Archives for December 2007

Comments have been closed because we’re going to have us a Soup-Tacular this Friday. Read the post above this one if you’d like more info.

Internets, I need your help.

Well, not so much your help as your feedback, but “I NEED YOUR HELP” sounds so much more pressing and dramatic, don’t you think?

Is anyone having that problem where my posts go down to the middle of the page? A couple of people have mentioned that they’re having trouble, but I don’t know if I’m dealing with an isolated font-size-is-set-too-large issue or with an oh-my-word-the-ads-have-swallowed-up-the-sidebar-and-taken-over-the-blog issue because, as usual, everything looks just dandy on my end of things.

Also – and this is completely unrelated – if you have a good, hearty soup recipe will you leave a link in my comments? The “hearty” part is extremely important because, as I’ve mentioned before, I have a husband who does not believe that soup constitutes a meal unless said soup falls under the aforementioned “hearty” category.

I even thought about doing a big ole soup carnival – having a designated day where everyone leaves his or her favorite soup recipes – but somehow that seemed a little weird even though now I think I totally should have done just that.

Have I mentioned that I love soup?

No? Well, I adore it.

Thank you and have a lovely afternoon.

Edited to add – if you see anything on the Bonbon Charms site that you’d like to go ahead and order, you can enter in the coupon code BOOMAMA (all caps) at checkout and get a 20% discount.

So clearly we will be having fried chicken and ice cream later.

I don’t know if y’all know this, but one of the cool things about the wide world interweb is that it enables you to find products and designers and whatnot and whathaveyou that you would have never known about without the aid of the computer.

They say you can even shop online.

I wouldn’t know anything about that, of course.

Well, a couple of weeks ago someone sent me a link to a mom-owned business that I probably would have never discovered without the interweb. The business is called Bonbon Charms, and I thought it was so fun that – you guessed it – it’s giveaway time!

What I love about Bonbon Charms is that you can create jewelry that’s personalized and a real reflection of your family. I also love that you could start a bracelet or a necklace for your little girl, even if she’s just a wee one, and by the time she’s in her 20’s she will have an absolutely priceless keepsake – an heirloom, even.

And that’s just cool.

Erica from Bonbon Charms is giving away the Christmas collection item of your choice to five lucky winners – and here’s what you have to do to enter:

1) Click over to Bonbon Charms.
2) Take a look around the site.
3) Come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite product is.

And if you’re interested in ordering, you can certainly do that, too – in fact, I’ll have a special discount code for y’all in the next couple of days. But a word to the wise: you have to place your order by December 10th if you want it delivered by Christmas.

I’ll close this giveaway on Thursday, December 5th – and I’ll use random.org to draw for five winners.

Have fun, y’all!

This giveaway is now closed.

We just got home from a quick weekend trip, and as I’m sitting here trying to catch up on email, I thought I’d write down the list that’s running on a constant loop in my brain so that MAYBE IT WILL STOP ALREADY.

(OH MY WORD I’M HORMONAL RIGHT NOW.)

(I need to GRAB HOLD OF THE EMOTIONAL REINS.)

(*breathing deeply*)

(Grace and peace be with you, internets.)

(Now.)

(All better.)

1) There are ads on my blog now. I am very excited about this because apparently the ad people will actually SEND ME A CHECK every month. A check that I can then cash and use as REAL LIVE MONEY. Which means that maybe my blogging hobby will actually pay for itself now, as opposed to me helping myself to D’s PayPal account over the course of the last two years so that I could pay for things like blog designs and podcast hosting and bandwidth overages and domain renewals and whathaveyou.

Dedication to a hobby doesn’t come cheaply, my friends.

Unless, of course, your hobby is saving money.

Or being cheap.

In which case you can ignore that previous statement about dedication to a hobby blah blah blah.

2) Some of you have mentioned that you’re having trouble listening to this week’s podcast.

SO AM I!

There seems to be a problem on Libsyn’s end of things. If it’s not all better in the next couple of days, I’ll try uploading the file again and see if that helps.

You may commence with the waiting on the pins and the needles.

Ahem.

3) I did not watch television at all last week. And while some of you may be thinking, “Oh, I bet that was wonderful. I bet you found time to spin flax or make soap or something,” the truth of the matter is that I have missed the television terribly. In fact, I’ve missed the whole TV-watching process: the diet Coke on ice, the soft green coverlet that keeps me warm when I get a little chilly from all the diet Coke on ice, the opening bars of the theme song from “Survivor” or “Amazing Race” or “Project Runway.”

Even though I’m not even sure if “Project Runway” has a theme song.

And if it does have a theme song, I couldn’t hum it right now if you paid me a million dollars.

But still.

So tonight, the TV and I are going to reacquaint ourselves.

I for one am thrilled beyond words.

4) If I could only have three foods for the rest of my life, those foods would be sweet potatoes, black beans and peanut butter.

Surprisingly, fried chicken did not make the list.

I have wanted to tell y’all that for some time now.

What about you?