Suzanne Calling

I have a confession to make. I absolutely LOVE Cinnabons. When I was pregnant with Game Teen, the store I managed was in the center court of the mall, with the Cinnabon just across from us. The smell was intoxicating-but the mall talk system would torture me with the commercials about the 'Fresh Makarah Cinnamon' several times per hour. It was a rare day I didn't get a Minibon and a milk as a snack. (I am convinced this has something to do with Game Teen's love of cinnamon.) You know a company has a quality product when they've been feeding us those tasty treats for twenty five years. Never one to sit on their laurels, Cinnabon got together with the creator of their little bit of cinnamon heaven and created something new: This month, your local Cinnabon will be introducing cupcakes that are moist, delicious and sure to be just as addicting as those Minibons were for me years ago! There are four flavors, baked fresh daily and ready for you to enjoy on the spot....

The time has come to announce the lucky winner of the $500 WalMart Gift Card, so they can do a Your Zone makeover of their very own! Are you ready? Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest. Big thank you to WalMart for giving us the opportunity to redo the room and take the new product line for a test drive!

Note to new visitors-this contest has ended. Thank you. For several months now, I have participated in WalMart 's Beyond Eleven Moms, a collective of bloggers who partner with WalMart to give feedback on products already in stores and ideas about products that the company can offer in their stores. Last month, I was approached to help test out a new product line in the stores. Many retailers offer room decor for youngsters and college students, but affordable furniture, bedding and decor for teens was hard to find. Enter Your Zone ! We were sent a $500.00 WalMart gift card and given a mission: redo a bedroom whatever way you like within that amount for your teen. If you asked me to do it anywhere else, I think I could buy a bed and a dresser and be done. The whole point of Your Zone is that your teen can change things without breaking the bank. First up, let's find a bed! The beds the boys have are the bunk beds we bought at Ikea back when Chef graduated out of a crib. ...

The BIG post should be up around 6pm. In the meantime: We have an Allen key, we have the technology! Wonderful, wonderful COLOR! We have an Allen key, we have the technology!

Tomorrow, all will be revealed. A makeover, a contest and a vlog

Would you like to win $25 in Dole Coupons? Head over to New Sue Review for your chance to win in the Dole "Make Me a Chef" giveaway. Contest ends at NOON tomorrow, and there are only 10 entries as I write this. Good luck! (Winner will be drawn using random.org)

And I've got a picture. It's not the best, but you understand this, right? You have to be sneaky and coy when you're married, but are falling for another... To be honest, I think Ed's in love with the Keurig already. Two cups of Kona and coveting more? It's a safe bet that the mac daddy coffee machine he scoffed at back in January as a frivolous waste is rapidly taking his heart, too. Let's see, so far we've tried: Coffee People Donut Shop Coffee -tastes like Krispy Krack's. I want more and can't wait to try their Xtra Bold K cups that we've got. Tully's Kona Coffee . Smooth. Definitely buying this one! Celestial Seasoning's Mandarin Orange Spice Tea -I made Chef a cup of Iced Tea with it and he loved it. Van Houtte's French Vanilla . Yum! (that is all...) Gloria Jean's Hazelnut . Ed loved it and I think he's psyched that he's got a box of it that is all his (I like hazelnuts, just not in my coffee) Green Mount...

The winning streak continues. For the past month, I've been entering Kim at What's That Smell's giveaway for this: It's the same coffee pot that I saw on someone else's blog and went over to MomDot to try to win it. It's the coffee pot that will end the science experiments that good old Mr. Coffee has had to endure for the past few years since I decided I like coffee. (but not enough to drink an entire pot) I went nuts on Kim's contest. She offered extra entries to blog, so I did. Each day, you could list five K cups that you want to try. You name it, if I could do it for an entry, I did. 171 times. The rules stated you could not repeat a K cup flavor, and there are a lot of them, so I started a spreadsheet, which is why I knew the number of times I did it. A lot of people entered that contest. There were almost 3700 entries, which means I had almost 5% of them. So statistically, I had a 1 in 20 chance of winning the thing, but Murphy tends to a...

I was hoping for the Amazon Gift Card or a new MacBook Pro, but hey, this isn't anything to sneeze at, either! Look what I found in my email: Dear Suzanne Congratulations! You are one of the first one hundred thousand (100,000) individuals to successfully register for the Universal Heroes Promotion, administered by ePrize. For your registration, you will receive a Universal Orlando® 2-PARK Unlimited Admission Ticket valid for 7 consecutive days at both Universal Orlando theme parks! Please see the Official Rules for further prize details and eligibility requirements. You will receive your Universal Orlando Park ticket confirmation code in the mail within the next 4-6 weeks. The ticket confirmation code mailer will be sent to the address you provided in your registration. You will need to present your ticket confirmation code mailer and a valid form of identification* at the ticket windows of either Universal Studios Florida or Islands of Adventure theme parks. Your Universal Orlan...

Are you a blogger? Do you have mom blogs , humor blogs, any kind of blog and want to go to BlogHer ? It's the event of the year in the blogging world, mixing and mingling with others who 'get' the idea of blogging and learning about how to become a better blogger. I want to go, but if you add up the ticket, the airfare and the hotel, for 3 nights, it'd cost me $1000 bucks (and that's if I get a buddy pass from my 'sorta sister') Enter Label Daddy ! Scott and Greg, the Daddies behind this company, truly believe in the power of blogging. They are wise men, seeing that the blogging world is much like our world was prior to radio, tvs and technology in that we reach out to small groups of people we know. We learn about things and share what we know, especially when it's a product we love. For that reason, they just announced the Label Daddy BlogHer 09Contest ! They believe in the power of blogging SO much that they will sponsor one lucky person's...

You've seen this picture before, but I'm entering it in the October Greeblepix Contest . The prize this month is awesome, a $250 camera rental from http://prophotorental.com/Default.asp?c=202036 It'd be so cool to check out a digital SLR! My entry, taken at Epcot a couple of weeks ago: Go check out Aimee's blog and http://www.greeblemonkey.com/2008/10/october-greeblepix-contest.html!