Twitter Parties & New Calendar

Hello Everyone!! Just a quick post to let everyone know the situation.  Tweeparties.com as of July 1st, due to lack of resources, is NO longer updating their twitter party calendar. So on that note and a huge brainstorm I have added a Calendar to my blog page, which can be seen under Twitter Parties Tab on my home page.

Along with this calendar I have recruited some help and set preferences so some people can add, manage, change, and delete party info. I am also trying to work on a calendar that will allow one click link to take you to party page info, but for the mean time you will have to cut and paste website addresses to get onto RSVP or/and party info pages (I apologize for this, but out of my control right now)

The Move - Literally Calm to Chaotic

**warning this post may contain explicit language**

Where to begin, I suppose at the beginning.  A month ago we rented a PODS (Portable On Demand Storage) and had it placed on the front lawn.  This gave me a month to go through the basement and decide what was going into this POD and why it should.  All of the outdoor Christmas and Halloween decorations went into it, along with every single Christmas decoration/tree/wrapping paper in the house.  I also put winter clothes, a fire pit still in the box, outdoor summer decorations, patio chairs and umbrella, the one dog crate, along with misc other boxes that weren't going to get used or missed if they were in the PODS for a few months.  Originally thinking was the PODS would only be needed for a few months until we got the close date on the short sale house.  Again, original thinking this was...

Day 1 of Loading

Yesterday was Day One of loading the UHaul truck.  It was just a hassle getting the truck to be honest.  We were shuffled around from office to office and finally one lady was kind enough to us and found the 26ft truck we needed. She had it moved over to the location closer to where we are now.  Of course I didn't go to pick it up, my Mom and cousin Justin did.  Oh yeah they were hassled at the location picking it up, stating it had to be back by 4pm tomorrow (which is today) My Mom argued NO, there is a confirmation letter for returning the 2nd or 3rd.  He demanded she bring it down there, so right now that is where she is.... I tell you the customer service at UHaul has been horrible, the people have been so mean... and this is a company that is know for good CS.

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.

AQHA Judge Speaks Out

This article pretty much says it all, regarding what direction the AQHA as an industry is heading if these practices continue to be tolerated by top trainers and exhibitors

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