Julie's Journal

While we were camping with our group last weekend, I finally got to try fire spinning or dancing as it’s sometimes called.

I’ve watched my friend Ron do it over the last couple years and I finally got the guts up to try it. I used his fire staff, which isn’t much different than the tall flags I use to spin in high school other than the ends are ON FIRE.

It was such a rush, and I can’t wait to practice more and get the dance part incorporated into a routine.

[tags]fire spinning, fire dancing, fire staff, Burning Man, Chilistock[/tags]

Once again I have to share with you the greatest weekly deal on Buy.com. This week I bring you the movie I Am Legend (2-Disc Special Edition) 2007 for a super great price of $9.00 plus it’s eligible for free shipping.

I Am Legend is probably one of my favorite movies of 2007, and I have watched it over 10 times now. Will Smith just never lets me down with his acting. Do you like Will Smith? What’s your favorite movie that he has been in?

The last man on earth is not alone. Will Smith portrays that lone survivor in I Am Legend, the action epic fusing heart pounding excitement with a mind blowing vision of a desolated Manhattan.

Some how immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville (Smith) is now the last human survivor in New York City and maybe the world. But he is not alone. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows…watching Neville’s every move…waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered…and quickly running out of time.

Make sure to check out the Weekly Deal sale on Buy.com every week. They have great deals on all kinds of electronic items like external hard drives, USB flash drives, GPS units, and hi-def digital camcorders. They even feature diamond necklaces, DVD’s and software, and great movie deals like this.

[tags]Buy.com, electronics, weekly deals, sale[/tags]

The Pillsbury Home is Calling™ Campaign is in full swing donating to America’s food banks this holiday season. Every time you send the Pillsbury Home is Calling™ commercial on their website to a friend, they will send one pound of groceries to an American food bank.

I have THREE Pillsbury Home is Calling™ Gift Basket’s to giveaway which include:

1. Coupon for Pillsbury refrigerated crescent rolls
2. Magnetic coupon holder
3. House-shaped mouse pad
4. Pot holder
5. Cookie sheet
6. Bread basket
7. Loveable Pillsbury Doughboy figurine.

How To Enter the Pillsbury Gift Basket Giveaway:

Each one of these things will give you ONE entry:
1. Leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite Pillsbury product is.
2. Leave a comment on this post telling me what’s your favorite part of family meals.
3. Leave a comment telling me you sent the Pillsbury Home is Calling™ commercial to a friend. I have no way of verifying this, so this is on the honor system.
4. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify.
5. Stumble this post. Please leave me your username so I can verify. (If you don’t know what Stumble Upon is, please read Lori’s post at Blogging Cents. She explains it extremely well.)

Each one of these things will give you FIVE entries:
1. Blog about my contest on your blog. Please leave me the URL, so I can verify.
2. Post my URL to forums you belong too. Please leave me the URL, so I can verify.
3. Subscribe to this blog using either my email or RSS feed.

This contest will end November 30th at 6:00 pm PST and is for US residents only.

[tags]Pillsbury, baking, cooking[/tags]

Tomorrow is an exciting day. My oldest son Johnathan has an audition at a local talent management agency here in town. It’s the same one responsible for casting Napoleon Dynamite, High School Musical, Ocean’s 13, and a slew of other Disney films, so I’m pretty confident in their business.

He saw a casting call on Craigslist so he called them up and has an appointment tomorrow. They said to bring in 4 photographs, but they didn’t have to be professional head shots. We have no idea what we are doing, but we snapped about 400 shots of him today and these 4 made the cut.

Click on the image to see the larger version.

He’s talked about being an actor on and off since about 9th grade, so I wasn’t too surprised when he wanted to give this a shot. And hell, you only live once. I think this will be a good experience for him.

[tags]head shots, modeling, acting, actor[/tags]

I bookmarked 12seconds.tv about a week ago, and just got around to checking it out today. I soon realized that I had never requested an invite, and I was ready to make a video dammit! I jumped on Twitter and asked for and invite, and about 12 seconds later, Jacob hooked me up!

Think of it as Twitter where you only have 140 characters to get your point across. With 12seconds.tv you’ve got uhhhhh, 12 seconds to make your video!

And if you’re running short on creativity they have something called the 12 Second Challenge where they offer up a question, and you reply with your video.

You know you want to try it, right? Well I’ve got 10 free invites to give out to the first 10 comments on this post (not including my replies).

Here’s my channel on 12seconds JustJulie and here’s my first video.

Just Julie’s First 12seconds on 12seconds.tv

[tags]12seconds.tv, video blogging, vlogging[/tags]