March Madness Monday

Good Monday Morning Highlowaha! It's Heather here with another round of March Madness.

Selection Sunday has occurred and we all know if our team made the tournament. All the sports fanatics are gearing up for the first weekend of March Madness and meanwhile here at highlowaha we are engaged in our second week of March Madness tournament action pitting creative teams against one another for the hottest creative ideas of the past year. Last week we saw Team Iowa and Team California breeze through to the second round of the tournament. This week will determine what two other teams will make their way to the semi-finals.

Over the month of March these eight teams will put their most creative ideas, products, websites, resources, recipes, and more on center court. While each team has a winning line-up of ideas, they are only allowed to present one star idea at a time. We, the spectators, then get to vote on that day's M.V.P... or as the case may be, M.V.I. The team with the winning idea then advances to the next round of play. So it goes until Monday, March 30 when we face off for the championship game.

Remember that YOUR vote determines which team advances. We had a great round of voting last Thursday and I'd love to see that same energy as we decide who moves on today. Will it be
Cleveland's Creatives or Texas Tidbits?

Google Text
Have you ever called Directory Assistance (411) to get a phone number or address? That cost big bucks every time you press those three little numbers. There’s a new number in town that will get you the same results, but it’s free! Are you looking for the phone number or address of Ben & Jerry’s in Arlington, Texas?
Use Google Text! Simply send a text message with the name of the business you’re searching for followed by the city and state to 466453 (GOOGLE) and you’ll get a text message with a reply. Go ahead, try it…we know you want to! Best of all, it’s free (or the cost of texting if you don’t have it in your phone plan).

***OR***

Hungrygirl.com
Hungrygirl.com is a really cute web site for us hungry girls. The founder has a cookbook, and she has a FREE daily email newsletter, with great tips and diet tricks. EVERYONE should subscribe to it! She gives great substitutions, and has re-worked many recipes. She is also getting ready to come out with a new cookbook of 200 under 200. 200 recipes under 200 calories each.

Some examples of her wonderful recipes, most of which are single portions, are:

FAKE FRENCH FRIES – made out of butternut squash baked on a cookie sheet

ALFREDO SAUCE – made with laughing cow cheese

PIZZA – cute individual pizzas made with a crust made of crushed up Fiber One Cereal and some egg beaters made into a flat crust browned in a small skillet. Add toppings and voila!

How to Vote: Simply go into the comments section and enter googletext or hungrygirl.com, voting closes at 7pm CST.

Announcements:

Follow the Rainbow: Have you sent your rainbow to Surprise, AZ for our Suprise, Surprise stunt? If not you probably have time if you get it in the mail today. Don't forget this is a patch yielding event AND you'll have the chance to win an awesome prize along with it. Just drop any kind of homemade rainbow in the mail to Julie Schnepp 16630 N. Reems Rd. #1064 Surprise, AZ 85374

Take the Cake: The picture you see to the right comes courtesy of a fantastic highlowaha reader in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately it is the only nomination we've received for the Woman who takes the cake award. So...don't forget this is a fun, free way to honor a woman who truly does take the cake. Send your nominations no later than this Wednesday, March 18th via email to highlowaha218@gmail.com. We can't let Claudia win or she'll be baking a cake for herself.