If you’ve been trying to access this post, you should have better luck now. However, I’m in the process of restoring all the comments that didn’t make the transition, so if you know you filled out the MIR form and left a comment here, you may not see your comment for an hour or so. If you still don’t see your comment by the end of the night, just send me an email and I’ll get it fixed.
Thanks for your patience, everybody!
So the people at the Gospel Music Association do this little thingy called Music in the Rockies. Music in the Rockies is a place where songwriters and performers and worship leaders can go and get all sorts of great training. And here is where I could start a big huge list of all the people who will be performing at this year’s MIR, but instead I’ll just direct you here because y’all are very, very good at the clicking and the reading.
Another component to MIR is that they have sessions where parents can learn how to protect their kids in the music industry. I know some of you have super-talented kids with some mighty big dreams, and this would be a great opportunity for you to learn how to help facilitate those dreams AND make sure you and your family head into the music industry with your eyes wide open.
MIR also provides the chance to get some feedback from successful professional musicians and other music industry people, which I’m guessing would be pretty invaluable if you’re wondering if you or someone you love has what it takes to make it professionally.
Needless to say, I will not be attending MIR. Because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I do not have what it takes to make it in the music industry, nor will I be leading worship at any time in my whole life, unless of course it becomes all the musical rage for a 30-something woman to sing classic Amy Grant songs in an off-key monotone.
FINGERS CROSSED!
So. All that being said.
Here’s how you can have a chance to win a real-live iPod Nano, which, by the way, can play music and movies and TV shows and everything.
OH, it is very fancy.
1. Click here.
2. Look for this image (I can’t provide direct links because it’s a Flash-enabled site, so instead I’m relying on visual aids, and I do hope it all works beautifully):
3. Click on the image, and you’ll see this box pop up:
Fill out the form – and you don’t have to give your phone number. Just fill out your name, email, and address – so that if you win they know where to ship your fabulous prize.
4. Come back here – and this part is OH-SO-IMPORTANT – leave me a comment letting me know that you filled out the form. I’ll draw for a winner from my comments, but I’ll have to verify that you actually filled out the form before I announce the winner (so make sure you use the same email address on the form and in my comments).
5. That’s it! The giveaway will stay open for one whole week – until June 9, 2008. As always, I’ll use random.org to draw for a winner.
And you will NOT be inundated with mail or with email if you fill out the form. I made a point to ask. You’ll receive an informational email about Music in the Rockies registration, and you can unsubscribe from that mailing list with the click of a button if you never want to receive another email from them again.
But I figured that filling out a form was a small price to pay for a new Nano. Call me crazy.
(CRAZY!)
(Beat you to it!)
Happy iPod’ing!
This giveaway is now closed.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Oh, I totally filled out the form because I DO LOVE AN IPOD!
And I love free bloggy giveaways, too. Yes, I do.
You rock.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
This is one of the best giveaways you’ve done so far! Thanks!
Laurie
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Done! What a cool site they have there…
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
What a lovely giveaway! I’m so pumped! I totally filled out their form….
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I’ve been looking at these for some time, now. Couldn’t pass up the possibility of getting a free one! Woo! Hoo! Thanks for sharing!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I signed up! Hope I win…I would love an ipod :-)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I have really wanted an iPod for a while now so hopefully I will win!!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I signed up :) And what a cool website too!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
I definitely signed up. I have an Ipod Shuffle right now that I love dearly. Would love for it to have a sister Nano though!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Awesome! I filled it out and browsed a little…very cool!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Cool! I filled it out and would love to have the iPod Nano! Here’s hoping…
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hi, BooMama!
I filled out the form for the IPod Nano! I have been reading your blog for months (since before Africa!) and thoroughly enjoy it. Thanks for sharing your life with us!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Thank you! Great site! I filled it out…would love to win.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
oooohhhh. Wouldn’t a nano be great?
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Who wouldn’t love a free nano? You have the best drawings =)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Woo-Hoo! I filled it out!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Hi BooMama,
I filled out the form… at least i think i did. It didn’t comfirm it or anything, the screen just disapeared when i hit submit.
Anyway, thanks for your wonderful blog!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I did it!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I filled out the form! Thank you!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I filled out the form.
Thanks!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Filled it out!!! Hope you pick me!!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I signed up so i could snag that iPod ~ but … man! ‘music in the rockies’ looks great! if i win…you can monotone-sing along with me ANY time.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
I filled out the form! Thanks for the opportunity.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I filled out the form! Pick me, pick me!!;o)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm
If I win…does that make me hip like my kids…acutally using the word “hip” probably disqualifies me from any manner of coolness…I have filled out the form…thanks for letting us know!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I’d love an ipod for my evening walks. I think I’d walk faster and have more fun than talking to myself and saying you can do it five hundred times a mile.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I’m in. Thanks for the head’s up. :)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
I filled out the form! Thanks!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I filled it out…and live a short 1 1/2 hours away from Estes Park. Come see us and we’ll take you there sometime, OK?
As much as I would like to replace my mp3 player that I cannot see the screen due to a flight to Dallas and back (it plays whatever, and I never know what it will be!) and as much as I would like to own a real live ipod!, I hope someone, who really loves music wins!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I signed up!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I got it all filled out. Thanks for the great give away!! I’d love to win :)
-Laura
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
signed up and due to your last comments – now I’ve got Patsy Cline singing “crazy – crazy for feelin so lonely – I’m crazy —aaarrrggghhhhh” thanks BooMaMa – now if I win an iPod I’ll have to include dear departed Patsy in the playlist! Thanks for the chance – only way I’ll ever get one
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Oh, yes ma’am, I filled it out…what would be better than winning an Ipod????? There are better things, but that would be pretty cool!! Thanks!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Ah Man….this is the 4th time I’ve heard about this Music in the Rockies conference in the last 2 weeks….people keep “feeling led” to tell me they read about it…NOW YOU TOO!!!
Anyway…I filled out the form and would LOVE to win this one. :)
Blessings to you…I’m off to pray.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Yipee!! Done.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I filled out a form, what an great Father’s Day gift for hubby if I win.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I was just thinking how I really need to break down and buy an ipod. Now maybe I won’t have to. Yea. Thanks for the chance to win.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Ohhhhhh Boo!!! I did it I did it I did it!!!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Filled ‘er out. Whoo-hoooo
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Oldest Child would be oh-so jealous if I had a better i-pod than she had ; )
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I signed up! I hope to win because I would really love to join the modern world and own an ipod! My music loving hubby would definitely envy me, but I might let him borrow it if he is nice! ha! Thanks BooMama….you are awesome! ;-)
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:39 pm
It is about time for me to finally WIN a giveaway from blogland!!!
Boomama…you have any pull here?
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I won a blog makeover last week.
Could I be on a roll? Prove me right, Boomama!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Thank you! Great prize.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Filled out the form. I would so love to win this ipod
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I filled it out, and as I recently put my dd’s ipod through the wash, I could really use a new one!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
pick me…i followed the directions!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Done
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Thanks Boo Mama!
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
form has been filled out! and what a cool form it was too- except that my memory is so shot that i blanked out on almost every one, thinking “what info do they want in this box??” :) geesh!