Peace of Mine with Home Security

I told you before that I worked for a home security firm before. And that it was great to be able to help people in a time of need. Well one of the things that really helped out was the signs that you get when you have a security system. Yes those alarms work! But having an ADT security sign on your window or by your front door is a great deterrent for would be thieves too! Yes they pay attention to those signs.

You see when someone is looking to break in they do not want to be caught! And knowing that a home is hooked up to a security system means that their chances of getting away scott free and not too good. So it is always best that they just move on. Actually I have heard that if too many security signs are in a neighborhood then they will just try another area all together.

Now do not be silly enough to think you can have a alarm system and signs that you do not have lock up your doors and windows. Be sure that you also join those neighborhood watch programs too. They are there for your safety as well as your neighbors. Teach your children to watch for strangers and make sure you take note of who is up and down your street as well. Security alarms are great for the job they do but they do not replace us being aware of our surroundings.

Just one previous city girl to y'all, it does not matter where you live we all must watch each other. It takes a village to raise a child and that same village cares for each other too!

First Day of College

Well the first day of college is coming up soon. And it does not matter if you 6 or 22 you still want to look your best when you show up that day. So of course we are shopping for "school" clothes. Now it is a lil different than when College Girl was young. First we are not in the metroplex anymore. And it is harder to find that just right look here in small town Texas. So you know us....off to the web we go. (What did we do before the www?)

First we found a hot hot hot pair of heels to trip around on. Yes, walk not fall!

They only have a 4" heel but with CG being 5'7" that will make here 5'11" and a sight to see. She has killer gams (legs to you young folk) with all the walking she does. And this summer whe actually wore shorts all summer so her legs are a beautiful golden color. This is the shoes she fell in love with on first sight. Look for free shipping here!

I Like:

Diva
by MIA

Next we have to have a dress. CG loves to wear black so we looked at those dresses exclusively. She has a great shape so A-line dresses always look really good on her. And all the curves that can be hugged will be. I do not know how she does it but CG has the flatest stomach I have ever seen. Lucky I guess! Well what do you think of this dress? Oh and we found free overnight shipping with the dresses here!

I Like:

Nikki's Lounge Dress
by Type Z

Now last but never least is the fun funky purse to pull the outfit together. CG found this one to her liking. Especially loved the great retro print on it. I am sure there will be plenty of space in this bag for all of the things CG carries around in her purse. I won't even go there myself....scary place. But honest, I think this purse will be a great conversation starter!
And again, that free shipping is an option!

I Like:

Calendar Girl North/South Tote
by Betseyville Handbags

So what do you think of her first day of "school" outfit? I think she will be killer. Of course she is CG, so that always makes her killer to me!

Life is a Circus

We had such a great time at Ringling Brothers Circus last night.

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I loved getting to go and enjoy my very first "Greatest Show on Earth"!
And it was well worth the wait.

Again I want to thank Nessa for including me and College Girl into her family outing.
That was very nice of her to ask her poor neighbor to join in!

And Dan again---you did a great job with all the driving of us women folks and kids. I appreciate that!

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I will not forget the lovely kids either, Tristen and Ashley both minded very well. This was an enjoyable trip. I was glad to be part of your family last night.

Now--the acts were beautiful. Oh how I loved seeing the Elephants. And the Tigers were so majestic too! Even the lil doggies were fun. Oh and don't forget the horse acts. All the animals were well groomed, looked well fed and behaved so tame. I had fun laughing at the clowns and gasping at the ariel acts. Wow what courage some people have!

But, yes there is a but...
PETA you do not have the right to scare small children into crying by using your bullhorn when you are not 4 ft away from those children. You was not asked by these parents to "teach" anything to their children. And you did not impress us with horrid stories of unkind acts when we saw how beautiful and well cared for all the animals were. PETA you only showed that your bullying tactics did not work last night. Yes you have your rights, but so did we. Sad we had to move and take our children elsewhere so they could quit crying from all your hollering in their ears with bullhorns. BAD FORM!

Art Give Away

Yes we are lucky enough to have another give away.

YIPPPEEE!

I know that everyone here loves a good ol give away.

And who would not love getting a special family treasure.

I know that for many years I did children's photography for a living.

And having photos of our kids is the fastest way to make any mom or dad happy.

So this time we are giving you---your kids or pets or sunrise or what ever you wish.

How? Well because your going to get a

Large Format Posters is the online printing website hosting this week’s giveaway. They are going to give one of my lucky readers Custom Poster Printing. Will that not be fantastic?

Large Format Posters loves photos as much as I do. If you don't believe that you should see my walls. They are ceiling to "couch" covered in photos.

From CRAZED MIND

Well, now is your chance to enlarge that special photo you’ve been wanting to display. The photo can be of anything you want, as long it will make you happy to see it enlarged! Large Format Posters are offering a free High-gloss or Semi-gloss 18x24" Digitally Printed Posters for one of my readers!

I am going to get one too!

Doesn't that make me a lucky woman. Well I think so. I am not sure what picture I am going to use just yet. There are so many to choose from.

From CRAZED MIND

This is some Granny M's beautiful flowers that she has grown in her garden.

From CRAZED MIND

Here is a very lovely church here in my town. I think it would make a beautiful piece on my wall.

From CRAZED MIND

Of course I would love another photo of my College Girl!

SO MAKE SURE YOU ENTER TOO!

You can enter the giveaway by leaving a comment telling me what photo you would have a Custom Poster Printing done.

You can also add extra ways to enter by blogging about this giveaway and leaving me a link in the comments.

Another entry will be to post this giveaway on Twitter. Make sure I know about it.

Send someone to my blog and they let me know and you get an extra entry.

OF COURSE make sure you are one of my Followers for an entry (post this please).

And if you have my button button who has the button on your blog use that as another extra entry (again please post on the comments).

So you can get 6 entries into this give away! Make sure you use them all.

Now for the fine print! Here are the details when the LUCKY one wins.

Blog Winner Poster Printing will be awarded by a coupon code on Friday August 7, 2009. The email sent out with the coupon code will also include directions on how to order. Make sure you have your high-resolution photo ready. SO be really sure I have a way of contacting you if you win. Giveaway is open to US/CAN residents. Ground shipping of prizes is free, but there is a $5 handling fee that must be paid by winner. Large Format Posters reserves the right not to print obscene or offensive materials. All designs submitted in the form of a giveaway may be used by Large Format Posters for online marketing and promotional uses. The designs will be used solely as examples and will not be printed or commercially distributed.

Going to the Big Top

Image by kReEsTaL via Flickr

Ringling Brothers Circus

Thanks Nessa for inviting me and College Girl to your party.
I am so excited that we are going to the Circus.
You know that this is the first time for me.
Of course CG is an ol hand at it.
But great day ahead and just RELAX!

Oh No, It Is Time for Decisions

Well Dear Hubby called me the other day with some heart stopping information.

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Oh yes, the dreaded LIFE INSURANCE questions.

He is shopping for life insurance quotes for him and me. Now I understand why we need to have life insurance. But it still has put me further into the middle age group. Not that I need any reminders of the gray hair I keep covering up with Ms. Clariol.

But to know it is time to be serious about our plans for our future is heart stopping. Life is no longer just the bowl of cherries but what to do with the pits too. I am sure we can find cheap life insurance that will fit into our really tight budget. And I know it is very important for us to have. Even more so with the multiple heart issues DH has. So keep your fingers crossed that you are not ready for the bigger decision. Like how to make choices as to your worth or what type of funeral plans we may need one day.

I'm Having a Heat Wave

I swear I am melting.
Honest!

I am not sure how we are going to handle August.
It is not just hot here but very humid too.

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I wear the least I can and still stay decent.
And of course all the doors and windows are open.

We did use the a/c one day this last month to make it more comfortable for some babies we were caring for. And just that one day raised our electric bill by $50.00. Yeah just one day!
Can you imagine what a whole month would be like?

I know that last few years if we used the a/c in the summer our electric bills were $500-$600. PER MONTH.
I know we can not afford that and that is the reason for the heat wave this summer.
But there has to be some sort of answer.

If only I could afford to have siding put on our old house for insulation.

Where Did You Get Those Peepers?

Time to save on eyeglasses. Yes there is a great way to save even here.

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You can buy stylish prescription glasses online from $8. There is a huge selection of frames, with single vision lens, sunsensor lens, tinted sunglasses lens, bifocal lens and progressive lens. The secret for these low prices is that they only sell their own manufactured frames.

Check it out here for yourself.

Complete Single Vision Eyeglasses starting at	$8.00
Complete Bi-Focal Eyeglasses Starting at	$25.00
Complete Progressive Eyeglasses starting at	$37.00
Anti Scratch coating	Free
UV protection	Free
Lens Edge polishing and Beveling	Free

Upgrades
Premium Photochromic lenses for (Clear indoors, darkens outdoors in sunlight )	$39.00
Upgrade to 1.61 index lenses for	$17.00
Upgrade to 1.67 index lenses for	$37.00
Premium anti reflective coating	$4.95
Sunglass color tint coating (7 available)	$4.95

And shipping and handling is a flat rate of $4.95 per order, no matter how many glasses you ordered. Pretty impressive? I think so.

I know that this whole house hold has to wear glasses. When you have to purchase 4 or more pair a year then it adds up to $1,000.00 or more a year. Cut that down to $77.00 a year for 4 of us. That is a savings of $933.00 a year. Believe you me that kind of savings adds up before you can sneeze. Heck it is a vacation in itself. SO....make sure you pop over to pick out your glasses online.

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Travels to the Good Ol Days

There was a time that traveling was a romantic quest. You would save up, have that amazing

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trunk that would follow you around the world and be off on that ship to never never land.
You know how George Baily dreamed of all those stickers from exotic lands to be gracing the trunk he had chosen.

But now, traveling is quite simple. You just pick up your roll on luggage and go. It has helped with the airline business to be able to take your hartmann luggage right on the plane with you. Of course for those long long trips you will still have to check you tumi luggage in. It really helps to be able to store your briggs and riley luggage in each other when your at home too. I know that we used a small roll on suitcase for my college girl when she was in high school. It replaced her backpack and made it so much easier on her tiny back then lugging all that weight around. School officials did not like that much but with a note from her doctor (easy to get) they had to let her use it instead of damaging her back. So do you still have an old steamer trunk? Or do you go light and easy with your stream lined luggage?

Piggy Paint Winner

Piggy Paint is so awesome that one of you will get $20 to pick out some cool Piggy Paint polish for a sweet girl in your life! Pretty cool huh?!? Want to win it?? Here's how:Lynette, CRAZED MIND: Piggy Paint Giveaway, Jul 2009

Well I did a random number generator tonight and came up with number 17. SO off I went to look up who it would be and low and behold it was my very own College Girl....

Denea said... 17

Favorite colors are ice cream dream, glass slippers, mac-n-cheese please, and tea party for two.

Well, it seems she did right to enter on my give away. Now we will have a toe nail painting party when she gets back to college next month. Great Job Denea!

Happy Birthday Emma

This last weekend was College Girl's lil sister's 3rd birthday.
I know that does not make sense to some, but on with the story.

We were so thrilled to be able to give her some gifts that spoke to the child's nature. She is a lover of animals and plants. A natural when it comes to being a farm girl. Of course she is stuck in town but they are working on a farm right there. Honest, her family has a large garden, fruit trees of all kinds planted and all the dogs, cats and rabbits a lil girl could want.

So we decided to get her a bird feeder for her birthday. We looked at hummingbird feeders

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since it is so fun to watch them flit around. But we decided on a regular bird feeder with seed. Well this was a good idea since she received 4 lil chickens as gifts. Yeah, I said chickens. They gave them some of the bird food we had supplied for the bird feeder to feed the chickens til they make it to the feed store. Yeah I thought of the lil lady so happy to see hummingbirds flying around her yard or watching a beautiful red cardinal eating from the feeder. Never did I imagine she would be out calling "Here Chick, Chick, Chick!"

Oh and she also was given two baby goats the day after her birthday. OH MY!
I still think that I am going to go for the hummingbird feeder for her. I know that she will enjoy seeing them just as much as all of the other barn yard animals.

Piggy Paint Giveaway Last Day

I am getting to do a Piggy Paint giveaway! I have seen Piggy Paint giveaways, tried
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to win Piggy Paint giveaways and now instead I get to have one of my own. I am so excited. I adore all the fun colors that Piggy Paint has to offer. Have you seen them? I love the bright colors in blues, oranges, yellows and of course my signature color of Pink! And best of all Piggy Paint is the safest choice for children. Lynette says to pop over to, CRAZED MIND: Piggy Paint Giveaway, Jul 2009

You should read the whole article. Today is the last day to enter!

The Glow of the Blue Light Special

Kmart Bluelight Specials are back! We thought they had left us but we were all wrong. Once again we can bask in the glow of the. . .

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Bluelight Specials!

- This is a one day only sale, July 25th, where you can get Special offers throughout the day on everything from patio furniture, to grills, to jewelry... all at Kmart Bluelight Special prices!

- Did you know that there will be over 40 great Kmart Bluelight Specials throughout July 25th, in-store. Other great offers will also be on the web at kmart.com only on this Saturday the 25th of July.

- Make sure you follow on Twitter @kmartdealsnnews for updates and more specials!

One of the deals you will find is the 2-day Christmas Lane event going on July 24-25 only, at www.kmart.com/christmaslane - great deals on shipping!

Another great lil special just in time for back to school is

Free Scissors Coupon for Back to School!!!

To print savings reward to use in-store, click here.

There is also a $5.00 off of any $50,00 purchase.

Click here to print coupon with bar code to use in-store!

It seems that Kmart is getting back into the saving game. It will be so good to have the help in savings during these hard times. This is just what is needed by so many families. So are you ready for your Kmart Bluelight Specials?

Time to Take the Bat Away

Does your mailbox look like this one?

If you live in the country like I do then it just might.

We have "lovely lil boys" around here who think taking a baseball bat to a mailbox is extreme fun.

Of course it does not make the home owner very happy!

So there are times you just have to go out and get new Mailboxes .

At least with these mail boxes you don't have to worry about being bashed or taken advantage of. That would be worth so much when those "cute loving boys" come around again.
Have you ever had this happen to you? What did you do? Is there a solution other than getting a post office box? I would like to solve this problem. And I know that kids get bored around here but I don't need my mailbox to be the result.

Be-Bop to the Blog Hop

What is Blog Hop '09 you ask? It's this great idea that Robin of Pensieve & Musings of a Housewife thought up so that all of us not hitting Chi-town for BlogHer can party from home. You get to hop around, find new blogs, and meet lots of new friends. How cool is that?! Want to join the fun? Just click on the graphic above!

They are keeping this short and sweet so we can get right to it! If you haven't yet checked out the Blog Hop FAQs, be sure to do so to maximize your Blog Hop experience (and to discover some fabulous giveaways!). Details on how to win the giveaways will be posted at Pensive Me, but keep in mind you must have the Blog Hop '09 posted in your sidebar to be eligible :).
And because we all want to support the entire blogging community--and for this week in particular, bloggers who weren't able to make it to BlogHer in Chicago--check out these alternate venues for mixing and mingling blogging style.

SEE YOU AT THE HOP

Hi Blog Hoppers! Thanks for stopping by! I'm Lynette and I've been blogging for about lil while now. Here at CRAZED MIND, I write about a little bit of everything: life, small town Texas life, the adventures of being a SAHM, product & web reviews, giveaways, College Girl, Dear Hubby and Granny M, just whatever pops into my head. I am so glad you stopped by! I look forward to finding some great blogs to read during the hop & to making new friends! Enjoy the hopping!

Piggy Paint $20 Give Away ends July 26th.
Don't forget to use your coupon code of CRAZEDMIND15L for another 15% off expiration September 15, 2009.

No Day Present for the EX?

My ex-hubby and my College Girls dad is a big time football fan. CG was wanting to get him

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something really amazing this year for his no day present. I suggested she should look into some football tickets. CG was online searching when she asked should she get Baltimore Ravens Tickets or Dallas Cowboys Tickets or Green Bay Packers tickets. Now I thought this was a real "DUH" moment for her. I know that she was not sitting in front of the television all those times he was screaming at it. But we did move here from Dallas/Ft Worth. SO, I would assume she would think of the Dallas Cowboys Tickets first. But not in her head. She was looking at the idea of who they would be playing against. Now, I never thought of that one. "DUH" me! Of course I would always try and get tickets against the Redskins just because I know it would really get to the ex if the Redskins won. Ain't I bad????

It is not that I do not want her dad to enjoy his no day present. It is just that he is still my EX. When do you drop that part out of your thoughts? Well maybe he will enjoy his tickets. I know that it would be an amazing surprise for him. So I wonder what game he will get to see this year?

Pages

Peace of Mine with Home Security

First Day of College

Life is a Circus

Art Give Away

Going to the Big Top

Ringling Brothers Circus

Oh No, It Is Time for Decisions

I'm Having a Heat Wave

Where Did You Get Those Peepers?

Travels to the Good Ol Days

Piggy Paint Winner

Happy Birthday Emma

Piggy Paint Giveaway Last Day

The Glow of the Blue Light Special

Bluelight Specials!

Free Scissors Coupon for Back to School!!!

Time to Take the Bat Away

Be-Bop to the Blog Hop

No Day Present for the EX?

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