Enter the Netflix Greatest Kiss Challenge Video Contest

Who is a good kisser? Ok, put your hands back down on the keyboard…Both hands…

Netflix has a cool contest…the Greatest Kiss Challenge…I’ll bet some of you could enter. And win a trip to VEGAS…they are looking for people like you and me to recreate famous (or not so famous) kissing scenes from movies…I pulled these off the internet…

or this one…

Seriously…there are only about 40 or so entries so far… VEGAS BABY! What have you got to lose???  If you make one post it here, we’d love to see it! 

I’m a Radio Show Host

Don’t laugh..ok, laugh if you must…I may be just a little crazy…

Forget Photoshop – Rodan + Fields is Workin Me Over

I’ll be honest. Photoshop is good for more than just moving my head around on peoples bodies. When I post a photo, I retouch it just a little to remove some of those age spots that makeup just won’t cover. A little filter here, a little highlight there and I’m not exactly Cindy Crawford, but you get the picture.

Quit staring at her boobs…I’m not talking about those…although…

I soak up the sun. Not in a good way. There are family photos taken after beach vacations that would have you questioning my national origin. I don’t even look like their mother.

I heard about a company called Rodan + Fields from Jessica Smith (her blog Jessica Knows is awesome if you don’t already read it)  Named for Dr. Katie Rodan and Dr. Kathy Fields, world-renowned dermatologists. Rodan + Fields used to be available at the beauty counters in high-end department stores.  Now they are taking a new approach and products are available through consultants. They have several regimens to choose from including ones for sensitive skin, problem breakouts, and a microdermabrasion.

I’m workin’ the Reverse  and Anti – Aging together.

Tell me about it.  I need all the help I can get.

I signed up as a consultant, but I’m not a party thrower.  I’ve done that…did any of you ever go to a Multiples at Home fashion show?  I have to post some pics… 10 outfit changes in an hour.  Not doing it again.  My plan, with the help of Jessica and her team is to blog skincare, vlog skincare, and podcast skincare.

I know, I’m not even going to rub anything on peoples’ faces.  I’ll let the web do that.  Here is a little bit about the RFRockstars…the group Jessica has put together…take it away, Jessica!

“This is really exciting for me too as I am really passionate about helping other people build their business using social media, blogging, and conversation so it’s a great fit. In fact, our team, the RFRockstars, is already starting to take off. We’ll be offering before/after photos and videos, we’ll be vlogging our experiences with the products, and we’ll be sharing our stories, both business-wise and beauty-wise on a soon to be launched RFRocktars radio show with free podcasts available.”

I told you she is cool…if you would like to hear more…check out some of the online literature, fill out the form here…or email me…  If you want to hear about a different approach to direct sales, this is the place to start.  Simple to start and income possibilities like crazy…

Here’s Cindy, I mean Linda before:

Now that I’ve scared away half of my readers and the other half are sticking around for the freak show, lets see if we can turn back the hands of time…

Change is good…and so is the Digi Contest!

Short Pump Preppy

We are getting close to the end of the competition and we have some really cute entries. I know a few more are coming…there is still time to squeak something in there.

I’m going through some growing pains in a few days.

Yes, I have been eating a lot, but that’s a different story.

I am switching over to Wordpress on or around the 28th and you may see some changes…don’t be scared. It is still me and the contest is still going on.

I’m taking a design class and I need a project to play with for my designs…so I’m creating my own playground. Humor me. I really don’t have a life other than blogging.

So make sure you get the entries at least emailed to me by the 31st…even if the Linky isn’t working. All your entries that are emailed will count. linneyshvede at gmail dot com

And wish me luck…I’m a coed now…pulling all nighters, hanging out with the sorority sisies , oh, and the keggers…

Not really, it’s online, so

just a bunch of geeks like me. I need another reason for the kids to give me a hard time.

Triaminic Develops Sick Days Guidelines for Children

You mommies have it so much better than I did. Seriously. When mine were young we were barely into the disposable diaper era.

Forget cold medicine. Even the good stuff tasted like hard liquor and battery acid and ended up staining their Garanimals.

Mine are teens now and they still have that need to be taken care of when they have a cold. We still keep good old Triaminic around so they can feel like babies again.  Maybe if Triaminic had had all these easy to take products when mine were younger there wouldn’t be the trauma today…just because of the sniffles. Seriously they are worse than Husbands.

What does Triaminic offer besides liquids?

Thin strips and

cold chews…

No dribbles, no mess…happy kids with symptoms under control.

Triaminic takes their job seriously and with guidelines for taking cold medicine changing,  they are smart to focus on school age children and tackling when and if to keep a child home from school.  A sick day for a child can mean a day off for a parent, doctor visits…a big mess.

Triaminic is launching an initiative to educate parents on when to keep a child home from school by introducing Sick Day Guidelines that they have recently developed with the National Association of School Nurses (NASN). Parents know when their children aren’t feeling well – these Guidelines are aimed at helping parents decide when to keep the kids at home, or send them off to school. Through the NASN, the Sick Day Guidelines will be distributed to more than 14,000 school nurses in the form of a refrigerator magnet.

Personally my kids put the School Nurses though the ringer…with headaches, cut fingers, stomach aches, and…colds.  This sounds like a great idea, Triaminic.  And a great resource for parents!  You will want to bookmark this page for reference!

Snoop around and you’ll find a coupon for Triaminic thin strips too!

Match Game Monday – American Idol Edition

You know the drill…if you are viewing this in a reader, click through and play the music…it’s not the same without it!

Give me your best response to this…we don’t have to match…you can even copy…Brett copied Richard and Charles all the time!

Tammy is trying out for America Idol. She wants the judges to think she is the next William Hung so she is singing the song “B*L*A*N*K”

Phokki – Not Your Average Digital Art

Some of you haven’t entered the contest yet. YOU DON’T WANT TO FORGET AND THIS IS WHY! One of the prizes is a digital print by Phokki.com.

Well the team at Phokki is comprised some of the most talented individuals in the IT industry with the passion of digital arts. Phokki was entered in Start-Up @ Singapore Open Category and was awarded First Prize. In addition, Phokki is also nominated as the official representative of Singapore in the Global TIC in Taiwan. They know digi-fun. You should be glad they can’t enter the contest…sheesh..,

Phokki is the key to transforming your average photo into an embellished and sophisticated piece of artwork at minimal or even no charge! Phokki has a pool of talented artists from diversified cultures that can cater to any form of customization or inexplicable photo styling specialization that you, our customer may want.
I’m going to show you something …it might move you along a little faster…just maybe.

Remember Monkey? Look what the people at Phokki.com did to her…this was the before:

and this is super cute kitty!

I know! They can do this to you and your family and your animals too! And if you order before January 31, you can get an awesome Valentine’s day gift at 60% off..I’m not kidding! And then you can come back and win the contest…and make more cool stuff.

How cool is Phokki.com?

Phokki- turn photo into artwork

TNT Closer Returns January 26-Short Pump Preppy Review

Who is ready for The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick to return? 5 new episodes begin Monday January 26 and cliffhangers will be….

No spoilers here, but I had a chance to preview the first two episodes and I’ll just say…SQUEEEEEE!

Kyra Sedgwick, Golden Globe winner plays LAPD Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. The story revolves around her investigations and mixes it up by adding a little humor to her personal life. Catch The Closer followed by Trust Me, the new series on TNT.

TNT Trust Me Premiers January 26 – Short Pump Preppy Review

I’m adjusting my bedtime on Monday nights. I had the opportunity to preview the TNT original series Trust Me starring Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh which premiers Monday, January 26 10/9c. The show is a “Mad Men meets 13 Going on 30” look at the advertising world and the personal/professional relationships of this ensemble cast. Take your typical workplace insecurity, inflated egos and a little fun, flirtation and you have an intellectual comedy that is quite entertaining.

From the producers:

Eric McCormack (Will & Grace) and Tom Cavanagh (Ed) return to series television in TNT’s TRUST ME, a sharp, witty drama series that centers on two best friends working as creative partners at a top-ranked Chicago ad agency.

Joining McCormack and Cavanagh in TRUST ME are Monica Potter (Boston Legal), Griffin Dunne (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), Sarah Clarke (24), Mike Damus (Lost in Yonkers) and Geoffrey Arend (Garden State). The show from Warner Horizon Television is executive-produced by THE CLOSER’s Greer Shephard, Michael M. Robin, Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny. Baldwin and Coveny are also writers on the show. TRUST ME premieres Monday, Jan. 26, 2009, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT), following an all-new episode of THE CLOSER.

Set against the backdrop of the high-pressure world of advertising, TRUST ME focuses on Mason (McCormack) and Conner (Cavanagh), a pair of ad men whose strong creative partnership has served the firm of Rothman Greene & Mohr extremely well over the years. Mason, an art director, is a responsible, workaholic family man with a beautiful wife, Erin (Clarke), two children and an undying loyalty to the brands he helps sell. By contrast, his writing partner, Conner (Cavanagh), is a single, impulsive copywriter with the attention span of a teenager. Their yin-yang relationship is put to the test when Mason is named a creative director of the agency, making him Conner’s boss. The series follows the changing dynamics between the two friends, who are better together than they are apart.

Also working in the same creative group is new hire Sarah Krajicek-Hunter (Potter), an award-winning copywriter whose forceful personality has a tendency to rub people the wrong way. Hector (Arend) and Tom (Damus) are a junior creative team with untraditional ideas that don’t always sit well with their new boss. The entire team is supervised by Tony Mink (Dunne), a man who lives and dies by the advertising business but has a growing sense his days in this young person’s business may be numbered.

TRUST ME follows these memorable characters as they try to navigate the waters of inter-office politics, personality conflicts, easily bruised egos, professional jealousies and unreasonable client demands.

All that means you have a cast that works well together, creates a quirky look at the advertising world and the egos involved. I’m setting my DVR. Monday is a busy night. Catch The Closer with Kyra Sedgwick at 9/8c on TNT too!

Suavenomics Set Me, YES ME Straight

I have never been the queen of frugal and I’ve been a bit of a snob when it comes to bargain brands, but I have to say,

SUAVE has shut me up, smacked me down and has me singing falsetto. Please read here….

Just call me the “Centsible Preppy”

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