CarolBEE

Contest Website:  A Book Worms Diary

Prize: Win a copy of “How the Other Half Hamptons” by Jasmin Rosemberg

Deadline: Giveaway ends midnight CST on July 31st.

Eligibility: US and Canada.

Who can Enter: Bloggers and Non-Bloggers (those without a blog) can both enter. Non-Bloggers can easily comment by leaving their  your name and email in the comment.   Comments without name and email will be disqualified.

How to Enter: Leave a comment at ABookWormsDiary website mentioning ONE current or upcoming Hachette book you like the looks of.  Maximum of three comments (each time mentioning a separate book) per person allowed.

When you stop by to enter the contest, please mention me!  CarolBEE!

Contest Website:  A Book Worms Diary

Prize:  A copy of Joy is the Greatest Gift to one lucky winner.

Deadline: midnight CST on July 31, 2008

Eligibility:  Open to US and Canada.  Winners will be chosen impartially by Random.org and posted here soon afterwards.  

How To Enter:  Visit Focus Friends and leave a comment on A Book Worms Diary website with the name of a retailer (you’ll find the list on their website) in YOUR state, who carries their books. If your state is not in the list, leave the name of a bookstore where you’d like to see Focus Friends. (Perhaps even talk to the bookstore manager about carrying it?) One Entry.  

Visit A Book Worms Diary for more information on the blog contest and to learn how you can earn extra points!  (IE:  Earn 3 extra entries when any entrant mentions that I (CarolBEE) referred your to the site to win the “Joy is the Greatest Gift” book.)

Well, I am in Chicago right now attending the eBay Live Conference. 

The eBay Live Conference is a great resource to learn marketing, product sourcing and listing tips.  This is the 4th conference I have attended and I learn something new every year.

To celebrate the occasion, I made a deal with Jennifer at Cooper Island (Show Low, AZ).  Jennifer did an awesome job??  What do you think? 

I have been very busy lately; starting a new summer schedule of 4/10 hour days, working on a blog contest for my two other sites, and getting ready to go to Chicago to attend the eBay Live Conference. 

We will be flying to Chicago on Monday (a couple of days early so we can get use to the time difference and see the sites before the conference begins).  So I now have a BIG decision to make before Friday morning.  What should I do with my hair??

Right now, it is shoulder length and stringy.  I wake up at 4:45 am, shower, then run out the door to work with it bound to the back of my head with a ponytail holder.  Very low maintenance! 

But now that I am going to eBay Live, I have to look GOOD!

Since I am partical to the bob, this is what I was thinking:

1. Trim the hair to chin length with really long layers at the ends.

2.  Trim to chin length with short layers throughout to add body to the style.

3.  Trim my long bangs and go back to the short ones??

4.  Go with a shorter bob (so there is no way I can put it up in a ponytail) with short layers throughout. 

5.  Go with a short bob with the hair all one length. 

6.  Or finally, go with a low maintenance, attention getting, cowardly lion look.  I’m sure I will turn some heads with this one!! 

Decisions, Decisions! What should I do?

The “Book Blogger’s Diary” has yet another great giveway for those of you who like to enter Blog Contest. 

Contest Website:  A Book Blogger’s Diary

Prize: There will be FOUR winners. Each winner will get one of Emily Giffin’s books (out of the four published), signed!

Deadline: 5 am, CST on 31 May, 2008.

Eligibility:  Anyone 18 and older can enter. OPEN WORLDWIDE!!
One entry per family.

Contest Website:  Carp(e) Libris Reviews

Prizes:  Book - Bad Karma by Tamara Sheward
Deadline is: midnight May 12, 2008

3 Ways to Enter:

1.) Leave a comment on the Carp(e) Libris Reviews blog site about what interests you the most about the book.  (Something more than “sounds good” is kindly suggested.) Or tell YOUR travel horror story!

2.) Blog Subscribers are automatically entered into the contest. 

3.) Blog about the giveaway on your blog with a link back.

Do all three, and you’ve got three entries to win!

Jenn of jenn.nu is holding a contest to win a momAgenda! Participating in the momAgenda contest is as easy as creating a blog entry that links to the contest and to momagenda.com. For more information, see the official contest blog entry: Win a momAgenda!.

The momAgenda Desktop retails for $42.00 + shipping, but momAgenda is holding a contest  for one lucky winner to be chosen at random to receive a 2008-2009 momAgenda Desktop in Fuschia!

The contest to win a momAgenda will run from today, May 5th, 2008, until May 12th, 2008.  Participants have until 11:59pm on May 12th, 2008 to submit their entry and leave a comment on this post with a link to that entry.

When I am presented with a problem in life, I try to look at it as an opportunity to grow.  I know many people (I use to be one of them) that stop thinking when they are present with a difficult situation.  I have discovered that you have to look at the problem in a different way. 

If you see it as a opportunity to grow and learn, you will be able to find several different ways to solve the problem.  You just have to stand back, analize it, come up with several different solutions.  Then you pick a solution and make it happen.  You will find that life is not as stressful if you just work on solving the problem before it overwhelms you. 

Below is a silly sample of looking at something in a different way.  It is amazing how something can look so different if you try to approach it with a different view. 

View #1 - Standard Problem

View #2 - Looking at it in a different way.  The problem is not as threatening.

Contest Website:  Mother’s Day Book Bash Rules

Prizes:  Visit the “A Book Blogger’s Diary” for detail.  There are several books offered at prizes!
Open to:  See the “Prize Book” posting for detail
Deadline is: midnight CST, May 11 (Mother’s Day).

Special Rules for extra Entries:  Whenever someone enters and mentions your blog’s name as the one which directed them to this Book Bash, YOU get 3 extra entries.