Ingenious Ideas

As one of the Ingenious LeadHers I am still in need of your amazing ideas. Its only for two weeks and I need all the help I can get. Remember its $10,000 for teachers charity and an iRobot product for you if you come up with the winning idea!!

No idea is too big or too small. Think about what you wish you had to make a task more simple. No Robots is the only rule. There is no right or wrong idea, we want all Ingenious ideas.

Here are some topics to get you started. Brainstorm a little on each topic and see what you can come up with.

• Bathtime- what would make it easier? what would make your kids love it?
• Bedtime- How to get your kids to like going to bed? What are some tricks you have?
  
• Morning routine- what would make your mornings easier? Whats your least favorite part about mornings? What will help you stop from rushing?
• What are some of your daily stresses that you would like to eliminate or see simplified?
  

Submit your ideas here: http://thatsingeniouschallenge.com/author/nicole/

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Thanks everyone!! I know you all can come up with some brilliant ideas!!

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Thank You Showtime

Last night I fell asleep on the couch watching Big Brother After Dark which airs on Showtime on the east coast from midnight to 3 am. I'm not sure what time I fell asleep but I do know what time I woke up.

3:36am.

I was woken up by the sound of my seven year olds voice standing next to the couch. "Mommy what are you watching?" Think about the time of day it is. I open my eyes and glance over at the t.v. only to see naked bodies kissing and rubbing. Yes, soft porn.

I jump up and find the remote, hit power, and bring him back to bed.

So, today we are driving along and I'm really hoping that maybe he has forgotten what he had seen on the tv. God only knows how long he had been standing there. Well my hopes are quickly turned to fear when he asks me again what I was watching. I tell him I wasn't watching that and I had fallen asleep earlier watching something else. I then ask him what he saw.

After much giggling and embarrassment he tells me he saw naked people rubbing against each other. Thank you Showtime. Now, would you like to explain the birds and the bees to my 7 year old, because I sure as hell am not ready for this conversation.

I tell him thats gross and end the conversation there.

Now, I am all for watching porn or whatever you gotta do to help with the deed. However.... soft porn first of all sucks. Does anybody really "get off" on it? If you want to watch porn buy or rent one. There are dedicated channels for it. Why do my movie channels that I subscribe to, specifically for the movies, need to have soft porn at all?

So, thank you again Showtime for introducing my 7 year old to sex and soft porn. I will be cancelling my subscription now.

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That's Ingenious Challenge!!

Ok, so remember when a couple weeks ago I was invited to attend an iRobot summit and I wouldn't tell you what it was about?? Well now I can.

For three weeks I am part of a team of bloggers participating in an Ingenious Challenge. The winner of the challenge gets to donate $10,000 towards a teachers charity, Donors Choose. I can't even express to you how excited I am to be a part of this. So, we all have the chance as a community to be part of this together.

I need all you fabulous and ingenious women to put your thinking caps on. We need to come up with the best idea. We are not looking for a robot invention. Think much more practical. I'm looking for ideas to simplify our lives. All ideas will be submitted on my page on the microsite but will be credited with your name.

Here's where you benefit. If someone from here's idea is chosen as the winning idea, you will receive an iRobot product of your choice!! Feel free to leave your ideas in the comments or you can email them to me @ missblondie919 @ gmail.com.

Here's my first challenge:

I want you to break up your day...morning, afternoon, and night. Find a task that you would like to make simple and easy. How might we simplify our lives so that we can get more joy for less work? For this first challenge lets start with the morning tasks. Think about your daily morning routine....what do you wish could be done quicker and easier??

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Battle with PMDD

What is PMDD? Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a severe form of premenstrual syndrome. Basically think of your PMS and multiply it by like 600. Yes, its really that bad. I had post-partum depression really bad after I had Hunter and as a result, I now suffer from PMDD. So, for 3 to 5 days two weeks before I get Aunt Flo I get extreme emotions. Whether it be anger, crying, depressed, anxious....they are to the extreme.

PMDD is a real disease. One that I have had for a few years and thought that i could overcome it on my own. But last year, i realized that I couldn't and I needed help. I talked to my doctor and was officially diagnosed and put on Prozac. Ahhh, the love of Prozac. Originally I was put on 20mg of Prozac along with Yaz as birth control. Honestly, that was the best combination. I swear I have never felt better in my life.

....And then it was discovered that I had a hepatic adenoma caused from the pill. So no more Yaz for me. My dose of Prozac was then increased to 40mg. Most of the time I feel pretty good, but because I can get so down during that 3 to 5 day period I am allowed to double my dosage. Yes, apparently I am that crazy.

The reason I'm sharing all this with you now, is because I never felt really comfortable talking about it publicly. But, now i realize that I am not the only person with this and maybe i could help someone else going through the same situation. I am not embarrassed. And I am not ashamed anymore. Right now, I'm having a hard time. I'm feeling sad, lonely and depressed. I absolutely HATE this feeling. I just cry and sleep and don't want to do anything. Its awful as a mom too because I feel so guilty. He knows something is wrong but doesn't understand it at all and it makes him sad too. I'm hoping that by opening up and sharing this with you all that it will help me feel better.

I need to get back to my peppy self already!

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The Real Miss Blondie Please Stand Up

I wanted to share with you all a short video of Miss Blondie introducing herself to all of you....This is raw, and uncensored and completely REAL. No one in the blogosphere has experienced this yet.

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