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Friday, February 6, 2009

MarieLynn Boutique Giveaway!!!!!!!!

Re-posting this off of a Myspace bulliten...

I have always wanted to host a giveaway, so I thought, why not give one lucky winner a chance to win their favorite MLB product!

Most giveaways are limited to a certain item, but since this is my first giveaway, I thought, why not let you choose?

How does it work? Visit MarieLynn Boutique and browse through our products. Pick your absolute fave item, yes...just one! Come back here and post a comment telling me which one you just have to have! Each person is only allowed one post. Read below to find out how you can earn more entries.


When does the giveaway end? This giveaway will close on Friday, February 13th.


How is the winner chosen? The winner will be chosen at random. I will use a 3rd party number generator.


Winner will be emailed when the giveaway ends. Please submit your email address on your comment post or by email. You will have three days to claim your prize.

I will also post the winner on my blog.


How can I earn more entries?
Earn 1 entry each time you tweet-"Check Out www. marielynnboutique. blogspot. com For Your Chance To Win An Item Of Your Choice!" on twitter.


Earn 1 entry each time you post about the MLB giveaway on your myspace bulletin or on facebook.


Earn 5 entries each time you post about the MLB giveaway on your blog!

I will have to verify that you have posted or tweeted about the blog, so please email me at marielynnboutique(at)gmail(dot)com, and let me know that you posted.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

20 weeks today

Half way done baking!! I have my radiology ultrasound this morning. Not looking forward to having to drink all that water they require. It's not taking much these days to send me running to the bathroom. I think the little one likes to use my bladder as a jumpy. I have some stuff to blog about later but right now I have some muffins I promised the kids I would make & a few things to get done before I have to leave.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

What drew me to California?

Toilet seat covers... honest! Every public restroom here has them! I told DH this & he laughed, but unless you are a woman or sit/squat frequently to go, you don't understand. Later in pregnancy it becomes harder to balance & squat. I realized the toilet seat this weekend while in Pensacola. 3 out of the numerous public restrooms I visited had them. I would have loved the movie theater to have had them but they didn't. The bathrooms there were kinda gross. I'm not all into cleaning someone else's pee up.

Otherwise California really isn't what you see on tv. On TV they show you lots of palm trees & miles of beaches. While that might be true for some areas, we live in the desert. Now when NY or DC is shown on tv, that's what they really look like.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Adventures of last minute travel

Mr Pilot is in Pensacola for the month. He surprised me with last minute tickets to visit him for the long weekend. What kind of fun does buying your tickets last minute get you? You get flagged for security. Want more fun??! Have a lay over in Vegas & switch terminals. It'll get you that special treatment search again. Some how I cleared the San Diego TSA security with flying colors but set alarms off in Vegas. Dress me in bright orange & stamp "TROUBLE" on my forehead! My shoes came up for explosive residue. Ok, so they didn't come up with anything in SD, but your machine says something different. Um, yeah... What I really wanted to tell the lady but kindly refrained from doing (not wanting to cause further trouble) was that she figured out my soccer mom secret. Yep, folks, after I put the kids to bed I put on my robe & black heels, go into the garage & practice my bomb making techniques because I just have that much energy left over at night. (TOTAL SARCASM PEOPLE!!) Anyways, she re-x-rayed my shoes & determined they weren't super secret squirrel shoes (re: Get Smart) & let me go on my merry way. So I flew from SD to Vegas to Atlanta to Pensacola. I'm thinking Airtran is not on my list of air lines to fly again (that list is getting shorter & shorter). In Vegas they changed our gate with out any announcement but swore up & down they did announce it. Apparently they have a bad habit of doing this. The more I tell people about the experience they tell me they had one similar. It's a good thing I was one gate down. I know for sure they didn't announce it. I start talking to the couple next to me while on the plane. Turns out they (among a good portion of our flight) were suppose to be on another flight to Milwaukee to get back to NY. Milwaukee had bad weather & they were delayed. While delayed one of the toilets on the plane broke. So the flight was cancelled. They were told if they took this flight to Atlanta there would be a connecting one to NY. What did I find out once in Atlanta? Well once again my gate was WRONG. So I stood in line to find out where I was suppose to be. The guy in front of me was one of the transferred passengers promised a connecting flight to NY that night. What was there not? A connecting flight to NY. Turns out Vegas/Airtran had too many people with cancelled flights to shack up that they started sending people else where. Niiiiiice! Anyways, I made it to Pensacola safely. Security being my only adventures.