Giveaway! Oopsie Daisy! Update!

My hiatus is over.

...but, did you miss me?

I know that I did something that I'm sure is a huuuuge blogger no-no!

Not only did I extend my giveaway deadline due to being distracted by my crazy/beautiful life, but then I didn't announce the winner on the new deadline date!!! Sorry, y'all!!! I was still swingin' at curveballs and trying to make lemonade out of these lemons!
I think we hit a couple home-runs and made some pretty awesome lemonade this past week... so forgive me if you can!

Have I won your sympathy yet?!? No, but seriously - I've been a little overwhelmed lately and doing this giveaway and doing it properly would just be wrong right now.

I'm extending it one last time because the third time's a charm!

And since this is an oopsie-daisy on my part

I'm putting together a surprise goody-bag that I think you will dig!

As if a peace owl print isn't awesome enough (thanks rachel)...
I went and got super distracted (like always) & now have an excuse to go buy my favorite readers some groovy things!  

Wooord. Right? ;)

Anyways, another reason I seemed to have been lost in the mystic is because I'm in that loss of technology twilight zone...

I lost my phone when I was out in downtown Orlando with friends on Saturday night.  I went to one of my best friend's birthday party and not only forgot her gift at my house before I walked out the door, but I gave some drunken bar-rat out there, who has no heart by the way, a $250.00 BlackBerry.  Awesome, with a side of complete sarcasm.  And no, I wasn't a drunken bar-rat myself.  I can't even use that as an excuse and blame the phone incident on being drunk. To say I was pisssed off at the world on Saturday night would be the best way to decribe only the beginning to a series of brewing emotions.  Not because it's a lost phone - are you kidding me?  I would tell you how many cell phones I've had in my life but I don't want to make my Mom and Dad sick.

But I was emotional about I hate always feeling like

I can't win for losing.

It was just one more thing I'd have to replace.  All those pictures that were on there when my phone had to serve as my camera until I could get a new one because a fire destroyed it... and everything else.  Those saved messages from people who have sent their support for me during this beautifully transcending phase in my life. 

But then I found a way to laugh it off and just think

isn't it ironic?

Life is, that's for daaaamn sure.

But an over-all great weekend (filled with music) made it possible to let it go and let it be. 

I mean, what can you do? Well, other than call Verizon and shut off your phone and then pray that God convict their heart and do what is right and not do anything mean, malicious, or harmful with the personal information and such that is on that phone?

...This is funny though.  Anyone who ever lived with me in college probably saw me deal with a lost phone, a broken phone, a run over phone, a rained on phone, a phone or two that swam in the toilet, and the one that encouraged us to drink a pitcher of beer faster so that no one had to put their dirty hands in the beer.  That one was stupidly funny. Anyways... all the times other than the last one, my former roomie's would probably tell you that I freak the hell out when I am without a cell phone.  That was even the case before I became a CrackBerry addict. 

But the funny part about this time is that I have ENJOYED the serenity of not having a handheld computer to go with me everywhere.  I realized I crowd my mind with a lot of stuff sometimes and I realized that maybe I shouldn't have Twitter on my phone.  I forget to enjoy the moments around me because I am busy reading about friends & family, celebrities & reality-TV stars, college & pro athletes, and musicians, organizations, and politicians. 

Like, OMG... information overload.  I need some peace of mind. 

I have enough going on in my own life right now and I just can't imagine how much clearer my thoughts would be if I didn't crowd it with so much information news about people that I barely know but just attract media and public attention. 

I think I need a break.

BUT NOT FROM HERE! I'm back, y'all! :)

So thanks for understanding that I have been spending a lot of time in personal thought and quality time with friends and family.  I'm not only trying to organize this chaotic mind of mine, but I am also organizing my rooms and bathrooms so I've been in productive mode.

So enter the giveaway since you still have time!

I'll announce the winner - for real - this Friday afternoon sometime!

So, March 11th!

Leave a comment with this post's link and you can enter to win it again,

even if you've entered one or several times already!

Love y'all... ☮

peace and love

baily