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Deck them halls and all that stuff

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Deck them halls and all that stuff
Photo-A-Day #1344

I think that I’m out of my funk with the weather. At least with the photography side of things I am out of the funk. I came home to see that Allison had really done a great job of decorating the house. So I took advantage of that and decided to shoot some low light photos of the mantle. That hurricane lamp has been buried for a while and I was happy to dig it out this past week when Allison and Eva were away. We’ll be picking up some little silver balls to put in it as well.

Today was also very busy in my Big Box of Awesome! Even more people decided to go looking around in it. Check out who had their nose in the Big Box of Awesome!

Michelle from ZenGrrl dot com is going to make me a nice card with the software that you can have if you win BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!

Olga The Traveling Bra found a Mouse Pad in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome. That is the only “padding” you are gonna find on her blog.

Alli of Always Alli has is planning for the next 12 months because she found BenSpark’s 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar in An awesome box that sadly, isn’t mine

Joe of JoeTech riffled through BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and told his readers I Snooped Around and Found More Free Stuff For You.

Have you actually seen everything that is in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome. Check out all the “revealed” items on my Flickr page.

The IZEA Insiders are set to launch a couple of great contests and we haven’t even officially begun yet. But the rest of the insiders and I are geared up and ready to go. We are recruiting people for our Crews (Leave a comment or use my contact page if you are interested in being a part of my crew, The “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Crew)

One of the contests will start on December 16th. I can’t say anything about it until then but it will be great! The other one just popped up for us today. That is each one of us was offered a ticket to Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas. I must have slipped up on my meds today because I said I didn’t want a ticket, I have no vacation time left. But then when I snapped out of it I realized that I was being offered a ticket that I could give away. I may be too late to give one away So if it is and you want to try and win a ticket from the other IZEA Insiders here are their links.

Heather of the TEDHeads crew has a ticket to give away.
Corrin of the Peanut Gallery Crew has a ticket to give away.
Julie of the IZEA Swarm Crew has a ticket to give away. She is also going to be at Affiliate Summit as the Blogging Lounge Mistress.
Lisa of the Spark-E Crew has a ticket to give away.
Steven Sanders of the IZEA Mafia Crew has a ticket to give away.
Brett of LiveWriterz Crew has a ticket to give away.

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At Red Robin – AKA Man Date

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At Red Robin - AKA Man-Date
Photo-A-Day #1341

Apparently when your wife goes out of town and you spend the night hanging out with your buddy it’s called a “man date” (See Below). Tonight I went and hung out with my buddy Mike and we went to Red Robin for dinner and then we went to the new showcase Cinemas at a Patriot Place. Dinner at Red Robin was really good, as usual. I had the bacon cheeseburger with blue cheese and Mike had a bacon cheeseburger as well. We took advantage of the delicious bottomless steak fries. I introduced him to the tasty flavor of fry sauce.

Now that is a tasty burger

We also checked out the showcase Cinemas at patriot Place. We saw the movie Transporter 3. It was an entertaining movie however there was plenty of suspension of disbelief. I suppose that’s what you go to the movies for anyway and so I really liked it. There are a couple of really hard to believe points as with any Transporter movie.

Some people have asked about what a Man Date is all about. Well, I did a little research and found a New York Times article about it. Here is the definition from that article.

Simply defined a man date is two heterosexual men socializing without the crutch of business or sports. It is two guys meeting for the kind of outing a straight man might reasonably arrange with a woman. Dining together across a table without the aid of a television is a man date; eating at a bar is not. Taking a walk in the park together is a man date; going for a jog is not. Attending the movie “Friday Night Lights” is a man date, but going to see the Jets play is definitely not.

And here is the rule of thumb on movies on a man date:

When attending a movie together – preferably with explosions or heavy special effects, never a romantic comedy – guys prefer to put a nice big seat between each other. (This only sounds like an episode of “Seinfeld.”)…

My contest is in full gear. I have quite a few bloggers out there who have been snooping around BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! I mean, just today I got a whole batch more bloggers who uncovered items from BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!that is okay however I repay their kindness by stumbling their posts. I also learned how to use Yahoo Buzz today. And of course there was post to twitter, Facebook, and del.icio.us. I’ve been using new site called TagFoot. TagFoot is a new site for social bookmarking is in beta right now I’m not sure if I have any invites, I’ll take a look. In the meantime check out these bloggers and what they found.

Heather of Beautiful British Columbia – Big Box of Awesome
Lisa of My Thoughts, Ideas and Ramblings – Big Box of Awesomeness
Loretta of Gadget Girl –Peeking into the Big Box of Awesome
Jennifer of The Dirty Shirt – Shh! Don’t tell Ben…
Scott of Average Dudes – Inside Scoop on BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome

Is there anything else out there, or rather in there? We shall see. Don’t forget to enter BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! contest.