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The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget – Giveaway & Review

Published on June 15, 2009 by brandyellen in giveaways

I recently read The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet by Josh Dorfman, and must admit I had a great time reading it – really I did! Now if you had asked me to read and review some book about going green and how we are all killing our environment and we need to start riding bikes and living in the dark to “save the world” I would have politely DECLINED, but asking me to review a book that will show me how to save money while living a bit more green … I am game!

I was caught up in this book from the moment I read the introduction. Josh Dorfman had found that when you tell people they need to “go green” to save the planet with all the gloom and doom we normally see associated with this topic, people are less apt to do much of anything about it. Not only do we dislike being accused of ruining our planet and then being TOLD what we NEED to do in our everyday lives, it’s just a negative approach which will get a negative response. If you do what Josh Dorfman has done; provide a positive outlook to what could be a negative situation, then more people may “hop on the Go Green bandwagon”.

I must admit living on a budget is what I do, so reading a book that will help us save money, energy and have an end result of possibly having a positive affect on the planet is wonderful to me!

A little bit about The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet: Josh tells you how and where to become eco-friendly with no guilt trips, and will tell you about some new trends & innovations in this go green concept that is becoming ever so popular lately! Not only does Josh talk about new trends and innovations, but he shows you WHERE you can get these products!!

I would highly recommend you buy this book … better yet .. I highly recommend you enter to win this book in my giveaway below!

Giveaway starts today and ends June 22 at 12am EST

One lucky entrant will win The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget: Save Money. Save Time. Save the Planet, a Brita Water Pitcher and Nalgene Water Bottle.

Here is how YOU can enter to win:

*Visit The Lazy Environmentalist’s Website & Tell me what channel the show is on.
*Subscribe to Happily Blended’s blog post updates.
*Subscribe to Happily Blended’s weekly newsletter.
*Follow @brandyellen on Twitter and tweet about this giveaway.
*Add this blog to your Technorati Favorites – button on sidebar of blog.

Thank you for reading and if you enter the giveaway wishing you MUCH LUCK!

Tags: blog, Brita, Environmentalism, Environmentally friendly, money, Technorati, The Lazy Environmentalist: Your Guide to Easy Stylish Green Living, twitter

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Winner of the Etsy Coupon Organizer From Funnatics

Published on June 13, 2009 by brandyellen in giveaways

The Winner from the Etsy Giveaway: Coupon Organizer from Funnatics is lucky comment number 9 based on the random number generator on random.org

Congrats to Kristy who said she is a subscriber!

You will receive an email shortly and have 48 hours to respond

For those who did not win you can visit Funnatics on Etsy to see her affordable home made products!

P.S. For those who are missing my blog posts, giveaways and reviews – I will have some coming soon! I am still working on fixing some bugs here in my WordPress dashboard where I have upgraded and now can’t access the features I need to complete my scheduled posts.

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Looking to Downgrade my WP

Published on June 12, 2009 by brandyellen in Brandy's Life

I upgraded my WordPress using automatic upgrade to WordPress 2.8 and now I fear I have no tool bar under Visual so I can not do any spell checks, formatting or other similar tasks I enjoyed doing in my posts prior to making them live on my blog.

Has anyone upgraded to WordPress 2.8 and have similar problems? I see a file that is called wpau-backup in my server area – would anyone know if this is the files I backed up prior to upgrading? I do not wish to downgrade if I will lose my data .. but I also do not like this version of WordPress quite honestly.

Please if anyone knows what I can do and can give me a how to guide that would be fantastic. I am searching Google and Twitter but who knows if I will find an answer that doesn’t leave me even more confused.

Tags: advice, assistant, downgrade, friends, Google, help, internet, more, tips, twitter, upgrade, wordpress

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Sited and Blogged: The Technorati List

Published on June 11, 2009 by brandyellen in Brandy's Life, Featured

It’s time to repost our list.
If you want to join, follow these simple steps.

~Copy and paste this blog post into a new blog post on your site.
~Come back here and leave a comment with a full link address to direct us to your post.
~Your link will then be added to the list.

When the list ends in late June, come back and update your list with all of the members. We are atttempting to limit this list to 100 blog links.

SitedandBlogged

The Contest Hub

I am Harriet

Lifes Perfect Pictures

Happy Healthy Families

Five Monkeys

http://www.mftawk.com/2009/05/

http://www.ilikeitfrantic.net/2009/06/technorati-list.html http://theredheadriter.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html http://yesiknowwhatcausesthat.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://apocketfullofbuttons.blogspot.com/

http://outnumbered3-1.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://twoprettylittleskirts.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://valeriegail.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://mainfo.blogspot.com/

http://anniekelleher.blogspot.com/

http://eclecticschooling.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati.html

http://atticgirl.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://iheartfrutopia.blogspot.com/

http://frugalcreativity.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://supermommytotherescue.com/technorati

http://pennypinchingpenguin.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

http://aaensons-lifewithatoddler.blogspot.com/2009/06/technorati-list.html

Tags: Author, blog, Cut copy and paste, Data Formats, FAQs Help and Tutorials, HTML, Markup Languages, Windows

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Writing a Real Novel

Published on June 11, 2009 by brandyellen in Brandy's Life, Featured

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I have always wanted to have some published pieces of writing – mostly I thought of poetry – but lately I have been thinking of writing a book or a novel. I have so many ideas, and found that when brainstorming what I would write about I often tried to focus on motherhood, children and other family friendly type topics. Although I would love to write a family friend novel, my passion appears to be in romance or something that would be more of an adult label than a family friendly label.

I have always enjoyed writing, because it is my outlet. After having a bad day, an argument with a loved one or children who would not listen all day I can sit down and write, allowing my mind to become clear so I can move forward in a positive direction and start the next day off fresh. Writing is an amazing tool; it can help others, help yourself and make you money if you are good at it.

I have seen so many other bloggers who have written books as well as some of my Twitter friends. I am currently reading a couple of books from my Twitter friends, and hope to have the reviews written up for you soon. I love to support writers and I hope that once I finally have my novel written and find a publisher you will review my book on your website or blog.

It may take me years to write my book, but I hope it only takes a few months. I plan to record my thoughts when the idea is there and then listen to the audio so I can transcribe it in a Word document.

I can write a book, no problem, but promoting it, submitting it to publishers, trying to find a way to get it printed and accepted to go out for sale is where I am lost. I have been asking on Twitter but don’t get much for a response. If you are reading this and have any tips please let me know. Also, if you are looking to write a book but have no time to write it please let me know. I would love to chat while I type and get your book typed up for your faster than maybe you have time for. I work with a contract so your piece of writing work would not be stolen, besides I have morals and would never steal someone else idea or work of art anyways.

Tags: Arts, blog, book, Brainstorming, dedication, devotion, Microsoft Word, mommy blogger, novel, publishers, Publishing, romance, time, twitter, virtual Assistant, work, Writer, Writers Resources

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Got My Hotel in NYC From Priceline

Published on June 10, 2009 by brandyellen in Featured, Product Reviews

I recently went to NYC, Manhattan to be exact, to see Bob the Builder live and stay in a hotel overnight with my family. Although we ended up leaving early, the hotel we purchased through Priceline was fantastic. Priceline was a great way for us to find a hotel at a reasonable rate the day before we were heading to NYC. We booked a 2.5 or 3 star hotel for only $85!

For those who are not aware, it is hard to find a hotel in NYC that is not expensive, but with three young children we wanted to stay in NYC so that we could walk with the children around Time Square and other areas of NYC. My husband researched hotel prices in NYC for two days before we finally went ahead and booked through Priceline, we were unsure because of how the site works, but we were pleasantly surprised when we booked a great hotel at a great rate!

Now we went with a 2.5 or 3 star hotel but you can get deals on 4 start hotels as well. Simply select your area, hotel star level and other stats about a hotel that you prefer to have as well as your bid amount, and voila Priceline searches and finds you a great hotel based on the criteria you entered.

Although we didn’t stay overnight in our hotel, we ended up leaving around midnight, the price was right, the hotel was fantastic and I would highly recommend you check into Priceline if you are going to be traveling. I have friends who travel a lot and recommended Priceline, after my great experience and my friends – I would say it’s the ONLY way to travel on a budget!