Monday Minute: Airing Dirty Laundry

It's Monday Minute time, but before you read this week's intriguing questions and answers, make sure you enter my giveaway for a $40 1-800-FLOWERS Gift Card. With the holidays fast approaching, this could really come in handy. Enter here.

What color undies/ boxers do you have on right now? :) ♪She wore raspberry beret♪ (Prince)


What song have you been playing on repeat lately? I totally love Little Lion Man, by Mumford and Sons, so I play it a lot. But, playing through my head on repeat this morning is I'm yours by Jason Mraz, because in a refreshing change to tradition; the bride in the wedding I attended yesterday walked down the aisle to it. This was an especially good choice because they were together years ago and split up for a couple years, and then realized they loved one another and finally got married!  ♪I won't hesitate no more, no more It cannot wait, I'm yours♪


What's your best personality trait? I like to think that it's that I try to see the good in people, but hubby would probably say that's the worst thing about me because I usually trust the wrong people and get screwed. So, I don't really know.  ♪Trust in me in all you do, Have the faith I have in you♪ (Etta James)
 
Are you a leader or a follower? ♪The leader of the pack♪ (The Shangri-las)
 
What's your least favorite household chore? I hate putting clothes away! I don't know why. I will gladly sort and clean the dirty laundry, I just want nothing to do with it when it's clean. ♪Give us dirty laundry♪ (Don Henley)

1-800-Flowers Birthday Smiles Giveaway

When 1-800-FLOWERS.com asked me to do a review and giveaway to help them celebrate Birthdays in October, I couldn't be more excited. Not only did the nation celebrate America's Most Common Birthday on October 5th, but we celebrated my oldest daughter's 18th birthday!   ♪Happy Birthday Baby♪ (Conway Twitty)

#1 loves cupcakes, (but who doesn't?) and Carnations are her favorite flower, so I knew the Cupcake in Bloom bouquet would be just the thing to bring a smile to her face. It's made with white carnations and it's shaped just like a giant cupcake.

The flowers were delivered just after she came home from school, on her birthday. The flower arrangement arrived in the cutest little box like something fresh from the bakery. With a candle on top, this flower cupcake looked good enough to eat! (ok, but don't eat it, really, it's flowers, not cake.)



Cupcake in Bloom from 1-800-FLOWERS



Flower cupcake delivers a birthday smile


Thanks to 1-800-FLOWERS for delivering Birthday smiles! Not only did they give me this great flower arrangement for #1's birthday,  but they're also going to give one of my readers a $40 Gift Card!

Okay, okay, calm down, I know you all want to win, just be patient, and I'll tell you how. ♪Have a little patience, yeah, yeah♪ (Guns & Roses)

1 winner will be randomly selected to win a $40 Gift Card from 1-800-FLOWERS.com from eligible entries received by 11:59 PM on 10/24/2010.

Mandatory Entry: Leave me a comment telling me your favorite flower (and make sure to include your e-mail if it's ot on your profile.)

Extra entries (make sure to leave a comment for each one):

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6. Tweet this for 2 entries: "@Amethyst_M is giving away a $40 Gift Card courtesy of @1800Flowers Enter to win http://bit.ly/9UwZ2Q" (1 time per day)

7. Blog about this giveaway (5 extra entries)

Good luck!


Disclosure: I received a flower arrangement as compensation for this review and giveaway, but all thoughts and opinions are my own.

Friday Confessional: Who's to Blame

I confess...

...I'm not real sympathetic of a victim of domestic abuse when she continues to go back and make excuses for the person, especially when they just started dating and are not really invested in the relationship and she has lots of friends to help her out! Maybe I should feel more sympathetic, but I just can't. Because, quite honestly...I want to smack her around myself for going back to the idiot! ♪Oh, who's to blame, that girl is insane well nothing I do don't seem to work ,it only seems to make matters worse. Oh please♪ (Rolling Stones)

...Even though Target made me mad, I can't stop loving them. I still wish they would do the right thing, and I won't buy their replacement plan, but I'll still shop there ♪If loving you is wrong I don't wanna be right♪ (Barbara Mandrell)

...I'm looking forward to doing nothing this weekend. While hubby does a bachelor party tonight and the wedding rehearsal tomorrow, I'll just be ♪chillin out relaxin and acting all cool♪ (Fresh Prince)

...I didn't buy my daughter's birthday flowers, they were given to me by 1-800-FLOWERS but, wait til you see 'em they're so cute!

...once my team is out of contention for the playoffs, then I don't care who wins, pitches a no-hitter, breaks a bat, or loses. Baseball season is over to me! Time for Football! ♪Are you ready for some football♪

Writer's Workshop: Target Needs a Replacement

In this week's Writer's Workshop, Mama Kat wants to know:

What makes you mad, and what are you going to do about it?

A few years ago, I bought my then 13 year old daughter her very own digital camera. It was pink and pretty, and it was 5mp which, at that time, was pretty dang good. She loved this camera.

When I bought the camera, at Target, the sales person, totally sold me on buying Target's Replacement Plan. She convinced me that my child was going to drop it, smash it, drown it, break it, put jelly in it, whatever... and when she did this I was going to wish I had Target's extended warranty because it's a replacement plan. She advised that no matter what happened, Target would try to fix it, but if they couldn't repair it, then they would replace it with the same or similar model.

Well, I'm no fool, I jumped on this great $20 bargain that would provide me with 3 years of Target replacement plan coverage! Over the years, I would rest easy when she took it to the beach. I could relax when she took it to the pool. No matter where she went with it, it was okay, because of Target's great plan.

After almost 3 years of toting it around, it finally happened...she dropped it... in the toilet...and...I didn't get mad! "No problem" I said "I'll just call Target."

And that's when I got mad! ♪I fell in to a burning ring of fire♪ (Johnny Cash)

"What do you mean it's not covered for water damage?! I was sold on it covering everything! I was assured by a Target employee that it would be replaced for any damage! And, there is nothing more damaging then dropping a camera in the TOILET!"
"Sorry that you were misinformed, but we don't cover liquid damage. We only cover if something is defective. Is there anything else I can do for you?" she said in her little, it's not my fault you let your child play with electronics near water, voice.

So, I said, "sure, what else can you do for me?"

"huh?" "well, nothing with this, but, did you need anything else?"

"What I need is a new camera, which Target said they would provide. Nothing else, just what I was promised, and you said you can't do that!"

"no mam, I can't...sorry."

"Well thanks a freakin lot!"

So, my little girl doesn't have a camera, because she was a little more reckless than she would've been, had we not bought the so called "replacement plan." And, I'm irritated that I was sold on this piece of paper that is worth absolutely nothing! ♪you're no good, you're no good, you're no good, baby, you're no good♪ (Linda Ronstadt)

So, what am I gonna do about it?!  I'm gonna scream really loud, stomp my feet, write a letter to Target, and when they do absolutely nothing to help; I'll ultimately buy her a new camera, but, of course, not from Target.

And, I will never believe Target's lies again!

♪You lied to me, you lied to me honey♪ (Boyzone)

Post-it Note tuesday: My Little Girl is 18!

♪what happened to the wonderful adventures? the places I had planned for us to go Well, some of that we did, but most we didn't, and why, I just don't know♪

(Abba)