Looking to win!

I am looking to win some Christmas music...even though I hate Christmas and am the biggest procrastinator on the face of the earth and even though Nicki will laugh at me...

Check out Ben Rudnick and Friends and their Christmas CD!  And enter to win for yourself!

I'm a winner...

I totally won!  Thanks so much, Lisa over at Lisa's Clay Happenings!  Be sure to check out her blog, her amazing Etsy site and my awesomely fantabulous prize!

Thanks again, Lisa! 

The words...oh the words!

As I was sitting on the toilet yesterday (and on the phone with Nicki - sorry, Nicki) A came into the bathroom:

A: "what's a predicament, Mommy"

Me: "well, it's a sticky situation"

A: "ewwwww, a STICKY situation"

Me: "well, no, not STICKY really"

A: "oh, it's just an expression"

Me: "Yup, just an expression"

Where does my child come up with this stuff? Of course, I can deal with "predicament" and "expression", whereas the OTHER words he has used in the past...eh, not so much.

On another note, Z is working on his Pinewood Derby car. Any suggestions? We tried baking it tonight. I guess it is suppose to dry out all the water from inside the wood, making the car weigh less so when you add the weight to the back (because it should weigh 5oz in the end) it will go faster...didn't work for us. The car didn't lose a single pound (or ounce, as the case may be).
Although, the house smelled like really nice, warm pine for a good couple hours.

And on a completely different note (VERY WAY DIFFERENT) my "blogga from anotha' motha'" over on the west coast is having a contest. I warn you - THIS IS NOT FOR THE PRUDE AT HEART OR ANY OF MY SIBLINGS. If you can't deal with anything that has anything to do with anything referring to your nether regions DO NOT CLICK THE LINK!! If you are one of my siblings (or Nana Sue who recently started her own blog) DO NOT CLICK THE LINK! I SWEAR, it could burn your corneas!!

Otherwise, go check her out here!

WE HAVE A WINNER!

I want to send a huge congratulations to Marcy at The Glamorous Life the winner of the $25 Home Depot Gift Card. Now she can get her husband something for Christmas!

Be sure to stop on over her way and leave your congratulations!

Thank you all for playing and sending your friends and following the blog! This was a ton of fun!

It's all about the contest!

One year ago I started this blog because Z's class had started one. I thought it would be something fun that the kids and I could do together. Little did I know that this would become a place of free therapy for me and that I would make so many good friends.



So today is about paying it forward. In the past couple months I have won two WONDERFUL prizes and now I am offering you the chance to win too!



Now, I don't have hundreds of sponsors, I don't have businesses knocking on my door begging me to endorse their product and I don't have hundreds of dollars to give away...



But I do have this:

Tell me your hubbies wouldn't LOVE this stocking stuffer? Maybe your Dad or even your Mom? Maybe you want to spend this all on yourself?

Whatever way you choose to use this card it could be all yours by following the next few steps:

1) You MUST comment here - that will automatically get you ONE entry

2) If you are interested in a second entry become a follower of my blog (there is a link to the right to become a follower - if you are already a follower you will get an extra entry as soon as you comment)

3) You will receive another entry if you refer someone to the contest - be sure that they leave your name when they comment

4) Browse through my archive and leave a comment on an older post (some of my favorites are to the right) - this will get you another entry

5) And lastly, if you blog about this contest and link it here you will receive 5 additional entries (be sure that you let me know you have blogged so I can give you the entry)

You have the opportunity to win, at least, 9 entries if you play your cards right...so easy!

This contest will end Thursday December 11th and the prize will be sent by Monday December 15th as long as the winner gets back to me in time with their mailing address (this should allow plenty of time to arrive before Christmas).

There it is. The first official bloggy contest of Crazy Town, USA. Go forth, spread the word and ENJOY!

My very first contest!

The contest to celebrate my Bloggiversary is set to begin on Monday, December 8th. Check back and be ready to become AMAZED...

Okay, I may be playing it up just a bit...but just a bit...I think :)

Look forward to seeing you all here on Monday, Monday, MONDAY!

I totally won!!

As I am sure most of you know, SITS had an AMAZING day yesterday! We all celebrated Christmas early with a day full of prizes.

The MOST exciting news is that I WON!! I won the prize that I knew I was going to win. I don't know how I knew, just had a feeling. And my new baby niece is going to LOVE her personalized snap suits and monogrammed blanket from Two Tinas!

I have not been a very good blogger lately. Things have calmed down in our home, but just in time for the holiday rush. So apologies to anyone that I have been neglecting (and just a note to those of you that use the new comment form that appears at the bottom of the blog and allows you to switch from a google ID to Live Journal, etc...I cannot comment on your page. I don't know if this is a ME issue or if others are having that problem as well...).

A huge thank you to SITS for hosting the contest and Two Tinas for donating. Do me a favor and check them both out. Two Tinas has some of THE CUTEST monogrammed and personalized items and SITS, well, you all know how much I LOVE SITS and Tiffany and Heather worked their fingers to the bone yesterday putting this on.

**Edited to add:**

I will be hosting a contest of my own next week to celebrate my bloggiversary (is that how you spell it??). Keep your eyes peeled on Monday!!

SITSmas II

So, I am a moron. Well, not entirely. But when I am excited I don't read well...WTF is up with that?

So, the SITSmas prize giveaway is happening ALL DAY today. Every hour on the hour they are putting up another FANTABULOUS prize.

The GREATEST prize? The one that I want more than ANYTHING (even more than the IPod I swore I NEEDED and the vacuum that I wanted to replace my SUCKY one)...the GRAND PRIZE is a $200 Gift Card for Target!!

Can I just tell you that my children would have the BESTEST Christmas EVER if I won that card!! We are BIG budgeters around here. We plan and plan and budget and budget and this card would nearly DOUBLE what we spend every year. Seriously!

So, back to me being a moron, I was suppose to mention this in my last post...so silly of me. I just got overwhelmed with all the excitement and forgot to read the ENTIRE post about it.

Readers, go check it out! Entire yourself (or not, cause really, I WANT TO WIN).

SITSmas

To all our dearest friends and family,

We hope you are celebrating merrily.

Our lives would never have been complete,

If we somehow didn't all of you meet.

So during this time of holiday cheer,

Be sure to join us all for a beer.

Best wishes everyone,

From out Crazy Family.

The rhyming is done :)

Want to join in on the fun? Go to SITS the are having some amazing giveaways all day!

Me? Are you sure? Little 'ole me?

First I'd like to thank Nicki. Without her it could have been hours before I knew of this amazing winning.

Of course, I need to thank Twenty Four at Heart who has bestowed this gift upon me.

I'd like to thank God, my country and my family whom I am sure will understand a bit more today why I spend so much time on the computer reading all those blogs.

And, lastly, I would like to thank my swinging chiropractor who gave me such wonderful material.

And now I'm off to feel MUCH less guilty about spending all that money on The Twilight Series and get to reading!

SITS Blogathon!

Have I told you all about SITS? Of course I have. Remember the day I was featured? Yeah, good times, good times....



Today SITS is have a Blogathon. So stinking exciting. Every hour they are giving away prizes to all us SITS girls!



So I wanted to tell you all about what SITS has done for me. Remember that day I was featured? Well if you don't WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU? Seriously, cause I was on cloud nine...all day! That day alone I received over 150 comments. Over 70 different people found my blog for the first time. I now have readers (that I have never met) from around the world. Talk about an ego trip!!



Not only do they provide awesome bloggy comment love, but I find some of the most interesting, hysterical and heart warming blogs from around the world. I have been introduced to Ireland, Australia, Las Vegas and even other podunk towns like my own. You see, everyday they feature a new blogger. Every day they give another SITS girl the opportunity to enjoy 15 seconds (or hours) of fame. Every day they give another SITSah a little boost and the opportunity to share her words with the world.



Some of my favorite SITS girls are found on my blogroll to the right. However, I wanted to give a little tribute to 5 of the girls that I love most.



Martini Molly from I Need A Martini Now is absolutely hysterical and a wonderful commenter. She makes the BEST martinis (well at least they sound like the best), she has a great sense of humor, a stupid ex husband, a great English accent and an adorable little boy. And besides all that, her son is voting for Obama...no other reason is more important than that :)

Christy from Heavy on the Caffeine is a girl after my own heart: an iced coffee addict (currently reformed from what I know). She has a hysterical definition of the word Maverick, she loves the town that I live in, she always comments back and she is hysterically funny and insightful all at the same time. Oh, and she's voting for Obama as well :)

Gingela from My Dogumentary is another wonderful commenter. I look forward to her comments after ever new blog. She has the most beautiful pups too AND her husband VACUUMS! Seriously!

Last, but certainly not least, Sometimes Sophia from I Hope You Have a Good Day, Charlie. While I didn't find her from SITS (I actually found her through one of our local papers) she is a SITS girl. Her blogs are funny and beautiful with lots of pictures. Her cat Smoke is drug addict, her husband is a discount king...do I need to say anymore?

I can assure you that these are not the only SITSahs I check in with on a daily basis. Check my blogroll for more exciting blogs OR, even better, head on over to SITS and check out some of their "Saucy Blogs" or check in for the featured bloggers of the day. I promise that you will not be disappointed.

Go ahead, suck it up!

Remember the Ipod that I wanted that nobody gave me? Remember the millions of other contests that I entered that I didn't win? Well, I do. And now I know why. It's because the God of Bloggy Contests was waiting for me to enter THIS ONE.

That's right, all. I am going to win this most amazing vacuum. And you know that after my housecleaning saga I NEED it. And not like I "needed" the Ipod...really, this time I am serious, folks.

And I am going to look as hot as Mama Kat does in her beautifully photo shopped 1950s housecleaning photo when I use it.

Total contest JUNKIE!!

Molly and Bunny over at The Rockapoodle Martini Company are having a contest to name their new Pear Martini. The winner receives some beautiful martini glasses from Swank Martini.

Honestly, I have never had a martini. Does that make me a loser? I think that I need to invite Molly and Bunny over to the East Coast to have myself a nice Martini Party...don't you?

So, I am working really hard to come up with a name for the martini which consists of Grey Goose Pear vodka, Van Gogh Vanilla liqueur and fresh pear nectar.

This is what I have come up with:

-Goosey Pear Martini
-Fresh Peary Goose Martini
-Goosey Fresh Pear

Boring? Quite possible...maybe I need a few of those martinis to be able to come up with some better names...

Anyway, go check out The Rockapoodle Martini Company, come up with a name and enter yourself. And, as always, let 'em know who sent you!

Oh, and Molly and Bunny, I tried to copy the code for the button...but the sides of your blog seem to cut off (something you might want to check out) and couldn't get the code correctly....

Contest!!

So, my twin west coast sister, Twenty Four at Heart (who isn't really my twin, but I think it's really funny to play up the fact that I think we are so much alike - what can I say, I am easily amused) is having a contest. The winner will get a $50 American Express Gift Card.

All you have to do is go comment ONE random fact about yourself. If you post a blog about the contest and link it to her blog you will get an extra entry.

Go check it out and tell her EricaB from Crazy Town, USA sent 'cha!

I NEED This - SITS Contest

You know how your kids (or kids you know) whine..."I NEEEEED IT" about whatever it is that has sparked their interest in the store, or on the TV commercials, or out of the blue. Like: "I NEEEEEED that new Nintendo DS". And you reply (or I reply): "No, you don't need it, you want it, and there is a difference".

This is one of the many reasons that I am thankful for PBS and why I volunteer so much time there (okay, really that is just a great excuse to spend so much time there - I do ABSOLUTELY love it). PBS doesn't have those commercials that trigger the needs or wants.

When I saw this I had one of those I NEEEEED moments. I NEED THAT IPOD! You all know that I have a bit of an obsession with music (and if you don't you can go here, here, here or here). and you all know that I have been looking to find the best songs to put on my MP3 player.

What you may not know is that my MP3 player has been acting up lately. It shuts down whenever it feels like it. The batteries die frequently. And as I mentioned here I tend to look like a junky trying to get her fix when it won't work when I NEED it to.

I have been looking into buying a new MP3 but I can't talk myself into spending the money. I am MORE THAN frugal when it comes to spending money on myself. When it comes to the kids or my business I tend not to worry as much but when it comes to me I rationalize every reason and talk myself out of it.

Have I made it clear enough? I NEED THAT IPOD!

So here's what I need from YOU:

1) If you are not already a member of SITS go here and leave a comment. (The great thing about SITS is you find wonderful blogs to read and, if you are interested, often times it increases your readers and your comments).

2) Make sure you mention "CRAZY MOMMA" sent you in your comment.

3) Put this little label on your blog:



4) Go read some blogs!

Again, I NEED THIS IPOD! So make it happen :)

Polls have closed.

And it appears that y'all want a contest! While I have not yet decided what the contest will entail I promise you that I am working on it. I hope to have something up for you next week.

I can assure you that the lurkers will not be able to participate unless they start commenting. I am not sure of all the rules but I know that will be one.

So don't be shy - let me know you are here and tell me what you are thinking!

Stay tuned!

SITS Contest!

If you aren't already aware, I am part of an amazing blogging group:




Every day they have a featured blogger who gets to show off her blogging talents. The featured blogger gets TONS of love from the SITSas who comment on her page, share in her joy and laugh (or moan) with her.



The other GREAT thing about SITS is that they have a weekly contest. For the past couple weeks they have been giving away Target Gift Cards but this week...oh, this week is something AMAZING!



This week they are giving away a Red Sony Cyber Shot W150 ($250 value). This camera features a 8.1 megapixels, 5x optical zoom and 30m wide-angle lens. And, as you all are well aware, I am not allowed to touch the camera of this home (and, quiet frankly, I am not sure I want to anymore). So this is a MUST have for me!



So do my a favor. Head over to SITS, comment on their blog and let them know I sent you. This will ensure me another entry for every new SITSa I have sent!



Help me to continue capturing my baby's lives! Help me win this camera! Head on over to SITS, make a comment and let them know Crazy Momma sent you!

Tribute to Mama's Losin It

Fellow blogger, from Mama's Losing It (see my favorite blogs to the right) is having a great contest. She is giving away 4 wonderful prizes and I want them all!



So as a thank you to Mama for this amazing contest (that includes NOTHING beige) I have decided to tell you all why I love her blog so much.



She has a myspace page. Honestly, I thought I was the one of the only grown women with children who had a myspace page. Ah, I feel so much better about myself.



Mama loves greyhounds. Myself, I could do without a dog (I have too many other living things to take care of) but Mama, well, she is a complete nutcase! As if a house full of children wasn't enough she wants to add a greyhound to the mix...LOL! What the heck is she thinking?



I think that Mama blogs in the shower. Again, with the amount of children in her home and the number of posts I see her make a day, I am not sure how she does it. If they make waterproof laptops, I am sure she has one. My only alone time is in the shower (and more often than not I am not alone there either). I wish Mama would let me know how she does it.



Now, if by some fluke her wonderful husband decides to leave her and she becomes a lesbian I would become her best friend and start dating her (not that I myself am a lesbian but am certainly considering since recent events). She is HOT - I would TOTALLY date her!



And the greatest thing about Mama is that she uses words like epistemology. Now I have no idea what that means and had to look it up on Wikipedia to find out. I guess that epistemology is the theory of knowledge...not that the definition helps me out any. But, heck, she is one smart cookie.

So now you all know my true love for Mama. If you feel the urge, go check out her blog, sign up for the contest and tell her I sent you!