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Pay It Forward Time, People!

Jun 30th

Posted by Becky in Casual Thoughts

42 comments

Yay! It’s time for my first official blog contest. And you don’t even need to be the 8234th caller, or know the capital of some remote country or anything! This is a contest even I could win. Well, theoretically. I mean, obviously I can’t win my own contest, but you know what I mean.

Before we get things started I want to welcome all the new people (even if there are only like 2 of you). Also, I want to let you know right now that we have comment moderation on so that we don’t get spam, so it might take an hour or 2 for them to show up (darn Ryan having control of that and not telling me how to do it – for some reason it won’t let us moderate from the WordPress dashboard thing). Anywho, let’s get on with it!

The contest starts now, and will end at 11:59pm on July 4th because I said so. After it is over I will use a random number generator to pick a commenter, and that person wins a care package from me! All you have to do to enter is comment below. If you want some direction (I always like direction, don’t you?), and because I’m new to this whole blogging in front of strangers thing, you should ask me a question that you would like me to answer. I will try to answer any questions in future posts. It will be fun! I promise! Or you can tell me your 4th of July plans. Whichever. Or just do your own thing. I’m flexible (read: a people-pleasing pushover).

The prize for this awesomely simple contest is yet to be decided. I like Swistle’s “go to Target and pick out things that remind me of the person” method, so I will probably go that route. But who knows. It’ll be a surprise! Oh, and if you win, you must pay it forward – I can hold another contest and choose a winner for you if you don’t have your own blog, or you can post the contest on your blog.

So yah…get to the commenting. I will keep this post at the top all week (hahaha…like I was going to post again anyway!) so that you have time to comment (or think of a great question).

Oh, and to answer my own question, Ryan and I will be heading down toward the cities to celebrate the 4th with his family. Last time we were there they tried to blow everyone up with fireworks*, so it should be good times!

*Acutally it was that a lit firework fell into a box of unlit fireworks and about 1 minute of chaos ensued, with people running for the garage. No one was hurt and so now it is a funny story. As most possibly-very-tragic-but-no-one-got-hurt stories are.

**I forgot to specify 11:59 Central Time on Friday. I’m whatever-centric it is when you assume everyone goes by YOUR local time. I’m also totally impressed at the number of commenters so far! Woo hoo!

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Ahhh…so much better. And, something fun!

Jun 27th

Posted by Becky in Casual Thoughts

2 comments

I finally got around to looking for a new theme for the blog. And for now, this one is it. I don’t have time to play around with it (duh, I’m at WORK!), but I wanted something that didn’t have so many columns that I didn’t even understand. And this definitely fulfills that role. So yay!

In other exciting news, I’m going to be joining in the awesome Pay It Forward contest craziness being organized by Swistle. I’m very excited, as this is my first attempt at doing something with the blog other than just commenting on other blogs and rambling. Check out her post for an explanation of what this is and how it works. Also, I know I only have like 4 readers and half of you don’t have your own blogs. We’ll figure it out. It’s all good. :-)

Well, that’s all I have to say for now. No big plans for the weekend – we may be heading down to the Reef bar tonight (yay for a bar within walking distance!)…depends on the weather. And tomorrow we have a high school grad party for my cousin in Pine City. That should be fun. I always like visiting family!

Have a great weekend, everyone, and I’ll see you back here on Monday for the contest!

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  • To Do In 2011

    1. Make dinner 2 nights per week
    2. Finish James’s baby book     finished as much as possible
    3. Own a pair of comfortable dress boots
    4. Read 25 books
    5. Take a week of vacation in the summer and visit my family
    6. Try a new ingredient once a month (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
    7. Organize my recipe collection
    8. Develop a more efficient workspace at my office     My new desk is WAY more organized/organizable.
    9. Own investment jeans     Not Happening
    10. Go to 3 local museums
    11. Organize a group camping trip     We had 2 of them!
    12. Learn how to run     In progress!
    13. See a concert
    14. Try out four new restaurants     (Jan 21) (March 18)
    15. Acknowledge the birthdays of every person on my list     Epic fail
    16. Make something for James using some of his old clothes
    17. Watch James take his first steps/say his first real words
    18. Put pictures in all the frames in our apartment
    19. Buy a cake from a local bakery
    20. Go to a band concert at UMD
    21. Exercise more     Y Membership
    22. See my sister graduate college     I'm counting this as accomplished; I didn't watch her walk, but we had dinner with her that night.
    23. Cut back on sweets     My new job has actually helped with this; less boredom/stress = less snacking!
    24. Get rid of cable 1/3/2011
    25. Finish our wedding scrapbook project
    26. Start purchasing Christmas gifts in March at the latest     HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    27. Create a weekly menu, and stick to it!     See above: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    28. Meet someone in real life that I’ve only known on the internet
    29. Get my hair cut and style it more often     this last part is ongoing
    30. Host a party
    31. Go to church at least once per month, and make a donation each time
    32. Send thank-you notes for all gifts
    33. Make ice cream
    34. Encourage Ryan to get his first Cisco certification
    35. Try a new food     I'm counting brussel sprouts.
    36. Hang out with Alyson for an entire weekend
    37. Make more of an effort to dress up for work     No longer necessary; this is more of a nice jeans and sweater kind of place.
    38. Make a lunch (not frozen) 2 days per week.     I've been packing a peanut butter sandwich and carrots. I consider this an achievement.
    39. Take a community ed class     Swimming w/the boys
    40. Make something in our dutch oven that requires using it in the oven
    41. Go to bed before eleven more often
    42. Go to a Farmer’s Market and buy something 3 times this summer     Another failure. Although we did buy some local honey from a friend!
    43. Call my parents and sisters every other week just to check in     I think I'm doing WORSE at this than last year
    44. Make: caramel rolls from scratch (get the recipe from my grandma)
    45. Bring James on his first trip to Canada
    46. Learn to drive a stick
    47. Print out photos from our wedding and put them in an album
    48. Make breakfast more often on the weekends
    49. Keep the apartment cleaner than past years
    50. Buy a good area rug for the living room
    51. Make a general doctor’s appointment to get my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc., checked out 1/11/11
    52. Take more pictures and put some in albums
    53. Clean the basement and organize all our stuff down there     All bins labeled as of 3/13/11. This is as much organizing as is going to happen before we move
    54. Organize my jewelry
    55. Buy more bins for storage and put seasonal clothes away
    56. Donate all unused clothing/toys to Goodwill/Salvation Army

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