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The Winter Olympics – Get Excited!

We are getting SO close to the Olympics, and I am getting pumped! Jenny and I loooove the Olympics (so much so that we once photoshopped our faces on the bodies of Olympians. What? That’s totally normal!) and we are both eagerly awaiting the upcoming games.

Which, as an aside, Jenny – what were you thinking scheduling your wisdom teeth extraction for today? You should have waited and made sure your couch-time was spent watching the skeleton!

So, while I’m sure ALL of you are totally with us in terms of anticipation, just in case you’re not, here are a few things to get you excited.

First of all.

There. I’m done. If that doesn’t convert you to an Olympiaholic, I don’t know what will.

Except here are some more things.

There’s now a TEAM Figure Skating competition. They’ve taken the most popular Winter Games event and made it even better. Here’s how the US Figure Skating Association describes it:
Each team will consist of one lady, one man, one pairs team and one ice dance team to be selected from athletes who have qualified in their individual disciplines. Each team, however, will be allowed to make up to two exchanges after the short program/dance. Selected athletes named to the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Team will compete in their respective disciplines in the team event. The team event will consist of the 10 best national teams from NOCs/ISU members. The five teams with the highest number of points after the short program/dance will qualify for the free skate/dance. In the team event, athletes will receive points based on their finishes in each segment of competition. So. Freaking. Cool.

If only the team contained these two.

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Other new events include Women’s Ski Jumping, Biathlon Mixed Relay, and Luge Team Relay.

Also, keep an eye out for:

Tim Burke, who could become the first American ever to medal in the biathlon.
Tim Burke, who could become the first American ever to medal in the biathlon.
Nick Goepper, who grew up skiing at Perfect North Ski Slopes in southern Indiana.
Nick Goepper, who grew up skiing at Perfect North Ski Slopes in southern Indiana.
Lolo Jones, who has finally figured out that running is the devil and has switched form the 100-m hurdles to the women's bobsled team.
Lolo Jones, who has finally figured out that running is the devil and has switched form the 100-m hurdles to the women’s bobsled team.

Here’s a list of 10 female athletes to follow on Twitter and/or Instagram. The hashtag is #Sochi2014, in case you were wondering!

And finally, here’s a link to my #Sochi2014 pin board, complete with tons of brilliant ideas that I will probably never get around to implementing.

What events are you excited to watch from Sochi?

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Diaper Pail of Dreams – giveaway!

Whisper Diaper Pail is providing this giveaway item and provided me with a sample to facilitate this review (which I’m passing on to a friend since I’ve officially got ZERO kids in diapers now!)

Isn’t it just *hilarious* that the world’s most perfect diaper pail was brought to market at like, the exact moment that I potty-trained my last child? Go figure!! Well, my loss is your gain – if you’ve still got little ones in diapers creating stinkbombs like it’s their JOB, that is. I’m happy to introduce you to the best thing to happen to diaper-depressed parents since the invention of the disposable.

It’s…the Whisper Diaper Pail!

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This diaper pail is unlike anything you’ve ever used before. Over the course of nearly 10 years of parenting, we’ve had three different diaper pails, but over time they’ve all become stinky.  As in, at some point the odor protection just STOPS WORKING. The Whisper Diaper Pail permanently solves the odor problem of dirty diaper after dirty diaper AND makes disposing of them as easy as can be. Here’s why it’s so great!

1) Layers (upon layers!) of odor protection. Not only does the pail have a lid like other diaper pails, it also has a trap door on the inside which offers another layer of protection and also hides the dirty diapers so you don’t have to look at them. Finally, the Whisper also comes with a built-in spray, the ODOGard Spray, that ATTRACTS odors as well as locks them away! And all ya got to do to release the spray is press a button on the lid.

2) Hands-free convenience. You use a foot-pedal to open the lid and you can drop the diaper right in even with a fussy baby on your hip.

3) No expensive refills! The Whisper Diaper Pail uses regular kitchen trash bags.

4) It’s local! The Whisper Diaper Pail was created in Cincinnati.  By a PhD dad of 5 who has dealt with a lot of stink, and a bunch of other PhD’s. Woohoo!

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Now that you know how GREAT this baby is, don’t ya wanna win one? Here’s how to enter to win your very own Whisper so you can eliminate the stank and camouflage the rank diapers your precious little one cranks out (relentlessly!!).

A) Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite feature of the Whisper Diaper Pail.

B) Check out Mommin’ It Up on Facebook and leave us a comment letting us know you did.

C) Check out Whisper Diaper Pail on Facebook and leave us a comment letting us know you did.

One winner will be chosen at random on Monday, January 20th at 6pm EST.

Good luck!

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An important message from our sp@mmers

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As you are probably aware, the internetz is full of people who want you to buy crap. Or just want your money. Some of these businesses sell awesome products and they appeal to consumers through advertising on traditional media as well as by advertising on blogs and social media.

And some people just want to advertise for free by leaving spam comments on blog posts and hoping that you’ll click through the link they’ve left with their brilliant commentary. I am guessing this must work on SOME level since these “sp@mmers” have  been doing this for YEARS and with GREAT consistency and persistence. We have a filter that catches most these for us, so you guys never see ’em. You’re WELCOME!

As I was contemplating these gems after trashing a few sp@m comments this morning, I realized that Emily and I might be doing you a disservice by keeping this “advertising” from you. After all, who are WE to say that you might not WANT to know about “home heating oil prices on long isl@nd” or “Billig Canada Goose J@kke” or my personal favorite, “How To Get Muscles F@st” (because you know I love to work out!!) Sooo, this morning I decided to let a few of these glittering advertising gems out of the spam vault for your reading pleasure. I am reproducing these with no editing whatsoever so you can get the full effect of the articulate geniuses these companies hire to “spread the word” about their products. I am however, going to modify the link names so as to not truly give them press.Here we go!

This comment is by “M*ncler Norge”:

Humour me for a moment and suppose you’ve just hit your thirtyfifth birthday. You can follow her on Twitter.The typical sizes of the apartments are higher than the regular homes giving you that extra living space.

Hmm, ok, I would humour you (I mean, I would if I were British, but maybe I’ll just humor you instead), but I’ve just hit my thirty-sixth birthday, so I guess I’m out. You CAN follow me on twitter though, thanks for the plug! Also, you should probably take an English class before you decide to write sp@m comments in English. Your topic sentence was SO NOT SUPPORTED there!

Here’s a life-alterting message from “S@c L@ncel Pas Cher”:

abercrombie often uses male models only once, allowing campus guys to go on to expanded modeling careers. I finally get the box unwrapped and glance at the product label. Furthermore, they protrude in the entire group, as many of them will certainly be wearing common incorporate general. When you possess vision, you develop a relentless pursuit to do what ever needs to be done to get to your end reward. 

Huh. Looks like I’m on the wrong track in my male modeling career. Do you guys think I protrude in a group?

This  one from “fl!ght s!mulator” almost had me. ALMOST.

Hello, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a
lot of spam comments? If so how do you reduce it, any plugin or anything you can
advise? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any support is very much appreciated.

I was all, “Oh we have so much in common!” So clever. I wish you would’ve left your home address and phone number so I could SUPPORT the crap out of you.

I can also relate to this one, who left his or her “name” and a long string of numbers and letters that I can only assume is a super-secret government passcode to the Matrix, so I won’t reveal it. Here’s what this genius wants you to know:

926881 226873not every person would need to have a nose job but my girlfriend genuinely needs some rhinoplasty coz her nose is kind of crooked- 648975

DUDE! If Ihad a nickel for every one of my girlfriends who needed a nose job! Coz 928314592, RIGHT??

And finally, the piece de resistance from our new BFF “Christy”:

I’m ext?emely impr?ssed together with your writing abilities ?s
well as with the format to your blog. Is that this a paid subject matter or
did you modify it your self? Anyway stay up the excellent
quality writing, it is uncommon to see a great blog like this one toda?..

Aww, thanks Christy! Fl?ttery will get you ev?rywhere with us!

So what do you guys think? Should we give these sp@mmers some more play or what? Can you believe we’ve been holding out on you all this time?

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