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I Was a Wedding Registry Disaster

November 16, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 4 Comments

“Do we get dessert tonight? How about some crème brulee?” My husband Jeff is nothing if not a jokester, though this is long-running inside joke has run its course. He refers, of course, to the wedding registry disaster of 2006. I have no idea what I thought marriage would be like when, at 26, engaged, […]

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Filed Under: Humor, stories of us Tagged With: engagement, funny, humor, wedding registries, wedding registry

Targeted Marketing Fail Part 3…This Keeps Happening

October 15, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 1 Comment

Targeted Marketing Fail Part 3…This Keeps Happening

Y’all, it just so happens that, on my ONE-YEAR BLOGIVERSARY (this is a thing…I’ve been writing here for a whole year now!), a little magazine was dropped into my mailbox, and the ridiculous targeted marketing people have somehow missed again. I’m not sure what they believe about my glamorous life here in Arkansas, but I’m not above […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Uncategorized Tagged With: bad marketing, camouflage

Carrie on Parenting: Mama Tried

October 6, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 7 Comments

Carrie on Parenting: Mama Tried

  Despite my Sunday learning, Towards the bad, I kept turning. ‘Til Mama couldn’t hold me anymore. And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole. No one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried. Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied. That leaves only me to blame […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, stories of us, Uncategorized Tagged With: bad parenting moments, funny, humor, Mama Tried, Merle Haggard, parenting, parents

How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 5: Taping the Show

September 23, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 2 Comments

How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 5: Taping the Show

Have you read my previous posts on “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. My long journey to Wheel of Fortune began with trying out in a Knoxville, TN farmers’ market, getting in trouble […]

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How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 4: Heading to Hollywood

September 17, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 5 Comments

How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 4: Heading to Hollywood

Have you read my previous posts on “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, check out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. I left Round 2 of tryouts in a Knoxville hotel ballroom not knowing if I’d made it to the show or not. […]

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How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 3.5: Don’t Be THIS Guy

September 4, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 1 Comment

If you’re here, then you’re curious about the fact that I, a normally friendly, funny girl who makes friends everywhere…would choose a nemesis in WOF auditions. I discussed this in Part 3 of “How to be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant.” But I did, and here’s why. Two of my fellow competitors were a late-20s/early-30s guy and […]

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How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 3: The Hotel Ballroom (Round 2)

September 4, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all Leave a Comment

How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 3: The Hotel Ballroom (Round 2)

Have you read my previous posts on “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here. Okay, so I did well at the Round 1 Wheelmobile event in Knoxville, TN in May, 2012. And then I didn’t […]

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How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 2: The Wheelmobile (Round 1)

September 2, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 1 Comment

How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 2: The Wheelmobile (Round 1)

Have you read Part 1 of “How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant”? If you’d like to read this story from the beginning, Part 1 is here. I signed up online for the Wheel of Fortune newsletter to arrive in my email, just because I’m nerdy, and not because I expected it to turn into […]

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How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 1: Introduction

August 31, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 6 Comments

How to Be a Wheel of Fortune Contestant, Part 1: Introduction

I have the best answer ever for icebreaker games: I was once a contestant on Wheel of Fortune. I know, I can’t believe it either. In September 2012, after two rounds of tryouts, I flew to LA and stepped onto the stage to try my hand at spinning the Wheel. My episode aired on November […]

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Miracle at Miracle Strip

August 25, 2015 by Carrie On, Y'all 2 Comments

Miracle at Miracle Strip

Sometimes the planets align just right. Every 75 years or so, Halley’s Comet streaks across the sky, and that’s my metaphor for my family’s night at Miracle Strip Amusement Park in Panama City Beach, Florida. We drove from Arkansas to PCB in about 13 hours with three kids, a golden retriever, and a cargo topper […]

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About Carrie

Carrie is a former high school English teacher, turned stay-at-home mom to three children. Her blog Carrie On, Y'all chronicles the misadventures of raising children through a lens of sarcasm, poor housekeeping skills, and mediocre attempts to stay sane. She lives in Arkansas (yes, people live there!) with her husband, three children, dog, and cat. Read More…

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