My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings » kind

What kind of day are you having?

Lisa — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:29:13 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

I guess it is all how you look at things.

Copyright © 2011 My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact mythoughtsideasandramblings.com @ gmail.com so we can take legal action immediately.

Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass Giveaway!

Lisa — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:52:17 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

This contest is over. The winner is Content Pig!

Now, as many of you know, I was lucky enough to get picked as an Izea Insider. One of my perks is that I have access to passes to conferences. One conference that is coming up is the Affiliate Summit. It takes place in Las Vegas from January 11 – January 13th, 2009. I can’t go. We will be celebrating Madison’s 5th birthday, and I kind of need to be here for that. However, I want to pass this on to one of my lucky readers, because you are all so great!

This is one of the top conference to go to. The Affiliate Summit West Silver Pass gives you admission to the Affiliate Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, and the Affiliate Summit Social Network. The normal cost of the Silver Pass is $349 when ordered online or $449 when you get there. But yours will be free!

Here’s what you need to do:

Each one of these things will give you one entry:

1. Leave a comment on this post. I want to know why you want this awesome pass!
2. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify.
3. Stumble this post. If you don’t know what Stumble Upon is, please read Lori’s post at Blogging Cents. She explains it extremely well.
4. Add this post to other social media sites like Digg, Kirtsy, Blogging Zoom, Reddit, Propeller, Etc.

For 5 additional entries,

1. Blog about this on your blog. Please give me the URL, so I can verify.
2. Add this to any forums you belong too. Please give me the URL, so I can verify.
3. Subscribe to this blog using either my email or RSS feed
4. Add my badge to your sidebar:

For 1o (yes, 10! additional entries):

Join my Spark E Facebook page! Just leave me a link here to your profile on Facebook, so I can verify.

This contest will end December 19 at 8:00 pm CST. Good luck, and if you want a few more chances to win, check out these fellow Izea Insiders for their contests too:

Julies Journal

Oh, Hey

Steven Sanders dot com

Beautiful British Columbia

LensShopper

Lisa — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:54:47 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

If you aren’t lucky enough to have vision insurance or have vision insurance that will only pay up to a certain amount for your contact lenses, you should definitely check out LensShopper. Now, my vision insurance will pay up to $250 a year for contact lenses. That sounds like a lot, but if you wear contacts, you know it isn’t. That only pays for a couple of months of contacts, and then I pay out of pocket for the rest. My last order of contacts I stilled owed money on after they took the insurance off. That is where LensShopper comes into play. Their lenses are a ton cheaper than what I normally pay for my contacts! They even have even better deals if you order in bulk! I love that it tells me how long the delivery time is and whether or not the contacts are even in stock. Nothing is more annoying than ordering contacts, and then after you place your order, you find out their are backordered. I love that they even make it easy to find the best deals on their site by listing the best deals for each kind of contacts. If you just want to search out your contacts, you can choose to search by manufacturer, lens type, and even popular lenses.

Now, I personsally use the Focus Night & Day contacts. I found on their site that I can get a box for $40.95 (if I order bulk) and get free shipping! I love free shipping! That is a darn good deal for my contacts! I would save almost $40 off my normal order of 6 boxes! I can’t complain about savings like that! If you need contacts, you need to definitely check out LensShopper for all your contact needs!

Epson/Sparkplugging Event

Lisa — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:50:43 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

I am sooo far behind, but I went to this awesome event last Thursday. Wendy Piersall was so kind to invite me, and I met so many awesome Chicago women. It was a great girls night out. The drinks and food were awesome (note to self: don’t drink the drink above and expect to go to bed. It was 2 am before I remembered that that drink had Red Bull in it). I’d like to give a shout out to all the wonderful women I met (now, if I don’t mention you and you were there, I didn’t get your card! Just let me know, so I can add you to this list): Barbara, Beth, Kim, Kim, Karen, Arianne, Jessica, Amber, Jayne, and Sima. It is nice to exchange ideas with fellow women who understand social media and the uses of Twitter. I hope to meet these incredible women again.

Bad Luck Go Away

Lisa — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:28:29 +0000

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings - A day in the life of a busy mom . . .

My family and I have had a tough time this year. First, my aunt died in June (she was in her late 50′s). Then my uncle died (he was in his 80′s). Now, my cousin, who was only 55, just died of ovarian cancer. it is crazy. It sucks being four hours away, because I tend to miss out on these kind of events. I feel extremely guilty that I could not make the wake or the general. I have to take into account disrupting my two children schedules, my schedule, arranging babysitting, and sometimes it is just too hard. I keep telling my mom we have had our three times of bad luck, so we are done for the year. I hope I am right. We deserve a break, so we can sit on a modern sofa and just enjoy life. It really puts your life into perspective and realize how good we all really have it.