Happy Dance Time!

Do you believe in miracles? Well, I'm here to tell you, that one has occurred! See this?

As UNBELIEVABLE as it is, I have to announce that I have F-I-N-A-L-L-Y WON A BLOGGING GIVEAWAY! I have never won anything in my entire life except the scratch off games at McDonald's, and when I was in high school, I won $25 from a local radio station. It was so shocking, that at my 20th class reunion, a guy came up to me and told me he remembered them calling out my name on the radio. I can't even usually get a free balloon at a restaurant...it's that bad. So, come along, and I'll show you what I won!

Erin @ Tresors Marche (sorry I don't know how to type those accents over your letters, Erin!) recently notified me that I had won the September 2008-January 2009 issues of Romantic Home magazine. That is right up my alley because that is the one (still existing) magazine to which I don't subscribe...but probably should! So thanks, Erin! I will SO enjoy reading them....if I can make myself put this computer down and stop reading every one's blogs! :O)

Notice how she wrapped them up for me! She also sent along a nice mug and a box of tea! Could it get any better? The magazines wouldn't lie flat on my table for me, so I borrowed Erin's photo so you could see them. I love their covers already! Can't wait to take a lookie!

Erin is a relatively new west coast blogger, and I know you'll enjoy her blog. Please stop by and meet her. I know you're going to love her too! Thanks, Erin! You made my week!

Changing subjects, my parents came to visit us over the weekend, and I have been majorly behind in posting some things, so I want to take this opportunity to thank Lori at Basketball, Gymnastics and Me for giving me the Best Blog Daily Thinker Award!

Honestly, that makes me chuckle because I'm SO not a good thinker! :O) Let's pretend that's the smoke coming out of my head when I'm trying to come up with a post!

Now for the rules:

The rules are to post it on your blog and pass it on to 10 other deserving bloggers. There are so many great bloggers, and you ALL KNOW WHO YOU ARE, so I've decided to let you just grab it from my blog because I think YOU'RE ALL SWELL! Thanks Lori, for passing along this award to me! I really appreciate it! :O)

Finally, I think my hair stylist must have bribed someone at Google to mess with Blogger because it has been giving me gray hairs the last few days. I have noticed that the Blogger gremlin has been messing things up in various ways, just to keep my life interesting...and ANNOYING! I have to join Nikki Crumpet in saying that I am NOT A FAN of word verifications. I don't really believe that typing 6 or so letters deters any spammer from leaving spam, and if I didn't type really fast, I probably wouldn't bother typing those letters. But, I respect people's right to use it if they so choose. For those that do, I just want you to know that I have attempted to leave several comments, and then word verification comes up, and says Loading, but the words never load, and my comment will not post because it doesn't show me any letters to type to verify. So, if you're noticing that your comment number is lower than usual, that could be why!

Thanks for stopping by today! I also want to thank Carolina Mama for interviewing me for her post yesterday! I've never done one of those (other than memes), so I am honored! And to the cutest little Ashley on the block, I haven't forgotten your tag, or to K.K., I haven't forgotten to send you the chocolate brown paint photos! I hope to get my I Wonder Wednesday post ready for tomorrow. Y-I-K-E-S! If anyone wants to play along, just leave me a comment!