Hands Down She's Mother Of The Year!

According to CNN.com a Dallas mother had her daughter fake an essay in order to score tickets to a Hanna Montana concert. The sponsor of the contest, Club Libby Lu picked the 6 year old girl's essay which began with the line "My daddy died in Iraq this year." Local residents didn't recognize the name of the solider mentioned in the essay and neither did the Department of Defense.

The mother has now admitted the essay was a lie. She stated in an interview "we did the essay and that's what we did to win. We did whatever we could to win."

The girl won a makeover including a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: a plane trip for 4 to New Albany, New York and 4 tickets to the sold out Hannah Montana concert.

The store is considering taking away the girl's tickets.

I feel sorry for the little girl. This is the example her mother is setting for her. Plus she will probably lose the tickets and will have to go back to school after the Christmas break to be ridiculed by her classmates.

Hats off to the Mother. You are awesome.

Share Your New Years's Wishes

This New Year's Eve, messages and good wishes from around the world will float down on Times Square when the confetti is dropped.

You can share your own message with the world by going to Wishing Wall Online. The multicolored message pieces will be mixed with over a ton of confetti that will rain down upon Time Square.

Pretty cool! I've already written one. If anyone wants they can list theirs here too. I'd love to hear them.

Tis The Season..

Tis the season....for me to be sick. I ALWAYS get sick this time of year. Sinus pressure, body aches, fluid in my ears, sore throat. Ugh.

I've been the only sales/customer service person at work this week which hasn't made for the best week. Wednesday and Thursday weren't bad, but of course today when I was feeling like crap, we were busy. I didn't see the broadcast, but I heard from several customers that a local news station ran a story last night about an insurance law that changes Jan. 1. Either people didn't listen or the reporter didn't state the coverage will automatically be applied to every one's policy Jan. 1. As a result, I received lots of calls from customers freaked out that their policy wasn't up to date/legal/canceling/increasing. The terms they used varied from call to call. Awe good times, good times!

Luckily, we got off an hour early so I took my under the weather, grumpy butt home and tried to take a nap. I couldn't sleep so I ended up watching my first ever episode of Hannah Montana on Disney. I know she is all the rage with the tween set, but since my son is three I've never seen the show. It was a toss up between her and Oprah. I didn't feel like watching a show about unsuccessful suicide attempts so Hannah Montana it was!

Tonight to cheer me up, my son and I squeezed in one final time of driving around town looking at Christmas lights. Needless to say we are both upset Christmas is over. We both agree that is sad. Very sad!

The Things I Hear

As many of you know, I'm an insurance agent while I'm building my business, Cherished Gifts & Favors. Today while reviewing a customer's auto policy he asked if his insurance was going to go up since he received a ticket in September. He was going 75 mph on the interstate when a cop pulled him over. He said that he knew he wasn't speeding so he took the ticket to court to try to get it waived. The judge let the ticket stand even though the police officer admitted his radar gun beeped while he was looking down so he couldn't say for sure that it had caught my customer speeding. He testified that it was possible that it could have been another car. My customer stated that he had a $450 radar detector in his car so if he had been speeding he would have slowed down before the cop's radar detector picked him up.

He explained that he fought the ticket because he knew he wasn't speeding. He then informs me that he had his cruise control set at 75 and was reading the paper when the cop pulled him over. Yes, he told me that! He was reading the paper will driving 75 mph! I was shocked! I couldn't believe that he was doing that. I also didn't think it was something you would tell your insurance agent. A few minutes, later I had to ask. Did he tell the cop and the judge too? Yes, he did!

My Neighbors

The decorations look better at night. They are a real crowd pleaser. I've looked out my window before and seen tour buses parked outside my house.

I Have Presents Under The Tree

I love looking at Christmas lights, watching Christmas specials on TV, and listening to Christmas carols, but I never look forward to shopping for Christmas presents. There are a few reasons why. 1). With my busy schedule, a three year old son, and building my business I don't have much time to shop. 2). I usually get a little overwhelmed with trying to figure out what to get everybody on my list. 3). I am a TERRIBLE gift wrapper.

However, this year, amazingly, I'm almost done with my Christmas shopping. I can hardly believe it! It is still so early! Well, for me it is! It all happened last weekend. In fact, I am still in shock that I'm almost done. I only have a couple of gifts left to buy and those will be easy (and quick) to pick up.

I have to say a special thanks to Bath & Body Works for having this wonderful little gift. The bag is so nice and since there are goodies inside it serves as packaging as well. As Karyn says "kick butt!". It was a deal too since the goodies inside would be around $50 if you purchase them separately.

I loved this gift so much I picked up 4 bags, one of them being for myself. I was trying to sneak mine in with the other presents since the season is about giving to others and not myself. However, my plan didn't work because a complete stranger that was admiring the bags too mentioned to my husband that I was buying one for myself. Gee thanks!!

Here's Another..

Funny, But True

Enjoy....

Ever Had One Of Those Nights?

Now that's tired! I couldn't help but posting this pix. Just found him like that when I was headed to bed myself. He must have gotten out of bed, saw that I hadn't went to bed yet, and was too tired to make it back to his own bed. He is laying right outside his bedroom.

Its The Best Time Of The Year

I love this time of year! Turning out all the lights so only the lights of the Christmas tree light up the room, decorating for Christmas, taking my 3 year old son to look at Christmas lights EVERY chance we get, and watching Christmas cartoons with him the whole month of December. Last year was a magical Christmas. I'm looking forward to another one this year.

Colin and I went out last Saturday to look at lights for the first time this season. We enjoyed it but, I was disappointed that more people hadn't put theirs up yet. Last weekend should have been the official weekend to decorate for Christmas if you hadn't already done so! My neighbors get so into Christmas that tour buses have stopped by their house. No kidding. I live in the back of a subdivision on a dead end street so imagine my surprise one year when I looked outside to see 2 tour buses outside my house.