Mad Men is Coming BACK!!!

It brings me MUCH JOY and EXCITEMENT to blog about my favorite tv show EVER.

AND I DO MEAN E V E R & it's coming back on the air!

After a long hiatus, I am so pleased to read that MARCH 25th will be AMC's Season 5 Premiere of MAD MEN. Any other Mad Men fans out there? As many of my reader's know, I discovered the show by accident in July 2010 while visiting my sister in California.

I was channel surfing when I came to AMC, and was glued to what I thought was an excellent movie. As the commercial break came, I was quick to learn this was a "Mad Men" series marathon and NOT a movie. I was in season 2, but was so hooked, I didn't care that I was watching them out of order.

When I arrived back home the following week, I ordered Netflix for the first time in my life JUST to be able to rent every single episode of the last 3 seasons.  As I finished up Season 3 on Netflix, season 4 had started on AMC. I've laughed with the series, cried with the series and even felt an absolute sympathy for Don Draper when scene's from his childhood played out.

Season 4 ended on my birthday in 2010.

When the series did not return right away, I was sad and wondered if it would ever return.  I thought surely there HAD to be a return of this series. After all, it was the best series I have ever watched in the last 29 years of my life.

I continued to promote the show on my facebook and got several friends hooked on the series as well. I'd often share quotes from the show, one of my favorite being from season 1's "The Wheel".

Don Draper says of the Kodak Carousel Product:

 "Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the Wheel. It’s called the Carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels. Around and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved."

If that quote does not get the gears in your head turning, I don't know what will.

I will be counting down the day's until the March 25th premiere and what would make it all the more better? If I get selected to host the "Mad Men Premiere House Party" via HouseParty.com My user name on HouseParty.com is girlxmom

This would be a party for the books, my friends. Who else is ready for Mad Men? :)
                                                                                                           

It is a good day when..

It is a good day when, you get all of this for only 4 bucks:

I looooove restores!!! <3 <3 and my friend who told me about it, she is my life saver!
Seriously, they take products that wal mart wont sell because customers opened and sniffed it, and instead of paying 5-8 bucks for a box of Gain dryer sheets? Ya get them for 50 cent to a buck 50.


I LOVE GAIN! Apple mango tango is my fav! You can usually find a restore by searching your local yellow pages, or calling a church and asking if they know of one, as they tend to be non profit organizations run by churches.

Then I come home to a small box in my mailbox. I open it to find these beauties (wrapped in hot pink tissue paper, so cute!):

Oh, Physician's Formula, you are spoiling me!! I can NOT wait to try these out and I will tomorrow. Best FACE makeup in the world. Covers all my horrible acne! Literally! This makeup does wonders for me, it's literally night and day. Remind me to post a before and after picture.

This should be interesting considering I am having a horrendous break out as we speak. (blame my love for the sweets and bad foods, don't believe that bad food doesn't cause acne, BECAUSE it really does). If I eat healthy my skin is clear, but I am a gluton and well, that's my punishment I suppose lol.

Then Doug gave me a $25 gift card to kohl's that he got FREE for cashing in his visa rewards points. Hmm, what to buy? Well, I was tickled that these polos were normally 13 bucks a pop, then they were 2 for 13 (6.50 each), but on sale for 4.55 a piece!! oh my, yes! I bought 3 and got the pants for 9, so I only ended up paying 47 cent out of pocket! :)

And Ethan now has some summer clothes (3t? you are thinking? yes, my son is super tall for his age).

So, I am very tickled to have gotten everything you see on this page and to have only spent 4.47 out of pocket;) It makes my entire day!!

But the icing to the cake?!


Netflix sent in my Season 2 disc 1 of Mad Men!! My faaaaavorite tv show!! I just discovered mad men this summer, and watched random episodes from season 2. I came home to find season 4 was starting and watched it and loved it, so even though I only watched part of season 2 and the whole season 4, it was STILL my favorite show, which speaks VOLUMES! I watched season 1 and finally am starting fresh on season 2 and working my way up to 3. Hopefully between kids and breaks by time I am done with season 3 on netflix, season 5 will start. I CAN'T wait!!