Summer, in all its glory, is slipping through my fingertips. Sun rays slide down my window pane leaving me to wonder when is too soon to put away that tankini and those sarongs I’m so fond of wearing.
Tomorrow is my first day back at work as Big Important Assistant Principal (I resisted the urge to write Big Important Ass because I’m a grown up). I will long for warm sun rays and ice cold lemonade as I sit in a new air conditioned office waiting to welcome students, parents, and teachers as we usher in a new school year. Missing the eccentricities and fragrant fruit and flowers at my local Farmer’s Market (as well as the all the characters you meet there). My hope for waking up late and turning on the news as I enjoy a delicious daybreak cup of coffee will end and be replaced by either getting a pot of coffee started as I style my hair or rushing into a drive-through coffee hut. All of my favorite things of the summer are leaving me to do the very hard work of educators.
What better reason to giveaway a Prize Pack full of what I’ve come to cherish this oh-so-wonderful Summer of ’08?
Giveaway #1: A copy of Beverly Donofrio’s book which I read this summer and related to so well that I actually started writing my own memoir of being a teen mom.
Giveaway #2: Some goodies from the extra crap I carted home from The People’s Party. JUST FOR YOU. Ok, so I really liked some of the things in there and donated the rest, but I have $20 in gift cards to Land’s End. They’re currently having a sale which is one of my favorite things NO MATTER WHAT TIME OF YEAR.
Giveaway #3: Being such a Shoe Lover I have also become somewhat of a Foot Worshipper in that I must take care of my tootsies by using insoles and such. But this year I found Dr. Scholl’s Rub Relief Strips to be my dearest friend. The small design of the packaging makes it easy for travel as well.
Giveaway #4: Coffee is always in fashion. How’s about a $20 gift card to a big giant conglomerate?
Giveaway #5: Sometimes I wish I were smart enough to find out what the demographics of this site are to see what kind of people read it. Are you exercise gurus? Vegans who secretly like to add chicken broth to your mashed potatoes? Clown college graduates hoping to recruit me? With that said, I think mostly women read me though I know of several male bloggers (and a few male readers in general) who visit as well. Still, a Bath & Body Works certificate in the amount of $20 is a nice prize.
Leave a comment in this post until Friday August 1, 2008 at midnight (or email me directly if you’re having trouble or you’re JUST THAT DIFFICULT and no, I won’t hold that against you in the random drawing) to be entered.
Best of luck! To both the winner and to me. I might need it more than you.
*Edited to add that this Giveaway is linked to Bloggy Giveaways*
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I’m in! And not difficult at all.
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I’m in!
Good luck tomorrow! I’m back on the 15th!
Shash
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Thank you for choosing such an important job!
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Ohhh, you had me at Starbucks.
Count me in!
And good luck tomorrow!
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Assistant Principal!! How awesome is that. Those of us in the educational know–understand that the secretaries and the AP’s run the show. Exciting.
Oh yeah, I so want to win something.
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Awesome giveaways
And good luck tomorrow. It is very hard to believe the back to school commercials have started.
Hey stranger! Asst. Principal? Wow….I’ve really not checked in for a while huh???
I just found your blog and I think you are hialrious! lol I’ll be a regular visitor.
Buuuuutttt……I AM NOT ready to let go of summer yet!!!! NNNOOOOOO!!!!
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Ah, Mocha. You remind me that I need to start making my daughter get up before 9 am and go to bed before 10 pm. Summer is almost OVER?? Wha-?
My kids started school last week (balanced calendar). Summer goes by so fast. At least the weather is still good.
These are fantastic giveaways! I would love to win any of them! But maybe especially the starbucks, lands’ end, or bath/body works.
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Really? Dr Scholl’s Rub Relief Strips? I totally could have used those on Friday night. My toe is a mess right now… I MUST go find those before the wedding when I wear those shoes again.
Giveaways! Yay! Good luck with the transition…
Thanks for sharing, they all look fabulous. I would love to win any one of those prizes. You give the best school supplies ever lady!
Oh and if you have a moment, I you are busy being the big Asst. Principal, would you come by my blog and tell me if my produce is worthy of the farmers market?
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Thanks!
So nice of you to giveaway! Count me in.
Great stuff!!!! I need to read that book. For real.
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22 more days before the little darlings show up. Pick me!
Your post reminded me how I always felt the day before school started every year. I’m more inclined to remember the expansive and overwhelming joy of walking home on the LAST day of school.
How do you prepare mentally to go back? I mean, I know it’s your job and all, but still, it can’t be easy…
Best wishes for an incredible year. Thanks for the giveaways!!!
These prizes are fabulous; I can’t decide which one I like best! I guess that means I”ll be happy no matter what happens. If I win, that is.
I’m not very articulate in mid-summer. My brain goes on break. I just tried to convince the dentist to hurry up and finish my appts. before school starts! He hates it when I do that, too.
Daisys last blog post..Mom! I only like CREAMY Peanut Butter!
It still seems so odd to me that you crazy (yet wonderful!) Americans go back to school in August! In Canada you don’t go back until after the first weekend in September. Move HERE!
xo
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Count me in!! I don’t go back to school until September 2…But we don’t get out until the middle/end of June…Have fun in your new position!
Oooo.. lovely lovely! Would love to read the book! Thanks!
*prairie dogging*
Giveaway?
If you have the time… can u spare an opinion on my latest? I debated whether or not to ask you about it before now but I didn’t want to bother you with my incidentals. But since I’ve name dropped you in my post I’ve lost all shame. Ergo, couldja wouldja? If you can squeeze it in with your Big Assistant Principal Stuff. (Good God, did I spell principal right??)
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Following your blog through several Blogher references….a welcome addition indeed! I really enjoy your voice. Good luck at work today!
cheers, dorrie
I’m in – I like giant coffee cups..
Good luck getting back into the swing of things! And I can’t wait to hear more about the memoirs you’re writing…you’re such a great word-crafter! :O)
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I NEVER compete for these giveaways but I keep thinking I need to write my own book about being a teen mom.
Of course, I could just buy the book myself…
I don’t want anything, really. I have enough swag. I just wanted to say how AWESOME it was to meet you, even though you are super tall and beautiful AND love your thighs. *sniffle*
No, really, it was awesome.
I’m in.
Yay for Free Stuff!
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You just reminded me that I could really use some coffee right now. I was trying to ignore its siren song.
I love big coffee conglomerate. Does that make me evil?
Wow, for once being sent to the principal’s office doesn’t seem such a bad deal.
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I just found your blog and have been reading the back posts!! Very big enjoyment factor found here. Sign me up for the fab give away! I wish I could turn my boring cubicle dweller life into funny stories for my blog, but unfortunately there is nothing funny down that road. thanks for brightening my day!
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Why, HELLO free stuff!
(don’t waste the coffee on me, can’t drink it while pregnant)
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can i have the coffee certificate? please please pleeeeeese?? we go way back Mocha, remember?
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Count me in, too please! Maybe winning the DS started me on a roll (the kids barely get to use, by the way!).
Laurie
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Great giveaways, Mocha! I’d love any of these things.
Back to school time already?? I know…school shopping commences this weekend for us. Blech.
Wow, Rub relief strips? You have all the cool stuff!
It seems like every pair of shoes i have rubs in a different spot. Yesterday’s Born Espadrilles rubbed right on the top of my foot leaving a nice sore to be displayed by todays skimmers. (Which rub my little pinky toe) I totally need to run to Target NOW!
Only 40 comments so far, which means at this moment I have a something-in-forty shot of winning something. Although of course I’ve never won anything in my life, so the chances here are pretty slim. And by the time August runs around there will be four-hundred comments, so my chances will be approximately zero-in-four-hundred. But I’m commenting anyway because, you know, I adore you. And I’m not just saying that to win the “giant conglomorate gift certificate,” in order to continue to feed my addiction, because that would be wrong.
Leaving my comment, as I am, apparently a loot whore.
Recently found your blog and have really enjoyed it! It is very nice of you to do the giveaways!
I’d like to win something please…pretty please…
Your pics w/ Georgia/Bossy were just beatiful…
(did that suck up give me an extra entry)??
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I’ve only recently started reading your blog but I think it’s awesome! Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m in!
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Ooooohhh, thank you for the giveaway!
You’re getting $500 from JC Penney??? (Neil pointed to the Blog Her site.) That’s big time, Momma! Good on ya.
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