The InfluenceSD Finalists were Announced,THANK YOU!!!!!!

Thank you so much for everyone who voted for me ;)!!!

The voting closed at 3p.m and the Finalists were announced a few minutes ago.........

Adventures of a Military Family of 8

is a

Finalist for Blog of the Year!!!!!!

If you don't remember what it was about, San Diego is having an Awards Night for The Social Media.  My Daughter called it "The Grammy's for the Internet" lol

Several Categories were given such as:

Agency,  Blogger of the Year, Business, Gov./Politics/Edu, Non Profit, Sports, Lifestyle, Restaurant, Community and Nightlife, Blog of the Year, and Traditional Media.

Once the Voting ended on March 24 at 3pm, the top 5 nominees of each category will move to round 2.

In Round 2 a panel of Judges will decide who the Winner of each category will be. This will take place on April 7, 2010 at Anthology.
If you're in San Diego, and you want to join everyone for a fun event, you can still buy your tickets, click here

Here is the Link to the Announcement Page click here
BLOG OF THE YEAR

The Friarhood

New Brew Thursday

The Britney Henry Project

Adventures of a Military Family of 8

Diego on a Dime

Congratulations to all of the Nominees and to the Finalists!!!!!
Thank you so much to my Hubby for all of his support!!!
Thank you so much for your votes and for making this Night possible for me!!!!!
Congratulations to my Bloggy friends ;)
La Jolla Mom, San Diego Bargain Mama, Mama Mary Show, Diego on a Dime !!!!!!!
 

News Coverage by NBC San Diego

Event Details

The 1st Inaugural #influenceSD Awards. We invite you to join us.

#influenceSD launched to unite San Diego's social media champions.

·       More than 350 nominees in 12 categories

·       Nominations and voting closed March 24th at 3 p.m. PST

·       Top 5 finalists moved on to the judging round and winners announced April 7th

·       Awards event at Anthology features music by Krys Justice, Beyond Category and more

·       Local personalities like Sam the Cooking Guy and more to present awards

Evening includes:

·       Access to stroll the red carpet

·       7pm pre-show entertainment by Southern California R&B recording artist Krys Justice

·       Amazing food and drink specials. Come try to the Twitter-tini

·       Cash bar

·       Mixing & mingling with San Diego’s socialites

The Sponsors for the night are:

YAYYYYY I'm in third place

I just checked the #influenceSD page, and I am currently in third place, Thank you so much to all of you that have voted for me ;)

The Dinner and Award event will be for the top person in each category, I am third in Blog of the Year , even if I don't win, I want to say thank you so much, it means so much to me that you think I deserve this award ;)


For those of you who did not read my post about being nominated, one of the reasons that winning this award would mean so much more to me is because since we are moving out of San Diego, to know that while spending my entire life here, I get to leave with an award like this to show me that I did make somewhat of an impact while I was here ;)

The last day for votes is in March 23. 
psst, if you haven't voted for me, but you want too, go ahead you know it will make you feel better, lol.
but remember, you can only vote once per i.p address, if you vote more than once, it will take one point away, if that happens, just click again to vote and it will put the point back.  To vote click on the arrow next to our picture in this link

Hello my BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS, I owe u all an explanation....

As many of you know, I have been having computer problems and depression issues(on my other blog)  as well lately, lol.
Well here's the deal, I have thought long and hard about how to even announce this, because it is so hard for me, but as my friends you are entitled to know;
am I making a long story longer? lol

Well, as it will not affect any of you 99% of the time, it might only be big news to me,lol...
OK, OK, no more prolonging it, lol....

We found out last week that our stay in San Diego, California will be coming to an end :(
 My Hubby's Military Career will be sending us to the East Coast :(

Hubby is originally from NY, I am from Cali and have been here all my life.  For the last 11 years of Marriage I have thrown fits, and begged for hubby to continue to get orders in this City, because I never wanted to leave, but as I have heard, ALL good things must come to an end :(

His new orders will have us move to the East Coast, exact destination is still unknown, regardless of where it is, I am so sad.
I have been dealing with depression for a very long time, and though I always knew that our stay here was never permanent, the fact of seeing it on paperwork hit me harder than a 5 ton truck :(

All week I stayed in bed, sleeping, crying, and almost everything ending with "ing" that relates to sad, lol.  It has hit me so hard, I know he is happy about going "back home" and I know that he is sad to see me sad as well, but all I keep thinking about is me and the kids.  I know they will adjust quickly, as many kids do; in addition being closer to their grandparents will be even better for them, I guess I go back to me, lol.

I am so incredibly sad, I feel lost, like I lost hope, empty, I don't want to leave, though I know I have a choice, it's not one I want to make.  I DON'T WANT TO GO :(

I know that I have NEVER written a sad post on here(that's what my other blog is for, lol), but I have made sure I ALWAYS have been honest and open about our lives, so this is why I chose to talk about it.

Being a Military Family is SOOOOOOO hard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know I sound like a big baby, and I agree as well, because I know MANY Families that have moved so many times, but this is MY FIRST TIME, being forced to move from the only City I have known all my life, clear across to the other side of the country!!! 

We just moved to this house in June, WE LOVE the backyard!!!

I Finally have made friends here,

The support from the friends I have met through blogging (#jammyjam)
, the places I visit, my history, memories, and even though we don't speak I do not want to move away from my Family :(


I guess this opens up so many other subjects, of which I will post about separately to be detailed.
One good thing I guess is hubby knows how much I LOVE adventures, so to make me excited about the move, lol, he promised we could do a cross country trip, sounds fun, but I'm still sad, lol.

other subjects I will be posting about:

• my Nomination for the InfluenceSD award has been fixed, I am nominated and running for Blog of the year in San Diego, instead of running for Lifestyle ;)  So please be so kind to vote for me if you think I am worthy of it ;)  one vote per i.p address, if you vote more than once, it takes a point away, but you can click again and put the point back, lol (click green arrow next to pic to vote)
• I am attending BlogHer '10 ;)  I will be looking for sponsors to brag about ;)
• So many updates I have been neglecting due to the dumb computer, lol
• SO MANY great reviews and giveaways that I know you will love!!!!
• My Hubby's answer to my depression 

and many more things ;)
I hope you all have a wonderful day ;)
HUGS!!!

If you think I'm Worthy, please vote ;)

#influenceSD Award If you think I deserve it, please vote for me, I gave in and allowed my entry to be submitted after my friends "peer-pressured me" ;)  To vote click on the arrow next to my picture, you may vote once per i.p address  if you vote more than once, it takes one point away :( (when you click on the arrow u can see if the point increased or decreased, so u can fix it) 
For category: Blog of the Year   #influenceSD on twitter

Click here to VOTE This Nomination came during a hard time for me, We just got notice that My Hubby might have to take orders to the East Coast, If that happens, Winning this Award would mean so much more to me to know that I made somewhat of an impact on my Readers ;) 
(I don't have the income to offer giveaways in exchange for your votes, all I can offer is my Sincere Thank you ;) )