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Thank you to everyone who took part in our very first BlogHer@Home, both attendees and sponsors.  We were lucky to have an amazing group of people who participated and we had such a great time putting it on.  Hopefully we’ll be able to make next year even better.

A special thank you to the Room 704 ladies for organizing (and packaging, and shipping) the swag bags.  We love you guys.

I know you guys have been chomping at the bit to get the ‘official’ winners list, so without further ado, here it is:

• Apron Frenzy – One-of-a-kind floral half-apron  -  Kristen
• Common Cents – $20 Amazon Gift Card  - redhead.kate
• Fertility Stories – 10 sets of 5 pairs of pearl earrings – TheMaggers, Ladybugsgrama, Layla, thepsychobabble, Sarah, Jaime, HeartMyChloe, Christi, uthostage, Ali
• Temptation Designs – Custom Blog Header – Sara
• Little Alouette – Handmade Wooden Teething Toy – Averygoodyear and AmyElk
• Johnson Originals – Glass Pendant Necklace - Leslie
  
• Sara’s Drink Pendant Necklace – TheMaggers
• Ali’s $50 Starbuck’s Gift Card – Messponential
• Deb Rox – 5 Ways to {Blank} Your Blog book AND authentic BlogHer Swag – PickleSugarPlum
• Danny Evans signed, pre-release copy of his book RAGE Against the Meshugenah – steenface
• Dine Without Whine Lifetime Membership – Shannon
• Southern Monkey Designs – Custom Fabric Blocks – Masmom
• Friends of Maddie Dell Netbook – Yvonne

A huge thank you (and lots of love) to everyone who took part.

that’s right, TONIGHT as in THURSDAY eve.  race out to the liquor store immediately after reading this post, stock up on your snacks, and get ready to rock this bitch TONIGHT AT 9 PM EST.

{Note from Jenn:  Yeah, I know we said we were going to launch tomorrow. We couldn’t wait to start giving stuff away (and the tweets and emails asking when we were going to launch and could we do it soon were getting to be a bit much).  So Nic and I moved things up to tonight}

here’s how we’re launching yo….  we’re going all tinychat style on your asses…  so tonight at the designated time mentioned above (9 PM EST for those of you who missed it already) log in to http://www.tinychat.com/bhah09 and you will find your’s truly as well as jenn rockin out our pjs and starting our giveaways.

we will be giving away 5 items tonight folks…  danny’s book RAGE Against the Meshugenah will be the first item to go, followed by our first of TWO sets of pearl earrings to giveaway, a luscious $50 giftcard to starbucks courtesy of ali, and ending with saucy sara’s drinky-poo pendant.  go BIG or go home folks!  (oh wait, we are at home…)

GET YOUR COMMENTS IN NOW!!!  (if you haven’t already done so.)  we will be closing comments as soon as we launch this evening’s kick off chat.

Another Jenn note: No you don’t need to be online tonight to win, but wouldn’t it be da bomb to be the first to find out you’ve won?  Like for reals?

in addition to launching this drunken home haze of our’s, jenn and i will be providing you with a full schedule of events for the coming weekend.  so pay attention and don’t get too drunk…  or…  get drunk and recheck the schedule tomorrow.

aside from being scared shitless, jenn and i are both so unbelievably stoked about launching Blogher@Home.  we are proud of our little baby here, and have gotten so much awesome support from so many people.

THANK YOU!

word on the street is that the peeps who are in chicago will be hearing where the locale is for BlogHer 2010 will be, and tickets will then go on sale.

CRIKEY! (did i spell that right? it looks weird to me.)

this means a couple of things for jenn and myself… it means that we’d lurve a little sponsorship to attend BlogHer 2010 (hint hint wink wink) and it also means that we will be looking for hosts for Blogher@Home 2010.  that way you don’t have to look at our stinken faces, nor hear our drunken voices two years in a row via tinychat.

so…  what have we learned here????

1) BlogHer@Home launches TONIGHT at 9 pm EST

2) go to http://www.tinychat.com/bhah09 to find jenn and nic.

3) buy booze

4) our first 5 giveaways will be TONIGHT, get comments in NOW

5) jenn and nic would like sponsors for BlogHer 2010 puhlease

6) buy booze

ok….  class dismissed!  see ya tonight!

I’m not a great cook. There.  I said it.  Oh, it’s not that what I do make tastes awful or anything.  I can just never figure out what to make.  I spend half an hour before dinner each day staring in  the fridge (hoping something will jump out at me?)…then wandering to the pantry and staring intently at the shelves before wandering back to the fridge.

I’ve tried those meal planning calendars where you write down what you’re having each day, but I still struggle with that.  I lack the inspiration.  Even flipping through my numerous recipe books often results in a hastily prepared casserole because I lack the ingredients for anything better.

Enter Dine Without Whine. Founder Christine Steendahl has created a meal planning service especially for parents with kids.  No fancy, impossible ingredients that you’ve never heard of, let alone know how to prepare.  You get good, wholesome meals, and your family isn’t forced to eat Kraft Dinner for the third night in a row because you’re too exhausted to come up with anything better (not that that has EVER happened at my house… nope…never)

Every week, Dine Without Whine, emails you, not only a menu and recipes, but a full shopping list.  Doesn’t get any easier.

If you’re like me, you’ve checked out other menu planning services. But when I get to their sample menus my inner monologue sounds a bit like “Wouldn’t eat it, wouldn’t eat it, DEFINTELY wouldn’t eat it, don’t know what the hell that is, ummm, yeah, I guess that one might be OK”

So when I checked out the sample menus for Dine Without Whine, I was pleasantly surprised.  There was not one meal on there I wouldn’t make.  Seriously.

Here’s the best part.  Christine is offering one lucky BlogHer@Home attendee a LIFETIME membership to Dine Without Whine.

Yeah.  Lifetime.  As in, FREE FOREVER.  As in, you’re going to be the Mom that all the other kids want as their mom because you make the best meals.

Here’s how it can be yours:

• Leave a comment (any comment will do!) = 1 entry
• Visit Dine Without Whine and tell us what your favorite meal, from their sample meals, is= 1 entry
• What are your family dinner time challenges?  Tell us about it = 1 entry
• Follow BlogHerAtHome and Dine Without Whine on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway (leave us a comment with the link to the tweet)= 1 entry

UPDATED:  Congrats to steenface, winner of Danny Evans new book RAGE Against the Meshugenah

in exactly 14 days, RAGE Against the Meshugenah, authored by my favorite “neutered jew,” (his words, not mine) , Danny Evans will be released.  some of you may already be familiar with his brilliance from his blog DadGoneMad.com and some of you may just be wading in the shallow depths of his hilarity.

i urge you to dive in.  both feet.  now.

here is what i can personally vouch for…

• danny = good people, really good people, salt of the earth.
• RAGE will rock your world, seriously the whole world that you currently exist in.
• no one on the face of this planet is capable of writing about battling depression, and making their readers piss in their pants with laughter like this man… brilliant, i tell you.  fucking brilliant.
• danny and RAGE saved my marriage.

he is giving away a signed copy of his book to Blogher@Home, his masterpiece pre-release!

it’s only fitting that this magnificent man, has offered ONE signed copy of RAGE to ONE lucky winner.  (i mean c’mon, this is pre-release.  let us not be greedy.  simply pre-order at amazon if you haven’t already.)

Here’s how you can get it:

• Leave a comment briefly discussing NOT your sob story regarding depression, but your strength in overcoming it, especially through laughter = 1 entry
• Follow BlogHerAtHome and Danny on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway (leave us a comment with the link to the tweet)= 1 entry

THIS POST IS NSFW

my husband flies planes for the navy.  he has been deployed…  MULTIPLE TIMES (pun intended).  and that’s when my dear friend (whose name i shall not mention) introduced me to the vibrator.  YES!!!  THE VIBRATOR!!!  THE SILVER BULLET!!!!  and oh sweet jesus did it worked it’s wonderous magic for the 6 months (x 3) that he was gone.

so…  hub still flies planes, though is not currently deployed.  (WOO!  THANKS BARRACK!)  anyway, point being that BlogHer begins this coming weekend and there will be sex toys -a-plenty with you kinky, crazy, lovely, lovas out there.

and why shouldn’t those of us at home (or in my case, at a wedding) miss out on all the fun?!?!

thus, i direct you to maria’s post where she descriptively tells you how to have a party in your pants…  pre-cocktail, post-cocktail, even during cocktail….  as long as there’s a smile on your gorgeous face.  :)

enjoy maria’s post…  enter to win THE GREEN SHAFT (only for folks who are NOT going to BlogHer ’09 in Chicago) and shake your groove thang!!!

GET IT, GURL!!!!!!!!

UPDATE:  Comments are now closed.  We will be drawing for the Netbook tonight (Sunday July 26, 2009) at 7pm MST / 9pm EST on live chat

To help celebrate the launch of Friends of Maddie, our wonderful friends at Intel have provided  TWO Dell Mini 10 Netbooks to give to give away!

(What’s the difference between a netbook and a laptop? Here’s a handy guide)

There will be running two separate opportunities to win each Dell Netbook.

*DUE TO SOME ISSUES WITH PAYMENT PROCESSING WE HAVE RESTRUCTURED OUR GIVEAWAYS*

BlogHer@Home Giveaway

To win , all you need to do is leave a comment, on this page, with your name and Twitter id (if you have one). Use a valid email address. One comment per person will be accepted. Additional comments will be deleted.  Comments will be closed at Saturday, July 25th at midnight Pacific Time.

*If you previously donated prior to the Netbook sweepstakes rule change, you are still eligible to leave a comment. As a bonus, we will also double the number of entries you previously had. So if you donated $10, you will now receive four entries into the giveaway for the Netbook, rather than two.*

Because this is really all about launching our Friends of Maddie Non-Profit Organization, we are still gratefully accepting donations. Each donation you make allows us to achieve our mission – to support families supporting their critically ill babies. It takes $25 to fund each Family Support Pack. Our goal is to, one day, have them in each NICU in the country. For any donation you make, please leave an additional comment! Donations can be made at the Friends of Maddie site here.

Contest Rules:

The winner of the BlogHer @ Home giveaway will receive a Dell Mini 10 in the color of their choice. The giveaway is open to individuals worldwide who are NOT in attendance at BlogHer ‘09 in Chicago. The winner will be selected on Sunday, July 26th and the winner will be contacted via email. They will have until Tuesday, July 28th to respond to the email announcing that they are the winner. If we do not hear from the winner by July 28th, we will pick a new winner on July 29th. Winner will be chosen using Random.org. The winner will be contacted by a representative from Friends of Maddie and Intel, and the Dell Mini will be shipped directly to the address provided by the winner. No purchase is necessary to win. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received.

If you’re attending BlogHer, please visit March for Maddie for your opportunity to win a Netbook.

ok, so 5 days out of the country and on a luxurious cruise with my bro left me entirely out of the loop in terms of BlogherAtHome, and i apologize for that sweet homies.  i know jenn and others have been holding down the fort in my absence… and doing a fanfuckingtastic job, right?  :)

so, time (for me at least) is going by waaaaaaay too quickly.  i have an inbox that has nearly exceeded its limit (i didn’t even know they could do that) and my feedburner is on fucking fire.  that’s what i get for being out of touch for 5 days.

before i left, last week, jenn and i were asked to be a part of the MOST incredible project on the face of the planet… and no, it does not include anything related to michael jackson or asking usher to sing to MJ again while stroking his coffin.  nor does it include al sharpton.  so cheers to that!

so much awesomeness has been going on with BlogherAtHome that i find myself entirely overwhelmed with gratitude for the support we’ve gotten, whether it be in terms of swag, tweets to jenn and i just saying “thanks for doing this,” or meghan and heather contacting us about friendsofmaddie.org

i guess the lesson in all of this is that i need to leave the country more often and indulge in more umbrella drinks, cuz when i do, shit actually gets done.  :)  so a big ol’ WOOT WOOT to jenn and company for kicking some major ass over the last week.

so, i tweeted with jenn yesterday from the miami airport, asking what i need to do to get back into the swing of things with this…  her answer was “post something about how the hell you’re going to BlogherAtHome from a wedding.”

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

well………..  paul and i arrive in birmingham this coming friday night, just in time for my college roommate’s rehearsal dinner.  we will attend that, and at whatever hour of the night we get back to our hotel room, i plan on logging on to skype (ps: my skype name is mybottlesup) and finding out who is where and drinking what.  i think skype will prob be my best method of communicating with you folks when i’m in the hotel.  at the wedding reception saturday, i’ll have my phone with me where i can log in, twitter, send obnoxious twitpics, and possibly flash a bewbie or even two.  :)~

as far as the swag and giveaways go….  my faith and trust is in jenn.  come sunday, i will return home and we can discuss who won what and begin that whole process of getting your shits sent out to y’all.

basically time just will NOT slow down for me.   but that’s ok.  i’m runnin with it… sprinting even!  awesome things are happening, awesome people are gathering, and the overall awesomeness will continue…

what are your plans?  will you truly be joining BlogherAtHome from home?  will you be elsewhere like me?  will you skype?  twitter?  log in to the site?  find a way for us to chat?

I am a tinkerer. I’m always looking for new and wonderful ways to improve my blog.  I’ll add here, remove there, change this, alter that.  So one of my top books on my summer reading list is Deb Rox’s (she blogs at Deb on the Rocks and celebrates blogger’s birthdays at Hot Blog Stars) new book “5 Ways to {Blank} Your Blog“.  It has been getting RAVE reviews from everyone who’s seen it.

So when I opened my email and saw an email from Deb saying “Hey, I have a copy of my book for you guys to give away to your BlogHer@Home attendees”, I was literally bouncing up and down.

But of course, Deb doesn’t do anything by halves.

Not only is she going to send one lucky winner this fantastic book, but she’s throwing in real, honest to goodness, BlogHer swag.  That’s right people.  All of you peeps who have been writing and asking how you can get your hands on some of the goodness that the conference attendees get… This is how.

Deb’s bringing one of these boxes that can ship all you can cram in it for $13.95, and she’s going to cram it full of swag for one very lucky winner. There will be swag from parties, the expo floor, the registration bag.  And if you’re really lucky you might even get things like a Backpacking Dad’s cocktail napkin and a lock of hair from The Bloggess‘ confidence wig.  It will be like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Blog Swag, delivered to your door.  Oh, and if the winner get us your address right away, Deb will ship the whole thing from Chicago, while she’s there.  That’s how authentic this swag is going to be.

So here’s how to get your hot copy of 5 Ways to {Blank} Your Blog and some REAL BlogHer swag:

• Leave a comment (any comment will do!) = 1 entry
• Visit Deb’s blog, Deb on the Rocks, and tell us what your favorite post is= 1 entry
• If you could change anything on your blog, what would it be?  Tell us about it = 1 entry
• Follow BlogHerAtHome and Deb on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway (leave us a comment with the link to the tweet)= 1 entry

Can’t wait and want Deb’s book now?  You can find it on Amazon.com!

UPDATED:  Congrats to our winner Colleen

One of the coolest things I love about blogging, twittering, and the like, is getting to know some amazing new people.  I really have this huge supportive group of friends around me on the interweb and I appreciate each and every one of them.

People like Ali.  We started chatting a few months back and immediately clicked.  I couldn’t tell you exactly why.  Maybe it was her horror when I told her my favorite Starbucks drink was a Java Chip Frap (after she looked up the calorie and fat content – which I refuse to look at.  I like my dessert in a cup, thank you very much), or her subsequent addiction to them.  Perhaps it was the mutual desire to bang our head repeatedly against a wall after one of *those* days with the kids.  Or maybe it was just because I find her really funny and sweet.

Whatever it was, I’m really glad that I’ve made a new friend like her.  It doesn’t matter that we’ve never met in person (or if we ever meet for that matter).  Sometimes these type of friendships transcend the physical realms and exist happily in the lands of Twitter and Facebook.  That doesn’t make her any less of a friend.  I love being able to catch up with her with a simple email, or tweet, or heading over to her blog, My Life With Them and hearing about the latest exploits of her two boys.

That’s why I think BlogHer@Home is so much fun.  It doesn’t matter that we can’t be there in person.  What matters is that we’ll still all be able to get together, in our way, and get to know each other a little better (so that when we DO make it to BlogHer next year, we’ve already got lasting friends waiting to meet us).

So in honor of BlogHer, friends, and bonding over Starbucks drinks, my good friend Ali has an awesome giveaway for BlogHer@Home.

A $50 Starbucks gift card.

Yeah.  I know.  Life doesn’t get much better than $50 of FREE Starbucks.  *swoon*

Any questions about why I think Ali is the mostest awesomest now??  Yeah, I didn’t think so.

And the fact that she’s skinny, exceedingly rich, and her kids are perfect, doesn’t hurt either.  Oh, who are we kidding… well one out of three ain’t bad, right?  (I’ll let you figure out which one)

So, on to the good stuff… here’s how $50 worth of Starbucks can be yours:

• Leave a comment (any comment will do!) = 1 entry
• Visit Ali’s Blog and tell us what your favorite post is= 1 entry
• Have you made an amazing connection or friendship over Twitter?  Tell us about it = 1 entry
• Follow BlogHerAtHome and Ali on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway (leave us a comment with the link to the tweet)= 1 entry

I’ll be waiting for my Java Chip Frap to arrive by mail from the winner.

UPDATE: Congrats to our winner – TheMaggers

Give it up for our Master Bartender and Mixologist, Sara!

Not only is she creating the best drinks around (seriously, my husband and I are addicted to her cappucino martini.  I’ve had so much esspresso from drinking them I don’t think I’ve slept in 2 weeks), but she also writes a mean blog entry.  You can find her over at ‘Tom the girl‘ telling it like it is.  And we get the bonus of sweet pics of her babay girl!

But, never content to just rest on her laurels, now she’s found the perfect giveaway for her BlogHer@Home peeps!

Check this out.  Pretty, isn’t it.  (yet another giveaway I want, but can’t have.  You guys are sooooo lucky).

And of course, what else would our favorite drink master give away but a beautiful martini pendant necklace.  Loves it!!  What a find!

Here’s how you can get it:

• Leave a comment (any comment will do!) = 1 entry
• Visit Sara’s blog and tell us what your favorite post is= 1 entry
• Tell us what your favorite Sara drink is, or let us know if there’s one you think she should create = 1 entry
• Follow BlogHerAtHome and Sara on Twitter and Tweet about this giveaway (leave us a comment with the link to the tweet)= 1 entry