Threading?

I recently got my eye brows threaded. Have you heard of it? Here is a news clip about it.

It did hurt, but the pain was gone right away. Just think of several hairs being plucked at once. They do threading here at a kiosk in the mall...so people walk by and watch. LOL! While it was happening I didn't care. My skin was a little pink afterward, but not painful, red, and swollen as with waxing. It was quick and I think my eyebrows look really good!I will definitely go back and have them done again! I am sure I'll wince, but I wince when I pluck...so I prefer someone else do it. It was $10. BTW~ They do anchor the thread in their teeth, but the thread does not change position so that part of the thread does not come near your face at all!

Color Me Home Coloring Book Giveaway

My online friends, Jim & Cora, are in the process of adopting 2 children. They are holding a few fundraisers to help bring their children home. Cora makes custom clothing and blankets at her Little Miss's Blankets & Stuff website. Jim is a fabulous artist and together they came up with the idea of selling coloring books of his drawings. The coloring books have been very popular and they've had to make extra copies already. For a suggested donation of $5 + $2 for S/H, you too could have hours of coloring fun!! We ordered our Under the Sea coloring book and my daughter was SO excited when it arrived. She immediately grabbed her crayons and started coloring. Here are a few of her creations~Here is another one that Dori & her daddy did together. Even adults can have fun coloring!Cora & Jim recently released the Transportation Color Me Home Book and it's a huge hit. Here is one of the pages colored by a teen friend of ours~I believe that Jim might be working on an Animals or Dinosaur book now. At $5 these books make a wonderful gift. Order several and have them on hand for the next birthday party that your child gets invited to. Guaranteed to be a one of a kind gift!!
How would you like to win a Color Me Home book? I've already made an extra donation so that I can give one of these great coloring books out here at Diana Rambles. One of my lucky readers will get their choice of the Under the Sea Color Me Home Book or the Transportation Color Me Home book. This giveaway will go through 11:59 CST on Wednesday, March 17th. USA only!! The winner will be announced and notified on March 18th and will have 48 hours to contact me. Comments are hidden as you need to fill out the form below to enter!

To enter this giveaway~

• Visit Color Me Home and pick which Color Me Home Book you'd like to win. You'll need to tell me why you want to win this book. This step is required and must be done to get any of the additional entries to qualify!

• You can earn 1 extra entry for posting the Color Me Home button on the sidebar of your blog. The copy & paste code is provided on the sidebar at Color Me Home. Please fill out the form an additional time and include a link to your blog.
  

• You can earn 1 extra entry for being a follower of the Color Me Home blog. Please fill out the form 1 additional time for this.

• You can earn 2 extra entries by creating a new blog post on your blog about this giveaway. It should have a link to this giveaway here at Diana Rambles and a link to Color Me Home. Please fill out the form 2 additional times with a link to your blog post.

• You can earn 1 extra entry by twittering about this giveaway. Please fill out the form an additional time and include a link to your tweet.

• You can earn 1 extra entry by becoming a fan of Color Me Home on Facebook. Please fill out the form an additional time for this.
  

• You can earn 1 extra entry by posting about this giveaway on Facebook. I understand that I might not be able to see this status update, but I will trust that you do this! Please fill out the form an additional time and include your FB info.
  

So that is a possibility of 8 entries. I will be verifying all entries and removing any that don't follow the rules. Please make sure you do the required first entry! **MAKE sure you fill out the form for each entry! This is how I keep track of your entries!!**

Wordless Wednesday: StoryTime Live

Tuesday Post

I set a goal for myself to post each day this month. So far, so good. I even have some posts in draft form ready for future days. I have some giveaways in the planning stage and home to post one soon.

I just won a great blog giveaway for tickets to Nickelodeon's StoryTime Live. My daughter is SOOO excited about it. We even get to go early to meet the cast. She's usually leary of big dressed up characters, but all these have their (human) face showing so maybe she will be OK. Dora & Kai-Lan don't have big costumes...so we should at least be able to get pics with them. A local friend of mine told me about the giveaway, so I am taking her & her son along with us. I'll post pics soon. My daughter plans on dressing up.

This early spring weather is WONDERFUL! I have a feeling it's going to stay and winter is behind us. I know it's only been in the 40s, but it seems SOOO much warmer. Our poor doggie is SOO hot with his long coat, so I am taking him to the groomers tomorrow.

We are leaving on our big trip to Alaska in just over 3 months, so we really need to get the planning in gear. I've ordered the 2010 Milepost, which is a mile by mile break down the highways to, from, and in Alaska. It is super thick and I wonder how we are going to fit it all in 5 weeks. The drive is SOOO long, that we are going to have a little less than 3 weeks in Alaska. Should be a good time though!Do you have any trips in the works?

Reality/TV Wrap: Week 4

I wrote up my thoughts on Survivor right after it aired,
so I am posting my wrap much earlier this week!

Survivor~ Cry me a river, COACH!! Call a Wah-mulance. Thank you Boston Rob for telling him to now worry and to "pick your head up and be a man!" And Coach bought it hook, line, & sinker cause he has a total man crush on Rob. We did see a little more of Rob this time.Villains definitely were stronger this episode. They seemed to get along. Both teams performed well in the immunity challenge and the villains win was only a matter of inches. Either team could have won that one.

Cirie's boot was such a SHOCK to me. Not only was she blindsided, we were all blindsided. I missed what she said at the end because I was looking at who everyone voted for. JT's vote was the difference. I think the rest of the group decided to split their votes between Tom & Colby. Then if Tom played the immunity idol the next with the most votes was Colby. But JT messed that up by voting for Cirie.

This was the first episode we watched as it aired. We've had conflicts the past 3 weeks and had to watch it on the DVR. It seemed so short watching it real time.

The Office~ Really enjoyed this episode even though the 2nd half sort of dragged out. Dwight is too funny!! Do you think that he & Angela will have a baby?Amazing Race~ Our DVR didn't pick it up, so I watched it online this morning. Did they get a new editing group to do this episode. It was very choppy again and parts were missing. The cowboys are slipping. I don't think they made any major mistakes (other than taking the metro to the next clue), but they just showed that they are not city slickers. I was surprised to see the one has red hair. I never thought we'd see the hats come off...certainly not on the bungee jump! I am very bad at keeping the names straight on teams that are the same gender.

I was very surprised to see the detectives do so well. They've been like bumbling idiots to this point, but they were very strong this episode. Makes me think they might not be bottom feeders afterall. It is a weak cast, so maybe they will be final 3. I still think the cowboys are the strongest team.

I figured it was going to be a non-elim when I saw the 2 young couples bringing up the rear. I can't imagine the producers want them going home early. Is Caite a hypochondriac or is she tough? She sure seems to persevere and really carries that team. Although Brett or whatever his name is did step up to the plate with the boot of beer. Can you imagine having to drink that? I am in agreement with the groups that said it was nasty! I don't think I could drink any beer. I'd take a vat of sauerkraut any day! Allie & Steve still seem to be the ghost team...though we saw a little more of them this time. Next week's episode looks more interesting!The Marriage Ref~ This show really cracks me up! I expected Tina Fey to say more. These couples are so interesting! The best part of the show was Marv Albert calling the basketball game of the guy that won't wear his wedding ring story. Too funny!

Read Across America

Yesterday I took Dori to Read Across America. It was VERY crowded, but she had a good time. She was very excited that her teacher was handing out bags as we walked in. Have you ever gone to a Read Across America event?