iwantmk.comLuanne Storer,IBC

I have decided to do something crazy this week. I am so happy to have been back for the past month and I am so grateful to those of you who visit and comment regularly. I also have some amazing customers who’s business is very important to my family and me. I am also thankful for being able to share my “Tips & Trends” on Blissful Style every Thursday. Soooo……..

Here’s the deal. I am offering a 20% discount on all the products from yesterdays Blissful Style post. Go watch the video, comment here, then click on this link to purchase these amazing products.

I just changed my mind. For this weekend only, I will give a 20% discount on all online purchases!!! What the heck! I love you guys!!!

When you check out, you will not be given the discount right away, but you will not be charged right away either. The order will securely come to me and I will email you with a new reciept that includes your discount before I charge you. That is why you must comment on this blog. I gotta know who linked from here to be able to give you the discount. I can’t let everyone have product for that kind of price.

Today’s the day to stock up and/or purchase gifts!

Kisses!!

What does Black Friday mean to me? It means that my eyes see nothing but black until I open my eyes whenever the heck I feel like it. To tell you the truth, this is the first year I have ever even considered going out on BF. I saw a few toys that I wanted to get for my BFF’s dd and ds, and also a toy I wanted to get for my darling nephew. He turned one this month, and I love him, love him, love him. Point being, those three angels are the only reason I would even consider facing the mobs. Obviously, once I really thought about it, there is no reason to face those crazy mobs. Check this out. “Wal-Mart Worker Dies When Shoppers Break Down Doors” Seriously, I would rather pay full price.

I have never shopped on Black Friday and I’m not planning on it now. Six years ago I was very ill and could not move my body for months. I was put on intense treatment around Thanksgiving. Two weeks before Christmas, my family put me in a wheel chair and pushed me up to the computer so I could do a few clicks and actually pick out some gifts for my family. I have been doing it online ever since. Around this time of year, shipping at most places are free. That is a deal in itself. Plus, I know this sounds weird, but there are fewer choices online at a particular store. It helps me focus and not be so indecisive.

Shopping at Christmas time kinda creeps me out anyway. It becomes our focus, our obsession. Do we really even know what Christmas is all about anymore. When we give a gift to another person, are we thinking about how God gave us the Greatest Gift in Jesus Christ? Sometimes all this holiday blah, blah, blah, makes me sad. One year I was so irritated, we just packed up the kids on the 19th, flew to Miami, and went on a cruise until the 24th. It was AWESOME! Wow, that gave me back the happys.

What do you do to keep the real Christmas Spirit alive?

Kisses!

I know that most of my readers follow Jenny at momminitup, and I know you know how she gets her awesome freaky free deals at CVS (if you don’t know, then you gotta check out her Super Saving Saturday tomorrow.) Anyway, she helps me out with my couponing (because I am mentally lacking in that area.) The best part is that ALL of my toiletries, paper products, cleaning products, OTC meds, etc, are REALLY free, because I get $30 free gift cards for my prescription transfers on new prescriptions (one or both of which I always have. I try to get at least two free gift cards a month. Yesterday I went to a different CVS than usual with my script transfer from Walmart. When I got inside I realized that I did not have my insurance card and I didn’t want to look like an idiot if they asked for it, so I drove home to get it. The previous CVS was a bit far from my house (I was stopping in because I happened to be on that side on town for other things) so I drove to a different CVS. I took my empty bottle in and told them I wanted to transfer this script. Did they ask for an insurance card? No, of coarse they didn’t. They said that it would be about 15 minutes. This always means it will be thirty, so I went to my truck and spent 30 nice, quiet, alone, minutes doing my nails. When I got back into the store, the pharmacist said the she had called Walmart and the script had already been transferred but their computer would not tell them where. I happened to have the most recent bottle in my purse which I had not originally given them because the last time I got the script, they had not given me 60, they had given me 6 and I didn’t want them to make the same mistake again. When she saw the bottle, she said “Oh, I called the wrong Walmart, it will only take me about 15 minutes…..15minutes later, she called me up to the counter to tell me that even though I had 2 refills left, my script was expired. AGGHHHH!

Stupid or Cursed?

I need kisses!

Wednesday night Krisha (my 14yr old) and I went to the “So You Think You Can Dance 2008” tour in Columbus. We had an AWESOME time. Thanks to Jenny and Emily and momminitup, we not only had tickets in the eighth row, but we had VIP “meet-n-greet” passes. Several hours before the concert, we were able to meet with the dancers. Little did I know that it would be Krisha and I, five other adults and five young children. It was kinda awkward considering we have hardly seen the show at all. We just love dancing (Krisha is in our cities pre-professional ballet company), but our lives don’t afford much television watching. When we went to the meet-n-greet area, we were obviously supposed to be like the other crazy fans…we just didn’t know who any of them were.

 After the show both Krisha and I decieded that if we had know how awesome they were, we would have been a little more star struck.

The best part about the whole night wasn’t really the concert or the dancing itself. It was that Krisha and I, from 1pm-midnight got to get away with each other, no phones, no email, no texting, no tweeting, no eerends to run, no bills to pay, no homeschooling, just she and I. We laughed, we danced, we screamed and giggled. We even took our picture together every time we went to the bathroom. Thanks momminitup for giving us time to stop and smell the roses.