My Memories Giveaway!

::PLEASE CHECK OUT: the update the requirements for entry -- I really want to be able to give this away!::

As you may (or may not) know, about a year ago (ack, I can't believe it's been a year!) I ended a 5-month road trip with my boyfriend, Nathan and wound up in Seattle, where I am now!

We'd been talking for a while about a coffee-table book of the trip: including either the blog entries, pictures or both. So when My Memories contacted me about using their scrapbooking software, I jumped at the chance!

After downloading the product, I opened up the super-cute pink icon nestled on my desktop and started playing around.

My first impression of the software is that it is super easy to use. Despite having use computers for basically my entire life, I still get a little hung up on how to use some products because the answer to my question or the process isn't intuitive enough. I feel like you should be able to right-click and choose, or use the menu at the top or just the keyboard to be able to accomplish the same basic tasks. Thankfully, My Memories did just that.

All of the different scrapbooks show up on the left-hand side of the screen (you can personalize, create and download them -- so cool!) and the ways in which you can edit the scrapbook page -- which shows up in the middle of the screen -- are on the right-hand side. They are small bars that expand into full menus when you click on them, and therefore don't take up a lot of space or require a lot of scrolling. Unless, you know, you are opening all of them at once. In which case, that's your prerogative =)

You drag and drop pretty much everything: photos, text boxes. There are even fun stickers (see the 'embellishments' tag over there?) that you can use to make the scrapbook pages very fun and personalized! Here are a couple I created:

I love that you can make them simple and clean (that's my aesthetic I guess) or fill the pages up with all kinds of things!

So now the fun part, right? You can win your very own copy of the My Memories Scrapbook Software! Here's how it works:

Required for entry:

1. You must be a follower of Done and Done on GFC. 

Please just enter! At this point, you will be the only one, and then it's all yours =)

2. Go to the MyMemories website and check it out! 

Then, leave me a comment letting me know what your favorite FREE DOWNLOAD template is! 

Optional -- one entry each:

1.  Leave me a comment letting me know that you're following me, LittleReadHead, on Twitter!

2. Tweet about the giveaway! (make sure to mention me, @LittleReadHead and MyMemories, @MyMemoriesSuite, in the tweet!)

2. Leave me a comment letting me know you follow MyMemories blog, Twitter or Facebook page! (one entry for each one)

3. Write a blog post about the giveaway, and link it back to this entry and the MyMemories website! (and then leave me a comment, letting me know!)

That's it! The giveaway will remain open for a week, until 11:59pm on Thursday, October 6th Sunday, October 9th! Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced Monday, October 10th.

Don't want to wait? 

Use my code: 

STMMMS68358

to get $10 off the purchase price of the 

My Memories v2 software! 

Just like that!

(Though they provided me with their software at no cost, MyMemories has not compensated me in any way to give a good review of their product; my words and opinions are my own. Just so you know!)

across the universe (my memories giveaway!)

As you may (or may not) know, about a year ago (ack, I can't believe it's been a year!) I ended a 5-month road trip with my boyfriend, Nathan and wound up in Seattle, where I am now!

We'd been talking for a while about a coffee-table book of the trip: including either the blog entries, pictures or both. So when My Memories contacted me about using their scrapbooking software, I jumped at the chance!

After downloading the product, I opened up the super-cute pink icon nestled on my desktop and started playing around.

My first impression of the software is that it is super easy to use. Despite having use computers for basically my entire life, I still get a little hung up on how to use some products because the answer to my question or the process isn't intuitive enough. I feel like you should be able to right-click and choose, or use the menu at the top or just the keyboard to be able to accomplish the same basic tasks. Thankfully, My Memories did just that.

All of the different scrapbooks show up on the left-hand side of the screen (you can personalize, create and download them -- so cool!) and the ways in which you can edit the scrapbook page -- which shows up in the middle of the screen -- are on the right-hand side. They are small bars that expand into full menus when you click on them, and therefore don't take up a lot of space or require a lot of scrolling. Unless, you know, you are opening all of them at once. In which case, that's your prerogative =)

You drag and drop pretty much everything: photos, text boxes. There are even fun stickers (see the 'embellishments' tag over there?) that you can use to make the scrapbook pages very fun and personalized! Here are a couple I created:

I love that you can make them simple and clean (that's my aesthetic I guess) or fill the pages up with all kinds of things!

So now the fun part, right? You can win your very own copy of the My Memories Scrapbook Software! Here's how it works:

Required for entry:

1. You must be a follower of Done and Done on GFC.

2. Go to the MyMemories website and check it out! 

Then, leave me a comment letting me know what your favorite FREE DOWNLOAD template is! 

Optional -- one entry each:

1.  Leave me a comment letting me know that you're following me, LittleReadHead, on Twitter!

2. Tweet about the giveaway! (make sure to mention me, @LittleReadHead and MyMemories, @MyMemoriesSuite, in the tweet!)

2. Leave me a comment letting me know you follow MyMemories blog, Twitter or Facebook page! (one entry for each one)

3. Write a blog post about the giveaway, and link it back to this entry and the MyMemories website! (and then leave me a comment, letting me know!)

That's it! The giveaway will remain open for a week, until 11:59pm on Thursday, October 6th! Winner will be chosen via Random.org and announced Friday, October 7th.

Don't want to wait? 

Use my code: 

STMMMS68358

to get $10 off the purchase price of the 

My Memories v2 software! 

Just like that!

(Though they provided me with their software at no cost, MyMemories has not compensated me in any way to give a good review of their product; my words and opinions are my own. Just so you know!)

iTunes Genius

I am a fan of iTunes, despite some of its more obvious faults, and I think Genius is a pretty cool mod. Most of the time, it has no idea what I want to listen to. But every once and a while, it gets something right.

I created a playlist off of Aimee Mann's 'Wise Up' (which they didn't have on MixTape,) but I tried to put the rest of the playlist on there as best as I could.

the Playlist (click to listen)
1. Wise Up - Aimee Mann (not on playlist because they're poopy, but listen to it here. Or you can listen to my college a cappella group, All-Night Yahtzee, do it here.)
2. Winter - Tori Amos (originally 'Precious Things' on the playlist, but mixtape didn't have that, so I subbed)
3. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
4. Postcards from Italy - Beirut
5. Brick - Ben Folds
6. Warning Sign - Coldplay
7. Bedshaped - Keane (originally She Has No Time, listen to that here. And listen to the kick-ass version by the UNC Clef Hangers, with solo sung by Anoop Desai, here. No really, listen to it. I actually like it better than the original.)
8. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel
9. Where is My Mind - The Pixies
10. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
(originally Mr. Zebra by Tori Amos was in here, but I couldn't find anything I want to sub for it, so listen to it, here.)
11. Tymps (The Sick in the head Song) - Fiona Apple
12. The Luckiest - Ben Folds
13. We Never Change - Coldplay
14. Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds
15. Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
16. Elephant Gun - Beirut
17. Falling for the First Time - Barenaked Ladies
18. Sunshine - Keane
19. Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
20. Landed - Ben Folds
21. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
22. Don't Cry - Seal
23. Army - ben Folds
24. Criminal - Fiona Apple

We went out for drinks with my co-workers last night, so dinner was quick pasta with cheese (it's also lunch today,) but tonight, I'm contemplating making baked teriyaki-brown sugar salmon with brown rice. Need to figure out a veggie, since I'm pretty sure all we have is onions or celery. We might have some frozen brussel sprouts. Maybe I'll chop those up and toss them in with the rice.

I'm excited, because our bananas are almost mushy enough to make banana bread, which is obv the best and most nutrious breakfast in the whole word. Especially when you slaughter cover it with brown sugar and butter. Obviously.

We went grocery shopping at the regular grocery store (as opposed to the Asian market) and spent $56 and saved $27, which I'd say is pretty fair. We got a bunch of chips, mainly because I had coupons so we could get them FREE (uhm, yes please free bag of Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato chips?!) We're also contemplating starting to make our own trail mix again, since trail mix is expensive (although, the ingredients we like for trail mix are also expensive, but maybe not as expensive, so it works out,) like we used to in MA. See, when we lived in Boston, we bought one of those GIANT tubs of Utz cheese balls, like lard-os, and ate the whole thing. And then saved the tub and made a bunch of different kinds of (really bad for you) trail mixes that our friends LOVED, which included things like marshmallows and honey bbq chips. Clearly, we were concerned about losing weight. Anyway, it's fun to make trail mix, because you get to put exactly what you want in it. And exaclty what I want is chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate! Oh, and maybe some almonds.

Also bought a thing of dry roasted, un-salted peanuts that was on sale to make peanut butter with. Get excited.

I was listening to Lonely Avenue (Ben Folds & Nick Hornsby collaboration) this morning, and some of the lyrics to Practical Amanda really spoke to me. So I made a picture with them. Behold:

What about you guys? Any specific artist or band's lyrics speak to you?

-C

(p.s. because I just know you were worried, I'm probably still gonna do the accent vlog. I might make the boy do it with me, because we are from opposite ends of the east coast, so we say some things differently.)

i whip my hair

ready to be totally jealous?

Agenda:
1) Get out of work early tomorrow, after eating FREE pizza at work for lunch. (The sad part about this is Charli, one of our two accounts, and one of the two people I work most closely with, is leaving after tomorrow. She had a bebe, which she's going home to take care of, among other things, like school. Happy for her, sad for me!)
2) Go get my hair cut -- FO FREE! -- after work. (This is all Nate's doing. He helped a stylist from the salon, Seven, which is next door to Express while he was working today. So she gave him two free cut coupons. Sweet deal!)
3) Have to whole weekend with my booboo! Which includes: going to an awesome New Year's Eve Masquerade party at a club within walking distance of the apartment, for only a $15 cover.

The only downside to this is I can't be at the Yahtzee EXTRAVAGANZA of a wedding in Florida on New Year's Day. I was weepy about this, but I (partially) made the decision to spend money on other things (mostly -- gifts for Christmas and food,) so I cannot be too upset. I really wanted to go, but it isn't like I'm never going to see them again, and a plane ticket any other time of year is way less expensive. I just have to keep telling myself these things. Le sigh.

-C