It’s been busy around Casa de la Buggie this week! The Hotness has returned to Kuwait for the final leg of his deployment which is sad and exciting all at the same time. I know we’re on the tail end of this whole thing but I’d still rather have him here yaknow?

I got great news that I have finally been approved for Federal Aid to go to college! I’ve been waiting for so long to get to go back to school that I’d almost given up. But after a meeting with an adviser at the college this past week I was able to secure funding to start working towards my associates and eventually my bachelors degree in Business Management! This is going to be huge, it’s a lot of work and I’m only going to be able to get in a couple classes a semester so it’s going to take awhile but it’s the first step and I can’t wait to get started!

Annnnd finally I’ve been nominated over at the Blogger’s Choice Awards for “Best Blog About Stuff“! I’m really hoping to win as I’ve never been in the running in the previous years. So if you have a spare moment please please head over there and vote for An Indian Summer by clicking here or on the balloon in the sidebar under my picture

If you have been nominated for a category please let me know in the comments so I can vote for you too!

If you haven’t gotten entered for the Pink Rolodex Pad Foilio yet you’d better hustle, it’s easy and it’s ending soon so click here and comment on the post for a chance to win!

Today me n’ my bff Pat are off to the Marana Jr. Rodeo to watch the kids ride I’ll be taking oodles of pictures and will post those up on flickr tonight or tomorrow…but I’d better go get ready so I’ll talk to you all later! Byeeeeeeee!

I’m working on updating my blogroll as much as possible so if you have An Indian Summer on your blogroll please let me know in the comments so I can add you to mine kthxsbai!

Hullo lovelies! It’s October which you know (unless you’re living under a rock) is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month! Beings that there’s no time this month to turn AIS pink I’m using this month to kick off the return of “Win It!” to my little corner of the web

Up for grabs is a slick and very pink Special Edition Rolodex Pad Folio! I have one and love it and decided what better thing to do than to share a brand spankin’ new one with one of you! Rolodex has teamed up with the City of Hope Cancer Center and will be donating $20,000 to their facility this year – nice eh?

Spiffy Eh?

Inside

Here’s a shot of mine so you can see it sans wrapper

The Stats:
-Soft faux leather Pad Folio with snap closure to keep contents secure.
-Features a legal pad of paper and two elastic pen loops.
-Includes eight pockets for business, identification or credit cards, two large pockets for documents and ten 4″ x 6″ note cards.
-Retail Price $41.99.
-It’s PINK!

How do you get it? Simple – just leave a comment on this post saying hey or whatever and you’ll be entered in the drawing! Commenting entry closes on October 30th at 11:59 EST and using Random.org a winner will be chosen from all comments. Way easy right?

Want to earn an extra entry? Simply write up a quick post on your blog letting your readers know about the contest, make sure to link back to An Indian Summer or this post’s URL in your post so they can enter as well. Then just leave me a quick comment here letting me know you posted so I can go take a peek!

Guys make sure you enter too…this would make a great gift for any lady in your life

The Fine Print: Drawing is only open to residents of the U.S. Only one comment entry per person will be accepted and only one ‘tell your readers’ entry per person will be accepted (maximum two entries per person). Entry closes on October 30th at 11:59 EST. Prize includes one (1) pink Special Edition Rolodex Pad Folio and shipping to winner’s address. Pad Folio will be shipped via US Postal Service Priority Mail (if possible) and no insurance will be offered unless requested and paid for by winner. AIS and The Last Cowgirls Web Solutions Network is not responsible for the prize once it leaves our hands.

Here’s something to peek at if you have a spare moment – The Million Blog List! These folks are trying to see how long it will take to get 1 million bloggers to list themselves on their site. I went ahead and put myself on the other day and I was the 2,252nd blogger to jump on the wagon. I’m hoping they reach their goal, it’s a neat idea…

Plus you can snag this nifty badge for your blog:

In their words:

It is said that there are over 70,000,000 blogs in existence. This is an experiment to see how long it will take to get 1,000,000 blogs to list themselves on our site. Will it work? We think so. The experiment is to see how long will it take. What do you think? take our poll. We started April 10th, 2008.
-Million Blog List

The Hotness is back! After a 18 hour flight he’s finally got his boots on Arizona soil once again, and I’m one happy cat! There’s so much for us to do and so many people to go see over the next two weeks so he’ll probably need a vacation after all this is done *chuckle*

Next weekend we’re hosting a huge party here at Casa de la Buggie for all of our friends and family and in between work and trying to enjoy his being home we have to seriously start planning. The menu is still up in the air and I don’t think we’ll have the time to theme it out like I’d wanted to but he’s here and that’s all that matters!

It’s been rough without him here, being without my other half has left me uninspired and rather glum. I’ve neglected so much online and offline that it’s almost a daunting task of trying to rekindle all the projects that I’ve let putter out. I’m hoping that after he leaves again I can find a way to pull myself up by the bootstraps and get back into the swing of things with a better attitude and more energy. I think knowing that we’re in the last half of this journey will help considerably.

Anywhoot, he had a layover in Ireland and picked up this spiffy Guinness t-shirt for me

While he’s home I’ve mapped out some plans to do a new set of promo shots for The Bug Hour, hopefully we can produce something nice and new…make sure to check back and see what we come up with