By the time Friday rolls around you’re ready to leave your work at the office, save the homework for tomorrow, and unwind with a quick and easy dinner. Enjoy a classic favorite – pizza and a movie – for a Fun Friday Night with your family and friends! With the help of Totino’s Pizza Rolls and Party Pizzas, you can serve a convenient meal that the whole family will love and still have plenty of time to sink into the couch to watch the latest movie rental from redbox.

My family loves Totino’s Pizza Rolls and Party Pizzas!

These are great for satisfying hunger quickly and completely. We like to enjoy pizza and a movie and Totino’s makes it so easy for my kids to make something they love while settling in for a night with the family.

Now Redbox and Totino’s is making it even easier to enjoy a family’s two favorite pastimes: Pizza and Movies!

Look for specially-marked packages of Totino’s Pizza Rolls and Party Pizzas to stock up on everything you need for a Fun Friday Night: purchase 4 Totino’s Party Pizzas or 2 Totino’s 40 count Pizza Rolls to receive a free one-day redbox DVD promo code that can be redeemed at the following:

• Rolls: totinosfridaynight.com/redbox_pizzarolls  
• Pizza: totinosfridaynight.com/redbox

With more than 27,800 locations, and available nationally at Walmart, there’s always a redbox kiosk nearby! Find the closest redbox kiosk by checking redbox.com/locations

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Win a Totino’s and Rebox Prize Pack

The Prize Pack Includes:

2 VIP coupons
Free one-day Redbox DVD promo code
2 pizza slice plates
1 popcorn bucket
1 pizza cutter

Let’s make it super simple and easy!

To enter simply follow AnneOnLife on Facebook and/or Twitter (do both for 2 entries). Then follow Totino’s & Redbox on Facebook (see below) for extra entries. Remember, leave a comment for each thing you do.

• Totino’s Website: http://bit.ly/totinos
• Totino’s Facebook: http://on.fb.me/totinosfbook
• Redbox Website: http://bit.ly/redboxweb
• Redbox Facebook: http://on.fb.me/redboxfbook
• Redbox Twitter: http://bit.ly/redboxtweet

Giveaway will end on November 5, 2011 at Midnight EST and is open to residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email. Additionally, I will post the winner’s name on my site in a separate post on or around November 6, 2011. Winner will have 48 hours from the time the email is sent to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Disclosure: All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. The VIP coupons, prize pack, information, and giveaway have been provided by Totino’s through MyBlogSpark.

Win Pizza and a Movie with Totino’s and Redbox is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
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PRETTY follows Bebe Baker, a young woman coming to terms with her boyfriend’s death and her rocky journey to sobriety. Bebe is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl. It’s been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by an eccentric posse of friends, she is serving out a self-imposed sentence at a halfway house, while trying to finish cosmetology school. Amid the rampant diagnoses, over-medication, compulsive eating, and acrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe in before something – her past, the dangerously magnetic men in her life, her own bad choices – knocks her off course again.

My Thoughts

Pretty is a book I won’t soon forget. Bebe is not someone to pity, but rather someone to watch. All her life she has been searching for who she is. She has been born again and again and is ever hopeful that one day it will stick.

Except for the ex-everything et al., I completely relate to Bebe. Who hasn’t thought about how their life should have been, could have been, should be, could be. Bebe is all about hope. She never loses hope even when she thinks it is all hopeless.

This is not a book about the privileged or the semi-privileged nor is it about the under-privileged. Pretty is about finding one’s way in life, regardless of the path we choose. One wrong turn does not mean game over. There is always another road just waiting to be taken.

About the Author

Jillian Lauren is a performer, writer and author of the New York Times bestseller Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and has an MFA from Antioch University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Weezer bassist, Scott Shriner and their son.

Bonus:

The first 250 people on 9/7 to order “Pretty” on Amazon, and email the receipt to pretty.the.book@gmail.com, will receive a Limited Edition run of the “Pretty” necklace, made by FairyTaleJewels.com.

Win It!

Win your own copy of Pretty by Jillian Lauren.

Please use the Rafflecopter entry form below to enter this giveaway.

Giveaway will end on September 14, 2011 at Midnight EST and is open to residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email. Additionally, I will post the winner’s name on my site in a separate post on or around September 16, 2011. Winner will have 48 hours from the time the email is sent to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Disclosure: All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. I would not tell you something was wonderful if I did not truly believe it so. Please read my Disclosure Policy for more information. I received a copy of Jillian Lauren’s book ‘Pretty ‘ courtesy of Global Influences for the purposes of this review.

Review & Giveaway – Pretty: A Novel by Jillian Lauren is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

I have several winners to announce this morning.

The winner of the Betty Crocker Loaded Mashed Potatoes Giveaway is…

Congratulations Angie!

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Note: There were 53 valid entries for this giveaway.

The winner of the Betty Crocker Gluten Free Giveaway is…

Congratulations Crissy!

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Note: There were 27 valid entries for this giveaway.

Didn’t win? Want to win even more stuff? Look for more giveaways to be posted soon.

• bookmark giveaways on AnneOnLife for more giveaway opportunities.

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Winners: Betty Crocker Loaded Mashed Potatoes & Gluten Free Giveaways is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
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First – Why Gluten Free?

An excerpt on celiac disease courtesy of Eating Gluten Free -

The interior of the small intestines have small, finger-like projections called villi. The villi are used to absorb nutrients from the food that passes through the digestive tract. When a person with celiac disease ingests gluten, the villi become damaged when the body tries to destroy the gluten in the intestines. Through time, the villi become blunted and shorter, decreasing the surface area available for the absorption of nutrients. Some people’s intestines are damaged badly enough that they cannot absorb any nutrients. They eat and eat and still look like they are starving to death. This is because they ARE starving to death. The food they eat cannot be absorbed by their bodies and basically goes right through them. Other people seem to have “selective” absorption problems . . . fat gets through all right, but iron (or calcium, or something else) doesn’t seem to make it.

Betty to the Rescue

Betty Crocker offers five gluten free mixes:

• Bisquick
• BC Yellow Cake Mix
• BC Chocolate Cake Mix
• Brownie Mix
• Cookie Mix

Through the end of June, you can save 20% on the purchase of any of the five Betty Crocker Gluten Free mixes. Visit http://www.glutenfreely.com/ourstore to buy yours today!

We know baking in a gluten-free world poses its own challenges – as well as sweet rewards – so we want to give you a chance to show off the creative solutions and tasty treats that you’ve created for your family and friends.

Now through June 30th, visit www.glutenfreely.com/bakerschallenge for the chance to win a Grand Prize of $5,000. The grand prize winner will also have the chance to be featured on a Betty Crocker^® Gluten Free dessert mix or Bisquick^® Gluten Free baking mix package and/or be featured in a Betty Crocker publication! All you have to do is submit an original gluten free holiday-themed appetizer, bread or dessert recipe, using any Betty Crocker Gluten Free dessert mix or Bisquick Gluten Free baking mix.

Recipes will be judged on five key categories: taste, creativity, ease of preparation, consumer appeal and appearance. Plus, we want you to keep baking deliciously, so if you’re one of 10 selected finalists, you will receive a Betty Crocker Gluten Free Baking gift basket filled with baking items and Betty Crocker Gluten Free mixes. Even more exciting, finalists’ recipes will be featured on www.glutenfreely.com/bakerschallenge and voted on by the Gluten Freely community to determine the Grand Prize Winner!

For great recipe tips, ideas, and suggestions, visit www.glutenfreely.com to help get you started and learn more about the Baker’s Challenge Gluten Free Recipe Contest.

Win a Betty Crocker Gluten Free Prize Pack

Giveaway Rules:

Mandatory entry:

Tell me which Gluten Free mix you’re most interested in trying.

Additional entries:

Like Betty Crocker on Facebook.

Follow @BettyCrocker on Twitter.

Tells others about this giveaway on Facebook or Twitter [you can use the share buttons at the top of this post]

Share the fact that GlutenFreely.com will be running a 20% off sale on all the mixes during June (you may share this via any social networking site just be sure to tell me which one and your user name so I can confirm) – multiple entries possible

do all for extra entries

Please complete the form below to enter this giveaway.

If you have problems with the form, please send me an email with your information [be sure to include Betty Crocker Gluten Free Giveaway in your email] and I will manually add your information to the form according to the time stamp on the email.

Giveaway will end on June 30, 2011 at Midnight EST and is open to residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email. Additionally, I will post the winner’s name on my site in a separate post on or around July 1, 2011. Winner will have 48 hours from the time the email is sent to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Good Luck!

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Disclosure: All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. I would not tell you something was wonderful if I did not truly believe it so. Please read my Disclosure Policy for more information. I received a copy Betty Crocker Prize pack courtesy of Betty Crocker through MyBlogSpark for the purposes of this review.

Baker’s Challenge Gluten Free Recipe Contest + a giveaway for my readers! {closed} is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

Not all Sides are Created Equal

Sometimes the hardest part of planning a meal is deciding on a side. For me, I try to remember the color rule: have lots of it. Then there is the other rule: sides should compliment the meal.

Now, I grew up on fresh made mashed potatoes. Yes, I was the designated potato pealer. But with working a full time job where most nights I’m not home until close to 7 pm, it’s not always feasible to make mashed potatoes from scratch.

Betty to the Rescue

With nine - yes, nine - varieties to choose from, Betty’s got you covered, on the mashed potato front.

• Butter and Herb
• Homestyle Creamy Butter
• Roasted Garlic
• Sour Cream Chives
• Yukon Gold
• Four Cheese
• Loaded Mashed
• Roasted Garlic Cheddar
• Sweet Potato (my newest love in the potato family)

Learn more at BettyCrocker.com.

Now you can have mashed potatoes any night of the week!

And if that wasn’t enough, how about this?

Buy 2 Betty Crocker Potatoes and Save $1 [Bricks coupon, so you can print 2]

Win a Betty Crocker Prize Pack

Giveaway Rules:

Mandatory entry:

Tell me how you like your mashed potatoes.

Additional entries:

Like Betty Crocker on Facebook.

Follow @BettyCrocker on Twitter.

Tells others about this giveaway on Facebook or Twitter [you can use the share buttons at the top of this post]

do all for 4 extra entries

Please complete the form below to enter this giveaway.

If you have problems with the form, please send me an email with your information [be sure to include Betty Crocker Loaded Mashed Potatoes Giveaway in your email] and I will manually add your information to the form according to the time stamp on the email.

Giveaway will end on June 28, 2011 at Midnight EST and is open to residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email. Additionally, I will post the winner’s name on my site in a separate post on or around June 29, 2011. Winner will have 48 hours from the time the email is sent to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Good Luck!

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Disclosure: All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. I would not tell you something was wonderful if I did not truly believe it so. Please read my Disclosure Policy for more information. I received a copy Betty Crocker Prize pack courtesy of Betty Crocker through MyBlogSpark for the purposes of this review.

Betty Crocker Loaded Mashed Potatoes, a giveaway {closed} is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

******* Janice! *******

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Be sure to check out Janice’s blog, Fitness Cheerleader where her motto is ‘What You Believe, You Can Achieve’ and prepared to get inspired.

Winner of the UBP Isabella Water Bottle is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

Welcome to AnneOnLife!

For those of you just stopping by for the first time, ‘Hi!’ {imagine me jumping up and down waving my arms like a crazy very friendly person} I have been writing here for a little over 2 years now. What started as an outlet for me to pass the time after losing my job has become a fun and interesting way of meeting new people and trying some neat products.

What you will find here are posts about chickens, kids, savings, great products, and great people.

A little about me…

1. I’m a newlywed. Yep, it took 10 years for me and Dwayne to finally tie the knot. When we did, I chose Friday the 13th, because that’s how I roll.
2. I have 3 kids. Megan is a junior in college, Amanda will be graduating this year, and Stephen is a Freshman in high school. They grow up so fast.
3. Scrabble is my favorite game.
4. I love math and grammar equally. Yes, I’m a total geek.
5. My lifelong dream is to sell everything I own, pay off all of my debt, have a little in savings, live in a travel trailer and travel the US (and anywhere else I can) and work as a waitress in a truck stop, just because.

And if all that doesn’t intrigue you, how about a giveaway just for stopping by.

One of the products I reviewed recently is one I actually use all of the time. I love that it’s functional, green, and altruistic. Check this out:

Once someone purchases the recycled and reusable bottle, $10 of every purchase will help fund a well to provide clean water in Africa or Asia.

Win your choice of a blue or white Isabella Water Bottle

Leave a comment on this post telling me how you go green.

Want more entries?

Follow AnneOnLife on Facebook or Twitter.

Leave a comment below for each thing you do. If you follow on Twitter, please leave your Twitter name. This giveaway will end on April 8, 2011 at 7 pm EST. Winner will be announced within 48 hours of close of giveaway.

Disclaimer: This giveaway is paid for and sponsored by AnneOnLife.

It’s Time for the Ultimate Blog Party, Let’s Celebrate with a Giveaway {closed} is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

I have several winners to announce this morning.

The winner of the Cradle Rock CD Giveaway is…

Congratulations Leslie W.!

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Note: There were 2 valid entries for this giveaway.

The winner of the Cheerios Prize Pack Giveaway is…

Congratulations Molly!

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Note: There were 25 valid entries for this giveaway.

The winner of the Pretty Neat Giveaway is…

Congratulations Erinn S.!

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Note: There were 11 valid entries for this giveaway.

The winner of the $25 Kroger Gift Card Giveaway is…

Congratulations Henria O.!

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Note: There were 41 valid entries for this giveaway.

Didn’t win? Want to win even more stuff? Look for these giveaways to be posted soon.

• bookmark giveaways on AnneOnLife and look for these current & upcoming giveaways:
  • Action Plan by Suze Orman (ends 3/28)
  • Myachi Original Hand Sack
  • Toilet Tree Fogless Shower Mirror
  • Monave Vegan Lip Glaze

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Winners: Cradle Rock, Cheerios, Pretty Neat, & Kroger is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

Last summer Suze Orman launched a new online community www.MoneyMindedMoms.com, a site devoted to helping moms make smarter money choices.

MoneyMindedMoms community members have free access to valuable, easy to follow advice about topics such as erasing and managing debt, raising money minded kids and coupons and discounts. Providing moms with sound advice is Suze’s top priority and she takes the time to personally respond to questions from members and has even been known to post a video response in some cases. The site offers useful tools like a debt eliminator and expense tracker, a coupon savings center, as well as forums for sharing stories and insights with like-minded moms.

Plus, every month through May, one lucky member will win 1-on-1 time with Suze through the
“Ask Suze” Sweepstakes.

I don’t know about you, but I am getting tired of constantly hearing about the financially ‘trying times’ we are in or ‘in these tough economic’ blah blah blah. The truth of the matter is if we planned better, saved more, and lived within our means these less than ideal times would not hurt near as much. Then again, if we all did that our economy would not grow and we would have fewer millionaires. The world needs spenders and savers AND those who do both in moderation.

Money Minded Moms (and Dads and Kids and …)

Suze Orman has developed a site based on her books and her philosophies about money, then coupled that with a community so we can learn not only from her, but from one another. Many times we feel like we are the only ones going through a particular situation, this is rarely the case. Get financial advice, find a path, gain some perspective, and plan for your future (whether it’s a month or a decade or more).

Win a copy of Suze Orman’s Book Action Plan

Giveaway Rules:

Mandatory entry:

Tell me one thing you learned from the MoneyMindedMoms website.

Additional entries:

Like MoneyMindedMoms on Facebook.

Follow @MoneyMindedMoms on Twitter

do both for 2 extra entries

Please complete the form below to enter this giveaway.

If you have problems with the form, please send me an email with your information [be sure to include MoneyMindedMoms Giveaway in your email] and I will manually add your information to the form according to the time stamp on the email.

Giveaway will end on March 28, 2011 at Midnight EST and is open to residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email. Additionally, I will post the winner’s name on my site in a separate post on or around March 29, 2011. Winner will have 48 hours from the time the email is sent to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Good Luck!

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Disclosure: All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. I would not tell you something was wonderful if I did not truly believe it so. Please read my Disclosure Policy for more information. I received a copy of Suze Orman’s book ‘Action Plan ‘ courtesy of MoneyMindedMoms through MyBlogSpark for the purposes of this review.

Money Matters: What’s Your ‘Action Plan’? {closed} is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010

I hope you were able to take advantage of the savings on select brands like Multigrain Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Hamburger Helper, Yoplait, Progresso, Totino’s, Green Giant, Cascadian Farm, Tide, Charmin, Bounty, Pampers, Pantene, Crest, Iams, Febreze, Old Spice, Bounce, DiGiorno’s, Nestle Toll House, Juicy Juice, Coffee-Mate, Edy’s, Stouffer’s, Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets, Nestle Candy, and Purina!

Now I want to give you a chance to keep on saving at Kroger.

Win a $25 Kroger Gift Card

Giveaway Rules:

Mandatory entry:

Tell me what you bought during the Kroger Cart Buster Event (or your favorite thing about shopping at Kroger).

Additional entries:

Like AnneOnLife on Facebook.
Follow @AnneOnline on Twitter & tweet about the giveaway.

Win a $25 Kroger GC courtesy of @AnneOnline & #myblogspark http://wp.me/pxErl-2rV

do both for 2 extra entries

Please complete the form below to enter this giveaway.

If you have problems with the form, please send me an email with your information [be sure to include $25 Kroger GC Giveaway in your email] and I will manually add your information to the form according to the time stamp on the email.

Giveaway will end on March 21, 2011 at Midnight EST and is open to residents of the U.S., 18 years of age or older. Winner will be selected using Random.org. Winner will be notified via email. Additionally, I will post the winner’s name on my site in a separate post on or around March 22, 2011. Winner will have 48 hours from the time the email is sent to respond or a new winner will be chosen.

Good Luck!

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Disclosure: All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. I would not tell you something was wonderful if I did not truly believe it so. Please read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Disclaimer: Information & Gift Card for the Kroger Cart Buster Savings promotion was provided to me courtesy of the Kroger Family of Stores and General Mills/Nestle/Proctor & Gamble through MyBlogSpark. All thoughts and opinions are 100% my own. Please read my Disclosure Policy for more information.

Kroger $25 Gift Card Giveaway {closed} is a post from: AnneOnLife where life happens quite regularly. If you liked that, you'll love me on and .
© AnneOnLife 2008-2010