Whoo. The air’s kind of heavy around here, isn’t it?
Time to lighten up a bit. Like, by giving you prizes.
What kind?
How about the easiest, funniest book about food, diet and eating that you’ll ever read, that’s guaranteed to loosen your belt, lessen your spending and cleanse your karma.
Not good enough? There’s also a $150 gift card up for grabs from one of my sponsors, SkinCareRx. That’s to spend on, like, anything. Not that I think you need anything. You’re gorgeous.
Okay, fine. Want something else, then? How about you tell me what you want. Because you can choose between cash, a slice of my dignity, or something, say, Olympic (to a dollar value of $50) {the Olympic option costs me both money and dignity, so it’s like, twice the prize}.
For details, how tos and fine print, check out after the jump.
Enter to win a $150 Gift Card
from SkinCareRx.com
I have to admit, I don’t indulge my skin much. I should – it’s been telling me for years to take better care of it – and it shows. I’ve got crow’s feet, smile lines, freckles, moles, ’sun spots’, broken blood vessels, dry patches, flaking, and get rashes as easily as a newborn’s butt. Did I mention that it’s thin, like onion-thin, and besides death-pale, transparent? Oh, yeah. Finding a vein or a capillary isn’t tough on me.
I used to take better care of it. I used to get gifts when Stargirl visited Israel and I’d stretch out all of the Ahava products and walk around, touching my soft, clear cheeks. Then I had a baby, and all things hygiene went to hell. Also, Stargirl stopped going to Israel every year. And it never occurred to me that Ahava might, a decade after I started using their line, have started selling online, or might even, gasp, retail in Canada.
PCA Skin doesn’t ship to Canada, which is a damn shame because the hidden product junkie inside of me (that loves their cruelty-free ethics) would like to take a hit of their Purifying Mask and come down with eyeXcellence. Which you could totally do, if you won the $150 gift card (though you’re really not obligated to go with PCA Skin’s line).
By 11:59p.m. on March 15th (that’s PST, eh?), do the following stuff, for a grand total of eleven (11) entries – or be lazy and only do one or two (that’s what I would do, and I will totally still respect you in the morning). But, uh, leave me a comment for each entry, please. I’m old, and I have ADD. And you wouldn’t want me to lose track of your entries because Wordpress’ trackback informer was out to lunch for my blog only, would you?
- Earn one (1) entry: Become a fan of SkinCareRx.com on Facebook
- Earn one (1) entry: Follow @skincarerx1 on Twitter
- Earn two (2) entries: Tweet “I just entered to win a $150 gift card from SkinCareRx.com @zoeyjane http://bit.ly/bmV2qv“
- Earn seven (7) Entries: by posting at least 100 words about this giveaway and the PCA Skin care line, linking back to this giveaway and to PCA Skin.
The winner will be notified by email and/or twitter on the evening of March 16th so that they can plan their St Paddy’s drinking accordingly, knowing that they could be getting a magical serum to erase all of the barley, hops and green dye damage for free. Plus I’ll update this post. Because information is power and name-dropping link-love is awesome.
Win Michael Pollan’s newest, Food Rules*
This book isn’t The Omnivore’s Dilemma* or In Defense of Food*. It’s concise, clear, unscientific, without meanderings or interviews with farmers. It’s funny at some points, and definitely sarcastic at others. Best of all, it’s simple. There’s none of that ‘Avoid soy this week because it’s been linked to…’ crap that media outlets, doctors, other diet books and Oprah will tell you. This is all about keeping eating simple and yourself healthy and sane. Did I mention that it’s less than 150 pages and full of white space? It took me 37 minutes to read it, I shit you not. It’s yours.
If.
You leave me a comment, letting me know a single thing you’d really like to work on about the way or type of foods your family eats. This is not an opportunity for you to talk about your hips, ladies – this is one sentence (or more, feel free) about your household’s relationship with food or treatment of meals, etc.
This one closes on March 8th, so you’ve got multiple days (and multiple entries, if you like – why stop at just one comment?) to nab a new book that will get you through the next swim lesson, school pick-up line, or mandatory Thursday night sex session a brief bout of insomnia.
The winner’ll be announced on March 9th, here, there, everywhere.
Win whatever the eff you want
This baby’s got a shorter deadline. You’ve got the weekend, until I get out of bed on Monday morning (you can usually figure between 9:30 and 11am, PST) {yes, my kid really does let me sleep that late sometimes} to leave me a comment - each one counts as an entry – telling me what you really really want.
Do you want cash (you better have Paypal, then)? A contribution to charity in your name? How about control over my dignity, by getting to command me to do something on the blog (please, no nudity – no one wants to see that)? Do you really just want some damn Olympic 2010 mascot stuffies or maple syrup? You’ve got until Monday morning to tell me (as many times as you like) what you want. The only rule is that I can’t commit to more than 50 bones. There’s rent to be paid, and quinoa to be bought at Whole Foods, okay?
The winner will be announced and notified on Monday evening slash early Tuesday morning.
All winners must provide a correct email address for notification, and will be selected via random number generator.
* Affiliate link
Disclaimer: I was not awarded anything extra for these contests, despite SkinCareRX.com being a current sponsor of Mommy is Moody.
