asked what else I had to get done today. "Bathrooms." I told him. Boooo! Since I was so unmotivated he said he would clean the bathroom. For my husband, this is a big deal. In the last five years my husband has never cleaned a bathroom.

You guys know how I've been wanting/needing new pots and pans? I decided today was the day! Went to one discount place bu they didn't have all the pieces as a matter of fact they only had 3 of 12 pieces. So my husband (who has a habit of loosening he purse strings a little way too easily) suggests we try Bed Bath and Beyond. Of course we found something there! A Stainless Steel, Non-Stick Calphalon set. Only $500.

I soon stumbled across a great stainless steel set at Kohls for $140. The Calphalon's are going back tomorrow. I know it's a great brand but $140 is more my budget.

Also, can anyone explain to me why this broad I saw at the UFC fight last nigh waltzes' in alone with her jeans painted on her ass and her "MMA" jersey tied up revealing her mid-drift with her Coach Bag, Coach case for her Blackberry, Coach bracelet and Gucci classes?? Questionable.

My life is running away...

with from me. I can't really decide which. All the same. I feel like I am being swept away by things out of my control. I feel like I'm not longer an active participant in my life. Well, screw that... I no longer feel like I'm in control of my life- "eff" participating. Basically my life is using me to cook, clean and organize daily efforts not to stink and otherwise keep hygiene at a respectable level.
Have YOU ever felt this way?
Surly, I can't be the only one.
Right?

Here's what's happened:
I got a job. "The Man," is toying with me. He's a mean, evil, tireless man. There's always something to do or some excuse as to why I can't have coffee and tool around Target for hours (staring at diapers) with my friends, stay at home in my sweats, wipe the counters with 409 (for the 200th time, in one day), stay on top of the laundry (building outside my room, closet, and in the laundry room). Oh, and never mind all the forms that have to be completed for Passports, Home sale/Short Sale... I'll ya what, this being a grown up business is for the birds!
Do you ever feel like the weekend isn't long enough? Or like life and the world, your family, simply: every-freaking-thing is just passing you by without any opportunity to relax, be thankful, count your blessings, participate or just enjoy any of it?
That's how I'm feeling.

I had a glimpse of the good life. The life which allowed me to have coffee and tool around Target for hours (staring at diapers) with my friends, or stay at home in my sweats, or wipe the counters with 409 (for the 200th time, in one day), stay on top of the laundry. Not to mention allowed for adequate time for blogging! I was out of work for almost two years. Granted, I need to work. We, (the collective, hubs and myself) need to pay our mortgage, pay for things we purchased years ago (most of which we probably don't have anymore or no longer care about)-ahem, debt debt..., and otherwise make ends meat and keep us in the lap of luxury to which we have become accustomed. Right. No seriously, working is a part of my life. It's a part of my life anyway. This is a truth I reluctantly happily accepted about 6 months ago.

So here I am doing a job I'm way overqualified for counting down the months until we move to GERMANY.

Winner!

The winner of my most recent giveaway, of $15 to CSNstores.com goes to Erin! This may come as a surprise to those who know that Erin and I are actual-in-real-life-friends. Well, Erin was chosen by random.org after all entries were put into an Excel spreadsheet.
Somehow I doubt anyone will care, truly and honestly. Because there was a whopping 10 entries to my giveaway. All the same, lets congratulate Erin on her win.
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More later readers... <3