Great Prizes Just in Time for Christmas

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Charter Communication. All opinions are 100% mine.

Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet? Yea, me either. If you are like me you are probably looking for the best deal on the gifts you want to give. Probably want the easiest way to purchase them too. I love to shop online. Just point and click and before you know the purchases arrive on your doorstep.

Better yet what if you do not have to pay for all your purchases? Well I found a site that lets you enter sweepstakes to win the great gifts you want. Just visit Charter's Daily Deal Web Site for two ways to win cool prizes like FREE gift cards and get great deals on Charter Cable, Internet and Phone services.

Charter's is finishing a great year of goundbreaking sweepstakes that began with Black Friday and Cyber Monday where they offered gift cards worth up to $200! For 38 days Charter’s is giving out great prizes like iPods, Camcorders, GPS units, webcams, Photo frames and much more. There are great Showtime programs like Dexter, The Tudors, and Californication, which by the way my son told me over Thanksgiving that this is a great show! They also have boxed sets of Big Love and Entourage, personal favorites of mine.

Plus become a fan of Charter on Facebook and you will be able to see updates everyday of these great deals.

During the last two years, Charter has surpassed the industry in creative and newsworthy Sweepstakes including terrific prizes like an HDTV-a-day, Toyota Prius, a new 2010 Chevy Camaro, Xbox 360s and much more.

Charter’s is worth checking out! After all, who does not like to win truly great prizes!

How do You Survive Deployment?

I get this question quite a bit from co-workers, friends and family members. How do I do it? Well, I might say, "Very carefully." The truth is I do not always have a good time dealing with it. Even though my son is not in war zone, so to speak, I still worry and realize he is still a target. I find the not knowing aspect to be the hardest.

 

I cope by working on his Christmas care package, writing emails to him and updating his deployment website. I am so fortunate to be able to follow his deployment on FaceBook and Twitter. I also look at Marine, Naval and Unit websites quite regularly. I have said it before and I will say it again. Google is my friend.

 

Surviving deployment is made a little easier for me because I have many friends and family that understand when I get a little upset. Even though this is a non-combat deployment, there are other issues such as financial problems. I have to get his car registered this week and I have a feeling the experience will be less than pleasurable. Power of Attorney is not the end all to every situation that arises.

 

I also believe that we, the people back home can help ourselves survive by doing whatever we can, be that standing with the Patriot Guard, becoming a Soldiers' Angels or just shaking the hand of a vet and saying "Thank you." For some joining support groups or online communities such as Marineparents.com can help coping on a daily basis.

 

Deployment is hard any way you look at. 

So, how do you survive deployment?