For Jameil!

Joyful Program Note!

We interrupt your regularly scheduled happy blogging this week to bring you…more happy!

If you are a fan of GAP blue jeans – as I am – they are 40% off until Wednesday if you bring in an old pair of jeans.  Woot woot!  Though my shopping ban is now official, I figured I’d pass on this great news to you.

See, I don’t make this stuff up!  http://www.gap.com/

You’re welcome!

Cheap, Ahem…Inexpensive Gift Idea

If you don’t know now you know….

A.mazon. com is having a wonderful sale on magazine subscriptions.  Some can be had for as little as $5 – R.eal Simple, S.outhern Living, C.osmo – while others are $5 or $10 off at checkout.

You might think a magazine subscription is a cheesy gift, but I beg to differ.  My Mom has gifted me with a subscription to R.eal Simple for the last several years and I love it!  I am thrilled when my favorite magazine arrives every month and look forward to spending hours flipping through the pages.  I honestly cannot remember what else she got me last year, but I remember – and appreciate – my subscription to RS.

I got my youngest brother the news/NPR/current events junkie a subscription to T.ime.  I’m thinking Smoochy’s sister might come up on a R.eal Simple subscription of her own since she’s always trying to borrow mine.  And my don’t-need-another-single-thing parents?  Probably T.ravel + Leisure since they just don’t know how to stay still for long.

Happy Shopping!

50% off at Payless

50% off purchases at Payless – today only.  If you can’t/don’t/won’t shop at Payless, you probably still know someone who does - pass it on!

I’m going to (hopefully) stock up on socks and maybe a pair of tennis for the kid!

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20091016-tows-payless

And the last shall be first

AR Gal – you won!  I’m still not sure what you won, but random.org has chosen u as the winner of my final giveaway ~ congrats!

Please email me your mailing address and I’ll get a little somethin’ somethin’ in the mail to you in the next few days.  I’m slow getting to the post office, but I’m good for it!

My email is azatbailey@live.com

Tales…of Desperado and other random type stuff

• So, one of my work-friends broke up with her boyfriend.  Why is dude stalking me?  Apparently he was so distraught by the breakup that he “decided to pass out.”  So he did on Sunday.  Spent the night in the hospital.   Called me on Monday begging, crying.  Asking me to beg her to get back with him.  Told me that he loved her so much that he sacrificed his body to her.  By KNOWINGLY contracting an incurable-type disease to prove his love.  Dude.  Really?  I tried to be gentle and kind, told him that life was worth living, it just seems bad now, yadda, yadda, yadda, but that there was no point in his calling me – I don’t get that involved in other people’s love lives.  So why has he called me every day since then (ON MY JOB!!!) -  as I have pointedly asked him not to – to state his case and beg for my help?  Okay, a week ago I had no beef with you.  Now I think you’re a whiny, crazy, infectious stalker.  I’m pretty sure that’s not what you want me to tell her….Did I mention that I work in a hospital and this joker had me paged over the loudspeaker one day????  Thank God I left campus for lunch that day.  Nerd Girl is an easy-going, peaceful type girl, but that would’ve pushed me over the edge had I been here to hear that!
• I believe I suck at giveaways.  Sorry.  TIH, I’m going today to get – and put – your winnings in the mail.  Everybody else?  Leave me a comment and I’ll send something to the somebody chosen by random.  I don’t know yet what that something is….
• I love Top Chef!  I mean love it.  I’m sooooo glad they told old girl to pack her knives last night.  Her voice alone was enough for me to think she should go! 
• Our pastor has been talking about how we should treat other people.  That people are God’s reflection here on earth and that we need to be very careful how we treat people.  That what we do to  the least, we do unto Him.   I’ve been reflecting on that something tough.
• Did I tell y’all I flunked out of school this summer session?  Well, I did.   I got an “F” in my practicum.  Because I didn’t do it.  I was tired.  Anyhow, I wrote a letter and they let me back in school.  I’m still not sure that’s where I want to be though.  Hmmmmm.
• I think I may be in a pissy mood.  Could ya tell?  So I guess I’ll wrap this up before I pass this foul ‘tude on. 

I’m serious about the give-away though.  Leave me a comment by Sunday night - I’ll come up with something

Bawk Bawk Baby!

The winner of the Chick-Fil-A gift card is …. Tiffany in Houston!  TIH, I ought to hold this bad boy hostage until you start a blog.  However, I’m going to do the right thing. 

Please email me: azatbailey@live.com w/your mailing address and in a few days (please factor in time for my procrastinating), your card should arrive.

Stay tuned for this week’s give-away.  I hope everyone has a lovely day.  A lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, a lovely dayyyyy……..  Yes, I’m listening to the one and only Bill Withers

Peace.

Oops!!

So, somehow between sewing patches on uniform shirts, navigating through seven – yes 7! – homework sheets assigned on the first day of school, and waking up earlier to pray, I kind of forgot I was supposed to be doing give-aways this month.

My bad y’all.

So, what’s a frazzled, blogging, wife to one, mother of one to do?  How about a gift certificate to Chick-Fil-A?  It is my favorite fast food restaurant and where I head on those nights when I don’t want to cook, leftovers are just way too leftover, and Lovegirl begs for mercy when I suggest peanut butter sandwiches.

You know what to do.  Head to the comments, tell me your favorite dinner-in-a-hurry spot and on Sunday night, I’ll let random.org pick another winner. 

And y’all, I know we’re not supposed to eat copious amounts of tasty fried chicken while chugging large cups of sweet tea on a regular basis.  But every once in a while is okay.  I promise.

Cool?  Cool.

And Kelly? I got your email.  I’ll get the book in the mail to you in the next few days

Drumroll please…..

And the winner of Queens is ………. Kelly in a Day!  I went to random.org (not .com, my bad), asked them to generate a number between 1 and 12 and #4 is what they chose.

So, Kelly in a Day, please send me your mailing address (email me:  azatbailey@live.com)  and I’ll get the book in the mail to you.  Congratulations – hope you like it!

Give It Away, Give It Away, Give It Away Now

Yeah, yeah, I know that July is over and so should be the songs-for-titles posts.  Indulge me (and my love of the Red Hot Chili Peppers!).

I find myself in the mood to have a few give-aways and figured that August was as good a month as any. 

So, check back every Monday Tuesday week in August for a little something.  Emphasis on little – hey, it’s not like I have a sponsor. 

This week’s giveaway is a fabulous little coffee table book: Queens: Portraits of Black Women and their Fabulous Hair.  I love my copy and thought I’d share the love.

 

If you’re interested in winning a copy of your very own, please leave me a comment telling me how you wear your hair now and why you chose that style.  Your comment can be two words or dissertation-length – either way is good with me.  A winner will be chosen using random.com on Sunday and announced Monday (or Tuesday) morning.  You have until midnight Saturday to enter.  U.S. entries only please.  Muchas gracias and good luck!