Mark this day on your calendars...

I want every one to mark this day on their calendars because I WON something with out having to pay somebody to draw my name or without whining about it!!!

I WON I WON I WON!!!

I am not the type of person to flaunt other people's losses in their face...but it feels so GOOD to win! No wonder people do that!

See over at Hot Dads (where I'm an official Hot MOM-but I did pay someone to do that so it doesn't count like me winning) they had this FANTASTIC giveaway.

They had a bunch of stuff but what I really wanted was this HARD DRIVE that SeaGate was letting the Hot Dads giveaway and this is why:

For those of you who don't know I do photography on the side.

I take a lot of pictures and my hard drives on my computers fill up fast because I'm afraid to throw anything away. So what I have been doing is burning them on a DVD and storing them in a CD case...but the process takes a long time to burn for those of us who have A.D.D. (not clinically proven that I do...but it's self proclaimed) so I rarely find the time to burn the DVD and then my pictures slow down my computer.

So I was at the store a while back and saw this nifty external hard drive that you could fit into a purse! See the other external hard drive's I have bought to store my pictures were big and bulky and a big PAIN IN THE REAR!!!

When I saw that nifty small one I realized I had to have it...but because of Dave Ramsey I couldn't buy it on credit right then, I had to save for it. So I was going to buy it for Christmas as my Christmas gift from the money we had saved for Christmas!!!

So when I saw that Hot Dads was giving one away...I entered, with no thought of actually winning, but I entered and crossed my fingers and hoped and all that other stuff.

So imagine my happy dance when HotDads main guy TentCamper told me I had won! HERE is the proof!

Let's just say I jumped up and down and almost re-broke my clavicle!!!

AND I've already got my hard drive. SeaGate must have sent it right when I emailed TentCamper my address because I got it a couple of days later!

Here is my new baby:

(That's PeePs' hand. She's four. Technically I could fit HER in my purse, but even if you had a small purse you could fit this hard drive into it!)

I'm absolutely, positively in love...and it holds all of my pictures on it! My computers are happy and working faster than ever!

So even though you guys aren't as cool as me and have won one of these adorable babies...you should go out and get one if you are in need of somewhere to store extra stuff to relieve your computers hard drive! Just sayin :)

Now...enjoy my son DCAR singing to me in the car--



Now feel free to leave in comments how totally cool I am for winning this...

Love,

Mail CAN be GOOD! So Pay-It-Forward!

Usually when I receive mail, it holds things like, "Payment Due" or "Reminder" about this or that, or "In need of a Hearing Aide?" some how I am on the mailing list for Medicare and Hearing Aide supplies...(yea, my husband gets a kick out of that--my parents don't even receive hearing aide mail...can someone say, PUNK'D?)

Well not lately...

All those that were like, "Shelle, get a life! Blogging is going to take you no where!"

Can move into my line of spit...because even though it has TAKEN me NO WHERE...I'll concede on that point...

It has supplied me with MANY laughs and it makes me feel popular in a middle-class-popular kind of way...

Plus...I have started to WIN things and RECEIVE them in the MAIL!!! It's like the Price is Right except without PLINKO, LIGHTS, and TV...oh, and the WHEEL...

Last month I entered at MOMSHOTS.COM and received a VERY helpful photography book!

Then I entered this SPOOK-A-RAMA contest with CRASH Test Dummies site as one of the hosts, HER being the other...and was one of the qualifiers for the FUNNY SPOOK STORY category--

I was FIRST loser to JEN (because she stuffed the ballot...and her Aunt's Husband's Nephew was on the panel...just saying) and here is how she spent her money...Keep in mind I would have spent it on the starving pigs in New Guinea...

But when MY prizes came in the mail from SeriouslySOBlessed...who CARES about money?


Relief Society sisters went BIZERK over this t-shirt at SUPER SAT!!! Thanks!

And this BEAUTIFUL piece of artwork came in the mail that I have FALLEN IN LOVE WITH... (my video Catwalk I recordedof my children showing it off wasn't working)...that will come later...so I snatched this pic of what Vanessa does over at A Fanciful Twist...

She's AMAZING...believe me...you NEED to look her up and get some stuff!!!

Then I jumped in and tried to be one of the TOP THREE commenters to win this camera STRAP by MOMSHOTS.COM again...and guess what! I did...I commented as fast as I could and was one of the top three!

This is what it looked like...except for different material...
THIS material! Believe me...when I get my video I did of my models, modeling this stuff, you will be FULLY impressed! Thanks Jessica!!!

So now I want to continue to Pay-IT-Forward...so in order to participate all you need to do is be one of the FIRST THREE commenters and be willing to Pay-IT-Forward also!!!

So if you are NOT willing to continue with the fun...then don't comment until I get my FIRST THREE okay?

Now being that I have NO time for crafty or creative...and with Photography I only pretty much shoot People...I have decided to give away something I'm passionate about...and that is AMAZON.COM!!!

First three commenters get a $10.00 AMAZON.COM card. If you've never purchased something from AMAZON you might be weary of winning this because it's totally addicting and I'm not even getting PAID to say that!

K...Be one of the FIRST THREE commenters and win the card...other than that...

What have YOU won?

Love,

Shelle

And the winner is...

Okay I am back from my little vacation! And I have to tell everyone...that even though there was the threat of major hail and tornado's one evening, and sheets of rain pored upon us as we traveled home from going to "Old Chicago" to eat...yummy...I LOVED Minnesota. I honestly went there with low expectations of the state, but I have come from there a more enlightened person...very appreicative of the beauty that surrounds the state of "10,000 Lakes". So really if you are NOT picking up what I am PUTTING down...I loved it there and all it had to offer...rain, hail, tornadoes, and all!

On to more exciting things! The announcement of my BIG GIVEAWAY! I didn't want to just do a Random over the internet drawing...so I went for more old skool methods...of writing everyone's name on a piece of paper, tearing up the paper, and then drawing the winners out of a bucket.

On top of all of that...I videoed myself doing it...or rather had my son DCAR help me video doing it or drawing out of the bucket or whatever...but now for your viewing pleasure I am posting the video's of the winners!!! The LAST video being the BIG winner!

WARNING: I video who wins and then attempt to re-inact what the winner would say or do if they were there IN PERSON winning the giveaway. Let me just say that I have NO ACTING SKILLS what-so-ever...I was the PAW of the wolf in the play I did in High School...I was the PAW people...the PAW...it lasted ALL of 2 seconds, that was it, that is my experience...so don't shoot me when you all sound like "VALLEY GIRLS" with a slight southern drawl! Just take it in stride...laugh...and enjoy finding out WHO WON!!!

Oh and I sound like I have a lisp...and I TOTALLY don't, or at least I don't think I do...but with the sound fromt his video you might think different...just saying, I really don't have a lisp :)

INTRODUCING THE GIVEAWAY:


Imitation of 3rd winner-a copy of Breaking Dawn when it is released...drumroll please


2nd winner and imitation-a copy of Breaking Dawn when it is released...drumroll please

Sorry, DCAR...isn't a very sturdy video-er!

THe Grandprize WINNER...and imitation...Choice between the Twilight series (all three books-1st two paper back, 3rd Hard Cover) and Breaking Dawn...or The Host and Breaking Dawn...drumroll please...


And there you go...if there are some of you that cannot view the video that want to know the winners...just email me at blokthoughts@gmail.com and I will gladly let you know who won!

Also, those who did win...you have to email me the address you want your winnings mailed to! Love you all!

I will post later today a add on to "What I imagine Heaven will be Like".

So how do you rate my acting skills...remember, there is no such thing as a negative number...so the lowest you can rate from a 0-10 scale is 0! lol!