giveaway winners!

Wow, so I'm a little late on this, huh? My sincerest apologies -- it's been a rough week. University classes start tomorrow, there's a friend's birthday drama (more on that later), but on top of that my dog has been sick for the last week. While celebrating the Labour Day weekend was awesome, having sleepless nights with a restless/hyperactive dog isn't as much fun. Fortunately, my dog will be a-okay though (after a very expensive surgery on Monday, but it's worth it for my pup)!

Now, onto the even better news! I wrote down everyone's names for each giveaway and used a handy random number generator to pick the winners. Thanks SO much to everyone who entered and hello to the new followers, too! This was really fun and I wish I could give this book away to everyone -- though if you keep reading, those who entered the second part of the contest might just walk away with something!

The lucky reader who gets to enjoy Time Of My Life is #6:


Congrats Aubrey! You can e-mail me your address at betterthancoffee@gmail.com! Enjoy the read :)

Now, for the design aspect there are two winners who get to beside between a header tweak or an all-over layout makeover is #8 and #11:


Congrats Jessica and Lily G!

But, because I'm feeling a little generous (and also because I need more examples for my multimedia portfolio at school this year), everyone else who entered this part of the giveaway {Meg, Andhari, Adele, Sara, Jenni, josie(bean), and Mindy} can get a layout/header as well! Everyone who won or is interested can e-mail me at betterthancoffee@gmail.com to get something brewing ;) I'm trying to start up a graphics/blog design site for some extra funds towards Europe, but these would all be free and be little experiments that hopefully turn out really nice for your blog! School is starting up for me so I can't do all of them this month, but consider it a free coupon, redeemable anytime up until 2012, haha.

Thanks again to everyone who entered -- my next giveaway will either be at 100 followers or 100 entries, whichever comes first haha. And even though school's starting, I tend to blog more during school so I'll be here more regularly, hopefully!

Hope you've had a great hump day =)

sitting with a nose strip on ...

I'm sitting here with a Biore nose strip on my nose and all I can think about is how much I want to watch The Princess Diaries movie for the scene where Mia gets caught with it on her nose by a boy and then rips it off and says, "Ow." Not that I'd want to recreate that scene or anything. [Clearly I'd be insane if I did -- I'd much rather recreate the whole 'I'm a princess!' scenario.] Being an avid movie watcher though, there's so many scenes I'd love to recreate in everyday life. Pretty much every happy/romantic scene in Serendipity tops the list. And the song n' dance segment in Robin Hood: Men In Tights. Also, I'd love to have just an everyday moment where everyone is in sync and choreographed perfectly to a random song, just like in the movies.

Is there a movie scene you'd love to recreate?

Anyhoos, this Labour Day weekend has been pretty relaxing, and tomorrow it'll be full of more BBQ-ing and fishing at a lake. But in the meantime, I've also been tagged twice! Both of them involve little Q&A sessions, so I'm going to do them in different entries this week. Can't wait to do Archana's, but since I'm a little exhausted, I think I'm better suited for one-worded answers!

I received an award from the amazing Ramblings Of A Fab Brunette! Here’s how this one works: USE ONLY ONE WORD! It’s not as easy as you might think. Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It’s really hard to use only one-word answers. Then pass out the award to whoever you would like! - I tag/award Jessica, Andhari, Steph, and anyone else who'd like to do it!

1. Where is your cell phone? dying

2. Your hair? drying

3. Your mother? walking

4. Your father? watching

5. Your favorite food? pizza

6. Your dream last night? Sting(?)

7. Your favorite drink? coffee

8. Your dream/goal? teacher

9. What room are you in? "study"

10. Your hobby? graphics

11. Your fear? heights

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy

13. Where were you last night? home

14. Something that you aren’t? flexible

15. Muffins? sure!

16. Wish list item? EUROPE

17. Where did you grow up? Ontario

18. Last thing you did? milk

19. What are you wearing? PJ's

20. Your TV? F.R.I.E.N.D.S.

21. Your pets? Shadow!

22. Friends? adore

23. Your life? better

24. Your mood? tired

25. Missing someone? Boy

26. Vehicle? nonexistent

27. Something you’re not wearing? socks

28. Your favorite store? XXI

29. Your favorite color? blue

30. When was the last time you laughed? earlier

31. Last time you cried? Wednesday

32. Your best friend? amazing

33. One place that I go to over and over? school

34. One person who emails me regularly? Facebook(!)

35. Favorite place to eat? sanitary

Wow, that was hard. By sanitary, I mean anyplace that is sanitary ... I could eat anywhere, honestly. And as for the dream about Sting -- I did not understand it at all. Apparently it was a high school reunion with a bunch of people I don't normally hang out with and we were at a Sting concert -- except I only really remember one Sting song ('Desert Rose') so he kept singing it OVER and OVER again. Gotta love bizarre dreams.

If you haven't already, make sure to check out my giveaway, you enter up until Tuesday morning -- by Tuesday night I'll have the winners revealed, yahoo! If you have tomorrow off, enjoy it :) If not, I hope your Monday isn't too shabby!

starry sky weekend

Thanks so much for all the birthday greets! Strange, the last time I updated was August. And now that it's September and everyone's thinking about fall, the warm weather is returning. Strange how life works, isn't it? 'Tis the season to be thinking about all the upcoming holidays, but the air still feels like summer. As for me, I'm dreaming about starry nights.

Image via Tumblr.
I've had a pretty busy last few days, complete with celebrating with friends and watching "Friends" season 4. Tonight, I'm headed off to a BBQ to ring in the Labour Day weekend, which should be fun! We're also going to watch The Unborn - what's with me and horror movies lately?!

And I've been tagged with a bunch of things which I promise I'll do soon. Just wanted to make a quick post to say have a beautiful weekend complete with nights by the fire, nights looking at the stars, and nights with those you love.

Also, if you haven't yet, enter my giveaway -- I decided to extend the deadline to Monday in case there's any others who want to enter! And stop by for Adele's giveaway!

And sorry for being M.I.A, I promise I'll catch up on blogs soon.

Now, I'm going to leave with you something that's sure to get stuck in your head. While at McDonald's at 2am on a Thursday morn (mm, healthy!) my friends were talking about the drive-thru song at Burger King. Well, I gotta say, I prefer this acoustic version. Anyone wanna join me and hit up Wendy's?

thanks a latte giveaway!

This entry marks my fiftieth entry! It might not be the biggest milestone, but considering this was meant to be an experiment, I'm so psyched about where it's at now and the amazing friendships that have been made. Definitely love the blog-o-sphere! With nearly fifty followers (almost one for each entry) I wanted to say a big THANK YOU for your comments, your sweetness, and your general awesomeness. I love reading your blogs and for my first giveaway, wanted to give something that I love and then make you something that hopefully you love!

Ze general rules are:
- Be a follower, por favore :)
- Comment with what prize you'd like!
- Have a nice steaming cup of coffee/hot cocoa/tea/anything that you'd like while reading this entry (err, not a requirement)!
- Give yourself a big hug from me for being so amazing!

Now onto the Thanks A Latte! giveaway!

This is one of my most beloved books that I stumbled upon randomly. Allison Winn Scotch is such a talented writer who creates real characters. Hope you enjoy this book as much as I do!

Now the next prize will have two winners, and it's a little personal because it's all based on what you'd like to have on your blog!



Whoever the two winners be, we'll work on creating a look that's right for your blog -- whether it's a simple banner with text, a combination of photos, or an overall design on your blog that speaks to who you are! I'm so excited for this!

Annnd, you know I wouldn't make you choose just one or the other:



The contest will end Saturday, September 5th, so feel free to enter until then! Thanks a latte :)