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14 December 2008 by

I know that some of you are busy decking your halls – or uploading pictures of halls that are already decked – but in case you want to have your post ready to go before you hit the hay, here’s the URL for tomorrow’s post (you can change it in your button code if you want so that when people click on the tour button it takes them straight to the tour post, and OH MY WORD I’M RAMBLING, SOMEBODY MAKE ME STOP).

Christmas Tour Of Homes 2008

There.

Done.

Enjoy.

And barring technical difficulties, I’m planning to put up the tour post a little after midnight central time. But you can join in tomorrow morning, tomorrow afternoon, next Thursday, whenever.

See y’all soon!

Edited to add: the permalink won’t work until my post is up. But as soon as I post after midnight, the permalink will be alive and kickin’.

Filed Under: Tour of Homes

Hey! It’s A Digital Camera Giveaway!

12 December 2008 by

So the people at Staples have this thing going on where 10,000 customers can win their holiday gifts for free (up to $5,000) through the Gift It For Free sweepstakes. To enter the sweepstakes, you just go shopping at Staples and then enter in your receipt number on the Gift It For Free website. The end. And because Staples wants you good people to know about their sweepstakes – and LO, even enter the sweepstakes – and because they want you to know how easy it is to win, they are giving away a Sony Cybershot W120 digital camera, which retails for around $179.00 on their website and in their stores.

I KNOW!

And oh, the camera is very sassy.

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It has some sassy features, too:

– 7.2 megapixels, ideal for prints up to 13″ x 19″
– Available in pink, silver, blue and black
– 4x Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar® optical/2x digital zoom
– Smile Shutterâ„¢ technology captures smiles the moment they happen without the need to press the shutter

So basically it’s magic.

Anyway, if you’d like to try to win this camera that the fine folks at Staples are ever-so-kindly providing, then here’s what you have to do:

1. Think of your favorite Christmas movie.
2. Tell me the name of it in the comments.
3. The end.

This giveaway is only open to residents of the United States (but WE LOVE YOU, CANADA!), and it will remain open until Wednesday, December 17 (around noon-ish), when I’ll ask Ye Olde Random.org to select us a winner. Please make sure you use a valid email address when you leave your comment, and only one entry per email address, please.

Have fun, everybody – and Merry Christmas!

This giveaway is now closed.

Filed Under: There's More!

Quick Reminder – Christmas Tour of Homes

12 December 2008 by

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Hey everybody –

I’ll have a giveaway post up later this afternoon, but before I forget I wanted to remind you that the Christmas Tour of Homes will be Monday, December 15th. If you want to check out how things worked last year, you can look right here.

If you want to grab the button for your blog, here’s the code:

I’ll update the button code on Sunday, just in case you want to make the button on your blog link directly to the Tour of Homes Mr. Linky on Monday.

Finally, if you need a reminder about guidelines for the tour, you can find those right here.

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Filed Under: Rambling

My Horn Can Pierce The Sky

11 December 2008 by

Well it wasn’t exactly an episode that was chock-full-o-Christmas cheer, what with Meredith’s alcohol ish-ahs, Dwight’s doll scalping business, the failed intervention, Phyllis’ manipulation of Angela, Michael trying to drop off Meredith at rehab, and then Phyllis spilling the Angela / Dwight beans.

So basically tonight’s episode was what The Office would be like every single week if Tennessee Williams were the head writer.

Except Dunder-Mifflin would be in Mississippi, Michael would wear white suits, and everyone in the office would sweat a whole lot and smoke.

Nonetheless, some moments:

– “This isn’t your grandmother’s Christmas party. Unless she’s from Morocco. In which case it’s very accurate.”

– “I’m not going to judge Phyllis for desecrating Christmas. There is one person who will, though, and Phyllis just stuffed him in a drawer.”

– “Really, Andy? It’s Christmas. And you’re singing about nudity and France.”

– “I call it an Orange Vodjuiceka.”

– “Fa la la la la, la la ka-ching.”

– Dwight putting out Meredith’s hair with the fire extinguisher, OH MY WORD I LOVE HIM.

– “They called me ‘Puke.'”

– “They called me ‘Ace.'”

– “They called me ‘Buzz.'”

– “Meredith, you lit your hair on fire today. What is going to happen when you come into work, and you’re dead?”

– “I need to find ways to push Meredith to the bottom. I think I can. I did it with Jan.”

– “RUDDDD-DUTT-DUTT-DUTT-DO, RUD-DUT-DUT-DO.”

So while there was plenty of sarcasm, there wasn’t so much of the funny.

And I like the funny.

What about y’all? What did you think?

Filed Under: TV Is My Friend

Kohl’s Gift Card Giveaway

11 December 2008 by

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The winner of the Kohl’s $50 Gift Card is Lisa, who left comment #156 at 8:26 pm.

Lisa, if you’ll email me your mailing address, your gift card will be sent out ASAP.

And thanks, everybody, for your participation. There’s one more giveaway on the horizon – a Sony digital camera, courtesy of Staples – and that post will go up sometime early tomorrow afternoon.

Congratulations, Lisa!

Filed Under: Rambling

Crackwords

11 December 2008 by

Since the little guy came along, I haven’t played as many games as I used to. I mean, I play things like Sorry and Go Fish, but the late-night marathons of Spades, Canasta and Scattegories are a thing of the past. Because these days, if I’m playing a game, odds are that I’m getting my Candyland on.

Until this past weekend.

Because this past weekend, my sister-in-law introduced me to this word game on the computer where you’re given about 60 or 70 different letter tiles, and your goal is to find as many words as you can in a five minute period. It’s sorta like Scrabble, sorta like a Word Search, and sorta like THE MOST ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCE KNOWN TO MAN.

Plus, I’m not sure if y’all are aware of this, but between MSU sports (new coach! we have a new football coach!), diet Coke, and the hour-long delight that is “The Office” and “30 Rock,” I don’t so much need a new addiction.

But oh, do I have one.

And, if I may say so, I’m also really, exceedingly bad at it.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

My friend Daphne called me yesterday afternoon to tell me that she too is addicted, and we laughed our heads off as we talked about how this stupid game has humbled us beyond belief. We consider ourselves to be fairly smart girls, and yet both of us have spent an untold amount of time staring at the computer screen, trying with all our might to find words longer than three letters (PIN! GIN! DIN! FIN!). If I really get on a roll I’ll find some four-letter words (PINS! GINS! DINS! FINS!), and on the very odd occasion I’ll run across some five-letter words (DINER! MINER! MOVER!) and feel a sense of accomplishment that is completely disproportionate to the task at hand.

I mean, on Tuesday? When I found the word “FOREVER”? SEVEN WHOLE LETTERS?

Forget about it. I think I actually screamed “BOOYAH” right there at my kitchen table.

The most humiliating part of this whole word game thing has been my willingness to abandon all standards of spelling in the hopes of scoring a few extra points. I have slammed my fists on the table when the word game refused to recognize “dryv,” “nie,” “rea” or “stov” as legitimate answers, because even though I know those words don’t, you know, ACTUALLY EXIST IN ENGLISH, they totally make sense IN MY HEAD. Let me tell you: if I had a nickel for every single time I’ve tried to submit “rok” or “snim” or “reil” as an answer, I’d probably have a whole dollar by now, and besides, I hardly think it’s my fault if this game expects for the words to be “in the dictionary” or “legitimate” or “complete.”

Is a little linguistic flexibility too much to ask?

(And if I could find “linguistic” in that word game? I WOULD BUY MYSELF A TROPHY.)

But never fear. I will not be deterred. One of our favorite friends in the world also plays, and I’m determined to beat his top score. Right now I’m about 100 points away from that goal, and I WILL NOT BE STOPPED, OH NO I WON’T. I will work and fight and spell until it hurts, people, and if it’s the last thing I do on this earth I will take down our sweet friend IN THE STRONG NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.

Oh, I kid.

But not really.

Because I’m a smidge competitive.

And if you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to my game now. I just noticed that my husband has recently passed me in the rankings, and quite frankly that is unacceptable.

I’m sure you understand.

Filed Under: Rambling
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