Give Away!!

Hey Blog Readers!  I'm doing a BlogSpark today through General Mills! 

IT'S A CEREAL GIVEAWAY!!!

I love cereal too...so they really picked a great girl to give cereal to!!
I eat like four boxes of whole grain cereal a week...is that sad?  ha!

But hey, did you know that Whole Grains can be helpful in maintaining a healthy heart and managing your weight?!!  I sure didn't.  I also didn't know whole grains may also reduce the risk for diabetes and certain types of cancer.


Only whole grains give you the vital nutrience from the complete grain.  As a celiac person, its really important that I get that nutrience from whole grains. Since I can't eat whole wheat flour, I need fiber!!  A great way to get the fiber and antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and other nutreience is to make sure the grains I can eat are Whole Grains!! 

Did you know that General Mills is the Only Leading cereal company to guarantee whole grains in every box?  These include, Cheerios, Fiber One, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Chex --WHICH IS NOW GLUTEN FREE!!!!  Total, and Lucky Charms.

General Mills makes it easy to find the whole grains too.,..just look for the whole grains sign on the box.

Ok so I've decided I'm going to take the Whole Grain Awareness Challenge.   If you want to join me visit http://www.wholegrainnation.com/ to put your knowledge to the test.  I'm going to try to eat 48 grams of whole grain a day... I'm going to start keeping track of it and see if it helps with my digestive system..which Celiac Disease has killed :)   So, 48 grams of whole grain a day...that's easy...I'll just snack on Gluten Free Rice Chex cereal three times a day.

General Mills and Blogspark were nice enough to send me two free coupons for Cereal!! Yay!  They also included all these cool things you see in the photo below.

And Guess what!!??  They want to send you a gift basket just like mine!!  ***So Enter to win..All you have to do is leave a comment telling me what you're favorite General Mills Cereal is!!!  Mine is Chex Mix Cinnamon yum! 

And please help me get this give away "out there"  so more people can see how much Whole Grains can help them!!  I'll Choose a winner at the end of Next week 3/12!!! 

Car Keys

I know My blog is usually about my life in the "now" but I have a pretty funny story that I'd like to blog about, I don't know what reminded me of this but I just had to share.  It's really long but if you feel like being semi-entertained then take the time to read it..

Let's travel all the way back in time to the year 2003, My freshman year of college. I had just joined a sorority and we went to all the parties around campus. We hung out with one fraternity in particular that always partied at a guy's house named PJ. PJ lived with is parents in a huge two story house, with a huge deck out back. He lived in the downstairs area, which was like a second house itself with a kitchen, living room, etc. PJ's parents were cool, and would come hang out with us sometime, but for the most part they didn't care how many people were partying at their house, and sometimes there would be close to 100 people there.

We all became really close, those of us who partied together on a regular basis. We were always at PJ's, we'd even have study groups meet at his house to study before we started partying. It was probably the only reason I passed college...those study groups :) PJ's was fun, they started a Midnight Madness party where you woke up at midnight and partied until sunrise...I never did attend those parties, I'd planned on it but once I was asleep, there was no waking me up. There were also White Trash Wednesdays, where you dressed like white trash and partied every Wednesday..hence the name.  My favorite costume was where I dressed as a pregnant woman with a black eye and kept a cigarette behind one ear...(thanks Erin) ha!

There was this one guy, Ed, that we partied with that never knew when enough was enough. He would drink himself into a stupor every night and pass out. It became an on going joke to draw on him with Sharpies once he was out. He was also known for wetting himself quite often while passed out. It's kind of sad now that I think about it, we probably should've gotten him some kind of help, but back then it was funny.

One night me and a couple of my Sorority Sisters went over to PJ's house for a party. Late into the night me and my girlfriend, we'll call her Natoshya, went to pee in the bathroom. We went in together because we're girls and that's what we do. Natoshya was paranoid about peeing in a bathroom with a shower/shower curtain because she was always afraid some immature perverted boy would be back there hiding. After telling me this I laughed and told her there was no one behind that shower curtain and then flung the shower curtain back...much to my surprise, laying in the empty tub, was Ed. He was passed out drunk and there was writing all over him. His pants were wet, and low and behold someone had shaved half of his head bald.

We both screamed because we were so startled that someone was actually behind the shower curtain. Apparently, he had wet himself and so they just put him in the tub incase it happened again. The boys got a big kick out of us being startled and then moved Ed into a bedroom and put him to sleep on the floor.

Well, as the night came to a close we started to get our coats together and leave. That's when I realized that my car keys were not in my coat pocket.  Anyone who knows me well knows that I'm very bad at keeping up with things. I misplace everything that isn't attached to my body on a daily basis. Sean gets really mad at me for it but I can't help that I'm absent minded, I'm really working on it. Anyway, we turned the entire house upside down looking for my car keys and finally gave up and I luckily had a spare key in my gas tank.

The next day I returned to PJ's house to look for my keys.  It was an expensive set to loose...My dorm keys were on my key ring and if you lost your dorm keys then you had to pay 100 bucks.  Not to menion the 50 bucks you had to pay for a replacement key for my Jeep. We had no luck finding my keys and I finally just gave up and kicked myself in the butt for being so careless.

As the semester was coming to a close and it became time to turn in my dorm keys, of course they were still missing.  I just couldn't help but search one more time for my keys at PJ's house. I thought maybe I should look under his deck incase they fell out of my coat pocket and fell between the cracks in the deck. We searched and searched under that deck and I didn't find my keys, but you'll never guess what I did find... A Ziploc baggy full of hair. I held it up and yelled, "PJ, what in the world his this?"  PJ fell to the ground laughing...apparently it was Ed's hair from that night a few months earlier.  After they had shaved his hair off, they saved it to give to him the next day. Ew..

To make the story even more weird... four years later, my senior year I got a call from PJ. His parents were redoing the deck and the flowerbeds around the deck. They had uncovered a set of keys in the flowerbeds that looked like they might belong to me. Sure enough, four years later, I found my keys. Even though I had already paid the fine for loosing my dorm keys, and I had a new vehicle and no longer needed the car keys, I was glad to have found them.

I always find what I loose, sooner or later.

Friday Funny

So I'm suffering from a massive headache right now and it's thrown me into a horribly bad mood.  I was't really upset with last nights results on American Idol.  I thought Alex & Janell should've stayed but oh well.  At least my favorites are still on! 

Today Kelly is doing Funny Friday.  Ok Just a warning some of these aren't suitable for children...and may be a little offensive...but I laughed so hard I cried at these...they all came in an e-mail with a few others that weren't appropriate for my blog :)

Enjoy!  And have a Great Friday!!!

Move Over Kara

Ok so Today is the American Idol Boys Recap...I apologize if you don't care about American idol but from now until the end of season my Wed-Friday posts will be about AI...I'll try to post a normal post too..

I don't know why the Judges have been raving about the girls all season because the Boys were waaay better in my opinion. The first few weeks of idol wears me out because we know who the top singers our so I wish we could just skip to the top 6 or 8 and make everyone else just leave...I'd just be speeding up the inevitable...

I again took notes...except after a few singers I dropped my pen and Birdie was curled up in my lap and I didn't want to get off the recliner to get my pen. After unsuccessfully trying to get Banjo to fetch my pen..I just gave up and quit writing..

Ok My top picks have their photo beside them.  I know they take six boys but I can't decide who will be the sixth guy..I'll have to hear more to decide.
Oh and Kara needs to watch her back...Casey is Mine!!! haha

Todrick: yuck...that's all I wrote for him. I had high hopes for Todrick because boy can sing...but last night just was weird and awkward. He remixed Since you've been gone by Kelly Clarkson and It was a risk I'll admit..but it was just weird.

Aaron Kelly: He sang A Rascal Flats song and I didn't realize his voice was so Country. I can't believe he's only 16 because he has a great voice. Simon called him "cute" and I agree but he won't be around for long..unless he's like David Archeletto and stays around forever..gah that really bothered me that season I thought he sucked.

Jermaine: He sang a song I'd never heard before. And WTH was he wearing? Was that a tux jacket with tails? He was horrible. He hurt my ears and the judges were waaay to easy on him. He was off the majority of the song.

Tim Urban: He sang "Apologize" by One Republic. I really like this guy but he has a weird high voice and it wasn't that impressive. I thought the end was way better than the beginning. I thought the judges were way to hard on him. He was about to cry. I was going to vote for him just because the judges were really hard on him but then I forgot to vote altogether.

Joe Munoz: He sang "You and I" by Jason Maraz. I love that song. I don't remember Joe at all. He had a great voice and a great look but the song choice was way to safe. I'd like to see what his voice can really do!

This is where I dropped my pen.

Tyler: The Seventy's guy. His performance was so memorable I didn't need to take notes to remember! He sang American Woman. I thought the overall performance was great! His voice sounded bad but I could tell that he can sing he just got way too into the song. I liked his look and I don't think he's pretending to be a 70's rocker like the judges said. I think he is really just like that. It will be sad to see him change his look like the judges suggested.

Lee: Lee sang Chasing cars by Snow Patrol and it was Awesome! He has a great voice and the judges wanted to see him sing something "rock-ier" but I liked him. He's super cute too!

John was next and I don't remember what he sang but I don't remember liking it. I think it was a slow song and I wasn't impressed.

Michael sang This Love by Maroon 5 and he's just a great singer. He's so big he made the guitar look like a toy. He's got a great voice and he kept talking back to the judges and it cracked me up.

Alex Lambert was next and he sang a Jim Morrison song and sounded just like him. He has a mullet. He needs to cut the mullet. It's weird. He can sing good too.

Casey was next. As I watched my boyfriend sing "Heaven" by Brian Adams to me, I couldn't help but get chills because of How great he is! His hair was a little to styled for me though. I'll have to call him and tell him to fix it differently tomorrow. The judges and Kara made complete asses of themselves teasing him about Kara liking him. Kara turned red and really embarrassed Casey. It was ridiculous. Maybe the judges can control themselves next week. His country accent reminds me of Sean's. I called Sean after Casey's performance and told him I wanted a divorce and that I was going to marry Casey and he laughed and said that Casey lived a few towns over from the guys he's rodeoing with in Stevenville. I immediately made plans to ride out to Stevenville with Sean this summer once Idol is over and Casey is back home so I can stalk him:)

I do hope you all realize I'm joking...kind of.

Andrew Garcia was last He was Amazing. He can really sing and he is a great artist. I think he will make it to the top. He remixed the song "sugar we're going down" by the Fall Out Boys. He made it slow and did it acoustically and this song was way to dark lyrically to be that slow. I liked the sound of it though. I've always wondered what the singer was saying in the chorus and now since Andrew slowed it down for me I know :) "Drop a Heart, Break a Name"

Ok So that's my recap. I'm one step closer to having a computer! Yay! I've got the virus' gone and working on figuring out how to hook my phone up for internet!

Have a great Thursday!