Happy Birthday To Me

So, we are in the middle of the month of the Rosary, breast cancer awareness, and my one year blogging anniversary . . . AND I have to turn up 40. How bloody exciting!

I feel pretty fantastic, thank you. I have no idea what today will bring me (other than one day into my 40th year, which, is pretty cool, actually). No plans. NO idea what, if anything, my kids or husband have planned. I told the kids that a nice orchid w/ instructions how to keep it alive (ahem) would be perfectly nice (and not going to break the bank). I'll be baking my own cake 'cos I like to, really. I make a mean chocolate fudge frosting. But, I'll take the day any way it comes, because I am a big kid on the inside. I'll watch Emma, that much I know.

So, I'm going to give away this stuff to celebrate. If you want to win all this stuff in the picture below, leave me a comment and see where luck may take you! Not in the picture are these items: a 'red dirt shirt' (I can't buy one not knowing the winner's size) and a bag of Hershey's Macadamia Nut kisses (I will buy them FRESH).

=items are: two books, forkchops (just 'cos they made me cackle like a deranged idiot in the kitchen store), a flip flop foot for your wine glass, the meaning of Aloha card, and a magnet of a wood fish (humuhumunukunukuapua'a) - sorry if I misspelled it, I'm knackered.=

WAIT!!!

Let's make this more interesting. I know you all want the Hershey's kisses. Just leaving me your name is kinda boring for me. Leave me a comment that tells me about your least or favourite birthday and why. If you do not do this simple thing (for giggles on my part), your name won't be put in the drawing. It's that give and take thing see. Okay. Have fun!

I wish you all well. I'm off to blow out candles before my cake explodes!

*winner announced tomorrow on the Feast of St. Teresa of Avila*

btw, just a film plug for families wanting good, clean films for 6th-12th grades/adults: at Target I found a Haley Mills film called "Trouble With Angels" for $5. DVD. In the kids stuff. BARGAIN and a brilliant film!

This Is the Last Day

This is the last day on earth that I will be able to say to the age old question, "How old are you?" and my reply being, "39."

Tonight, Pacific Standard Time, I will be posting my ROCKTOBER GIVE-AWAY post. You'll have 24 hours to comment . . . to win whatever I post about . . . winner announced some time on the 15th. I will mail to the winner this week . . . providing I get the address in time to do so . . . and I will mail anywhere in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, Canada . . . wherever. World-wide. And, if you live in a E.U. country, well, I will try to mail it in a manner you do not have to get it from the post and pay out a fee/fine for having a foreign packet. (my SIL sent a lovely parcel to Ireland and the gent had to cough up a exorbitant amount of dosh to retrieve it - impossibly ridiculous). Anyway, if there's any of that funny business going on, I will do what I can to avoid that for you.

I'm celebrating my 40th, and my first year in blogging. Won't you join me?
Yes, have a cuppa and slice of chocolate cake!