Wednesday, July 14, 2010

my new mission and...a GIVEAWAY!!!!!

Move over meat and potatoes, I got more to put on my plate~I know, I have enough on my plate but I'm an envelope pusher & for this one I'll need a little help from you! But I'll get to that in a minute...first let's talk about a great giveaway!!! This one is for a $60.00 gift certificate to any of CSN's more than 200 online stores! If you've never been to CSN you must check it out...they have everything from lighting to kitchen gadgets to baby items to dining room sets! ...just to tease you...here's just a few items I fell in love with...


Tommy Bahama!!! sweet, yes???


Cotton Tales Nursery...precious!
Martha Stewart pendant lighting....{sigh}

There is something for everyone at CSN! And they have free shipping on just about everything, woohoo! This is open to the US & Canada and the rules are simple...

just leave a comment on this post! If you'd like to blog about it & share it with your readers, come back and leave a second comment for a second chance...that's it~easy peasy! This will end Monday, July 19th at 7pm...I'll choose the winner via Random.org & CSN will email the gift certificate directly to you! Be sure I have a way to contact you, either through your blog or via email...ok onto my new mission...

I'm on sort of a quest...a quest for a better solution to the monopoly we call 'the cable company'. After years of paying them a small fortune in return for service that has gone down in quality and up in price, I'm done. I'm about an inch away from cancelling our tv and going without it {a total non-issue for me} and I've begun a quest to get Fios here in our town. There is no competition for the cable company and they know it~satellites are only an option for some (we'd have to remove trees in the yard) and DSL won't do for an online business.

We need Fios!

I've got our Mayor calling Verizon (he's pretty sure our cable franchise agreement isn't blocking them from coming, but if that's the case I'll be at the next town meeting!) and he is calling Verizon to see what we can do. We'll see...I may have to pound the pavement to drum up support, but, it wouldn't be the first time ~insert visual of my husband rolling his eyes.

I'd love to hear if any of you have Fios & if so...do you like it? Is it as great as they say? I don't know what will come of this but I'm a little determined...ok, more than a little.

Let me know your opinions, every little bit of info helps!

Ok girls...comment away & good luck!!

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Home again, Home again jiggety-jig!

Home from an awesome week at the beach...I didn't want to leave, seriously. This was our 6th summer vacation here...it's always a fabulous week.
The Outer Banks is so beautiful...if you've never been I highly recommend it!


A few, (ok a bunch) of pictures to share...

We started with...


an old man's birthday.....took the party down to the beach too!

morning coffee on the beach...

it tastes soooo much better here!!

beautiful houses on (and some 'in') the water!

then there were the crabs...so much fun chasing these around the beach at night, this guys watching me drink coffee at sunrise...and I'm watching him!

They tell me this is a blast...running down Jockeys Ridge

( the largest natural sand dune on the East Coast)

or somersaulting down...I just took their word for it!

Our last night....group photo on the pier!

Mikes Mom & Dad, his brother Joel & wife Sandy, their kids, Kaylee, MacKenzie and Jay and my Hannah

me & the old man:)

....um, I'm in a sea of blondes!

I didn't even know this till I looked at the picture! lol!

Then we came home to this.....


Piff had 4 kittens!!

Oh my gosh they are soooo cute...what on earth am I going to do with them????

Monday, July 5, 2010

Happy July 5th & Bon Voyage!



OK....I've been totally missing in action, keyword...'ACTION'

just been crazy and it has left zero blogging time! I know you can all relate...we've had lot's of out of town company and that meant oodles of cleaning, shopping etc....but today I'm off to here...




that tiny little strip of land off the coast of NC

...and I plan to park my butt on the beach and barely move till it's time to leave on Saturday!

(well, except for a little tennis!)

I'm meeting my darling husband and his family (they've been there since Saturday)


and


today


July 5th, 2010


is his 50th birthday!


Bringing him presents, a big fat double layer German Chocolate cake, made my moi, his favorite Manhattan Clam Chowder and Stuffies (I was up till midnight cooking!) and the best present of all....ME!!!!


I'm told we'll have internet access so I can lolly around blogland, yay!


Oh yeah...did you happen to see who won Wimbledon????


Didn't I tell you he was awesome??!!

Hope you all had a happy & fun 4th of July!