Patriot Perks!

I was looking at MWS and I found out that there are Patriot Perks going on. What that is, is a rewards program for Commissary shoppers. Between June 27th, 2013 and July 24th, you can purchase $25 worth of participating brands in any CONUS Commissary and get a free Patriot Perk.

How cool is that?

There is one catch, though. The $25 worth of participating brands can not be split between more than 3 receipts.

The Patriot perks are  as follows:

1. - Free 2 month DVD Rentals
2. - $10 Exchange Gift Card
3. - 2 for 1 Dining Voucher
4. - Online piano lessons
5. - FREE Family Fun Days Out Pass

So I was derping around online today and I found this neat little website...

Click on the link below to join ShaveMOB and learn how you can start earning FREE stuff!

Currently, they have a referral program: refer friends to get a FREE razor! Here’s the scoop:

• Get 5 friends to enter their email and earn 2 free months of our most popular razor.
• Get 20 friends and earn 6 free months.
• Get 50 friends and earn a free year of our premium razor.

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Tacoma!

It's so freaking beautiful here it may actually make me barf from the beauty.

There are libraries and co-ops and organic food shops... it's basically a hippie's utopia :D I freaking love it here because I have:

A) A working oven
and
B) A climate suited to gardening!

FYEAH.

There are also lots of food banks and churches for those in need--which means I'm going to be doing a lot of volunteering in the future. Oh yeah. I just hope I'm not complete crap at socializing, like I usually am. Fingers crossed, guys + gals.

I have to go to the dollar store, the organic food place, the library and gas station today. You might even see me (if you're in the Tacoma area) volunteering at a local food bank.

 If you do, you're plenty welcome to say hello--I would like to make new friends. I look like this:

Only without the sunglasses. My dumb self left them in Cali :/

HI guys,

 A very frustrating day to be had here, so I'll keep it brief.

We got screwed. We got screwed hard.

We'll have to leave everything behind but clothes and electronics. Whatever we can fit into our PT Cruiser--that's what we'll have. We've tryed to rent a uHaul, but we don't have enough money for that, even. We can't take anything from El Paso with us--we can't afford it... Nothing but clothes and electronics, (small ones.)

If you know anyone who has household good or baby goods for a little boy 6-12 months old, I'd appreciate it if you spread the word. Alternatively, if you can donate a few bucks to our moving efforts, that'd be much appreciated. The paypal to use is vriosart@gmail.com. 


Thanks for reading. It means a lot to me.

Lisa G.

Ivory 2-in-1 Hair & Body Wash Review

Hi guys, 

I've been busy with moving stuff but I also got Ivory 2-in-1 Hair & Body Wash to try out from Influenster! Here's my review!


OK, so I opened it and I smelled a wonderful rain forest-y clean smell. As soon as I smelled that, I had to take a shower. It foamed up wonderfully and wasn't too strong of a smell in the shower. I have that problem with a lot of body washes, they end up hurting my nose, but this one did not! 

It helped get the dirt and grime away (from hiking in the mountainous desert, no less!) I also got to use it when shaving, and it is a WONDERFUL SOAP TO USE WHEN SHAVING. BETTER THAN SHAVING CREAM. YOU HAVE NO IDEA, OMG. PLUS, NO RESIDUE, HUZZAH!

If you prefer regular body wash, though, you should check this out.

If I had to pick one thing, out of every thing, as the worst feature, though.... it would have to be the fact that after I got out of the shower I had to use conditioner just to get my brush through my hair without tangles. I do have long hair though.*

This is approximately $5.99 in stores, BUT shortcutsaver alerted me to the fact that there is a $0.50/1 coupon in the May Issue of Parenting Magazine! Awesome!

*I have REALLY LONG hair guys. REALLY LONG. Keep that in mind.

If you would also like to be an Influenster, email me at gecko10v3@gmail.com so I can send you an invite.

10 week Post-Partum Visit.

It went well. I weigh in at 109 lbs!
I  officially weigh less than I did when I got pregnant.
THAT IS AWESOME.

9 lbs to go for my pre-pregnancy weight loss goal!

I feel hot, man!

Skinnygirl Daily On-The-Go Bars Review

So. I got some Skinnygirl Daily On-The-Go Bars

They're pretty good. I liked the way they filled you up, because that means I have to eat less and have time to do more things... This is a super bonus for a new mom like myself. I wanna try some of the Banana Oatmeal Dark Chocolate bars. Sounds yuuuuummmy!

I ate my bar the next day after I got my Voxbox, for breakfast. It filled me up more than a bowl of Cereal and a Banana (My usual grub,) and kept me fuller, longer. I didn't even need a mid-morning snack, like I usually do.

I got the COCO-NUT flavor. I don't really like coconut usually--but it tastes pretty awesome in these bars. If these bars can make coconut taste good to me, then holy cheezeballs, batman! I gotta try more.

Oh, don't let these sit out in hot weather, or they'll get kind of shiny and a little oily. If that happens, pop 'em in the fridge for about 10 minutes and it should be better.

I received this product complimentary from Influenster

Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response Review

Hi, all!

So I just tried out Secret's Clinical Strength Stress Response Deodorant, and it's pretty effing awesome. It smells like tropical flavored gum, and keeps your stress sweats under control. But my favorite thing about it is the smell! YUM!

Let me tell you a story about this deodorant. It starts off like this:

We finally went out on a date, again. You know, after baby. Not the same, but still .... Still good, you know? I'm getting ready to go out before my husband gets home from work. I'm worried, stressing out, because I'm leaving my baby to go out on a date. And when I stress, I sweat. I sweat a lot. Holy cheeseballs, do I sweat a lot. Then, I stress about sweating, so I stress more. It's a vicious cycle.

Anyways, I knew this would happen, so RIGHT AFTER I got out of the shower, I put some of this deodorant on. No #stresssweat what-so-ever. AW YISS. This deodorant is awesome.

It's so awesome, it even got me through the stressful pre-date jitters. GOOD JOB SECRET.

I gotta go take care of baby--toodles!

I received my deodorant complimentary from Influenster.

Olay Fresh Effects Va-Va-Vivid -- Shine, Shine Go Away

I got Olay Fresh Effects Va-Va-Vivid -- Shine, Shine Go Away in my Influenster Sweetheart Voxbox. I tried it last night and here are the results!

The box design was lovely, and made me smile. Bright colors are very good for cheering me up, I suppose. Good on you there, Olay.

The brush was a little weird shaped. But, I figured, they had a reason for that-- and they really do. The shape helps get the areas that are hard to reach with normal means (That little space underneath your eyes but  right  THERE at your nose, being one of them.) The triangle fits perfectly in that area.

I have NEVER felt a deeper clean there, omg!

You can buy it from http://www.olayfresheffects.com/ and http://www.amazon.com/

I received Fresh Effects complimentary from Influenster

Baby weight

I'm almost down to my pre-baby weight! YEAH.
Starting to feel more like myself again!

My hair in multiple ties, wound around me. PLUS I FOUND MY LIPSTICK I LOST A MONTH AGO HELL YES.

Me, this morning. I just finished shaping my eyebrows :3

(Psst, I used the Bronzer I won (FREE FROM INFLUENSTER) from completing the NYC Badge challenge on my eyes in this picture. <-- run-on sentence, dgac.

Straight hair length shot. 

Side-view, bragging shot. :3 

So, yeah. I'm almost there!

NEW BABY!

David James, born 1/1/13!

Influenster Palmolive Fresh Infusions VoxBox!

So, I'm back again with another voxbox from Influenster!

This time they sent me some lovely soaps and coupons for buying more soap from Palmolive compliments of Influenster to try out for FREE.

Palmolive has this new line of soaps out called "Palmolive Fresh Infusions"--you can find them at Walmart for around three dollars. (It's $2.96 at my local Walmart Super Center.) his soap suds up nicely and is even good for bubble baths!!!! :D

Here's what my box looked like when I got it:

Spiffied up with some Instagram filters...

When I opened it up, I was hit with the smell of Lemon Thyme. It was wonderful! Everything looked so pretty and then I lifted up the bottles of soap and discovered COUPONS. HUZZAH!! SCORE! High value coupons, too, if I do say so, myself... My favorite scent so far is the Lemon Thyme, pictured below, it smells like candy to me. It's a very relaxing scent and has the prettiest bottle and that's why it's my favorite. 

I also gave the ginger white tea one to my friend, Vanessa. She took a picture of it and she says it smells WONDERFUL.