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Woman sells forehead for ad space
From correspondents in Los Angeles
01-07-2005

A US mother had the name of a casino permanently tattooed on her forehead after auctioning off advertising space on her head to pay for her son's school fees, she said.
Karolyne Smith, 30, turned her head into a permanent billboard after a large online casino offered her $US10,000 ($13,120) to indelibly emblazon its name on her face.

"I really want to do this," said Smith. "To everyone else, it seems like a stupid thing to do. To me, $US10,000 is like $US1 million.

"I only live once, and I'm doing it for my son. It's a small sacrifice to build a better future for my son," she said in a statement issued by the casino company GoldenPalace.com.

Ms Smith, who said she would put the money towards sending her son Brady to a private school, said she did not take the decision lightly, discussing it for more than three weeks with her boyfriend Jeremy Williams.

The gaming company, which has a history of outrageous advertising stunts, won the full frontal ad in an auction on eBay that drew 27,000 hits and 1000 watchers, it said.

"I think this kind of advertising will become increasingly popular as time goes on," GoldenPalace.com chief executive Richard Rowe said.

"Conventional forms of marketing just don't cut it anymore. To get people's attention, you have to stand out from the crowd," he said.

In addition to meeting Ms Smith's $US10,000 asking price at auction, the gaming firm said it had also given her another $US5000 for her trouble.

I talked to Benjamin this morning and he was walking to work while talking to me. He said it was very beautiful but too hot and I told him not to complain because he hated the weather here in New England.

Apparently his job cheated him out of about 75. on his paycheck so he wasn't very happy. When they find the mistake they won't even give it to him until next pay period and that kind of sucks when your young living paycheck to paycheck.

I thought he would be happy moving back to the south but alas he isn't and wants to come back to the Boston area. The upsetting part to me is he made living arrangements with his cousin and is now talking about moving after only one month. I have to step back and let him find his own way and I can't save him even though that is my first though always. I'm hoping that he has learned a lesson and will look at all the pro's and con's before he takes such a leap. He wants to start school and is thinking about the teaching profession and I know he will succeed once he puts his mind to it.

Good Afternoon All,

I just tried once more to view my blog at tBlog and they are still working out the bugs..........arggggggggg. So I am here blogging between thunder booms so I might have to leave in a few. I was just at RP playing in the AU room and got scared by the thunder and was going to shut down but it's stopped for the moment. I'm definitely not complaining about the rain because we need it and I hope it rains all day.