Orkin Prize Pack Give Away

The Orkin Scientific Back-to-School PRIZE PACK includes: - Clip-on Fisheye Lens (iPhone, Galaxy, Android compatible) - Orkin On-the-Go Drink Tumbler - Orkin Drawstring Bag - Orkin “Field Notes” Notebook w/ Pen

Do you know your bugs? Living in the south I have been exposed to more spiders, mosquitoes, and other creepy crawlies than I ever experienced north of the Mason Dixon line! I even got my first chigger bites this week, I kid you not. For as many bugs as I see, I usually hear different facts about them too...

“Daddy longlegs are poisonous.”
“Mosquitoes prefer adults over children.”
“Ants can survive underwater.”

You’ve heard the myths about bugs before I am sure, do you know what’s fact and what’s fake?

Take Orkin’s Scientific Fact or Scientific Fake™ Quiz to test your knowledge, and be sure to watch every clip for the scoop on these infamous bug myths.



Orkin uses the latest technology and unparalleled training to develop a treatment that's right for your home and your needs. To learn more about pest control that's based in science or to schedule an inspection, visit orkin.com or call (844) 503-8251.

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If you want to win the prize pack Rafflecopter will walk you through the process! Good luck!

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Each household is only eligible to win One (1) Orkin Fact or Fake School Pack via blog reviews and giveaways. Only one entrant per mailing address per giveaway. If you have won the same prize on another blog, you will not be eligible to win it again. Winner is subject to eligibility verification.

The prize will be sent via FedEx or USPS. No P.O. Boxes please. Please note that the assets included within this message were delivered to the author to promote Orkin LLC. All other opinions are my own as the author of this blog. I will be sent a prize pack for my participation but that does not effect my opinion in any way.

Winner!

And the winner of the $25 Commissary Gift Card is...

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Congratulations Jen! I will get that in the mail to you ASAP!

Relax With Simple Skin Care

 

If you haven't noticed my poor blog has needed a break lately. It's been a hectic year so far. Ever since we returned from our trip things have been going going going. But it's important to take time for yourself too. When I received a box of goodies from Simple Skin Care to do so I was pretty excited. 

 

I finally have an amazing soft robe like my husband does that I can curl up with in front of the fire. The book of inspirational quotes and the candle gave me a perfect bubble bath one evening and the commissary gift card helped so much when our budget was very tight. 

 

I also love the products! 

 

I have very sensitive skin and the cleansing wipes didn't irritate my skin or make me break out. Neither did the moisturizer. Both were soothing and not heavily scented and felt refreshing. 

Being a military spouse sometimes means you run in circles until you don't know which way is up.

 

With my husband coming home, our reintegration, our trip, the loss of a family member, getting cast in a show with our community theatre, work and just day to day life I feel a little dizzy lately. So the other night when I took my bubble bath and snuggled in my robe it was a small reset button for me. It's important to take time for yourself, even if it's just twenty minutes in the tub. 

 

Don't get overly dizzy my friends!

 

And here is a little something that may help. A $25 commissary gift card provided by simple skin care. Since you can buy Simple Skin Care at the Commissary ;) Rafflecopter will walk you through it all below. You have until March 1 to enter. 

 

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/30c1268/

 

 

Note: I was given some Simple Skin Care products to review (as well as a robe, candle, quote book and slippers to fully "relax" as well as a commissary gift card) but all opinions expressed here are my own and are not influenced in any way by the receiving of products.

 

Give Away Win

I was very fortunate to win some gorgeous stockings from Jordan at Embrace the Adventure this week. Today a package arrived containing our new gorgeous stockings!

Ryan instantly claimed the red one and was a big fan too. 

Jordan's mom plans to start selling them soon and I encourage you all to check them out when she does! Thank you Jordan and to your mom for the early Christmas surprise :) the card she included was very sweet too. 

Last Week to Win!

This is the LAST WEEK TO ENTER TO WIN!!!!!!!!!!  DON'T MISS OUT ON THE CHANCE TO WIN TWO BRAND NEW PHONES!!

T-Mobile's new Blackberry Z10 might be one of the coolest phones on the market and Blackberry has consistently been the go to phone for the military.  It is one of the only phones that has been tested and approved by the DOD the be used on the secure military networks and we want YOU to be able to have one!

T-Mobile has an awesome program for military families!  You can check it out by CLICKING HERE

But why stop at one?

T-Mobile has also offered up a surprise second Blackberry Z10 to go to the second place winner!!!

Myself and all of these bloggers have banded together to work with T-Mobile to get you this AMAZING prize!!

What are you waiting for?!

But what do you have to do?  How do you win the phones?  It's pretty simple!

Make a 15-30 second video about why you deserver, want, or need a new phone and why T-Mobile should give you one.  Then tweet the video with the hashtag #TMobileIWantaNewPhone.  For the entry to be valid, be sure you copy and past the URL of the tweet into the first entry option for the Rafflecopter widget at the bottom of this post.

Want extra entries?  The contest entry widgets have lots of cool ways you can follow the awesome bloggers putting this shindig on for easy extra entries!

Want to win the second phone?  ENTER TO WIN!!!  And remember, you CAN use the same video entry to win both phones, but you must tweet the video with the contest hashtag a SECOND time and use that second URL as your entry.

That's pretty much all there is to it!

Join in the fun, enter to win a super cool phone and meet some new bloggers.  And don't forget to check out the general contest guidelines HERE

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*All videos will become property of A Boy, A Girl and the Marine Corps and may be used by her or by T-Mobile for promotional purposes.

 

TMobile Give Away!!!

Do you need a new phone?  Do you just want a new phone?  Do you want it for free?!

I have partnered with TMobile and a pretty amazing group of bloggers to get you a new phone!

T-Mobile's new Blackberry Z10 might be one of the coolest phones on the market and Blackberry has consistently been the go to phone for the military.  It is one of the only phones that has been tested and approved by the DOD the be used on the secure military networks and we want YOU to be able to have one!

T-Mobile has an awesome program for military families!  You can check it out by CLICKING HERE

But why stop at one?

T-Mobile has also offered up a surprise second Blackberry Z10 to go to the second place winner!!!

So, without further ado, meet the team of bloggers who are working to spread the news about this amazing giveaway:

But what do you have to do?  How do you win the phones?  It's pretty simple!

Make a 15-30 second video about why you deserve, want, or need a new phone and why T-Mobile should give you one.  Then tweet the video with the hashtag #TMobileIWantaNewPhone.  For the entry to be valid, be sure you copy and past the URL of the tweet into the first entry option for the Rafflecopter widget at the bottom of this post.

Want extra entries?  The contest entry widgets have lots of cool ways you can follow the awesome bloggers putting this shindig on for easy extra entries!

Want to win the second phone?  ENTER TO WIN!!!  And remember, you CAN use the same video entry to win both phones, but you must tweet the video with the contest hashtag a SECOND time and use that second URL as your entry.

That's pretty much all there is to it!

Join in the fun, enter to win a super cool phone and meet some new bloggers.  And don't forget to check out the general contest guidelines HERE

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*All videos will become property of A Boy, A Girl and the Marine Corps and may be used by her or by T-Mobile for promotional purposes.

FRIENDS Give Away Winner!

And the winner is....

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Congratulations Sierra! Email me your address and I will have PartnersHub get the prize out to you ASAP! Thank you to all who entered.


Our ball is tomorrow evening and we just returned from my parents' house in the mountains on Tuesday night. It is a crazy week but I hope to update you about our trip west and the ball as soon as possible! Expect more blogging next week, I promise.

FRIENDS Give Away!

PartnersHub recently contacted me to host this give away and I was pretty excited... heck I want the prize for myself!!! I am a huge FRIENDS fanatic and I love watching the show whenever I catch the reruns on television these days. I sadly only have one season on DVD (I am not even technologically advanced enough for Blu-Ray) but PartnersHub is working with Warner Bros on the release of Friends: The Complete Series Blu-ray Box Set, available soon!

To celebrate PartnersHub is giving on lucky My Marine and Me reader two oversized cappucino mugs and a picutre frame just like on the doorway on the show. Random trivia, did you know that was supposed to actually be a mirror but a crew member broke it right before filming began? The producers liked the frame so much they decided to leave it on the door, even without the mirror in place.

Now, how can you win this fabulous prize? Well, Rafflecopter at the bottom will walk you through it. In the mean time check out these awesome fun extras below.







Good luck! Now, you will need to use the widgets above to win, at least a little, so be sure to check them out. Contest will be open for one week.

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Note, I was contacted by PartnersHub to sponsor this give away and all opinions reflected are my own and not biased in any way. I just love FRIENDS, call it kismet.

Tiny Prints Winner and Election Day

Congratulations Kara!!!

Tiny Prints will send you the code directly via email (the one you entered the give away with). Thanks to all who entered!

Want to enter another give away? Stick around, this next one is good.... especially if you like the tv show Friends!



Election Day

I am not going to write who I voted for or anything like that. It is a personal thing and not something I need to write about on this blog. I was excited because this is the first time I was able to go to a polling place and actually vote in person rather than sending in an absentee ballot! My polling place was literally down the street. I knew the morning would be rough so I waited until around 11am, thinking I'd miss the pre-work voters and be there before the lunch rush. I was pretty wrong...

This was the line outside. North Carolina was a balmy 45 degrees but fortunately the line outside only took fifteen minutes or so. People were campaigning towards the back of the line and I just took whatever fliers anyone handed to me. Some people in line were pretty rude about it but I just let it go. I threw it away when I got inside and I had looked it over. I think by the time you are in line at the polls you know who you want to vote for!

So I get inside and there are three lines, all divided by last name. A-H had about four people in it, S-Z was empty and I-R (my last name) was wrapped around the darn building. Seriously??? Ugh. Both my maiden and married names fall in those letters so I was stuck in the long line regardless. When you have a lot of people waiting in a closed space for awhile personalities come out, but I just browsed my phone and ignored most of it. I finally get to the computer and the guy can't find my name in the system. I had my voters registration card with me so I KNOW I am registered to vote! He told me he was entering my maiden name, my married name and my birthday and nothing was coming up. After a few minutes he tells me I have to do a provisional ballot that will be submitted to the Board of Elections separately.... no!!! It is my first time voting in person, you can't!

I looked at him and asked, "Well, did you enter my maiden name and married name together? Legally that is my full last name." He types and sure enough it comes up. Ugh. Seriously dude? It never occured to you to enter my last name as written but to just break it up for ways and try that? I don't have a hyphenated last name, legally it is two words. Maiden Name Married Name... like that. But whatever. I got to vote! Eastern NC where I was did paper ballots so I filled in my scantron and submitted it. An hour and a half after I arrived I got my sticker and I was damn proud of it!

I made hamburgers for dinner, ran to ballet, and then snuggled on the couch with Ryan to watch the election results roll in. We pretty much had a basic idea of who the winner would be (and we were right) but we still stayed up until 11:30 when it basically was announced officially.

After that we two old farts stumbled to bed and passed out. Not the most exciting of evenings but a certain Marine did have to be up early for work the next day so we take what we can get! It was a very different experience than I had four years ago. I was a senior in college living in DC... it was crazy! We went to every event and even got up at three am to go to the inauguration and freeze our behinds off. It was a blast. I am older now and maybe a little wiser, but both days, even though they were quite different, were great in their own ways.

Tiny Prints Review and Give Away

Tiny Prints has a wide selection of Photo Holiday Cards that are making me anxious to order them even though it isn't even much past Halloween! This year they have a new feature, the Premium DoubleThick™ Matte Paper, which is their most luxurious cardstock yet. Check out the video below, it makes me want to get it just to have my friends and families struggle with their fridge magnets too!




There are tons of options, everything from generic holiday to Christmas to Hannukah to New Years. The cards are different shapes and sizes and are filled with bright colors and designs. I have narrowed down the selection of cards I am considering buying... what do you think? I tend to be more classic when it comes to my cards, but the last one was too cute to resist!

Card One:

 Card Two:

 Card Three:

 Card Four:

Tiny Prints has wonderful prices, a great selection and they normally have a lot of special offers going on nearly all the time!! They even have a Special Offers page with all of their discounts and deals in one place for you to check out.

Now as a special offer I am giving away a little something that may help for the holidays: $50 off your total order (expires 12/14/2012 – no extensions). Just note it does not include shipping & cannot be combined with any other promos, but it is still a great deal! Enter below and Rafflecopter will walk you through it. Give away ends November 7th.
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This is a sponsored post and give away, all opinions are my own and although I was compensated for this post it did not reflect my opinion in any way.

Winners and a bit else...

Congratulations!!! Ladies, send me an email with your address and your prizes shall arrive shortly. The top winner wins the Emulsion Pens and the bottom winner wins the Daisies.

Thank you to all who entered.... expect another give away very soon!

Also, just an update. Although my parents do not live in New Jersey anymore they still own our house (it is currently being rented). Today my dad sent me the pictures of the storm and damage and it broke my heart. I know it isn't as bad as it could be, but seeing all the trees I grew up with lying flat and our barn hit plus our roof damaged.... well it wasn't a great email to receive.

Luckily no one was hurt and everything of course can be repaired. In the top right picture of the collage you can see the tarp covering the roof which was exactly over my old room and my parents' old room. Sigh. I hope everyone up north is safe and recovering and gets power back soon!

Also, this is my 600th post. Crazy.

Enjoy your Halloween, stay safe!

Zebra Pen Give Away

Recently I was contacked by the Zebra Pen Company to review and sample their products. They have been in business for over 110 years and their products work wonderfully in the military field! Since my husband has switched to being a Ground Radio Technician he does a lot more paperwork than he did as a grunt. I gave him packs of pens and pencils to take into work to get a wide sampled field.

Since men and women of the armed forces need a durable pen to carry in the pen pocket on their combat uniform, the following were sent to us to review:
· G-301 (ARV $3.09 each) The first retractable steel gel pen offering a stylish design with world class quality.
· F-301 (ARV $2.77 each) Ballpoint pen featuring a contemporary stainless steel barrel with stylish design and world class quality. Features a non-slip grip for writing comfort and ease. The textured grip color corresponds to the ink color.
· M301 (ARV $2.69 each) A light-weight, yet durable mechanical pencil boasting non-slip grip ensures full writing control.
· Z-Mulsion Pens Emulsion ink is the perfect balance of oil and water. It is quick-drying and smear resistant while maintaining a brilliant and bold writing line. It is the best of a ball point and gel in one! Available in Z-Mulsion (MSRP: $1.65 each) and Z-Mulsion EX (MSRP: $2.25 each).
· NEW 301-A (ARV $3.29 each) The classic 301 steel ballpoint pen design, now with fashionable metal barrel colors.
· Daisies (ARV $3.75/5 pk) Ballpoint pen featuring floral designs in five vibrant colors.

The guys at my husband's shop LOVED them. Apparently they started hoarding them (including his Master Sgt with the mechanical pencils) and they were quickly all claimed. They are the only pens my husband will now use at work and I had to set some aside for him to us at home. They are durable, write extremely well, don't smear and they are replaceable! If for any reason they fail to operate the pens are able to be exchanged (as long as they are not abused or physically damaged).

Zebra Pen products can be found nationwide at Staples, Office Max, Office Depot, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and other office supply stores, discount chains, food and drug retailers, stationery stores and wholesale clubs. For more information on Zebra Pen products, programs and promotions, log onto www.zebrapen.com or visit its Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/ZebraPenUS.

Now I have a pack of the Z-Mulsion Pens Emulsion Ink and the Daisies to give away. Sorry overseas ladies but this give away is for US readers only. There will be two winners, one for the Daisies and one for the Emulsion Ink.

Rafflecopter will walk you through the give away which will be opened until October 31st!


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Note: I was given the pens to review and give away but all opinions reflected in this post are my own (and my husband's and his Marines').