I seriously love Old Navy, and I’ve never set foot inside one and walked out with anything for myself. But I have shopped at their online store, where I’ve been able to purchase plus-size items for myself (luckily for me, that should soon change!). Their clothes are cute and fashionable, and the prices are awesome.
Anyway, this blog entry isn’t about Old Navy, but it is about their Supermodelquin Search. Old Navy has launched a Supermodelquin Super Search Contest that will send one lucky winner home with $100,000. The contest includes three super challenges, all of which will take place in the storefront spotlight (so make sure you complete your acne treatment and other beauty regimens before applying!).
Check out more at oldnavy.com/super!
Now that I’m thinking about it, we’ve had our current pillows for nearly six years, and our children have had their pillows for about three years. I don’t think about it much, but pillows really do hold a lot of germs, allergens and mold, and even though I’ve been washing the pillows themselves every 1-2 months, apparently it’s not enough. And changing the pillow covers just provides pretty wrapping for all of that gunk. Gross, right?
All this pillow talk — haha, pun definitely intended — has me thinking about the possibility of switching all of us to an allergen pillow, like the Healthy Dreams Germ-Fighter Pillow. Healthy Dreams Germ-Fighter Pillows are not like regular pillows. While regular pillows absorb the moisture and bacteria that live in the air and come from our mouth while we sleep, Healthy Dreams Germ-Fighter Pillows feature a unique Micrenza bio-filter to prevent the pillows from absorbing allergens, bacteria, or moisture. Additionally, each pillow has a ComforTech membrane that prevents moisture from passing into the pillow, while the Micrenza bio-filter filters particles from air that does pass through the membrane.
Healthy Dreams Germ-Fighter Pillows are available in standard, queen and king sizes, so no matter what type of sleeping arrangements you have, you’ll be able to have perfectly sized pillows to enjoy a healthy night’s sleep on.
Watch this video to learn more about Healthy Dreams Germ-Fighter Pillows:
Vimeo is an online video hosting & sharing website that I first discovered last spring, when I was searching for a video storage solution for the video blogs I wanted to start doing on a regular basis. YouTube is the big one, of course, but YouTube is a little too commercialized for my liking. Flickr offers video hosting, but I like keeping my Flickr account for photos only. And there were a few other video hosting solutions I found, but Vimeo seemed to have the most to offer. Besides, their layout and site navigation was the cutest and the most organized, so that also helped to sway my vote!
Vimeo offers a basic free account, which limits you to three albums and groups and an upload limit of 500mb per week. Then there’s the plus account, which gives you unlimited albums and groups, and a 5GB weekly upload limit. The plus account is $59.95 per year, or $9.95 per month if you happen to see one of the completely random “plus” banner advertisements that offers the monthly option.
Here is my Vimeo account, which as you can see is a plus account. I absolutely love Vimeo. Uploads are quick, even with the desktop uploader application. You can add titles, descriptions, tags, photos and choose categories while the upload is in process, and if for some reason the video isn’t uploaded and processed right away (having a plus account guarantees top priority for processing, but I’ve occasionally had to wait for 5-10 minutes before it was ready), you’ll receive an email letting you know when it’s ready to go. A plus account also allows you to change the embedding options (which are shown with a single click of your mouse on each individual video’s page), including colors, format of the video, and whether or not a link to your Vimeo account is included beneath the video.
Bottom line? Vimeo rocks. And if you have the money, definitely upgrade to a plus account!
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Celebrate Bariatric Multivitamins are specially formulated vitamins that are ideal for post-op surgical weight loss patients. Intended for patients who have had gastric bypass, gastric sleeve or a similar bariatric procedure, the vitamins provide key vitamins and minerals in the amount that post-op patients need. Celebrate Bariatric Multivitamins are available in both chewable and capsule form. The capsule form is quick-dissolving, so even if you’re not supposed to be swallowing pills, you should not have trouble with the capsules.
I have been taking Celebrate Bariatric Multivitamins for a few weeks now, and while I haven’t had blood work to confirm anything, I feel great, so I am confident that I am getting the vitamins and minerals that I need. I’m also getting the amount of b12 that I need, which is great, because many post-op patients wind up having to take vitamin b12 supplements, either in pill form or monthly injectable form.
Celebrate Bariatric Multivitamins are $15 for a one-month supply — three capsules or chewables per day.
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On Saturday morning I walked into a Fashion Bug and walked out with seven tops. My total? $42. I know, impossible, considering that most of Fashion Bug’s tops are $15 – $25 apiece. But Fashion Bug launched a Presidents Day Sale last Friday, and it lasts until the end of the day today. During the sale you can get tops for $6, sweaters for $9, and bottoms for $9. I shit you not. Go check out your local stores, ladies! My local Fashion Bug had three tiers on two WALLS just loaded with tops. They’re mostly long-sleeved, but there were some short-sleeved, a few tanks and a few hoodies mixed in, and plenty of jeans and pants, as well as sweaters and sweater hoodies and wraps. No equestrian apparel or anything funky like that, but plenty of casual and dressy tops to mix and match. Black, purple and fuchsia seem to be the hot colors this year, so don’t be surprised to see racks of tops in those colors.
Go forth and shop! ♥
On Saturday I went in for my yearly contact lens exam, and in addition to finding out that my prescription had changed, I also had a change in the type of contact lenses I use. I requested the change, because I have been dealing with a lot of protein deposits on the Bausch & Lomb PureVision contact lenses I have been using since November 2007.
As this blog entry title suggests, I made the switch to Acuvue Oasys. They’re bi-weekly disposables, which I hope I’ll have better luck with, since I’ll be changing them more frequently. I’ve heard good things about them, just as I’ve heard about cocoa butter stretch marks. Also, my husband has been using them since October, and he seems to have good results with them.
So far? I like them. I’m actually using Acuvue Oasys in my left eye and Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism in my right eye, so I guess technically I’m reviewing two different types of contacts!
