I'm so excited!

I'm so excited, I have all kinds of stuff coming in for reviews! I'm currently in the middle of a review for Scott Naturals Tube Free, sent to me by #CrowdTap. I'm also in the middle of a review for #MaryKay Timewise Firming Eye Cream , which I won from @smplbeautytips . I've got a #HouseParty event coming up for #Hasbro games, A review for a fog-less shower mirror, and a hair dye review from #BzzAgent! Plus I have another Birchbox coming in this week, and the Wal-mart Winter Beauty box should be shipping this week as well! Lots of fun stuff to look forward to!

I am also trying to figure out social media. I really don't understand Twitter, but I would appreciate any followers https://twitter.com/DynalRoberson . If I can get 100 followers I get access to more stuff that I can review. I'm not sure if I'm doing the hash tag thing correctly or the links, but I'm hoping I am. I signed up to be an Amazon Affiliate, which just means that I'm going to have one of their banners on my page eventually, if my tech support can help me figure out how to put it on. Also there may be links on the products I review to Amazon if Amazon happens to carry the product.

If you have any useful advise on how I can make the most of my social media accounts, I'm open to suggestions. I'm not overly tech savvy, but I do learn eventually. Also if there is anything you would like me to review just let me know. If it's free I can definitely do it, if it's not, it might take me a little while, but I'll try.

What do you eat?

So this year for Thanksgiving we are going to share the Feast with our neighbors. We are currently making a list of what everyone is making so we don't end up with twenty pounds of potato salad. We are bring a ham, mashed potatoes and a green-bean casserole. Our neighbors are making other things for the feast including homemade noodles and rice pilaf. Which makes me wonder, "What do you consider to be traditional Thanksgiving fare?" I always thought that Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce,green-bean casserole and a variety of pies was your basic fare. However when I went to my first Thanksgiving With Wes's family I sadly discovered that they generally didn't do mashed potatoes. I have also discovered that the stores in Wyoming don't generally keep pecan pie, which is one of my Thanksgiving staples, in stock. Therefore I am going to be learning how to make Pecan Pie, but I probably won't master it before this year's thanksgiving. So, verily, I ask you this: What are you having for Thanksgiving?

Fa, La, La, La... Bah!

So it's that time of year again. Holiday time! I'm one of those people who aren't that into the Holidays. Oh, I try, but honestly, they just depress me. I'm reminded of past holidays that weren't the greatest. I'm reminded that I'm missing half my family. I'm reminded that I can't afford to get my children the gifts that they would like. So I'm going to try to make the best of it. Wes is going to make our traditional Kvasir.(Beat Mead) .The Pinata didn't go over to well last year, so I don't know if we are going to repeat it. We are trying to come up with our own Holiday traditions, but so far all we have is Mead. Not bad, but we can't exactly share that with the kids. Do y'all do anything special for the Holidays? I'm a bit at a loss. I'm not exactly Suzie Homemaker.

Fire on the Mountain Top

So the big news today is that the mountain is on fire. Last night it was at 43 acres, tonight it's at 1,170 acres. It's about five miles out of town. We've got the bug out bags packed and sitting by the door in case they decide we need to evacuate. I'm hoping it won't come to that though. We are supposed to be getting some kind of precipitation tonight and at this point I'm even OK with snow! (I hate snow.) This is my first Wild fire and I don't like it! I guess I'm worried over nothing because nobody else in town seems to be, but it seems like I'm reacting the opposite way that someone up here would react to a hurricane. So, we propose a toast to Ullr, may we get snow tonight to put out the fire. Hopefully there will be good news in the morning.

*Update*
As of 8 am this morning the fire was 95% contained and they were sending the out of town volunteers home. Hurray for the snow doing it's job. Hail Ullr!  It can stop snowing now...

Exersize'n

So a couple of days ago I instituted a new "Work-out plan" I put on the 80's music channel and whenever the mood takes me I get up and start dancing to the the song. It's a quick 3 minute work out and it's fun, I get to listen to some great music and the sounds of my daughter protesting loudly "Mommy, Stop that! Stop Dancing!" I'm guessing that it's accomplishing something other than embarrassing my daughter, (It doesn't embarrass me, she's the only one who can see it.)  because now my legs and butt are killing me! I am definitely not dancing as much today as I was yesterday! I don't know how many calories I'm burning, but I do know that I burned more than I did last week when I didn't do anything.

I can't get Freyja interested in learning how to write to save my life. It doesn't help that she's a lefty and I'm a righty. At this point I'm seriously considering putting her in a brick and mortar kindergarten next year simply so that someone else can have a go at it. She's coming along alright with the reading. She knows her alphabet, and her numbers (She usually juxtapositions some of the letters in the alphabet song but that's ok, she knows what they look like.) She's got some sight words down, and loves to be read to. She just doesn't want to write, or draw or really do anything that requires her to use a pencil or crayon. Ah well, I will carry on, maybe we'll progress later on in the year...

Subscription boxes, gotta catch them all!

Having spent the evening looking at the myriad of subscription boxes, I think that they have one for everything you can imagine if you only look hard enough. Yes , even a Pokemon Box. There are tons of the normal Beauty box subscriptions, of which I signed up for Birch Box and Ipsy. I will be post unboxings and reviews when the boxes come in. There are so many more that I want to try that aren't as main stream!  There's the Monthly Magic Box Which is all about Magic the Gathering! How cool is that? There's a Steam Punk box, a Goth box, A horror box, tons of geek boxes, even a Scandinavian Housewares box!
I started out last night going, Geeze, I wish they had better boxes than just make-up and nail polish! Granted make-up and nail polish are cool, but I may one of the only girls in the USA to say "How much do you really need?" So I started looking around. There really are more boxes out there, there's even a Jewish box. I'm not Jewish (Obviously,) but I like the fact that it's out there. I can't wait to start reviewing these boxes!



On a different note, I figured out how to add a Followers gadget (I think) and I now have one follower. (It's my tech support.) I had a couple of other people say that they are following me, but it isn't showing up in my blog overview, so I hope they are. :) I'm not doing anything overly exciting today, basic house work, maybe working on my up-cycling.  I might even feel adventurous and try and post some pictures to this blog.

Well, that's it for right now, I still have a lot to learn about how to set things up in this here cyber world. (Otherwise I would have added links to all the cool box sites.) But rest assured, I'll figure it out eventually... Or I'll just get Jen or Wes to do it...