A little computer malfunction.

I promise all of you that my intention today was to do a post about a fabulous opportunity I had Saturday with 16 other fantastic Alabama Bloggers at The Outlet Shops at Grand River in Leeds, Alabama.  I laughed harder than I have in months, thanks to the incredible women that were there.  We had delicious food provided by Olexa's Cafe in Mountain Brook, a informative fashion presentation by Tracy James, a wild and crazy scavenger hunt, and a very productive shopping trip with some great friends, compliments of The Outlet Shops at Grand River.  AND, one of YOU may have the opportunity to have your OWN shopping trip, compliments of The Outlet Shops at Grand River.

BUT

MY STUPID COMPUTER IS BEING A JERK!

For some reason, it has decided that it no longer recognizes my SD card and is re-downloading ALL 2163 photos!!!  This is taking FOREVER! 

Plus, I am at home today with a very sick young man.  He felt puny all day yesterday, but started running a fever last night.  So, I guess we are in for the next few days.  I am proud that he made it until November before missing his first day of school.  He's usually already missed several by this time of year.

 I promise I will do my very, very, very best to have my post up within the next day or so.  One of you will win your very own $50 gift card to The Outlet Shops of Grand River AND since this little glitch happened, I will also throw in a hand-crafted item of mine, of your choice (within reason)!

Check my NEW Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Alabama-Slacker-Mama/317998998308381

or my Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/robinandmarty

and I will post when the giveaway goes live!

I hope you all have a fantastic week!!

Need a little extra spending money?

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I've been a a really "Bah Humbug" mood over the past few days and I just can't seem to shake it. 

It could have a little bit to do with Jameson having the FLU and not having time to get everything accomplished that I need to in the next 8 days!

I've always been taught it's better to give than receive, so I thought if maybe I gave a little more, it would put me in a little better mood.

SO, in the spirit of Christmas, I want to give one of YOU a little something for Christmas.

How about a $50.00 VISA GIFT CARD?

Would that help anyone out there with your last-minute Christmas shopping?

So, how do you enter to win this $50.00 gift card? 

It's really, really simple.

All you have to do is leave a comment....any comment....you want.

No Tweeting, no Facebooking, no blogging....

NOTHING!

You don't even have to follow my blog, but it sure would help my feelings if you did.

And to make things even more exciting...you can leave as many comments as you want to!  You can come back any time you want to and leave me a comment (or comments) for another chance to win.

More comments = More entries!

I will leave this contest open until 6:00 PM (CST) on Sunday, December 19th, 2010.

I will announce the winner sometime that evening.

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***If there is not an e-mail address attached to your profile, PLEASE either leave a way to contact you or be watching my blog after 7:00 PM on Sunday to see if you are a winner!  The sooner I can get your mailing address, the quicker I can get it to you....I want to get it to you before Christmas!!!***

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This contest is open to anyone in North America (because of shipping and currency exchange)  .Unfortunately, my relatives aren't eligible to win either...sorry folks!   All entries must be made on THIS blog post.  Also, I am paying for this card out of my OWN pocket and have not received any compensation for this giveaway!

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Good luck and GET TO COMMENTING!

Anybody want a Cookbook?

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Anybody?

How about a brand spankin' new PIONEER WOMAN cookbook?

Anybody?

How about a brand spankin' new autographed copy of Pioneer Woman's cookbook?

Anybody?

How about a brand spankin' new autographed copy of Pioneer Woman's cookbook FOR FREE?

Anybody?


I just so happen to have an extra copy of said cookbook, but it's not autographed....YET. I am hoping to get the autographed part taken care of Monday night!

So, if you are somebody who would like a free, autographed copy of Pioneer Woman's brand spankin' new cookbook, just leave me a comment telling me EXACTLY HOW you would like your very own copy to be signed.

This is important!

If you don't tell me how you want it signed, I'm going to tell her to sign it "To Charlie, love Ethel". (That will make sense to anyone who reads her blog regularly....lol)

I will be leaving the comments open until Sunday, December 6th, 2009, at 6:00 pm, CST. I think I will wait to announce the winner after I get the actual cookbook signed, so make sure if you change your mind about the autograph, let me know before Monday morning!

Your comment will be ONE entry.

If you blog, tweet, or FB about this contest, LET ME KNOW HERE, and that will be another entry for you.

I will allow a maximum of THREE entries per person.

Good luck and I can't wait to see who the winner will be!

(This copy of "The Pioneer Woman Cooks" was paid for out of my very own pocket. I was not given anything as payment for an endorsement of this product)

Shout out for Yanna's, Pumpkin Head's, G Girl's, and Nickel Hiss's Mama......

Get in touch with me Kat Sparks from The Sparks Family because you just won yourself a new iPod/Cell Phone case and a $25.00 gift card. Just let me know what gift card you would like (Target, Wal-Mart, anywhere), and your address and I will get both right out to you!

CONGRATULATIONS KAT!!

I wanted to thank everyone who participated in my 200th post giveaway. I literally sat here "laughing out loud" at all of the responses. Y'all really have some hysterically funny nicknames....and the stories behind the names are just priceless!

If you haven't read the comments section of THIS post, you really need to.

Just make sure you don't try to read if you have sleeping babies nearby, or if you are trying to sneak in from work.

You will be laughing too hard to keep quiet!

Can I tell you all again that I have the best Bloggie Buddies EVAH?!!

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I hope y'all have a great week. Thoughts and prayers are going out to all those folks effected by the flooding in Georgia and Alabama. I have several GREAT friends that live in some of these areas, and I am praying that everything will be OK for them all!

Is it wrong of me to also pray that I may get rained out of work for a day or so?

OK, OK....I won't pray for that.

{{{{HUGS}}}}}

My 200th post, Nicknames and a Giveaway!

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Well hello out there in Blog-land! I can't believe it's been 4 days since I last posted!

SORRY!

Little man just went back to school today (well, he went Wednesday, but had to come back home because of a fever), and now I have a hubby with the crud.

Things always get off track when sickness attacks this household!

Well, anyway.....I just realized that this is my

200th Post!

Wow! 200 posts since Decemember of last year.....I like to talk...

A LOT!

I see all of y'all who know me in real life nodding your heads.

So, in honor of my 200th post, I am having another giveaway!

Back in August, when we went on our unexpected blessing of a beach trip, one evening Chelsea and I went on a little Mommy's-and-daughter's shopping trip...

NO BOYS ALLOWED!

While on that trip, we walked through the new Pier Park Shopping Center in Panama City Beach. The shops there were just adorable! I could have spent DAYS looking through all of the cute shops there....

IF it hadn't been pouring down rain, and IF Marty hadn't been calling me every 10 minutes wanting to know when we were coming back....

Anyway, we ran into this cute little shop (we were trying to keep from getting soaking wet), and looked at all of the goodies they had. They had such ADORABLE stuff!

T-shirts, purses, jewelry, signs......You can tell it was the kind of store that sells things made by smaller companies. In other words, you just can't run down to the Wal-Mart and pick this stuff up.

I was instantly drawn to this little table that was covered with jewelry, notebooks, wallets and this....

It's a Cell Phone/Ipod/Camera Holder made by "Natural Life". I've never heard of this company before, but I just loved all of their items.

Isn't is just adorable?

It has a cute little wrist strap so you can just carry it with you that way, or you can use it protect your items while they are in your purse.

I just had to buy one and I specifically bought it to give to one of you! And, because I love you all so much, I may even put a $25.00 Target (or Wal-Mart...your choice) gift card inside it.

It is the perfect size for that, you know?

So, how do you enter? Here is my original post....you know the one I wrote BEFORE I realized this was my 200th post:

Yesterday as I was trying to catch up on all of my bloggie buddies, Jana at The Meanest Mom was talking about Nicknames. She said that her first-grade-aged daughter "Camber" had decided to "change" her name to "Amber". Signing all of her papers "Amber" and even only responding to that name. Jana wanted to know if we or our children ever had any nicknames.

What a fun question!

Myself, growing up with the name "Robin"....nicknames were just TOO easy:

Rockin' Robin
Robinetta
Robino
Fly Robin Fly
Big Bird

Then there have been other nicknames:

Rachel (don't ask...My Father-in-law liked to tease me)
Beeno (Short for Robino...gifted to me by my bud, Sharn Jean)
Rob (Also from Sharn)
Mouth of the South (Uhhhhh, no idea how I got that...lol)

So, I hoped that my children would at least get GOOD nicknames. BUT, dummy me did such a smart thing....

I call ALL of my children by their MIDDLE name.

Sara "Chelsea"
Lena "Courtney"
Timothy "Bryant"
Robert "Jameson"

WHAT A PAIN!

I can't tell you what a pain it has been to have every single stinkin' piece of paperwork come through this house with their first name on it. Class pictures and annual pictures have "Sara" and "Robert". You would think that in such small schools, they would KNOW what their names are.

GRRRRRRRRRR

So I guess in the school setting, their "real" name has turned into their nickname.

However, they each do have nicknames that family members call them.

When we came up with the name "Jameson", we always assumed we would call him something else....and had decided that we would probably end up calling him "Jay". Well, when he was born, he wasn't a "Jay", he was a "Jameson". However, several people had known that we wanted to call him "Jay"....so he ended up being called "JJ". How it turned into that, I have no idea. But that's what we call him when he will let us.

Recently, he has wanted us to start calling him "Professor Hill"...

or "Robert"

or "Vid"

or "Steve"

Fortunately, he was just "Jameson" when he left the house today.

Chelsea has been really fortunate to have many of the same students and teachers for several years in a row. Once, when she was little, one of her little school friends started calling her "Chelsea-Belle". "Belle" after the character in "Beauty and the Beast." It stuck and I still call her that all the time, as do many of her old teachers and friends.

Or "Bonehead".....

Yes, "Bonehead"

However, nobody is allowed to call her that except for her daddy. This whole "Bonehead" thing really caught me off guard. Chelsea and Marty were playing around one day, and Chelsea yelled "Hey Bonehead, stop it!"

I was like "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL YOUR DADDY?????"

She said "Bonehead!"

I flew into her, telling her how disrespectful she was being and she was never allowed to call him that again.

The poor baby was STUNNED!

Well, about that time, Marty comes back in the room and wants to know what's wrong with Chelsea, and I tell him she's called him "Bonehead".

He bursts out laughing and then decides to let me know that "Bonehead" is THEIR pet name for each other.

Oh, OK then.

I tried calling her "Bonehead" one time....it ended up with her asking me why I was being so mean to her....

"Chelsea-Belle" it is!

(This is what my family calls a "Bonehead")


So, my dear, wonderful bloggie buddies, to enter this super-duper, end of summer giveway, tell me What fun and wonderful nicknames do you and/or your children have?

For one entry, leave me a comment about your nickname.

For a Second entry, post about this giveaway on FaceBook, Twitter, or your Blog.

A max of two entries per person.

And unfortunately, this contest is only open to my boggie buddies in the United States and Canada.

So, get to posting and let's have fun with this! The comments are bound to be HILARIOUS!