Energizer® Recharge Smart™ Charger is running a contest on An Island Life AND Barefoot Mommies for TWO – $2000 sponsorship to the BlogHer 2010 Conference in New York City! EACH! That is a total of FOUR sponsorships up for grabs! This giveaway rocks my face off! Below are the reasons I feel I deserve to win one of these sponsorships…

• When a company pays a blogger to go out and represent their brand/product they should not only look for someone with a following, but someone who isn’t intimidated to go out and network AT the event and spread the word about their company, as well. I really enjoy networking and making genuine connections/friendships with the bloggers that I get to meet in real life. I’m a positive person and would never do anything to embarrass a company that I am representing. I only represent companies that I feel I can honestly stand behind.
• I fit all of the qualifications for the contest and can easily accept all terms. Heck I would even slap some of these Energizer Bunny tatoos on as well
• My husband is in school and I lost one of my jobs last month so finances are super tight right now, with 2 kids to take care of on top of that. If I don’t receive a sponsorship to BlogHer ’10 I will not be able to attend and will have to sell my ticket.
• I made this cute lil promo video for the contest. Check out how supportive my #1 fan is
  

I really hope I get chosen to receive one of the sponsorship spots. I haven’t had a chance to use the  Energizer_® Recharge Smart™ Charger, but I know my home would benefit from it because of all the wireless electronic devices that we own. Our keyboards, mice, and gaming controllers all take batteries. Not to mention our children’s toys and games. Take a second and check out the Energizer_® Recharge Smart™ Charger’s cool features.

•Countdown timer shows how long until batteries are charged
•Battery Fuel Guage shows charge status
•Bad Battery Alert detects alerts and shuts off charging when a non-NiMH or old NiMH battery is inserted
•Large visual display can be viewed from across the room
•Charges 2 or 4 AA or AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries
•Charges batteries at a safe, steady rate which improves the long-term health of the NiMH battery
•For approximate charge times, download the user manual.
•Energy Star® certified

Ok people. This fake commercial makes me laugh EVERY TIME. It can’t be stopped. THIS is the sort of vlogging I wish I was doing yo. Maybe someday you’ll see me in a big time commercial like this one….

Maddie and I will be featured in this exhibit. Please come down and support Justin Hackworth in raising awareness for The Center for Women & Children in Crisis! I’m really excited to go!! All the info you need is below! Click the photo below to RSVP!

So I am noticing certain personality traits that my daughter is developing (not from me) that are similar to one of my sister’s personalities (which btw is the complete opposite of mine). So now I am a little paranoid that she will develop some of the other traits that are typical of that type of personality….(i.e. tactless, then immediately feels bad; bossy; likes to be in control; judgemental, jealous, self-righteous etc) Okay those are some of the bad traits. There are LOTS of good ones too, but that is not the point of this post. The point is I was being forced to watch the old Avatar cartoon (since Rob is in love with it and watches it with Maddie) and saw this clip below that made me worry that Maddie might possibly be like this when she is in a relationship as a teenager!!! Not the first girl character (that’s my personality type, obviously!) The second girl is who I am concerned Maddie could be like hahaha (scares boys off). This cartoon is actually quite amusing btw…. (ALSO keep in mind these girls are part of the fire bending clan which are the bad guys in this show…)

It’s time for a little pulse racing fun, ladies! Kadi Prescott is pulling together a mock award ceremony for the men in our lives (no, not our husbands or gynecologists.) She means the men in the media. There are several categories and we need all of you to nominate men for each one. Feel free to leave a comment with your favorite celeb, author, techie, musician as it pertains to each category. We will have a vote and Kadi will be doing a mock award ceremony video for Girly Gazette. Please help her get the word out so it isn’t all Kadi’s Choice awards but an accurate reflection of what women in general are impressed by in a man.

Here are the categories:

* Hottest Leading Man (Actor in a current film)
* Beautiful Brains (hot AND smart)
* Tweet Worthy (Men on Twitter)
* Blogalicious (Male Bloggers)
* Total Package (Has it all…looks, brains, body, great job, sweetness.)
* Radio Romeo (Musicians)
* Literary Lust (Characters in books)
* Tasty Techies (Cuz nerds are the new sexy!)
* Scrumptiouly Social (Men in social media)
* Like Fine Wine (Sexy men over 40)
* Too Hot For TV (Men who you’d like to jump through your television screen)
* Prettiest Profile (The men who are so dang pretty, they make us women feel manly)

Here are the catergories I’ve nominated so far:

Radio Romeo – Cameron Rafati (Check out his new music video); @CameronRafati

Scrumptiosly Social – Pete Cashmore; @Mashable

Tweet Worthy – Jack Dorsey; @Jack & Evan Williams; @Ev

Too Hot for TV – Ian Somerhalder plays Damon Salvatore on Vampire Diaries

Like Fine Wine – Eric Dane aka “McSteamy”

Blogalicious – Mark Horvath of InvisiblePeople.tv; @HardlyNormal

Kadi posted McLinky on her blog so that if you want to post this on your own blog and get more people to participate, you can link up like I have! Whoever wants to post it on their own blog will need to email her with their nominations before we start the voting. (Feel free to steal the header I made for this post, if you feel like it) I encourage you to get all kinds of women to participate because the more we have, the more fun it is! READY GO!

Click Here to Nominate

In case you guys haven’t seen these already, I just wanted to put some of these pictures up and tell you about how I magically got to participate in the 30 Strangers Project.

What is the 30 Strangers Project?

For the entire month of April 2010, photographer Justin Hackworth, made a portrait of a mother and daughter every day. 30 portraits – 30 days. You had to have never met him before. Maddie and I were Day 28.

The mother and daughter selected for Day 28 weren’t able to make it and emailed Justin to let him know. At the same time I emailed Justin to find out if every day was full, hoping I would be able to be apart of the project.  I fit the criteria he was looking for and the only time I had available to do the shoot before going on vacation, was the exact time frame he had open to do it.  It was so fun working with Justin. He is funny and laid back. When I went back to view the photos, he presented them on a large screen with a projector. Very cool to see them like that. He made us a cute “Welcome” sign and we got some yummy truffles and a lollipop on the way out! To participate in the “30 Strangers Project” you had to make a $45 donation to The Center For Women & Children in Crisis. Maddie and I had so much fun doing this. I’m glad that I have these beautiful shots of me and my Moo, and the project was for a good cause! Bonus

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Okay, Kristina. Just for you!

People. I have made an executive decision to participate in the “Glamour Shots Gone Wild-Blog Carnival”. Kristina over at Pulsipher Predilections, makes up these wonderful blog ideas to help us all feel better about ourselves and uplift our spirits. I personally feel great about this Glamour Shot because I was 12 years old and that is when I was in my prime. Physically, athletically, and probably mentally too…maybe. Anyway, I asked the Glamour Shots people to make me look 17 years old and clearly, we can all see that they acheived their goal….

You too can post an old Glamout Shot (or if you’re cool, a recent one) on your blog and participate in this uplifting, non-judgmental, activity. Just click on the button below and go link up on Kristina’s blog