Sweepsland Haul

I spend a good deal of April in Sweepsland. I won 7 different prizes. The best thing I won was a free bag of cat food for Bailey. I also won some CDs and DVDs--which I will attempt to sell on eBay. I got pretty obsessive about trying to enter every contest. I'm tired of all the time and effort it takes. I didn't win any great prizes. I have other things I should be doing, so I'm going to step away from Sweepsland for a while. A bunch of the giveaways I entered don't end until later this month, so I might still win some prizes this month.

Sweepsland

I won a few things from Lucky Magazine and a couple of other places. I kept entering the Lucky giveaways, then moved on to other magazines, and now I've totally gotten sucked into sweepsland. I enter at least 50 giveaways a day. I've become totally obsessed.

I like to enter giveaways for kitchen things--hello, give me a new kitchen aid mixer! And I like to enter to win ipads and kindles. Hey, I want one, but I don't want to pay for it.

I'll keep my fingers crossed. If I don't win anything by July 1st I'm going to cut down and just go back to entering Lucky Magazine giveaways.

Weight Loss Challenge -- 6 week weigh in

Today was the 6 week weigh in for my weight loss challenge. I won! I lost 8 pounds in 6 weeks, so I won 75 bucks. Most days I was able to keep my calories in check, and I've been able to figure out how to work 110g of protein into my diet each day. I've been doing the firm work outs and going to yoga regularly. I have lost inches, but I'm still not at my peak. I'd like to lose about 10 more pounds. My copies of p90x are messed up, so I haven't been doing those. I just need to keep up eating right and doing other work outs. I've agreed to continue the 30-40-30 diet through April with Val. If I keep up with things that long I'm sure I can lose the 10 pounds.

Minted Personalized Paper Stuff

I won again! I won a $250 dollar shopping spree on Minted.com from Lucky magazine.  Minted has all sorts of personalized paper goods. I love paper. Not as much as I love cake, but I do love me some paper. I liked the personalized journals they offered, so I bought a load of them and a set of personalized cards. And, I managed to share....I didn't get them all with my name on them. The cards are mine, and so are a couple of the journals, but the rest of the journals I got for Ross and some friends and family. Ethan's turned out great. I can't wait to send them to him. I'm tickled pink with my loot. It's the best prize I've won so far.

If you join minted now they will give you $25 toward your first purchase. Also, shipping is very reasonable.

And I won again!

I checked my phone messages and I had a message from Sizzling Bombay that I won a 20 dollar gift certificate. Funny thing is that Ross won too! Ross says with all this luck I need to buy a lotto ticket.

I won! Again!

I enter to win freebies at Lucky Magazine and Glamour Magazine. I received an email the other day saying I'd won a year long subscription to yogavibes.com through a promotion with Lucky Magazine. Yogavibes sent me a special code and now I can watch/do a yoga class any time I want. I tried it out for the fist time today. So far it doesn't seem like yogavibes has a whole lot of videos, but the did have two Iyengar style videos. I tried the first Iyengar video today. I really put a lot of effort into it, so I got a little sweaty. The teacher was a little annoying (but who doesn't annoy me?) She kept dropping the last a on all the asanas. So she would say Tadasin instead of Tadasana. It was irksome, like when people drop the -ly at the end of an adverb. (Ross passed on that pet peeve to me.)

I'm not sure how much I will use this service, but it is cool to have won something. And maybe it will help me get back in shape.

I won! I won!

On Memorial day we went to the mall. I went into Aveda to get a free sample and also some shampoo. When I was checking out they asked me if I wanted to enter to win an Aveda gift basket. The dollar entry would go to charity. I saw the reusable bag and decided to enter. I figured that alone was worth a dollar.

Just a couple of days later I received a call letting me know that I won the gift basket! Me! I was over the moon when I found out that I won the Caribbean body scrub. Ross and I love the way it smells. I also won a shampure candle, a hair tie, a chakra body mist, natural cleaning products, foot relief and a hair mask. Hand relief and some other sun care products were also included--I gave them to Valerie. I think I may put on some of that foot relief tonight. My heels are a little ashy.