After a wicked crazy month I finally got around to drawing for the winner of the super cool Pink Rolodex Pad Folio (better late than never right?)

Our winner is: Shannah from Domestic Illusions!

I’ve got lots more juicy gossip a la Buggie to share with y’all but for now I must do some behind the scenes upgrades to this ol’ blog so stay tuned for more and watch for the next Win It!

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.

Ok boys and girls if you want an easy chance to score some free goodies listen up!

Michael over at Slightly Mordant is running a great little contest with four bitchin’ prizes

His prizes aren’t crap either…we’re talking some seriously nice stuff…seriously.

Entering is simple, any fool who knows their way around Hemingway (or the internets) should have no problem-o getting the anwser right

Go check it out and see if you can’t get yerself something nice (and tell him Bug sent ya)!

Hey y’all, I know I’ve sort of dropped off the face of the earth the last couple days but I’ve hauled my ass back onto the big blue ball for ya! I do apologize for the disappearance; The Hotness and I are going through a bit of a tough/stressful time with the company he works for. But that’s a different story for another day because folks I’ve got some great things to tell you about goings on here in the Blogsphere!

First on the list is the announcement of the Win It! winner for the Boca Java Scavenger Hunt! *drum roll please* Steph was the lucky devil that will be getting the half pound bag of Blogger’s Beach Blast Beans from Boca Java! Congrats girlie!

Second, if you haven’t already take a quick gander at the sidebar to see what sponsorships are up to then drag your eyes that-a-way! Yup, that’s all you my darlin’ readers! Y’all kick some serious ass! After the bad couple of days I had it was a helluva shock for me to login and check my sponsorships and see that so many of you great people had made the decision to donate Y’all made me smile big time and lemme tell you what, the American Cancer Society is going to put this cash to great use in the fight against cancer!

(A couple of the donations were unverified at the time of this writing but I’m sure they will get verified by tomorrow so I went ahead and put up their donations as well. If you need help with the verification process or did not receive a verification email please contact me at bug AT thelastcowgirls DOT com, thanks!)

I’m going to be emailing each one of the sponsors individually with in the next couple days to properly thank you for your support and get blog/website URLS if you have them so I can show some linky love, so keep an eye on those inboxes! Also, thank you to the two Anonymous Sponsors! It’s so mysterious and since I don’t have your email addys I just wanted to make sure you know I think you both rock whomever you may be!

I saved the best part for last y’all

I have the best friends in the world.

And that’s the understatement of the century.

Ok, I’ll stop stalling and tell you what’s up.

Maybe.

Ok I will (I’m such an ass sometimes).

My new bloggin buddy Oh Girl was kind enough to sponosor me and also did a great post asking her readers to support me in the cause! And the lovely 3T was kick-ass enough to sponsor me in my little mission to lay a whoopin’ to cancer. Then, she was sweet enough to email me asking if she could do a little advertising post to rally her readers. Little did I know just how kick-ass this woman actually is!

Not only did she do a great post about the Blogathon and my mission but she’s gonna hook up one of my lucky sponsors with a shweet prize!

If 10 more come and sponsor Bug, I will have a drawing with those 10 bloggers names in a hat, and draw one to receive a $30.00 Amazon e-certificate!

That means you get a tax write-off for the donation, and have the possibility of walking away with an Amazon gift card! The drawing will be done by LOL Tomboy with Kevin (her hubby) witnessing the drawing. The winner to be announced the day after the Blogathon ends.

How freakin’ cool is that? Perdy damn cool if you ask me So, if you haven’t cracked open the wallet and sponsored yet you may wanna start thinking about it because I’ll be adding more stuff to the prize pot as well and you can’t win if ya don’t donate!

Anyway, I’ve been catching up on my blog reading and chowin’ on milk and cookies but I think it’s time I hit the hay. Have a great day y’all!

Yep folks we have a lot of ground to cover here so hang on tight! Before we begin real quick I’d like to thank everyone for the comments and emails about the new look– y’all gave me the warm and fuzzies!

Onto Room #813….folks, I think it may very well be haunted! Rae from Bone of Contention was the very first blogger to crash in my humble abode and…well…he up and vanished on the last day of his stay! *cue creepy music* I do hope everything is ok with him, but while he was here y’all showed him a pretty good time! Here’s the stats from his 7 day rental of Room #813:

698 impressions
288 unique impressions
82 clicks
32 unique clicks
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Price: 10 Credits

A huge thank you to everyone that went over to visit him! After I get the sheets changed on the bed and find some fresh towels #813 will be open for bidding again this evening. Since there’s a good possibility that the room is haunted I’ll be more than happy to leave a teddy bear on the bed and keep the night-light on after dark no one gets scared

Next on the list are the winners of last week’s San Francisco Tourist Trivia contest! I was pretty surprised at the number of people who did their homework and sent in the correct answers–smart cookies the lot of ya! All the “A+” submissions got tossed into a hat and two were randomly picked as the first and second place winners of the San Fran Prize Packs!

First Place: ::c:: from Kosher Pork
Second Place: Bunny from Bunny’s Babblings
If you have a moment drop in and say hi to these two smarties! Congrats y’all

There will be a new Win It! posted this Saturday so make sure to drop by–especially if you love coffee !

AIS is powered by WordPress, and its lazy owner (that’d be me) still hasn’t upgraded from version 1.5. I guess I should really get around to doing that since they’ve had a couple big releases since I moved to WP from Blogger. I personally think WP is like the best thing ever on the planet but it got me to wondering, what do other people like to use to do their bloggin’.

I know there’s a plethora of platforms out there but which one do you use?