Remember when I signed up for all those birthday freebies one day before my birthday last year, and I didn't get any of them (except for the one from Benihana's) because I had signed up too late?
Well, all my hard work from last year has paid off.
Here are the best ones that I've gotten so far:
- Free burger from Ruby Tuesday's
- Free entree from Noodles and Company
- Free Brownie Sundae from Chili's
- Buy one get one free from Cold Stone Creamery
- Free Magnificent Seven breakfast from Perkins
I have until about one week after my birthday to utilize them all.
P.S. My birthday is this Saturday. (Please take note and send cards.)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
My Before and After Pictures
Okay, so go back and watch this video that I posted the other day, otherwise none of this is going to make any sense to you. To recap, the video was showing how some of those "BEFORE" and "AFTER" photos that people do are actually created within a span of a few hours (with the "AFTER" shot taken first, and the "BEFORE" shot taken afterward). So I set out to do it for myself (and for the entertainment of all of you).
I went to Body Pump at the YMCA in the morning, and then came home and had my 8-year-old daughter take the "AFTER" picture. A couple hours later, I realized I hadn't greased up for the picture, like I had wanted to do. I decided not to go back and re-do it, because it took several shots to get one that I was happy with. And, really, how many times can I say to my daughter, "Here, take some more pictures of Mommy flexing." (Do you think any other mother in the universe is having their daughter take over 20 pictures of them flexing? My kids are SO lucky!)
Okay, so then later I went to Mom's Night Out, where there was a wide array of food that I ate throughout the night (chips and dips, cheese, egg rolls, s'more cupcakes, cookies, salad, a carbonated pink lemonade drink, chocolate, mini carrot cake cupcakes, popcorn, etc.). Then I came home, woke my husband up at 1:30 in the morning, and had him take the "BEFORE" picture. (Do you think any other husband in the universe is being woken up at 1:30 in the morning to take pictures of his wife and her bloated belly? He is SO lucky!)
So, without further ado, here it is:
Some tidbits about the photos:
1) Yes, I am sucking my gut in, in the "AFTER" picture (or, as I like to call it, flexing my ab muscles).
2) I think I might look more "pregnant" than "fat" in the "BEFORE" picture.
3) I didn't bother photoshopping anything in the "AFTER" photo. Or tanning. Too lazy.
4) I didn't purposely eat more than I normally eat at a Mom's Night Out because I knew I was doing this photo thing. That is just how I normally eat at a Mom's Night Out (which means that I look like this AT LEAST once a month, people! AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH!)
So, this just goes to show that image means nothing. We are all much more than our outside appearances.
Or, in the wise words of the wonderful Justine Bateman, "You look how you look, and you look (bleep)ing great."
I went to Body Pump at the YMCA in the morning, and then came home and had my 8-year-old daughter take the "AFTER" picture. A couple hours later, I realized I hadn't greased up for the picture, like I had wanted to do. I decided not to go back and re-do it, because it took several shots to get one that I was happy with. And, really, how many times can I say to my daughter, "Here, take some more pictures of Mommy flexing." (Do you think any other mother in the universe is having their daughter take over 20 pictures of them flexing? My kids are SO lucky!)
Okay, so then later I went to Mom's Night Out, where there was a wide array of food that I ate throughout the night (chips and dips, cheese, egg rolls, s'more cupcakes, cookies, salad, a carbonated pink lemonade drink, chocolate, mini carrot cake cupcakes, popcorn, etc.). Then I came home, woke my husband up at 1:30 in the morning, and had him take the "BEFORE" picture. (Do you think any other husband in the universe is being woken up at 1:30 in the morning to take pictures of his wife and her bloated belly? He is SO lucky!)
So, without further ado, here it is:
Some tidbits about the photos:
1) Yes, I am sucking my gut in, in the "AFTER" picture (or, as I like to call it, flexing my ab muscles).
2) I think I might look more "pregnant" than "fat" in the "BEFORE" picture.
3) I didn't bother photoshopping anything in the "AFTER" photo. Or tanning. Too lazy.
4) I didn't purposely eat more than I normally eat at a Mom's Night Out because I knew I was doing this photo thing. That is just how I normally eat at a Mom's Night Out (which means that I look like this AT LEAST once a month, people! AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH!)
So, this just goes to show that image means nothing. We are all much more than our outside appearances.
Or, in the wise words of the wonderful Justine Bateman, "You look how you look, and you look (bleep)ing great."
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Dog Park
Watch the video that I posted yesterday, and get ready for my own version of it. I guess I'm not going to post pictures of it today, because I still need to take the "Before" picture, and I won't be doing that until later tonight. So, I will build up your anticipation for this moment a little bit longer, because it's going to be good.
But, in other news, Peace and I went to the dog park yesterday. We don't have a dog, so we took two of Peace's toy dogs (Zimmy and Pluto) and brought them to the dog park. We were so cute. I wish I had a picture of us there with our toy dogs amongst all the people milling about with their real dogs.
But, in other news, Peace and I went to the dog park yesterday. We don't have a dog, so we took two of Peace's toy dogs (Zimmy and Pluto) and brought them to the dog park. We were so cute. I wish I had a picture of us there with our toy dogs amongst all the people milling about with their real dogs.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Before and After!
Okay, so watch this video because I'm going to post pictures of me doing this TOMORROW!
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
What I Got Vern for Valentine's Day
This is what I got Vern for Valentine's Day:
It's from this website called I Want to Draw a Cat for You (which we heard about from the television show Shark Tank).
It's from my ongoing stream of campy gifts that I give to Vernon (see here, for my post about the personalized t-shirts). It was surprisingly hard to think of something creative to have that guy draw a cat of, plus, I didn't have much time to think of it since I wanted to get the order in in time to get it for Valentine's Day... so, a cat family in a hot air balloon with Homer Simpson on the ground saying "D'oh" is what I came up with. Not as random and creative as I could have been, but there you go.
We are a family that loves do to campy things in general. Things like going to Roswell, New Mexico for the 60th Anniversary of the Roswell Incident UFO Festival (note: not as impressive as it sounds), or entering eating challenges, or going to see the Bridges of Madison County, or getting a family caricature done every year, or going to see the Giant Ball of Twine, or other various, random, campy things that make up the story of our lives.
Why do we do it, you may ask? Because it's fun. Because it's fun.
It's from this website called I Want to Draw a Cat for You (which we heard about from the television show Shark Tank).
It's from my ongoing stream of campy gifts that I give to Vernon (see here, for my post about the personalized t-shirts). It was surprisingly hard to think of something creative to have that guy draw a cat of, plus, I didn't have much time to think of it since I wanted to get the order in in time to get it for Valentine's Day... so, a cat family in a hot air balloon with Homer Simpson on the ground saying "D'oh" is what I came up with. Not as random and creative as I could have been, but there you go.
We are a family that loves do to campy things in general. Things like going to Roswell, New Mexico for the 60th Anniversary of the Roswell Incident UFO Festival (note: not as impressive as it sounds), or entering eating challenges, or going to see the Bridges of Madison County, or getting a family caricature done every year, or going to see the Giant Ball of Twine, or other various, random, campy things that make up the story of our lives.
Why do we do it, you may ask? Because it's fun. Because it's fun.
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