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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Contest: Ending Soon

HomeAway ran a commercial called Hotel Hell Vacation during the Super Bowl this year, which featured everyone’s favorite traveling family, The Griswolds. As part of the ad campaign, HomeAway is also running a similarly themed contest that invites travelers to share their hotel horror stories in the form of a text, photo or video entry between now and March 2 for a chance to win one of FOUR $10,000 vacations.

Contest entries will be voted on by the general public, and finalists will be judged by the king and queen of travel mishaps – Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, who recently reprised their roles from “National Lampoon’s Vacation” for the ad.

To enter the contest, visit http://Vacation.HomeAway.com

Cleaning

One of the biggest ways I see that are popular for losing weight and being healthy right now is cleansing yourself  – so I’ve been reading colon cleanser reviews and while there are those that believe it and believe it with all their mite, I just  don’t think it’s for me.  But I’m curious.  I’d love to read details of people I “know” that have tried it.  I can’t say that I would never try it, but there are just issues with it that I think “ugh! not me!”  So – have any of you tried this?  I’d like to know about it.  Did you blog about it? Send me the link.

Just When You Think

Just when you think you’ve gotten every kind of weird email (from enlarging certain body parts to being my long lost cousin with millions to give me), I get another that I think why did you send this to me? Does anyone READ these after the subject says, “home treatment for hemorrhoids“? I mean really? Even if you have a need, do you trust these random emails?  I mean I know lots of people that don’t even look in their spam folders. I do try to look at mine every so often (which is where I see these oddballs) but what is the point? What do they gain?

100 Days and Counting Down

Yep!  It’s 100 days until we are headed for our dream summer vacation celebrating Becka’s graduation from high school – a DISNEY vacation of course.   I’ve really been thinking and trying to decide on a plan though to lost a few pounds.  What better motivation than a Disney cruise to make you want to lose the pounds? So I’m trying to decide – what can I do (and stick to) to lose a few pounds?  In my quest of a plan I’ve found some great ads – I’ve actually thought seriously about Nutrisystem, but I know I’m not going to do it, just not my thing, and found a list of the top 10 fat burners. That’s what I need – a way to get my body to burn more calories.  I’m thinking I need a dedicated and pushy exercise buddy.  Whatever I do, I’ve got to develop a plan and fast. Wish me luck