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• Perfectly Imperfect

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  16 hours

  Photo-A-Day #1563 Helped Dad this morning move a holly tree, Rhododendron bush and then another Holly Tree. My Dad and sister Tara have some wicked green thumbs because generally whatever they plant grows like crazy. We were moving the plants to continue to regain a bit of privacy across the way. The holly trees will fill in like shrubs and

• Twenty-Five for the Second Time

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  1 day

  Photo-A-Day #1562 This has to be the summer of family gatherings, and I love it. Not only have we been to graduation parties, anniversary parties and everyone came to our house for 4th of July, but today we had a surprise birthday party. My Aunt Connie has a milestone birthday coming up next month. She’ll be celebrating her actual birthday

• What the Heck is a CPC Opp?

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  2 days

  Occasionally I get questions from members of the “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” IZEA Insider Crew and sometimes they are just perfect for answering on a SocialSpark Saturday post. So with permission and little patience I asked the person who asked this question below if I could save the answer till today. Here is the question

• M&M’s Prime

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  2 days

  Photo-A-Day #1561 A While ago I bought 5 bags of M&M’s from Target and sent away for a free Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Dispenser . It arrived the other day. It features the Red M&M as Optimus Prime. It is a pretty decent size too. It works well with the rest of my M&M’s and Transformers items on my desk at work

• Ultimate IZEAFest 2009 Contest

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  3 days

  I like to do things in a big and bold way. Ted Murphy does as well and IZEAFest 2009 is the biggest and boldest yet. Imagine 3 days and 300 bloggers invading SeaWorld (and as I recently learned Busch Gardens Tampa !) to learn how to be better bloggers, win prizes, party and even hang with RealShamu ! That is what you can do if you attend

• 100% off at Chipotle

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  3 days

  Photo-A-Day #1560 A brand new Chipotle just opened and today they were giving away free burritos to everyone who came through the door. Allison, Eva and I went with our friends Michelle and her two little ones Nate and Audrey. I am very, very impressed by the precision hard work the Chipotle team did tonight

• Howl-O-Scream at Busch Gardens

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  3 days

  Busch Gardens Tampa is really in for a treat. 300+ bloggers from IZEAFest are going to be descending upon the place on October 1st. Are you going to IZEAFest? No? Well you certainly should be because you get to go to not one but Two Awesome Theme Parks for the price of your IZEAFest ticket! Check out this announcement from Ashley at IZEA

• Leverage is back

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  4 days

  Photo-A-Day #1559 One show that Allison and I totally love is Leverage on TNT. We’re watching the show and live tweeting about it at the same time. It makes the show even more fun to watch. When you want to follow something special on twitter you really must be using Tweetdeck . It is perfect for monitoring things that you are interested in

• Many Colors

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  5 days

  Photo-A-Day #1558 Today was a whirlwind day. First off I participated in a huge simultaneous blog post with #10Ways . Unfortunately I jumped the dang gun and posted at 9:00am EST not 9:00 PST like I was supposed to. That is okay I remedied that quickly and waited for the big bang. At noon the big bang went off and it was huge

• 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

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  6 days

  This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell ’s “10 Ways” series . The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs. The post content is open source so I have added my own little touches to each of these suggested ways of supporting charity as I have