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  • Congratulations to the Third Day winners

    Oh my word.

    Why doesn’t WordPress have some kind of numbered comments feature?

    I believe I have seriously compromised my eyesight.

    Too bad it didn’t just pick numbers 1-10. It would have made it much easier.

    Anyway, here are the lucky winners of the Third Day CD.

    Random Integer Generator

    Here are your random numbers:

    104 230 39 178 124
    279 90 87 68 123
    Timestamp: 2008-07-01 01:30:04 UTC

    104 is Laura at Organizing Junkie

    279 is Sarah who doesn’t have a blog, but has a gmail address

    230 is Jennie who doesn’t have a blog, but has a yahoo email address

    90 is Patty at Girlfriends in God

    39 is Cheryl at Cheryl’s World

    87 is Gwyn at Mommy Daily Vent

    178 is Laurie who doesn’t have a blog, but has a msn email address

    68 is LeAnn (AKA Frazzmom)

    124 is Holly at Crown Laid Down

    123 is Beverly at Dancing with the Daffodils

    Congratulations, Ladies.

    Please email me your mailing address at [email protected] and I’ll get your CD’s in the mail.

  • For those of y’all attending She Speaks

    If you are a blogger and are going to She Speaks, then head over to Lysa Terkeurt’s blog. She has a Mr. Linky set up so that you can enter your blog information.

    It’s a great way for everyone who is attending to connect before the actual conference. Plus, you may find some great new blogs to read.

    Also, since the attire for the conference is business casual I’m planning on doing this week’s Fashion Friday on what exactly that means. Here’s a hint: No cut-offs or sombreros.

    Although sometimes a sombrero does have a way of adding that extra something special to an outfit.

  • I need a little help

    Okay, I have a huge favor to ask that involves some blog housekeeping.

    If any of y’all have me listed on your blogroll or link to me on your blog (for which I am forever grateful by the way, because seriously, the fact that y’all not only come over here to read some mediocre content, but also link to it? Love you for it.) would you mind changing the link to my new wordpress url?

    If the link still has blogspot in it, it’s the wrong one. I mean, it still gets you here because there is a redirect on the page, but eventually, I’d like to get rid of the redirect.

    So, if you wouldn’t mind, I’d love it if you’d change the link to http://bigmama1.com .

    And if you do mind, then nevermind.

    Thank you for your continuing support. Y’all are the best.

  • Because not all sin is bad

    I’ve gotten a few emails and comments in the last few days from people letting me know they thought I had taken a break from blogging because my feed wasn’t showing up in their Bloglines.

    If you’re having that problem, you might want to check and make sure you’ve updated the feed to my new url, which is http://thebigmamablog.com or you can just click on the subscribe button in my sidebar. That way, you won’t have to spend countless hours of your day wondering if I have posted anything.

    And for those of you who have asked, here is the recipe for Mississippi Sin Dip which, ironically, I got from Jennifer at Mississippi Girl.

    Mississippi Sin Dip

    1 loaf french bread
    8 oz. container of french onion dip
    4 oz. can green chiles, drained
    1 package of bacon bits
    2 cups grated cheddar cheese
    8 oz. package of cream cheese, softened

    And yes, all this cheese makes it seem very fattening, but think of all the calcium!

    Plus, the bacon bits provide some protein.

    Anyway, cut out top of french bread and scoop out insides. Mix all other ingredients together in a large bowl. Put the dip inside the loaf of french bread and put the top of bread back on. Wrap the whole thing in foil and bake 1 hour at 350. I personally love this served with Fritos Scoops, but it would be great with crackers too.

    I can guarantee I’ll be making this a lot during college football season because watching the Aggies while eating fattening foods is what fall is all about.

  • A year ago I thought “podcast” was just a term from a sci-fi movie

    Some of y’all may have already heard that Boomama and I did a podcast last night. We will both post it sometime this weekend for your listening enjoyment. Or, you know, if you’re bored out of your mind.

    It all started about a month ago when we were talking on the phone and agreed we wanted a way to be able to discuss our thoughts on the upcoming Presidential elections, the globalization of the economy, and our top stock picks for 2007.

    But then we decided that has all just been done to death and will instead be discussing our thoughts on even deeper issues such as fall trends, drugstore cosmetics, and Paula Deen.

    We are deeply introspective and these are the things that are keeping us up at night.

    And y’all will see from the podcast that we agree on so many of these issues, it’s like we share one mind.

    Along with our ability to discuss absolutely nothing in great detail, we’ll also reveal our real names because, at some point, you just start to feel a little silly being referred to as Boomama or Big Mama. I’ve always said that if I had known more than 2 people would read this blog, I probably would have rethought the whole Big Mama thing. I can’t tell y’all the number of Google searches I have looking for references to a certain movie starring Martin Lawrence.

    And really, that’s the mental image I’d like to convey to the internet.

    Anyway, I hope y’all think it’s fun. We had a great time with it, although I’m a little afraid that I had a tendency to try to muffle my laughter which may make me sound a little like Beavis and Butthead. Just know that in real life I normally don’t sound like a cartoon character with bad acne.

    That is all.

  • And the winner is…

    I know y’all have been on the edge of your seats all weekend wondering who was going to win the fine array of pharmaceutical promo items. So, to end the suspense, the winner (and I use that term loosely because I still can’t believe anybody wants any of this stuff) is TaunaLen.

    So, TaunaLen, email me ([email protected]) with your address and I will put your tapeler and other assorted winnings in the mail on Tuesday morning. And congratulations, you’ll now be able to tape and staple all at the same time, while writing with quality writing utensils.

    What a blessing.