2009 Birthday Giveaway

Aw yeah,  OHC is having another giveaway!  This one just because it’s my birthday and I feel like sharing the love.  Up above is a glimpse at the prize!

The package is made up of some of my very favorite CHOCOLATE items.  Yes, you read that right.  All chocolate yummy things.  You can thank Scott for this because he came up with the chocolate theme.  Isn’t he an awesome fella?  Let’s see what we got, shall we?  From left to right:

• Ghirardelli 60% Cacao squares
• Chocolate Silk Soymilk
• Chocolate Bear Naked Granola
• FoodShouldTasteGood Chocolate Chips
• Chocolate Brownie Zbars
• Dark Chocolate PB

Plus a few other goodies I might toss your way.   And they all come in a reusable Whole Foods tote. 

All you have to do is comment on this post to enter!  Contest starts today and ends Sunday at noon EST.  I will pick a winner by random number and post the winner by Sunday 4pm EST.  You must be willing to check back to see if you’ve won and you must be willing to give me your address so I can send your prize out!  Everyone is eligible, because I’m shipping it so I will send it to you whereever you are.

Read more on 2009 Birthday Giveaway…

For those I have to send packages too, I have not forgotten you!  I’m gathering the proper envelopes and labels from the post office, which is what’s taking me so long.  I had some of them already addressed when I realized that apparently there were directions on the envelopes that I did not follow.  Who knew that one had to stand on their head and recite the Declaration of Independence backwards in order for the Post Office Gods to accept a package?!  So I’m sorry that my 9th grade Civics class has failed me and I forgot a passage, thus rendering the packages unmailable (OHC HQ declares this a word.).  I will get the packages out to you soon!

Except for TJ’s, they accepted his straight away.  T, your OHC mail is on its way! 

It's my birthday punks

  Hooray!!!  Today is my Scotty-love’s birthday!!  Yup that hunk of burning love right there was born on this day several moons ago.  In the spirit of Becky, I’m gonna list a whole bunch of stuff that makes my husband teh awesome.

He can raise one eyebrow, just like that, and crack me up every single time he does it.

We’ve been together for over 10 years and he still wants to stick around even though I can be crazy sometimes.

When we were in college, he would drive 7hours to my school every weekend to come visit me.

He handles all the creepies and buggies that make it into the house because he knows I cannot.

He lets me be me 100% and loves me for it.

He’s my little geek lover and has unleashed and nurtured my need for better and newer electronics. (Speaking of, when are we getting that new receiver?  I’m just sayin’.)

Read more on Happy Birthday Scott!!!…

Hi guys!  We got about 1/2 an inch of ice (yes, seriously) last night and about a foot of snow today.  Our power has been flickering on and off all day long.  For now we’ve had power for a little while and *fingerscrossed* it stays on.  Needless to say due to the power outage, I’m behind in posts.  I promise that I’ll try to get everything back to normal tomorrow and get my posts up and ready!

Thanks for understanding!

Hi guys! We need to have a chitty-chat about the website.  Grab some coffee or whatever.  I’ll wait.

Okay, settled?  I wanted to run a few things past you and get some feedback on thoughts.  Will you help?  Awesome!

When I first had inklings of starting this blog it was to post recipes and maybe have some food related discussions and that was about the extent of it.  You all know I was introduced into the food blogging world and what an amazing experience that has been.  Because of that my site and ambition for the site has sort of changed.

I love my daily eats section.  I cannot even tell you how much I love talking about little random stuff about my day (which might be boring to some, but it’s a fun thing for me) and about exercise.  Love it!  And I want to bump that up a little more and start doing some fun things and adding in more fitness related discussion.  My heart lies with running and I want to talk about it more.

Read more on Website related things…

Wow, what a year it has been around these parts.  OHC HQ has definitely seen some things, shared some things, and just lived some things.

I had the idea for this blog for some time and started putting things into action around May-ish.  It took months because I rely on my husband for coding and website related things.  Plus, I wanted my site to work a specific way which he then had to tweak and create plugins so that it would happen.

September 1st my little site was born and it became more than I thought it would.  My original idea was to just post recipes and things I created in the kitchen.  During the months of site prep, I stumbled into the world of food blogging.  I don’t mean recipe sites, I mean food blogging.  People living healthy, real lives and enjoying it and taking pictures along the way for the rest of us to see.  And when I say “real lives” I mean it.  These are people who exercise and eat real honest food which includes wine, cheese, chocolate and so on.  You can live a healthy lifestyle and still have those things.  This appealed to me so much because I can’t stand diets and feel that all of them are bogus, set about only to make someone else money off of someone else’s insecurities.  I decided that I was going to adopt this method of taking pictures of what I eat for every meal.  Daily eats was born.

Read more on Goodbye 2008, Hello 2009…