Archive for July 17th, 2008
Do you boxtop?
Kimberly-Clark hopes you do. The Box Tops for Education program helps schools raise very needed funds for supplies and programs that are always on the chopping block for budget committees. Your child’s school probably urges everyone to bring in their box tops for that very reason.
To help raise awareness for this valuable program, Kimberly-Clark presents Rock Your School Sweepstakes that gives parents a chance to win 100,000 Bonus Box Tops plus a Concert With Radio Disney Star Jordan Pruitt. How cool would that make you!?
According to their press release:
Bonus Box Tops go a long way. Here is what 100,000 of them could mean to the average classroom:
- Technology Upgrades: A mobile cart complete with 20 laptops with wireless capabilities to allow travel from classroom to classroom.
- The Necessities: Enough No. 2 pencils that, laid pencil to eraser, would stretch across the length of more than 145 football fields.
- Hands-on Learning Outside the Classroom: A class trip for 20 students in Los Angeles, Calif. to visit Washington, D.C., including airfare, hotel accommodations and admission to the Smithsonian Institution.
That’s a lot of box tops! In addition to the bonus box tops, your child’s school will also be treated to a concert from 16 yr old singing star Jordan Pruitt!. How exciting!
What do you need to do to enter? Well, that’s the easy part! Just head over to http://rockbacktoschool.com – enter your email & sign up!
Are you a home schooling family that’s involved with a home school group with more than 15 kids? Your group can also participate in the Box Tops for Education program as well! Ours does!
My thanks to Mom Central for letting me share this cool contest with you!
Quote of the Day:
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything
–Anonymous
This is me not complaining about not going to blogHer. k? K.
BlogHer 08 Reach Out
Me not complaining about not going to blogher ‘08 – doesn’t that make a double negative? So does that mean I AM complaining? I don’t know.
I DO know that I’ve registered for the Boston version of BlogHer 08 – an outreach of the main BlogHer conference being held this weekend in BFE San Francisco. Basically, it’s a condensed version of the SF convention, squished into 1 day, for a lot less money! Of course, there won’t be as many BIG NAME bloggers there, but hey – if the point is to meet other bloggers and learn something, then I think I’ll be all set!
With that being said, I’m open to SPONSORSHIP of my trip 
Also, am going to be looking for a roomie for that Burlington Marriott because Hello? $139 is a discount? Thannnnnks LOL
I’d also be happy to carpool with other New Hampshirites. It’s only about 2-1/2 hours from where I am – so that’ll be cool if I can get that figured out in the next 2 months.
Mr. Grumpypants
Well anyway, life here has been oh so stressful. Hubby’s company was purchased on July 1st – on July 9th, they announced they’re hiring a financial firm to decide if they should SELL. WTF? In the meantime, they’ve terminated all employees and although they have paid their first 2 weeks (they changed the dates for payday), the benefits end on August 30th, with nothing set yet as to what will replace it – they’ve decided to replace the ENTIRE COMPUTER NETWORK, PLUS ALL COMPUTERS, and guess whose job that is?
Yeah, Mr. GrumpyPants has been run ragged all these last weeks and there’s no end in site. He’s miserable. He’s tired. Did I mention he’s miserable? I really wish I could just tell him to go ahead and quit and we’ll make it through – but how can I say that? I can’t. He has to stick it out, but I’m sorry – calling him at 11:30 at night to ask him how to do something that’s not urgent? That’s bullshit. Keeping him at work from 7:30am to 9:30pm with no lunch or dinner? Bullshit. The guy he’s got to deal with most is one of those people WITH NO LIFE outside of work, so this kind of schedule is nothing for him – but he’s making a quick enemy of Jimmy, that’s for sure.
Me – Again.
I went to my dr. yesterday – she asked if I would want to see ANOTHER neurologist and I said no, not really. I do want answers, but ya know – I need the MONEY, too. She suggests that maybe it’s my stress levels that’s causing my neurologic symptoms, so she switched me off of zoloft and onto effexor. I really don’t know if it’ll help and I don’t particularly like the potential side effects, but I also don’t like the friggin muscle twitches that cause me to typo, that cause my mouse to go off crazy because my arm moved involuntarily, that cause me to miss a great photograph, that cause my book to fall when I’m reading – etc. etc. Blah. Apparently, the effexor is supposed to help with anxiety & stress, so we’ll see I guess.
Quote of the Day:
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
–John Kenneth Galbraith
