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Today I got an email from
Cold Stone Creamery. Before I got into that, I do want to point out that
Gmail now has themes, and if you use Gmail and choose the "candy" theme, you will have a cute little ice cream staring at you every time you check your mail. And if you are like me, that would be all the time...
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oh! oh! And if you choose the "bus stop" theme and make your location Boston, you also have a kid holding a huge (um, "dream" might be a better word) cone down at the bottom.
Oh, and wait...one more digression. I am on my computer that doesn't have Adobe Creative Suite on it and I am too lazy to go upstairs and use Photoshop, so I just wanted to mention this super cool online photo editing site I just read about.
Picnik. Great for on-the-go editing!
All over the news, I am hearing about bailout this and bankrupt that. Apparently
Cold Stone Creamery isn't having these problems, because they have a
contest this holiday season with a chance to win up to $10,000 when you buy one of their cakes. Sweet! Cakes and money! (Although right now I can't even begin to think about ordering a cake because I ate too much
Party Favors cake at a reception at the
Museum School's Art Sale,
InsideOut.) Anyway, $10,000. How could I get away from that? Without further ado, here is the $10,000 news!
Now through January 6th, 2009 (or sooner, if they run out of game pieces), purchase a
Cold Stone cake and get a "gold medal." With this gold medal, you have a chance to win one of three $10,000 prizes, five $500 prizes, or one of 1000 cakes! Even the smallest prize has some sweet potential!
Anyway, this is an ice cream filled post along with a couple of hot tips, so I hope between this post and Tina's yesterday, we are getting out of the dog house for being kind of MIA.
Speaking of $10,000...er, um, at least 10,000 lakes...I will be in the land of 10,000 lakes (Minnesota) next week but hopefully will be able to report back on some midwestern ice cream.