Uh…so I haven’t been around these parts for a few weeks–in my head I was all “…hmm…..okay it’s been like a week or so since I’ve written anything on the old blog…better get to gettin on that, for all five of my readers, lest they think I’ve gone to the Big Blog in the Sky.” and then I got here…and well, yeah it’s been a few weekS with a big fat old capital plural S.

So, how’s your summer going? Mine has been going by in a blur, which is either about to get better or worse–I’m not quite sure yet. I’ve been doing enough freelancing on the side to finally justify giving my oh-so-exciting part-time job at the old Non-Profit the heave ho. Seriously, the 18th (just 8 sweet weekdays away) is totally my last day of working for The Man. Then I’m totally working for myself, which is exciting, but a little terrifying. Luckily I have a few weeks to tell if I’m totally going to sink or swim in this whole “No really, I may have a small portfolio, but I’m a fantastic freelance web designer/coder and you should totally let me build a site for you” endeavor. Guess it’s a really good thing that what I make does not in any way represent a significant portion of the old household budget, right?

In other exciting news, I am also writing reviews over at Mommy Needs A Review. Kristen has some awesome contacts, so there will be some great giveaways. In fact, if you go to Mommy Needs A Review later on this evening, you’ll see what I’m talking about (HINT HINT, I AM GIVING AWAY SOMETHING YOU DEFINITELY WILL WANT TO WIN).

So tell me, what exciting things are you doing with your summer so far?

Josh is the big winner of the 2 fabulous Rachel Ray cookbooks with comment #11.  Because I was up late trying to make something work on a page for a client, I am very sleepy today and thus forgot to send my screenshots to myself at home (D’OH!) and because I am lazy, there was no way I was packing up Owen and trucking back down to my office this afternoon just to send myself an email at home.  So you’ll just have to believe me, missing randomizer screenshots and all.  Really, would I lie to you?  Heh.

 No, really, Josh’s comment did randomly get picked, so Josh, email me at : trena ‘at’ youmeandababy’dot’com and I’ll get your pertinent information to send these out to you.

I only wish I had more Rachel Ray cookbooks to give away to the other participant (I loved the cheesecake story–so something I would do), but like I mentioned earlier today, this was so much fun, that I want to do a little contest somethin’ somethin’ every month.  So come back on January 2nd to find out what I’m giving away for January.  I’ll give you a little hint–it won’t be something I’ve previously owned and it won’t be cookbooks!

So I took all the actual comments (that weren’t links back to my fabulous contest or the one comment by my in real life best friend), counted them up (there were 13!  You all (especially Josh) were prolific!) and ran it through a number randomizer to pick the winner of my Rachel Ray cookbooks.

I even took screenshots of the winning number process, so that there would be no question of favoritism (or hanging chads which would require a recount–oh wait, wrong contest).

However, I am currently at work and lack the capabilities to post my screenshots, so I’ll announce the ‘official’ winner later tonight with screenshots (12/21/2007). 

This was so much fun (and your comments made me laugh when I really needed a laugh, especially about Wibbly Peen, although I think my blog has now gone from being ‘PG-13′ to a definite ‘NC-17′ rating ) that I am going to try to have some sort of contest every month.  So, if you didn’t win this time around, come back on January 2, 2008 to see what my contest is for January.