Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve to all! Did anyone else start the day with a run?

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to all!
I am guest posting today at Run Find Your Happy Pace so I will not be posting today! Check out my post, and the rest of the blog. It is one of my very favorites!

Hung for the Holidays

I participated in several swaps this Christmas, with my fellow bloggers and facebook friends! They were all so much fun! One was organized by Carlyn at Just Keep Sweating called Hung for the Holidays!
I was given Jane's name to shop for. Jane doesn't have a blog for me to share with you, but she does have 2 adorable rescue dogs so I chose a multi pack of cute silver dog ornaments for her. I wish I had thought to take a picture, but it was a big shopping day, and amidst all the unpacking, wrapping, etc. I just plain forgot!
My ornament came from Joanna at Making Mine and she sent me the most amazing peace sign ornament. It is metal, but it is designed to look like it is made of twigs. SO COOL! I just love it!!

Isn't it gorgeous?!?!
Thank you so much, Joanna!

Did you participate in any swaps this year? Ornament, Secret Santa?

Nominated For a Liebster Blog Award!!!

What a wonderful end to one of those typical less-than-perfect days! Yesterday, my fellow Elf4Health buddy, Kristy, from Kristy's Health Revolution nominated me for a Liebster Award. Hooray! Thank you, Kristy!!! I have seen many of my blogger friends receive this award, and to be inlcuded among them makes me very happy!

What is the Liebster Award, you might ask? I know I did, the first time I saw it! Liebster is German for "dearest", which I just love, because I am part German! It is given to bloggers with less than 200 followers as a way to spread the "new blogger" love!

Of course, with any award, there are guidelines! I must

• answer 11 questions set forth by my nominator!
• Write 11 random facts about myself
• Write 11 questions of my own for
• 11 new nominees!

Am I sensing a trend here? I wonder where the 11 came from? Interesting.....

SO
11 random facts about me?

1. I have 2 dogs, one is "mine" (A Shitzu Poodle mix named Nugget) and one is "the hubs" (a Cardigan Corgi named Memphis, pictured above)
2. I am totally addicted to chocolate
3. I work in a Special Education classroom , with Autistic children, as a paraprofessional
4. I am studying with NASM to become a Personal Trainer
5. I was once the inside and back cover "model" on a Collage Video Catalog, and won $100 in free DVDs from their catalog as a prize!
6. I am running at least 13 Half Marathons in 2013, and have registered for 7 already!
7. I have only been running since August 2011
8. My hubby and I met in 1987, but didn't start dating until 1992
9. I once met Joe Pesci. I was not impressed.
10. I also met Richie Sambora. I *was* impressed. Then. His choices lately do not impress me.
11. I live in a town that Sandy destroyed. I have survivor's guilt, many of my friends sustained crazy damage. Our food spoiled, and that was about it.

 

And now for Kristy's questions:

 

1) What's your favorite movie? I have so many, but my fave is actually a mini-series: Pride and Prejudice. It is my go-to feel-like-crap, lay on the couch all day, movie! I love me some Mr. Darcy! ::::swoon:::::

2) What is the first thing you'd do if you won the lottery? Pay off the Hubs' Law School loans! They weigh on us like crazy, I would love for them to just disappear!
3) Do you have any pets? lol I totally answered this one above! ooops! Here is my Nugget:

4) What's your favorite food? Cupcakes! OMG they are the greatest invention ever. Especially Red Velvet or Carrot Cake. YUM!
5) If you could have one super power, what would it be? Speed! Over a year of running, and I am still so slow! How great would it be, to be able to run fast!
6) What's your favorite cartoon? Smurfs! The original hokey Smurfs. I used to use Smurfy as an adjective in every sentence as a kid, and I still have a bunch of those lil figurines! Sad, but true!

7) Why did you start a blog? I started for accountability. I was about to start training for my first half, and I wanted to be sure I didn't bail, so I started blogging. What a great gift to myself, I have met so many amazing women (and even some men) on this journey!
8) You have a holiday party tomorrow at work. What's your go-to potluck dish to bring? I am the worst when it comes to this! I will go out and buy something, usually, as I am not a great cook at all! Summer parties tho, I will make a giant sugar cookie and smooth whip cream over it and make a flag pattern with strawberries and blueberries. yum!
9) Name one song that makes you want to immediately get up and dance? Call Me Maybe, sad but true. It is so horrid and yet so catchy all at once!
10) What's your favorite Saturday morning activity? getting bagels with the hubs and walking the dogs to the dry cleaners. It is so chill and calm and normal after a crazy week at school (and they are all crazy weeks, never a dull moment!)
11) What is the one thing you'd like to do with your blog in the next year? I had a few companies contact me to review their products, and would *love* to have even more! I am always envious of those who get to review such amazing big-name items! I wanna play with the big girls in 2013 ;)

 

 

My 11 Questions, with a Christmas Flair in honor of the week I was nominated:

 

 

1. What is your favorite Holiday movie?

 

2. What is your favorite Holiday song?

 

3. Who is your favorite Holiday character?

 

4. What is your favorite Holiday tradition?

 

5. What is your favorite ornament? Why?

 

6. Is your Christmas tree live, or artificial?

 

7. Garland: yay or nay?

 

8. Star? or Angel?

 

9. Tinsel: yay or nay?

 

10. Do you hang candy canes on your tree?

 

11. What color are your Christmas tree lights?

 

 

My nominees: (I apologize if you have been nominated already! It is so hard to keep track!)

 

1. Gigi at Running on Candy

 

2. Tiffany at From Couch to Iron Woman

 

3. Melissa at My Peach Life

 

4. Erin at For the Love of Disney Running

 

5. Julia at Fit Hourglass

 

6. Holly at Running and Baking, Oh My!

 

7. Katie at From Ice Cream to Marathon

 

8. Nicole at Being Messy Beautiful

 

9. Melissa at The Melissa Chronicles

 

10. Sarah at Mom Running on Empty

 

11. Gina at Noshing on Asphalt

 

 

Who are some of the bloggers that inspire you?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Tropical Traditions Winner!

to Aneesa Lewis, you are the winner of the Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil! Email me at kimmiepcft@hotmail.com with your snail mail address so that I can have it sent to you asap!
Thank you to everyone who entered!
I hope to have a giveaway in January for my one year Blogaversary!

National Blogging Day of Silence

Today I was going to select a winner for my Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil Giveaway. The winner will instead be posted tomorrow.

Influenster: Cosmo Vox Box

I recently read about a great website: Influenster. After you join, you do surveys and tasks about things you are interested in, and write reviews, answer questions, even ask questions...about products you know and love. The more you do, the more points you get. If you earn enough points, they might even send you some samples to try out!
They recently contacted me about trying some products out, and the box they sent was called the Cosmo Vox Box.

Look at all that great stuff!!! I won't lie, the first thing that I tried out was that chocolate. It pretty much disappeared immediately! It was called Sea Salt Escape and it was so tasty, with just the slightest salty aftertaste. I don't normally like chocolate with sea salt, but this was AMAZING! I ate the whole thing while I checked my email.

Next I tried the pens. At first, I didn't get the big deal. They wrote very nicely, and the purple one actually wrote purple. I love a pen that writes nicely. And then I read the description. Holy heck, this pen is eraseable. But it uses friction! Holy cow, the tip of the pen is rubber, and the friction just erases it! WHOA!! It works really well!

Next, I was thrilled to see my fave razors in there! Venus razors are the bomb! You can use any Venus razor head on the reusable handle! Woot! I needed a new handle, so this came at a perfect time, and with a coupon! Hooray!

There was one last item, perfume from Bath and Body Works, that I did not get to try. My teenager saw it and grabbed it and ran! She loves it tho, so I guess it's okay!

If you haven't checked out Influenster, get on over there!! What a fun box this was!

Influenster provided me with these goodies to try, however I was under no obligation to write a review, good or bad, All opinions expressed are my own :)

Have you tried any of these products?