We are having our first family portrait since the youngest were about 6 months old. It's in roughly 25 days. That means that I'm going to have to work out about two hours a day for the countdown. I say this because it is becoming increasingly evident that I will not stop eating like a pig in the mean time. And let's be honest, probably I'm not gonna work out for 2 hours a day until then either. I think that I'm at a point where not even spanx can help. Unless someone spanked me while I gorged on candy and sweet goodness and did some sort of negative association thing... but it would have to be someone I don't know or already dislike because if it's a friend, they aren't going to be my friend afterwards. And I'm bummed out because I really really want to look hotchachachacha in that picture. Just cuz. I mean, it's going to hang in the living room and if the last one is any indication - it will be there for nearly 4 years so I want to like what I'm looking at. All of it. Not just the kids. And the Hubs. Since they are just all the time cute and he's all the time handsomer than anyone else.
Okay. Let's get down to some bidness. I told you when I started this blog that I might occasionally use this blog to incorporate some tying out that I do for companies sometimes. Here is the deal. Different companies like to do word of mouth marketing. That means they have ways of sending you products and letting you try it and tell people about it. The only compensation is that you get to keep the product and you have to be honest. I'm not paid. I don't have to give favorable information. I have done this with Houseparty, bzzagent and shespeaks. And I want you to feel pretty special that I told you those names because now you can go out and become competition for all the parties I want to host and products I want to try. Dang me and my altruism! So that's what I'm doing here and now...
This is a program called MyGetTogether. I had previously heard of and participated in Yoplait's Save Lids Save Lives program. But this MyGetTogether (heretofore called MGT) was specifically to raise awareness for that program. And I was all to happy to do it. Because a) I like free-ness, b) I like Yoplait and c) I hate breast cancer. So MGT sent me coupons for my friends, a book called Promise Me by Nancy G. Brinker who is the CEO and Founder (and sister) of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a gift card to buy the yogurt to share and a lovely pink bookmark. I loved the format of how the party was set up. Since they sent me a gift card, I was able to use my own coupons to further the savings, get any flavors I wanted, and bought some granola bars to make it a nice little breakfast or morning snack. I actually saved the book and donated it to a scrapbooking event called Crop for the Cure. I was so thrilled that there were women putting their raffle tickets into the bag for that book. It meant that people were buying tickets and the money was going to the foundation as well!!
I used my Thursday morning gig at my church to do the get together. I have access to a whole slew of awesome, honest chickies and I love to bless them as they bless our church and families by getting supplies ready for the kids that come on the weekends. They are a captive audience. By that I mean they can't run away from me, not that they are captivated by what I have to say or show them. Well. They technically could run away from me but that's just rude to God since they are all working in His house and stuff so they don't. I bought a whole mess of flavors. And two of my friends are diabetic so I wanted to make sure that I had the lite versions as well. Some of my favorite flavors are Orange Creme and Key Lime Pie. And I like coffee flavor. But you saw that coming. I got some of the lites and since I wanted to try them myself, I picked out flavors I would like. I got Boston Cream Pie, Pineapple Upside Down cake, Red Velvet Cake, Cinnamon Roll. That's right. I was exercising a build-up of aggravation that these flavors are only available in the lite genre. This was my pre Coke Zero Cherry Coke Zero experience (yes. I know it is officially called Cherry Coke Zero but the way I say it is more fun). Now I'm entirely open to knew sugar free experience. Except as it pertains to my candy. And my baked goods. Let's not get crazy here, folks. So, we talked and ate yogurt and saved lids to send back to Yoplait. And here is what I will tell you. No go on the Red Velvet or the Cinnamon roll. The flavor just didn't live up to the hope implied by the name. I didn't get to try the Boston Cream but I heard good things about it. The Pineapple Upside Down Cake was awesome. And all of that was fun. But truly, the ability to send those lids back to the company and have them donate money to breast cancer research for every single one... 10 out of 10 Jenny's jewels. Save the boobies y'all. And the wondrous women attached to them.
I was feeling a little icky today so I sat around letting the kids go nuts and surfing the computer. I am a fan of the iphone game Ranch Rush. I can't even tell you why. It is a bit silly. I plant crops. I sow crops. I make jam and cheese. I love it. And now, there is a Ranch Rush 2!!! So I looked it up online. And I played it. It's a tropical version of the original. Probably if I could have been allowed to play the whole version, I would like it as much as the first one. Maybe. I'm on the fence about the monkey I have to sacrifice my precious bananas to so he will climb up the coconut tree and retrieve some precious coconuts for me. I don't know if it's a fair trade or not. And I don't know why there is a fishing break on Sundays. For now, I will give Ranch Rush 2 5 out of 10 Jenny's jewels. When it is a free app on iphone, I'll be able to offer you more data.
I think that is all that I have to offer you for tonight. It's time to go and find some sort of contrary to my goal of looking all spicy for my family portrait product that is not at all sugar free. In closing I would like to say Bonsoir to the French contingent checking me out. Merci!
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