FREE Giveaway: ExerSIGHS eBook

Download a FREE copy of the Artella eBook, ExerSIGHS: A Self-Esteem Workbook for Writers and Artists, filled with guided exercises and inspiration to boost your self-esteem effectively and immediately, triggering momentum for your next creative project, and breaking down blocks FOR GOOD. Download your copy here!

Free Holiday Music at Amazon.com

Amazon.com is offering 25 Days of Free - Every day through December 25th, they will unveil a new song available to download free for a limited time.

All of the songs unveiled so far are still available for free downloading!

Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish

Julie’s Journal - Sears Don’t Just Give a Gift, Grant a Wish.

Enter for a chance to win a $100 Sears gift card for you to go shopping and grant a wish for yourself, a family member, or your favorite charity. You can enter up to three times using the different entry methods listed on the site above.

You can blog it, you can tweet it and/or leave a comment listing what you'd get with your gift card. Deadline is 12/23/2008. Winners will be chosen on 12/29/2008.

FREE Giveaway: MoneyMorphosis eBook

Download a FREE copy of the Artella eBook, MoneyMorphosis: Ten Things Butterflies Can Teach Us About Money, which invites you to transform the way you think about money by following 10 metaphorical fables in which butterflies teach us about true prosperity. Download your copy here!

Tyson Sends Food for Blog Comments

This is real. For every blog comment, food will be sent to The Greater Boston Food Bank.

clipped from hungerrelief.tyson.com Everyone has a role in ending hunger.  All that The Food Bank does depends on the combined support of compassionate financial contributors, food donors, and more than 16,000 volunteers.   You can help today!   For every comment this post receives indicating it has been read, Tyson Foods, in partnership with Boston's Social Media Breakfast, organized by Bob Collins of  SHIFT Communications,  will donate 100 pounds of food (up to a truckload full with 35,000 pounds) to The Greater Boston Food Bank.  Help fill the truck.  Comment here (even one-word comments are acceptable – BTW, since the comments are moderated, it might take a bit to get them up, but the comments WILL be posted).

Check Out My New Roommates!

You can read all about them on their blog, The Tigger & Gateway Show.

Yes, they have their own blog and their own Twitter page - not because I'm a crazy cat lady, but because I needed a central place to share their progress and their pictures/videos with interested parties, like The Humane Society of NY (which is where I adopted them). I also wanted a means of illustrating how a blog, Twitter and various Twitter tools can be used to provide that central place, update it on a regular basis, and broadcast those updates to interested parties.

Long story short, after Theo died, I knew from past experience that I would be adopting again. It seems to be what works. The Humane Society had been helpful when Theo died, and there were several cats up for adoption on their site that I wanted to "meet". The big question wasn't whether I'd come home with one, it was how many I'd come home with. I was leaning towards adopting a pair. Well, while I went last weekend, and was totally blown away in a good way by my whole experience there. The folks at The Humane Society are awesome, and really love the animals in their care!

So, here I was being introduced to various pairs of charming cats, when the cat now known as Tigger caught my eye. I asked if they could take him out of his cage (which, by the way, was huge, with room enough for a full-sized cat bed, and then some), and he proceeded to purr, rub up against me, and lick my fingers. I was in love, but my only concern was that he was only 5 1/2 months old, and would be all by himself while I was at work all day. It must've been fate, because that's when someone mentioned that he had made a buddy at the shelter. My eyes lit up and I said "He has a buddy??? Can you let him out, too???" And that's when I met the cat now known as Gateway. Watching them play together, I knew they would both be coming home with me, and come home with me they did. It's been just over a week now, and they've settled in quite nicely!

Get a Free YOYO Lip Gloss!

YOYO Lip Gloss is giving away lip gloss!

They make cool lip gloss for girls, but what I found most interesting about them was their company goal:

Company Goal - "To Give Back to the World." What are we going to do with all of our money? Let's give it away! As a corporation, it is our duty to serve our world and community and help others. Peppermints Salon will establish the YOYO Foundation, which will be dedicated to helping children and families all over the world.

They're offering a free lip gloss to anyone who blogs about them. Find out more here.