Posts Tagged ‘United States’
Pinterest Invites
I just recently joined Pinterest after hearing about its awesomeness. For those who don’t know, Pinterest is basically a virtual corkboard. You pin the things that interest you so you can find them later. For example, here are a bunch of recipes I want to try that I found:
You can create the boards to represent whatever you want. I’ve got one for cute house ideas, and you can even make yourself a virtual shopping and/or wish list! I will warn you though — it is highly addictive. However, I don’t know why I waited so long to sign up!
If you are interested in an invite, please leave a comment below letting me know. Just leave your email address in the email field (which will remain private), and I’ll get an invite out to you! Make sure you follow me there too!
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Doubting Thomas
I’m going to go somewhere on this blog that I really haven’t before — church. As you all know, my daughter attends Catholic school. Part of that deal is that we attend to church on Sundays (not that we didn’t do that before. However, I do have to admit that we go more now that she goes to school there). I try not to go into too much religion here, because I don’t want to offend others that aren’t my religion. However, our priest brought up something in our homily on Sunday that mirrors life too much that I can’t not comment on it.
In the Catholic Church, we are in the Easter season. Our readings and homily were about Thomas and how the term doubting Thomas has come around. Father Wayne talked about how many of us have seen Jesus (nobody raised their hand of course). However, even though we’ve never seen God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit, we all believe in them. (There was more to the homily than this but this is jist of it).
Last night, Bill made the comment to me about how real life right now is mirroring this homily. The news was lamenting on about how Obama isn’t going to release the pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden. How does this tie into the homily (if you haven’t caught it yet)?
Our government has said he’s dead. I have to go on the faith that they are telling the truth. Even though I can’t see with my own very eyes (like I can’t see Jesus), I have to believe that he is. I’m not a Doubting Thomas.
Personally, I don’t want to see these pictures, and I do not think they should be released. Just because we are citizens of the United States doesn’t mean we are privy to things like this. Plus, those people who are clamoring so much for them aren’t going to believe that the pictures are real anyway (remember Obama’s long for birth certificate).
What are your thoughts? Do you believe Osama is dead? Do you want to see the pictures? Why? And if your Catholic, do you have a homily that really struck home for you?
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What would you do with a million dollars?
This giveaway is now over. The winner is Brandy Byrne. Congrats!
What would you do with a million dollars? That is an interesting question, isn’t it? It’s a lot of money, but it’s not. Would you be greedy? Would you donate it? Discover had a great contest that asked this very question, and the winner gets $1,000,000.
After going through over 300 entries, four short-films have made it to the final round of the Discover Card Film Challenge. The films range from funny, to inspirational to dramatic, and most importantly, they’re all original and entertaining. For me, this is my favorite:
Unfortunately, I don’t have a million dollars to give away to a lucky reader of mine. Instead, I do have a 4 pack of tickets to any Six Flags theme park in the United States! (They are good through 1/5/11 and have NO blackout dates). Here’s what you need to do:
Head over to the Discover site and tell me which video is your favorite!
Each of these gives you one additional entry:
1. Twitter about this contest. I’ve made it super easy by adding a tweet button up by the title of this post! You can do this daily — just leave me a comment letting me know.
2. Stumble this post and add this post to other social media sites like Digg, Kirtsy, Blogging Zoom, Reddit, Propeller, Etc. (1 entry for each social network).
3. Add this to any forums you belong too. Please give me the URL, so I can verify.
4. Comment on another post on this blog. Let me know which one, so I can give you credit. The more posts you comment on, the more entries you get.
5. Add this contest of contest linkies (and let me know which ones please). Each Contest Linky gets you another entry.
Each of these gives you 5 additional entries:
1. Blog about this on your blog. Please give me the URL, so I can verify.
2. Subscribe to this blog using either my email or RSS feed
3. Add my badge to your sidebar:
4. Subscribe via Kindle
This contest will end on September 2nd at 11:59 pm CST! Good Luck!
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