Headband Review Video and Giveaway

Over the past several months, I've come to be in possession of three different kinds of headbands...

• Sandra at Absolutely Narcissism felt embarrassed sorry for me after I posted my crazed Einstein hair look and sent me a Lululemon headband to help tame the insane mane,
• Megan gave away SparklySoul headbands on her blog WatchMeGoRun a few months ago, and I won the giveaway, and
• I met Sandy who makes BIC Bands when I was in Las Vegas to visit Denny's during the RockNRoll Half-Marathon and she asked if I'd like to try out her wares...of course I said "YES!" as it was the very first time someone has offered me something super cool to try out! Thanks so much, Sandy :)

Today I present them to you in my Headband Review Video...omg... super lame... but I know y'all have been missing my lovely voice and wrinkly hands... here's two minutes of viewing and listening pleasure...

(FYI... there is an audio issue halfway into the video...I'm trying to fix it so don't rag on me)

Okay, the audio isn't working for me. If it's working for you...AWESOME. If not, I go on to say that all three headbands worked well...except for that speed issue with the first one. If I had to pick one of the three I couldn't do it because I liked them all equally well. The determining factor would be price and stylistic preference, and I was too lazy to find the prices before I made the video. So that's what I said.

I'm such a dork.

Now up for grabs is the awesome, no-slip, black sparkly BIC Bands headband pictured below. Enter to win one to try out for yourself!

If you'd like to enter this giveaway simply tell me so in a comment below :) You could be nice and "like" Sandy's BIC Bands FB page or follow my blog somehow, but none of that is mandatory. Do leave a comment, though, if you want to enter... telepathic entries will not be accepted. 


Entries close Friday January 20th at midnight. Winner announced Saturday. 

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This message is from Giraffy, author of 365 Days of Awesome and mom to 5-year old Gabby (who has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia):

Hey, runner friends. Need a headband? BIC Bands will be donating a portion of their January and February proceeds to PCRF's Cinco de Mayo Half Marathon | 10K | 5K | 1K: Reaching for the Cure, benefiting kids like MY DAUGHTER who have cancer. Shop shop shop!

So even if you don't win the giveaway, you could buy one of these fabulous, no-slip, super cute headbands and know that you are contributing to an amazing cause.

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Disclaimer: I received the BIC Bands headbands for personal use, review and giveaway from Sandy of BIC Bands. 

I want roadies.

I know Oprah has roadies... but she's huge.

I was fine and not even thinking about roadies until my friend Sandra brought the topic up. It all started because of this post she wrote about The Bloggess...not to be confused with the blog hags...although I am sure The Bloggess has her fair share of blog hags or some version of that...but don't we all...or aren't we all sort of in a way?

Anyway...

The post sparked a conversation between the two of us (me and Sandra...not The Bloggess, who, even though I comment on her blog all the time along with five or six hundred other commenters, still hasn't noticed me...). So Sandra and I were giving each other pats on the back and compliments about what a great person, friend and blogger the other is... and then she said that I was a rockstar. This word gets thrown around a lot in the blog world...but what does it mean? And when I said I wasn't a rockstar, but if I could get the aforementioned megablogger to participate in Boobs I Follow Round 2..well, then...

And Sandra said, "Then you'd be a rockstar with roadies."

Examples of Roadies

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This one's not too burly, but given his background he's probably helpful with the kids.

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These burly roadies could really help me clean out my garage.

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And these guys, with their prior roadie-ing experience, 

have the potential to provide limitless entertainment.

You seriously have to click the source links...you'll get some stories behind the roadies.

So I was whining about mentioned this lack of roadies to Kelley over in her Break Room later on that day, and guess what I found out? Kelley has roadies! 

Of course, Kelley is a Tweetstar (@KelleysBreakRm), so of course she has roadies. She probably also has Blog Hags.

So I've been thinking about this roadie thing... it would be so helpful to have some. Roadies work. They lift stuff and fetch stuff and move stuff around and run errands and do sound checks... They are way better than groupies, who are too wrapped up in adulation to get any work done. I think generally-speaking guys are more interested in having groupies, and housewives are more interested in having roadies.

So, yeah, I want roadies.

But since I am not as funny as Kelley or The Bloggess nor as rich and powerful as Oprah, I'll probably need to settle for carnies.

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In an attempt to grow beyond 'carny status' and perhaps gather some groupies or roadies or, at the very least, blog hags, I am linking this post up with Lovelinks :) Come check out the awesome writers who've also linked up over there :)