Need Your Help :: A Happy Birthday Favor

Hey kids, today is a very special day!

Today is my best friend's *insert very low number here because she might be angry if i inserted the actual number and that is not how to treat a birthday girl*-st/nd/rd/th birthday.

My best friend is my mama. You can call her Ann (or mama venus if you're Ashten, which for the record tickles her to death), but if I called her Ann she would say my tongue was going to stick up out of my grave. So, I generally keep with calling her mom, for fear of the future tongue grave. 

I've heard we look alike?

And dance alike...

And eat alike, and drink alike, and work alike, and cry alike, and care alike and do a bunch of other alike things good too...

Now, the only thing my mom loves more than me, is her twitter account. I thought I got sad when I tweeted something I thought was awesome, then immediately lost 12 followers. But remember that time I said we are alike, about 7 seconds ago? Well, I'm certain my sweet mama goes through the 5 stages of grief over just a single lost follower.

With that said, I would love love love if you would help me wish my mom (@anncaudle) a happy birthday on twitter and/or leave her a blog comment below. I have zero doubts in my mind, she will think this is the coolest birthday ever and will be tickled to death by the social media birthday love!

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And since I was sick on Friday and MIA, I'm here with a very important announcement that my colleague was kind enough to pick up my slack on, and announce! GET PUMPED for this month's #TotalSocial!!!

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The theme for July, which will take place this Thursday, July 17th is favorites with the hashtag #FavTotalSocial. I think I'm going to go with my favorite blog post to date, but you can blog, insta, tweet, facebook and pin your favorite of absolutely anything.

I'm a big fan of playing favorites, so if you're like me, you could write a post about your favorite child (correct, I don't have one of those, you're right. Just giving examples there turbo calm down), your favorite dog, your favorite blogger (*ahem* this girl *ahem*). Instagram a picture of your favorite friend, or your favorite sports team. Facebook a status dedicated to your favorite Facebook fan page (may I recommend this one? It gets, like, 14 total views per status, you're welcome). Tweet to your favorite celebrity or singer in hopes that they will retweet. Or Pin your favorite recipe or #OOTD!

So Helene and I will see you on Thursday, ready to play favorites! For more #TotalSocial details, go here!

Girl's Night on the Fly

This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group® and BJ’s Restaurants, but all my opinions are my own. #DineInOrderAhead #pmedia http://my-disclosur.es/OBsstV

Hey girl heyyyy! Long time, sporadically see. What happened to me last week? Oh yeah, that's right, moving happened. I think I really underestimated the difficulties of moving, even when it's just a move across the building.

So what do you do when you are in a swamp of boxes, chaos and a fridge so empty tumbleweeds blow through when you open the door? You call up your equally as busy bestie for a quick dinner! 

Helene and I have very similar, very crazy, July schedules. Not only were we both away for the fourth, but she will be gone for Tomorrowland the same time I will be gone for our photo shoot at work. We knew we didn't have much time to catchup, but cocktails and some good ole comfort food were a Wednesday night, must-happen! 

Enter BJ's Restaurant! They have this fantastic mobile app, available for both iPhone and Android, that makes dining out both fast and easy. I'll try anything that leaves me more time for cocktails and convo!

Here is how it works: you order your meal before hand, via the Dine in Order Ahead option on the mobile app, then when you scan your phone at the hostess stand, your order is immediately sent to the kitchen! 

After being seated, Sarah our server (what a great name she has...), then took our drink orders! It seriously was the smoothest process ever. Oh, and we got nachos....

I'm deeming this as ok, because according to my fit bit, I had already broken my all-time step record that day. Moving boxes, for the win!

We then were able to pay our check through the app, with the Mobile Pay option. That's it, all done. No cards to exchange with the server, no checks to sign. It was all done on our iPhones! So next time you're majorly short on time, but still craving girls night, I highly recommend finding a  BJ's Restaurant near you! 

And to go ahead and answer your question, no, the dogs did not finish unpacking the apartment while I was at dinner. Rude tickets.  I asked them to unpack and put their toys away while I'm at work today... slim chance that'll happen. Sure is a good thing they're cute.