Category Archives: Contests

What I’m Doing Now

by MouthyGirl

I told you I’d fill you in on what I’m doing. As I’ve mentioned I work at home now, which poses its own challenges to my productivity. But ultimately, there is nothing standing in the way between me and work except myself and distraction. Fortunately, distraction is low.

I now promote scholarships for new students and those wanting to return to school, referring them back to the details at TheEssayContest.com. I’m using every method available and need lots of help.

My job is to get the word out to as many people as possible that these scholarships exist. It’s no small task as I’m sure you can imagine. There is A LOT to be done on the site, A LOT. I have a lot of writing to do, changes to make, and pages to build, oh my.

To put it very simply, we’re giving money to students who can write good position style essays of 1200 – 1500 words and meet our guidelines.

Additionally, we’re raising money to provide grants to K-12 schools through a separate essay contest. There will be more to come on other projects we’re working on.

We’re aiming to try to have 125,000 applicants by July 10th and I need to hire around 1000 people to help me spread the word about this opportunity for students to start their careers where they should, debt free and ready to take on the world.

Ironically, I get to hire people to do a job they would get fired for doing on any other job.

I’m excited about promoting this opportunity to new and returning students, since I just recently returned to school myself with my eyes on going back full time to obtain the degree I’ve been after for several years.

The grand prize winner of this contest could potentially win a full scholarship and a car! The more people that apply, the better the contest is for everyone and the bigger the scholarship awards. Our scholarships are self funded which means everything we get in as far as entry fees and donations go right back out into scholarships, we’re not waiting on investors to come up with the scratch to award you, when we notify you that there is an award for you, we have it.

You can find more details at theessaycontest.com.
But wait, there’s more, I’ve started revamping the website so that it’s easier to navigate and I’m also working on putting forms up for people to get more information. I would like to put up an FAQ page, but to do that you have to have questions, so ask away, and help me build the FAQ page. :D

You can comment here if you questions or you can send them to me at faq@theessaycontest.com and I’ll answer them as quickly as I can.

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Spoiled

by MouthyGirl

Yesterday one of the attorneys in the firm I’m leaving took me to lunch at a restaurant I thought only existed in Richardson, Texas – about 30 miles from where I live and work in the Mid Cities/Arlington area, Texas.

My husband works in Richardson and a few times I’ve gone to have lunch with him on days where I’ve been in the area. Bistro B is a Vietnamese restaurant that was originally started in Houston, Texas but the owner sold that business and moved it up to the Dallas / Fort Worth area. I am very grateful.

The first time I ate at Bistro B I was impressed and each time I’ve gone I’ve enjoyed the food, the service and the freshness overall.

Yesterday my friend took me to one that sits right here in my backyard. I took a picture of the inside so I could share it, I tore into the food before I thought to take a picture of it so maybe next time…

Bistro B

The Bistro B nearest my house is in an area I know pretty well, Grand Prairie, Texas where my dad lives, so I’ve been all through that city. I can’t tell you how nice it is to know good Vietnamese food is just down the highway from me.

J went to the Bistro B in Richardson, where he works, so we both had a really great lunch.

To top it all off, last night for dinner (because we didn’t feel like going shopping) we went to Romano’s Macaroni Grill in Grapevine, J had the Mama’s Trio (Three Italian classics. Primo Chicken Parmesan, Layers of Lasagna and Chicken Cannelloni) which by his account was incredible, my son testified that he had the best pizza he’s ever had there, and I had the Penne Rustica (Imported penne pasta with shrimp, grilled chicken and smoked prosciutto baked under a golden crust of Parmesan cheese). It was incredible!

Look at their menu…find one close by and take a gander at that delicious food. I used to work at the Olive Garden and thought that was pretty great food, but the Macaroni Grill, at least the one in Grapevine outshines them easily. If any of those people ever read this, they should be proud of their work. I can’t wait to eat my leftovers for dinner tonight…just wish we had some of that yummy bread!

We ate like royalty yesterday! We felt very spoiled. It’s rare that we walk out of a restaurant feeling like our money was very well spent, because Romano’s isn’t exactly cheap, J had a Shiner and I had two glasses of their house White Zinfandel which I recommend, it was excellent.

It gets better… on my way home I went by Old Navy and picked up a few things….and I had to buy a size smaller! RAWK!

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