My New Love Affair and A Giveaway for You

Courtesy Mad Penguin Creative

Technology and I are not on easy terms. If Testosterone Unit #1 so much as rearranges the icons on my desktop, I require oxygen. Imagine my surprise when the courageous folks at Home Educating Family magazine asked if I'd test drive one of their new products, My Well Planned Day digital planner.

Since I once reduced my loving BIL's super-sized flat screen to the blue screen of death, I can just imagine everyone in Cyberlandia screaming with hysterical laughter at the idea of my being a software tester. What were they thinking, right? Crazy like a fox if you ask me. If I can use it, anyone can. Anyone. 

The last time I attempted to use a software planner, the results were scary. Before the computer finished shutting down, I was at the office supply store with a five subject, college-ruled notebook in my grubby little, fist-clenched hands sniffing those paper pages like a deranged addict.

Thus ended my foray into planning life before it happened. Just ask my three testosterone units! I went back to my comfortable, old school modus of putting what happened down on paper after the fact. Till Home Educating Family entered my life.

The producers of My Well Planned Day have created a monster. Me! In fact, I have been up till two a.m. (or later but you don't need to know) four nights in a row wandering around the Well Planned Day halls of organization and planning muttering to no one in particular:

“Why didn't anyone tell me life could be like this? Oh, my mercy! Look what that tab will do! Forget about doing lesson plans and tracking grades. I can manage my 'to do' list, assign chores, create menus and grocery lists, track projects in progress as well as plan new ones, track the budget, and more! If there's any time left over, I can torment my 10^th grader with the most well laid out, well thought out lesson plans on the planet.”

Family members can log in and see my diabolical, I mean helpful, plans for them. A coming update will allow the software to sync with Google calender. Between those two features, my digital wishes will be their commands. They are gonna love me for it; I just know they are!

The HEF/MWPD folks are offering webinar Q&A's and other tutorials as new updates are released. (Releases/updates are included in the subscription price.) You can visit a Facebook page to stay abreast of breaking news. True to their promise, if you report an issue, they get back to you within forty-eight hours. In my case, they were kind enough not to point out that I created the issue. Either that or my secret is safe with me. <innocent lady-like grin>

Shut up! This thing is the bomb! In my professional, non-nerdy, sedate and scholarly writer's opine, of course. Here's the deal, if I - the antithesis of what it means to be a technophile - can not only embrace but drool over this software till I'm in danger of short circuiting my lap-top, you know you have to have it! Your non-homeschooling friends are gonna beg you for one, I promise! What is not to love, people? 

Because fraidy cats don't go anywhere alone, the producers of MWPD have given me a secret code which you, dear visitor, can use to get a $15.00 discount off the purchase price of $65.00. You didn't think I was going into the brave new techno-future alone, did you? Nope. I'm dragging you with me. Here's the secret code which you can only read with a secret decoder ring: 11wpdblog12. The code expires on October 1, 2012, is case sensitive, and has no spaces! 

The even better news is that one of my readers will WIN a one year subscription to the Well Planned Day digital planner. Just think, in a few weeks, you might have short circuited your laptop too! My other new techno-buddy, Rafflecopter, is at the bottom of the page waiting to walk you thru the entry process.

Sorry: because of international sweepstakes laws, this giveaway is applicable to US entries only. The contest ends on October 25^th with the winner announced on the 26th! (FYI: This giveaway is not connected to any social media site.)

Courtesy D. Ahola

While I receive no affiliate income from HEF's sales of My Well Planned Day, they have graciously allowed me use of the software for a year, so I can keep feeding my addiction. Isn't that sweet?

PS..if you are like my darling friend, Tammy, and are the queen of contests/sweepstakes,HEF is hosting MWPD giveaways every day for the rest of August.  a Rafflecopter giveaway