I won! I won! I won!

Ok, so it’s not really ‘first place’, but, I did win some really cool blog contests recently!

I’d like to send a big GIANT thank you for Jim and Doreen Kukral for sending me out a super groovy package of goodness in the mail!! You may know Jim from JimKukral.com and recently his wife, Doreen, has stormed into the blogging world with her wonderful blog, MomGoesGreen.com!

I’ve been following and listening to Jim for a number of years now and I really have learned a lot from him. Most importantly, to step up my video game. So – thank you for that, Jim!

And Doreen – she has taken over the green blogging world, as far as I’m concerned. This is one mama that knows her stuff in the ‘going green, saving the planet’ movement – and what she doesn’t know, she researches and finds out – with all of us following along!

Well, they’ve both recently run contests on their blogs and I just happen to be the lucky winner of both of them! No, they weren’t rigged, no, I’m not related to them – no, no, and no! LOL!!!


The prize I won from Jim was this wonderful book that I eagerly awaited to arrive, and rightly so, as I’m devouring it quite quickly! The book is called LinkedWorking: Generating Success on LinkedIn the Worlds Largest Professional Networking Websiteand it was written by Frank Agin and Lewis Howes and it really helps you figure out how to best navigate the networking process on LinkedIn.

I am absolutely loving this book and so glad to have it!

Quite on a different plane, from Doreen, I won lip gloss. Oh, but, not just any lip gloss. No, lip gloss from a wonderful company called Kiss My Face. The company was started 25 years ago by a couple of very young vegetarians and it started with none other than, a product that gets all CHEERS from me, an olive oil soap bar. Not sure how much I’ve talked about it here on the blog, but, I am a very serious cheerleader for olive oil!! All of their subsequent products, including the ‘ugly’ olive oil soap bar from Greece, are natural and organic. In reading their product values and company values, I can wholeheartedly say that I would love to work there!

So here is the cool part about my lip gloss winnings – I won TWELVE of them!! Twelve?! When is the last time you bought twelve lip glosses at once? LOL

Here they are, in all their natural, yummy-smelling glory:

Not that you guys get to smell them, sorry there’s no scratch-N-sniff on my blog. One day, people, one day…

With the lovely package, Doreen put in a lovely note on the cutest paper, in the neatest script I’ve ever seen written by a human hand! It is so cute! I tried to get a pic of it to show you, but, I’m having all kinds of camera troubles lately! Just take my word for it – super cute! And she says,

Now you can read while your lips look fabulous!!!

Thank you so much, Jim and Doreen – for these lovely gifts!

I won the coolest contest recently! I won a whole bunch of BluFrog Energy Drink and a ton of BluFrog schwag! Have I ever told you? I love schwag! I’m a sucker for it! Big time!

I met this super cool dude on Twitter named John Raser – or @johnraser. John is a professional competitive golfer. (Not sure I said that right, but, I know he’s pro and I know he still competes) Anyway – his blog is awesome – it’s called Go Speed Raser! Man, that brings back memories – my brother, David, absofreakinlutely loved that darned show!

John also represents a cool new energy drink company, BluFrog. And he decided to have a Friday the 13th Twitter BluFrog contest – and I won!

Thank you so much, John!! We are loving our BluFrog – we are definitely ‘Feeling the Frog’!!!

You can seriously buy just about anything online nowadays. And now you can order eyeglasses online and have them delivered by mail. Funny when you think about it.

My friend, Connie, is having a contest on her blog in which you can win a pair of eyeglasses that will be sent to you in the mail. The name of the company is Eye Buy Direct and Connie has already received a pair of glasses from them and she was really pleased with them.

Connie is giving us NINE chances to win the contest – how cool is that? I have been needing some new glasses really badly! I have had one person make fun of the outdated-ness of my glasses, but, more importantly – I’ve been looking through a foggy right lens for far too long. It is really not good.

You can go enter the contest here: EyeBuyDirect EyeGlasses Review and Giveaway

GOOD LUCK!!

Do you know someone who would love to watch Jeff Burton race in the NASCAR Chase for the Championship race in Miami, Florida the weekend of November 14, 2008? I know there are some serious race car fans in my family! The races are often on at our family gatherings – we love crowding around the TV and watching the races as they happen! It’s especially exciting when they’re racing at Talladega, as that’s only about fifteen minutes from us! But I know several of them would LOVE it if I won a weekend trip to this race! Hmm…the thought of them waiting on me hand and foot hoping I’ll give them the tickets…. *wrings hands* Oh yeah!

Ok, let me tell you how to enter now – and you can enter once a day! Go to the Prilosec OTC Winner’s Circle and enter your email address and you’ll get a chance to whack the windshield (you’ll see when you get in there…) and get a shot at winning once a day!

You can also put a Winner’s Circle widget to keep track of the game on your site if you want.

There are more than 100 instant winners will receive other great prizes, including an authentic NASCAR firesuit with driver autograph, NASCAR SuperStore.com gift cards and a race tire signed by No. 31 Prilosec
OTC driver Jeff Burton and the No. 31 team!