“I can’t wait to find the next one!”
“Just one more then I’ll go cook dinner!”
“I can stop whenever I want to!”
Does this sound like you? Well ya better face it you’re hooked…on freebies!
For me, it started when I was in grade school. My best friend and I would call the 800 numbers that were on TV. They lured you in with their promises of a free sample or a free coupon. We spent hours looking through our comic books, magazines and cereal boxes for free stuff. It was so exciting!
When the mail came it was like Christmas! Little boxes and envelopes with our names on them. They were just begging to be opened! We’d open whatever it was, mess with it for awhile then forget about it. We’d move on to our next treasure with wide eyes and excited laughter.
To this day I still get like that when something comes to me for free!
I have a freebie for you today that will give you a happy AND be useful!
It’s Swag Bucks! OK, right now you may be thinking “Not another referral site/search site/craptacular waste of time.”But it’s not by any means any of those things!
Basically you are getting paid to search. But, the cool thing is you can actually redeem these “Swag Bucks” for real rewards. THey have Amazon gift cards, cards for Starbucks, game shops, online things and so manyother choices. All you do is use their search engine and you win the Swag Bucks.
I’ve actually gotten a couple Amazon cards and they have been put towards some of my workout dupplies and videos!
The easiest way to win is just to set it as your search engine. If you don’t like it of course you can go back to your favorite search engine later. Just have your family do all their searches with SwagBucks engine and start earning those gift cards.
So sign up today and you seriously will NOT be sorry! I’m sure not  I love it!
I have got some great news!!!
We have 1 more winner in the uPrinting 500 Business Card Giveaway!
Martha! You have also won the 500 Business Card Giveaway. I’ll be getting in contact with you as well!
Congratulations to both of the winners!
As silly as this question sounds to me there are many people who ask me just that. When I explain to them that I have a vision impairment people usually chime in with that particular phrase.
I’ve never really given a good response though. I end up saying Üh…I don’t know…I just do.”It’s worked since high school and if it ain’t broke…well you understand.
But today I will reveal my mystical secret. The holy grail of makeup tips geard especially for the visually impaired. OK maybe not. It’s really not that mystical, there’s no magic involved. As a matter of fact it’s so easy even a kid could do it (and that is the total truth!)
I do it mostly by feel.
When I put on my eyeshadow I just do the 3 shade lid/crease/browbone basic look. I know that the lightest color goes up top, darkest goes in the middle and the medium color goes on the lid. I use the correct brush for each step and most days it comes out fabulous!
I love me some eyeliner so I HAD to learn how to use it. I don’t look in the mirror to apply it though. I just follow the line of my eye! It’s really simpleI put my pinky on the bottom lashline where Iam going to line and I have the eyeliner follow my finger. Perfect application every time! Liquid liner is one I have yet to master and I don’t know that I will ever master it. If anyone has suggestions I’d love to hear them!
Mascara gets difficult because many times I get those little black dots where the wand has accidentally touched my skin. Nothing unfixable though. I just put the wand at the base of my lashes and brush.
I’m not even going to explain lipstick. That’s totally obvious.
Foundation, however, is a bit tricky. First I have to go to a makeup counter or store to find my foundation because i like to have someone match me with the best foundation for my skin. I then take my foundation brush (yes they have them and they are wonderful) and I put dots of foundation at the edges of my face and blend blend blend! Then I fill in the rest of my face and blend that in. Perfect every time!
So now I’ve told you the real big secret of my existance. I think now that I’ve told ya Ima have to kill ya! No just kidding share this wonderful secret with everyone. As a matter of fact file it away for yourself. You never know when the power might go out and you will still have to put makeup on to go to work!
Yes I know, I’m a rockstar…or not it depends on my mood!
AIMEE W!!!
Your name was chosen by the handy dandy random.org random number generator!
She is the lucky winner of the business card giveaway! I will be contacting you after I’ve gotten in touch with uPrinting and we’ll set up getting you your code for your FREE BUSINESS CARDS!!!
School and work have kept me mighty busy. I have a butt ton of stuff to blog about so please stay tuned!
I’ve been following a diet and workout plan over at Spark People. I’m in a couple different weight loss challenges over there to get me motivated. One of my challenges this week was to prepare this recipe for low cal beef stroganoff. I was super skeptical at first. I am not the best cook and I’m afraid anything I make is gonna explode the kitchen or taste like i scraped it off my shoe. I know this is never the case (except in the peanutbutter cookies of doom last Christmas where i used old crisco EWWW) Today I was so pleasantly surprised I almost did flips in my kitchen. I know this could have given me a workout but we have a tiny kitchen.
My Dad even loved this recipe and he is super picky ëverything needs more salt and pepper”man.
So here is the recipe. I have decided you can omit the potato and supbstitute shirataki noodles in their place to drastically lessen the calories. I’m doing that tomorrow for lunch with the leftovers. This recipe serves 2 and I doubled everything to make it for 4. I had to thicken up the mixture with a teeny of flour but if you just use a little less of the broth you shouldn’t have a problem.
Beef & Vegetable Stroganoff-Topped Potato
Start to Finish: 25 mins
Makes: 2 svgs. (svg size= ½ potato & 1 ½ cups stroganoff)
1 medium baking potato
1 tsp. olive oil
4oz. beef flank steak, cut across grain into thin bite-size strips
1c. sliced fresh mushrooms
½ tsp. garlic powder (I used minced garlic b/c we’re garlic fiends!)
1/8 tsp. pepper
1 can Progresso Light Savory Vegetable Barley Soup (18.5oz.)
¼c. fat-free sour cream
2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley
1 small onion
1. Generously pierce potato with fork. Place on microwavable paper towel. Microwave on High 4-5 minutes, turning once, until tender. Cover, let stand covered 5 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, in 12-inch nonstick skillet, heat oil over high heat. Add beef, mushrooms and onion; sprinkle with garlic powder and pepper. Cook 5-7 minutes, stirring frequently., just until beef is browned and vegetables begin to soften.
3. Stir in soup. Heat to boiling. Cook uncovered over high heat for 7-10 minutes, stirring frequently, until mixture thickens. Remove from heat; stir in sour cream.
4. To serve, place ½ potato on each serving plate. Top each with 1 ½ cups of beef mixture; sprinkle each with 1 tbsp. parsley.
PER SERVING:
330 CALORIES
9G FAT
3G SAT FAT
0G TRANS FAT
35MG CHOLESTEROL
880MG SODIUM
44G CARBS
7G FIBER
17G PROTEIN
1100MG POTASSIUM
*WW POINTS PER SVG: 7
In Southern California, the weather starts getting extremely hot in August and September. It’s like summer is saying “Fine kiss my butt I’m leaving and gonna make ya miserable in the process.”OK well maybe not so much but it feels like it sometimes.
I live in a house without air conditioning. Oh, we have one of those window air units! The problem however, is that it was probably built in like 1965 or something and eats electricity like Pac Man eats power pellets!
So what’s a girl to do when she’s melting away on at the computer? Here are my picks for the top cheapo cool down methods! These are in no particular order…
- Make a water baby! A friend of mine used to freeze water in a 2 liter bottle and wrap it in a towel or sheet. She called them “water babies” because they are snuggled close like you’re holding a baby.
- Freeze up some grapes! You can even stick toothpicks in them and pretend they’re “grapecicles”
- If you want to head outdoors, find a shaded park and go ice blocking! You need to find a park with a rather large hill and bring one of those big blocks of ice with you (which you can make yourself if you want by freezing water in a small plastic tub. You sit on the ice blok and slide down the hill. It’s a real bum chiller!
- Make salad for dinner. Why heat up the house when it’s unreasonably hot? Put together a huge salad with your favorite veggies, cheese, dressing and whatever else. Cold chicken that’s already been prepared or prepackaged can be thrown in if you desire. It’s healthy and keeps you cool!
- Use the kiddie pool. Those of you who have kidlets probably have a small “kiddie pool” that you put the kids in during the summer. Well, if they’re not using it (and even if they are!) fill it on up and at least dunk your feet in. Make yourself a “grown up drink” if you want and sit in a shady part of your yardo r patio.
- Get Misty With it! Get a water spray bottle and put some ice and cold water in. When you feel like you’re gonna melt spray yourself. Those with cats will find it amusing to see the cat scurry away thinking they’re gonna get in trouble for something!
Question – What are your cheapo cool down tips?
Do you own your own business or blog? Have you ever thought it would be cool to have some business cards to pass out to friends, family, job interview and at craft or trade shows? If you answered yes to one or all of these then you should really read this!
UPrinting.com has graciously offered to give 2 winners a set of their fabulous business cards. You can choose from several business card sizes. Keep on reading for all the details!
UPrinting has several different types of business cards, including, their die cut business cards. You can have rounded corners on all sides or one side. If you want your cards to stand out from all of those boring business cards that everyone gives out then you should really check out UPrinting! Their cards are printed on high quality cardstock and they never put their logo on the back of your cards like some other printers (who shall remain nameless.) You can see your project on screen before it is submitted too!
As a visually impaired person I find it much easier to give out a business card then to try to write down my information for someone. It looks more professional and the person receiving my info will greatly appreciate that they aren’t going to have to read my scribble scratch!
Don’t forget to check out their other services. You can get brochures and postcards, among other things as well!
CONTEST DETAILS
2 PRIZE WINNERS WILL RECEIVE
500 Business Cards
Choose size: 2×3.5”, 2×3”, 2×2″;
Choose paper: 14pt cardstock (matte or gloss coating) & 13 pt cardstock uncoated
Choose Color: (4/4) Color both sides; (4/1) Color 1 side , B/W backside; (4/0) Color 1 side, black backside
- Leave me a comment and tell me why you would like to receive these business cards. Don’t forget to leave me a way to contact you!
- For extra entries please follow my RSS feed, follow me on twitter @illegalsight (leave me your twitter name), tweet about this giveaway, become a fan of Illegally Sighted on Facebook (leave your facebook username or url). That’s 5 entries. Please for each thing you do.
- Your first comment has to be telling me why you want the cards!
- Shipping is the responsibility of the winner and this giveaway is open to the US residents only.
- Contest will end September 5, 2009 and winners will be announced September 7th. Any late entries will not be counted!
I think the Blog Hop is a really cool idea. I’m going to start participating in these ever week. It’s a great way to find new blogs to read and for people to find your blog. Add your link to the McLinky box, do your post and get the code. It’s really easy and fun.
This week’s blog hop is Time to Laugh! I am not a mama of a human baby but the mama to a psycho little furbaby! Sometimes I wonder if she was human in another life though! She is just over a year old and moved with me from Las Vegas to California. She’s not liking the change too well. She went from living in an air conditioned house to one that isn’t. She was the baby of the house and lived with a cat who actually liked her to where there is another older cat who is a brat (not mine though lol!)
This picture was one taken of her when she decided to play in a soda box. She used to be able to fit inside these boxes and would sleep in them. Now she’s a big girl and looks like only her head will ever fit again.
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I thought I could still fit!
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Dude! I’m STILL in here??
Is it possible to be in love with a computer? If so then I’m truly in love with my netbook! If it were a perso n (or if I were a computer) we’d make little netbook babies…I guess those would be like PDA’s then. *Sigh* who knows!
When I first started shopping for a netbook computer i was uber skeptical. Many of them came with some strange OS I’d never heard of, a 2GB hard drive and really were only able to surf the web. I’m guessing that’s why they’re caled netbooks in the first place. I needed something portable but able to leap small buildings in a single bound. OK not really but I did need to be able to edit MS Office files, get my email, listen to my podcasts and all those other things we like to do while we’re working.
I was so excited when I found the MSI u100 netbook over at Amazon. Since I use ZoomText I decided that the 8 inch screen Acer netbooks weren’t going to work. I needed a little bit bigger screen but still wanted that portability I desperately needed. The u100 has all of that and more!
This little baddy has a 160GB hard drive, Windows XP, 1GB ram (which is upgradable to 2GB.) and has a 10 inch screen! I purchaced the one with the 6 cell battery for a longer battery life. I am a lazy butt and procrastinator and hate to carry extra things with me. I didn’t want to have to lug around the cords!
The netbook is a little bulkier than some others. This is due to the 6 cell battery. It’s back heavy so if you’re trying to balance it on the arm of a chair or something you may want to make sure you have a good hold on it. I’ll gladly take the bulkier weight so that i can have better battery life though.
Once i got the u100 I immediately installed ZoomText on it. I had to do so off of a flash drive since the netbooks don’t have a CD drive. Why uses those things anymore anyway? This went rather smoothy. ZoomText runs wonderfully on the netbook. I’ve not had any slowness while running it.
I’ll be honest, the sound quality isn’t the greatest. The speakers sound a bit tinny but are we really looking for high sound quality in a teeny portable computer? Once you plug your headphones into it the sound is perfect. I prefer running it with headphones since i doubt the people at my local coffee shop want to hear Nine Inch Nails blasting out of the little speakers. Not all of us like my favorite band!
Of course the u100 also has a WiFi card in it. No matter where you’re at it’ll find you a signal. It was much better at doing so than even my old Toshiba laptop. I was very impressed by this. The speed of connection is great! m able to surf the web, download things, get my email and not have any slowness. I’ve even beek known to watch streaming video and listen to streaming audio on here while working without a problem!
Needless to say I am super impressed with my netbook. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. As a blogger and a student i have found that it has been the biggest help! At only around $380, it is a worthwile investment and will pay for itself a million times over.
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