Rascal Flatts - CHANGED New CD Released 4/3 - REVIEW

I have been a Rascal Flatts fan every since their first Album! I can remember when they sang on American Idol when Carrie Underwood was a contestant! My gosh how I fell more in love with their music right then and there. Since the trio of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, and Joe Don Rooney made their debut in 2000 they have had 13 #1 singles, sold over 21 million albums, and even have had their music digitally downloaded 25 million times. Their album sales and downloads speak volumes for the melodies this trio puts together! The launch of their newest album was given a name the band wanted all of it's fans to realize a lot of had happened. What did happen was they had now joined forces with Spalding Entertainment releasing what is now their first album with them appropriately named Changed.

JOOSE Top Recruiter Sweeps Win $250 Visa

Enter the JOOSE Top Recruiter Sweepstakes to #WIN a $250 Visa Card. Entries open until April 2nd. Once you enter recruit your friends to enter too! Friends must "like" their page in order to enter and have a valid enter. The link below is my personal referrer link and I will receive credit for your entries! After all I am trying to be JOOSE top recruiter too!

Enter at JOOSE Top Recruiter Sweeps - Katherine's Link

Turn Your Party Into A Fiesta & Enter a Sweepstakes Too

Farm Rich products are known for their bite size snacks and appetizers that come in an array and assortment of different items from mozzarella sticks to stuffed pizza slices. These little bite size foods can turn any party from dull and boring into a fiesta within minutes of being heated up. Farm Rich,  one of the leading brands of Rich Products (which I feel a close connection to being I live outside of Buffalo, NY) has once again brought the party to your home with their newest innovative snack, Queso Cheese Bites. These new snacks come packing the heat, but have the right amount of cool as they are filled with creamy queso cheese!

American Family $500 Melissa & Doug Shopping Spree

AmericanFamily.com is holding a sweepstakes and the prize is a $500 Melissa & Doug Shopping Spree! If you don't know who Melissa & Doug are they produce some of the most innovative toys on market that encourage play that stimulates your child's thinking! 

Sweepstakes end 4/6/12

One Enter Per Person

Enter at American Family Melissa & Doug Shopping Spree

Rules at http://www.americanfamily.com/fb/melissaanddoug/rules.html

Like Lot 18 For a Chance at $500 Ends 2/26

As everyone probably already knows, I love Lot 18 and all the offers they put out. I've ordered from them quite a few times and have been satisfied with every thing I've gotten. Not to mention their customer service is second to none! Now is your chance to win a $500 Lot 18 credit by simply entering through my link and "Liking" their page...

Like them here Lot 18 LIKE Us For A Chance At $500 

disclosure: this link is my personal entry link, I will get credit for your entry. Once you enter you will receive your own link to tweet, email, or post to Facebook to receive more entries

WIN a Funjet Trip for 4 to HAWAII Ends 3/30/12

I was just in Hawaii a few weeks ago and boy oh boy would I give anything to be able to go back and see more of those beautiful Islands! Here is your chance to win a Funjet trip for 4 to Hawaii. If you're the lucky one to win, you could take advantage of the free article writing services so you could still have fresh content for your blog while you are on the trip! This is a one time entry, so make sure you enter by 3/30/12 and travel must be taken between 5/1/12 thru 5/15/13

Enter at PediPed FunJet Hawaii Trip Sweepstakes

Rules at Hawaii Official Rules

WIN a $1000 on Jetsetter to Boost Your Travel Fund Ends 2/29/12

How would you like to boost your travel fund? How about getting started with a travel fund? If so here is your chance! Jetsetter is giving away TWO $1000 gift certificates to help you cover future travel expenses! All you have to do is enter your email and your done! Ends 2/29/12 - Dailyworth (who is the sponsor) will choose the two winners  March 1, 2012 and notify them by email..

Enter here at Win $1000 Jetsetter Gift Certificate

Rules can be seen here Contest Rules

Master Lock - Random Acts of Kindness Week 2 Feb 13-19

This coming week brings about Master Lock's Random Acts of Kindness Week 2. It begins tomorrow, February 13th and goes until February 19th. A little kindness to others can go a long way, it can not only make you feel better, but can also make the person you're spreading kindness to feel better. Not only is Master Lock spreading a little kindness they are also encouraging people to keep their New Year's Resolutions, so if you are struggling to keep your New Year's resolutions this is the week for you to "lock them up" and stick to them! Do you know that Research shows that by February, 36 percent of people have abandoned their resolutions, and by April, that total increases to 54 percent. Do you fit into these statistics? If so, this is your chance to make that permanent change in your life and get back on track with your resolutions. 

As put by Master Lock's Vice President, Marketing - Rebecca Smith

“A New Year’s resolution to positively change or enhance your life is an admirable goal if you can stick to it,” “We feel National Random Acts of Kindness Week is a great opportunity to spread a little kindness by providing consumers with added motivation, tips and products needed to maintain their goals for the year.” 

Vitabath Emmy Swag Bag

I'd like to share with my followers my Vitabath Emmy Swag Bag win! I've tweeted about it to Vitabath earlier, literally it has taken me two days to get through the entire box. Tonight I took pictures and wrote down everything that is in the swag bag box! Now I am going to share it with all of you and also with Vitabath's Facebook fans - I was asked to please post pictures of the win once it arrived on their Facebook page, so I'm going to go one step beyond and write this post so everyone knows what is in the  pictures.... Below are the photos I took (Yes I set everything up all nice and pretty for the pictures) and then below I'll list everything that was in the winning bag! (or box in this case)

Being Appreciative Of Wins

I'm an avid sweeper and I am also pretty sure everyone knows that. I make the point that I am crystal clear to most on my social media pages, to friends, family, and of course my UPS and FedEx guys. I have won so much, so much that I am very appreciative for, but it wasn't until lately that I was just totally blown away by what I've won. There have been two nice wins that I've received within the past week that have really taken my breathe away and made me step back and appreciate all that these companies do for us sweepers/twitter party goers.

How Do You Sweep

While thinking about my daily sweepstakes entries today I thought about an topic, how do others sweep? Do they do daily entries, weekly, instant win games? I came across a friend today and I had asked her if she entered sweepstakes. She said she followed me onto Sweeties Sweeps because she saw me post something on my wall about winning with Sweetie. Wow did this make me smile, it made me smile knowing that I had yet again had an impact on someone else's life by encouraging them to get into sweeping and to quote Sweetie "Win What You Can't Afford". This particular person needs to win, they are very low income and I try to help her out when I can...  So my gift to her is directing her into the right direction to enter sweeps, so she has the chance to win. People like her make me smile when they win, the winners who need the things and appreciate the things they've won. I've had quite a few friends, along with my Mother, follow me onto Sweeties Sweeps FBand even a few paid the yearly fee to join the Sweeties Secret Site. Let me just add, the Secret Site fee is worth it's weight in gold. The first two weeks of being on the site I won a $1000 NFL Buffalo Bills home game ticket package from Bud Light!

Late Night Sweeping

As I was up until 7am this morning I found myself going through all the instant win games and some daily entries into the sweeps I normally do.  It seems as if my late night adventures paid off to an extent. As I was going through the instant win games I have bookmarked in my Google Bookmarks I found myself winning three separate times!

First was a coupon for Dove Ice Cream Bars - valued up to $5.50

Second was a coupon for Sour Patch Kids - valued up to $2.20

Lastly was coupons for Barilla Pasta and Sauce - valued up to $2.00

I haven't won on the instant win games in what seems like forever so these three wins were a welcome site! Even though they were not big wins, they were wins I will get good use out of. I can make dinner with the pasta and sauce and then enjoy a nice ice cream bar after wards! Then maybe later on enjoy a sour snack too!  Sometimes it pays to stay up late and do your entries.

Success with Sweeping & Twitter Parties

I've decided to share a little of what I've won over the past 10 months thanks to sweepstakes, instant win games, twitter RT contest, twitter contests in general, and twitter parties. I will later touch on the rules and regulations of some of these things and what my thoughts are on them...

In December of 2009 while signing into my PayPal account I noticed they had a snowflake game going on. So every night for a few nights in a row I would sign on and play the game. After about the forth night I signed in choose my snowflake and low and behold I won an iPod Touch 32GB. I honestly thought it was a fluke.  A few weeks later my Mother gets an over night delivery from UPS, see she had entered the Dawn Wildlife Sweepstakes and had won! She wasn't quite sure what to make of this letter asking her to have some papers notarized. We were skeptical at first until she later confirmed that she was indeed a 1st place winner in the Dawn Wildlife Sweepstakes and had won $1000! WOW I thought imagine if you could win like that all the time? Was it possible? If so how would I even begin? Honestly it never went any further than that.. I had no idea where to or how to find things to enter, so it slipped my memory for a few months.

Well World Here I Am!

I finally did it!! YES, my blog is up and running.

Let me just tell everyone a little bit about myself, well more about myself.  Some of you have come to know me quite well.  So here goes.... For starters .. my name is Kathy

and I'm 37 years old. I've never been married, nor do I really care to ever be, but do have a boyfriend. Whom I mention now and then. I kind of keep him private because he doesn't like to be talked about "over the internet" as he puts it - paranoia who knows! My biggest hobby is sweepstakes and twitter parties. Over the course of my ramblings I'll mention sweepstakes, twitter parties, and mention the things I've won. I won't post any links for sweeps, but will direct you to the few bloggers I know that are awesome at keeping you up to date with new sweepstakes are out and will also point you in the right direction of bloggers who do great giveaways and twitter parties galore! Eventually I will get into reviewing things, for of course giveaways, but I need to build a following on my blog before I do so.