I guess I bit off more than I could chew over the years – seriously. I have too many blogs and not enough time to devote to them. I have made the decision to let go of all but two. Writing and Cooking are my two biggest passions, and because of that – those are the two I will continue to keep.

I am merging Frugal Changes into this blog since most of it had to do with food anyway and saving money – which I still feel go hand in hand, obviously. There are a few posts that are merged that don’t have anything to do with food, but instead deal with Frugal Living as a whole, but it gives me the chance to still write those articles and place them here if I want.

So, this blog will remain up and running and active.

You can also visit my writing blog if you are interested in writing at all. It’s All About Writing.

I figured with Adgitize I finally found the silver lining. If you read the previous post, about how I won the grand prize for this blog back in September ’09 and I just discovered it yesterday, then you realized I didn’t have high hopes for Adgitize to still award me the prize money. Honestly, it is their right, since I took nearly five months to contact them. I waited on baited breath for a positive outcome, but would never have blamed them, as it was my fault. I used an email address that I quit using shortly thereafter because of spam, and my hosting/blog wasn’t working the way it should and letting me know of pingback and trackbacks. Honestly, if I hadn’t been having trouble with my blogs, I might never have figured it out when I went to combine the hosting.

So, are you waiting for an update? Are you wondering if Ken Brown is everything that everyone claims he is? I can assure you that he is and more. This is the email I received.

HI Nicole,

We will be more than happy to pay out the $75 to you. You won it fair and square. Once I hear back from you that this is a good email address then you will be able to login to Adgitize. Update your PayPal Address in the Profile section and send me an email that it has been updated then we will send you the $75.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Ken Brown
Adgitize

You do realize they so did not have to honor this after all this time. That company has the type of business ethics that every company should strive for. I am so proud to be a member, and am so pleased with their decision to honor it anyway.

So tonight I should have the money paypal’d (I think I just made a new word LOL) to my account, and I am so excited.

Thank you Adgitize for the honor of the grand prize back in September. Thank you Ken Brown, for not only honoring the prize after all this time, but for being patient with me in the past 24 hours as we sorted it all out.

If you haven’t checked out Adgitize, I strongly suggest you do. I will be posting information on all my blogs about my experience with Adgitize to help spread the word and get others involved.

After being completely aggravated by my hosting company and the merging of the hosting accounts (which didn’t quite work the way it was supposed to), I had to restore everything on my blog. While I was restoring everything … suddenly my “links” updated and I could see who was saying what about my posts. So I follow them, just to check them out and I come across this post.

Does anyone want to just scream with me now? My blog won the grand prize of $75. So first, I think… well why wasn’t I notified? Is this the only way they notify you? Nope.

Unfortunately, I set up adgitize with an old acct (it was active at the time) that got inundated with spam, and so I quit using it. I went to adgitize and realized there is no way to change your email address.

At any rate, I checked that email acct, and low and behold… here’s what they sent me:

Hi Nicole,

I want to congratulate you on winning $75 USD in the Adgitize August Fireworks Contest. Go to http://www.adgitize.net/blog/2009/09/02/winners-in-our-august-fireworks-contest/ to see more details.

As our Grand Prize winner you were chosen from 62,076 entries. Thank you for joining our contest and congratulations.

If we have your PayPal email address in our system we will send you the winnings later today. If you have not given Adgitize your PayPal email address then please go to the Member’s Lounge ==> Profile ==> Member Payment section to enter your Paypal address.

If you have any questions or problems please let us know.

Thank you and Congratulations.

Sincerely,

Ken Brown
Adgitize

http://www.adgitize.com

Arrrrrgh!!! Who couldn’t use $75?!?!?! So anyway, I replied to him and then CC’d it to my private email, so we shall see what comes. I am sure it is FAR too late to even get the $$ now. So, now I’m bummed so I am going to go make dinner on my new George Foreman grill and pout in silence. I am not EVEN going to ask what else could go wrong, because I know that it could be much worse.