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Update: this signup is over, but the giveaway begins on Sept. 10. Please come back to Carol's Random Babble on Sept. 10 to enter. Here is another FREE event for bloggers worldwide! Participate in I Heart Giveaways and The Coffee Chic 's upcoming $150 Paypal Cash Giveaway. One winner will get a chance to win $150 Cash sponsored by Giveaway Scoop ! All you need to do is to make an announcement about the FREE sign-up on your blog. This is a good way to gain more followers on your Facebook page. Co-hosting spots are also available! Click here or on the banner above to sign up.

I follow a lot of blogs - well, by follow, I mean on Facebook. As you may know, Facebook restricts page posts to a small percentage of the page's fans. When I post things to my Facebook pages, only about  5 or 6 percent of my fans can see them. (Which is why I repost things a lot - to reach more people.) So it goes with other blog pages. I only see a small percentage of the posts. I don't take the time to go to each Facebook page to check all their posts. So I am happy when a good post shows up in my timeline. The blog Life: Full of Unexpected Happiness is holding a fan giveaway for a $50 gift card. (They don't do Paypal, but they do use WePay and Serve.) Conditions: One entry per person. Winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to the place of their choosing. Gift certificate will be given to winner within 2-3 weeks after winner states where they would like. It's very easy entry - if you are already a fan on Facebook, click I'm a Fan! If you are no...

Have you played the TV Dinner app on your iPad before? So FUN! You get together with other fans, friends or family and chat while watching your favorite TV shows. Like the show So You Think You Can Dance ! Are you a fan? It's more fun watching a show when you can comment on your favorite dances or boo the judges because they didn't like it but you did. ;-) There's other shows too besides SYTYCD ... lots of fun to be had! Don't have an iPad? Not a problem! The TV Dinner app is now available ONLINE! Now we can all get together online or on our iPads and chat, comment and cheer while watching our favorite shows. Madame Deals Media has teamed up with TV Dinner to introduce you to TV Dinner online. **Powered by Madame Deals and Mommy Needs Her Coffee ** Join us this Wednesday 8/15 during SYTYCD (8-10 EDT) and have a chance at a $100 CASH Prize!! (On the west coast? It's OK, you can still join us for TV Dinner and chat even if the show isn't...

Would you like to promote your blog with a free giveaway? Signups are going on for the TV Dinner flash giveaway on Aug. 14-15. Sign up here and please say Carol Foltz sent you. There is also a referral contest and the blogger whose blog or tweet the winner came from will also win.

Welcome to the Back to School Bash Giveaway Event, hosted by mommyGAGA.com! A great group of bloggers have teamed up to bring you some of the latest and greatest products geared towards elementary aged children - more than $200 worth! These prizes include cool school clothes, shoes, healthy lunch snacks, school treats, personal labels, paper and other essential classroom supplies. Famous Footwear - Known for their awesome shoes for all ages, Famous Footwear is getting families ready for the back to school season, in style! They carry brands you know and love, such as Nike, Converse, Stride Rite, Puma, DC Shoes, Steve Madden and more all at affordable prices! Shop for footwear for the whole family in stores or online at FamousFootwear.com. Enter their " Rock Your School Contest " where you can win cash towards your dream enhancements for their child's school. Prize: $50 Famous Footwear Gift Card Office Max -  This retailer carries the best in school and o...

Do you ever have times when you just don't want to cook? Of course you do! This giveaway is a chance to indulge that feeling. Dinner's on Me! $300 worth of Restaurant Gift Cards Giveaway The Prize(s): 1 Grand Prize Winner will get: $150 worth of Gift Cards (1) Olive Garden $30 GC, (1) Chili's$30 GC, (1) Pf Changs $30GC, (1) Red Robin $30 GC, (1) AppleBee's $30 GC 10 additional Winners will get: (1) $15 Subway Gift Card Event Hosts: ATD Surviving Mommy Hood | The Lucky Ladybug | One Sleepy Mom | Roasted Beanz | Nearly Nothing | My Frugal Wife | Kimberly's Thoughts   Rules : Open to US residents. If you click "Done" on the rafflecopter please do that task. All winning entries will be verified before announcing as the winner, if there is a discrepancy and the winning entry is not verifiable, a new winner will be chosen. Verified Winners will be announced on the Rafflecopter on or before 9/5/2012. The winners will have ...

That's how I describe how I feel right now. But let's go back about 24 hours ... At 9:43 p.m. Friday, there was a fire call to the Bohemian Hall, southwest of Fort Dodge. Bill Shea and Hans Madsen went to cover it (Bill was at work, Hans was at home already). The building burned nearly to the ground. (There was enough left to have hot spots today and they had to call out Callender FD again.) So, because of the fire, I left work around midnight. I came home, played around on the computer for awhile and then went to bed. About 10 minutes later, there was a phone call. Mom had activated her Lifeline, they called Donna and she called me. I got dressed and went over. Mom was on the floor in the bathroom. She had fallen and her foot hurt. I called 911. They came, got her out to an ambulance and took her to TRMC, where she eventually got X-rays and a diagnosis of a broken leg. She has a tib-fib fracture (that's what they call it on the medical shows - and by medica...