Happy Birthday to Girlfriends, Happy Birthday to Girlfriends … you get the picture!

We’re still celebrating our BIG fifth birthday. And, why not?! Girls love to celebrate and especially with our friends!

We just couldn’t resist saying THANKS to a few of our friends who’ve helped us along the way on ‘Five Years of Inspiring Friendships.’ And, since, we couldn’t name all of you, just know that we’re thankful for your support and, of course, friendship. Thanks for spending your time with us online and for sharing us with your friends. Thanks for the stories that inspire us and keep us going. And, thanks so much for your encouragement and for allowing us the opportunity to be part of your lives. We’re blessed with great girlfriends! Thanks to every one of you!

In celebration of five years of female friendship, we’re giving away a prize every week for the next five to a subscriber of our newsletter - SIGN UP NOW! (Smart phone users – if you’d lik to sign up, you can open up our subscription form with this cool QR code. I use ‘ScanLife’ app, others work too. Thanks FeedBlitz for this cool code!)

All prizes are FAB (of course) and worth $100 or more. It’s just our way of saying THANKS and being able to give ‘birthday gifts’ to you!

Week 1of our 5th Birthday Giveaway:

NYT Best-selling author SUSAN MALLERY has been on our BlogTalkRadio show and has shared several guest blogs with us (we <3 her – such a fun girlfriend and great writer!). She offered up our first Birthday Gift - a Fool’s Gold tote bag with a picnic blanket and a stainless steel thermos, as well as one of her books on audio CD and a selection of paperbacks. The prize value is approximately $100. (U.S. shipping only.) Again, all you have to do is be on our newsletter mailing list. And there are four more weeks of $100+ value prizes, aka: Birthday gifts to YOU, coming!

How’s your Career, Girlfriend? On track to be where you want to be?

Well, we’re into week two of our three week ‘Hey Girlfriend! Get Your Career on Track’ webinar with the amazing JULIE BAUKE (but you can still join and get all the materials). It’s three Monday nights (so tonight, the 24th and next week – again, you’ll get the recordings and materials for all three) and it’s helping women really drive their career in the direction they want to go. Here’s what one participant said:

“The ‘Hey Girlfriend! Get your Career on Track’ webinar last night was not only relevant and helpful, but Julie’s style is easy to listen to and easy to grasp. She’s fun and she’s helping me drive my career. I’m so energized! I’m sure it’s not too late to get in on the next two Monday night webinars. This is good stuff for anyone, whether you are currently looking for a job or not. I was shocked at how different the job market looks these days, but amazed at …

… more here: testimonial from one of the participants and information on still joining in on this great women’s webinar.

Celebrate your Beauty with Brianna – this week’s BlogTalkRadio Guest

I love how girlfriends see our beauty, even when we have bad hair, no make-up and the same clothes as yesterday! Well, we’ve go the girlfriend to make us feel beautiful in just a minute or two – and she’ll share her girlfriend advice with us on Friday at 2-2:30pm ET on BlogTalkRadio/com/Girlfriendology. Meet BRIANNA THOMPSON, aka: MakeupMinutes.com. Brianna shares her passion for makeup with tips and tricks on a fun, video-filled website. She explains, in terms even I can understand (-; how to create the looks to make women feel more beautiful and be their very best! We’ll get some great girlfriend advice from Brianna – so don’t miss it! (And, if you do, you can always hear it later on Girlfriendology/BlogTalkRadio.) JOIN US!

And, do you love to travel? And love your girlfriends? We’re combining the two in our first Girlfriend Getaway Cruise – to Bermuda!

.Last week’s BlogTalkRadio/Girlfriendology guest was our own favorite ‘girlfriend cruise director’ – aka: JANET DEVITO. We chatted about our upcoming Girlfriend Cruise, what we’ll do, what to bring, if we need a passport, etc. – all the girlfriend advice from the girlfriend who cruises A LOT. (She’s on one with girlfriends right now!) LISTEN IN to her fun, grab-your-suitcases-and-let’s-go personality! (And, grab your suitcases and join us!)

CoffeeTalk – Girlfriend Style – in the International Delight Community

We’re hanging out with our BlogFrog blogger girlfriends and International Delight for this CoffeeTalk Community, who better to talk with over a cup of our favorite beverage? Check out the CoffeeTalk Community for fun conversation and prizes!

Girlfriend Recommended – Happy to have Biz Stain Fighter detergent and MEAN GREEN degreaser partner with us

When you can recommend a product to a friend, you know you’re a believer! Well, we’re believers in Biz and Mean Green for their products and for their belief in Girlfriendology. (Love that!) Want to know more? Here’s our ‘girlfriend recommended’ brands!

Don’t you love to receive GREAT girlfriend surprises?! (& #Giveaways?!)

What if the UPS gal delivered a girlfriend gift to you tomorrow? Wouldn’t it make your day?! Of course it would! So, we shared a few ideas for great girlfriend gifts like … a Celebration in a Box … and more! All sponsored by UPS and 10 more lucky newsletter recipients will win a $25 gift card for The UPS Store - selected on January 31st.  SIGN UP NOW for our newsletter! Thanks!

Lastly …

Thanks for letting us share and celebrate. We’ve reached another milestone – 21,000 Twitter followers (and we block most men and spam accounts). We’re so blessed with so many great girlfriends. Thanks! And have a fun, friend-filled week!