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On giving you stuff

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. Continue reading →

On being a moviefile

We’re running out of Christmas movies, already, that Zoë’s willing to watch.

I think it’s mostly because I’m not quite willing to shell out $16.99 for Dora’s Christmas Carol, and so she’s not quite willing to open up her mind to the Christmas possibilities.

But we’re making progress. And there’s still 40 days to go. In no particular order, here’s our top 10 of jolly movies.

Guess whose is whose and you might just win something. Something meaning a $10 iTunes gift card. Or a mix tape. 1 2 3 4

  • Love Actually
  • Barbie’s Christmas Carol
  • The Family Stone
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks
  • The Santa Clause 2
  • White Christmas
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Mickey’s Christmas Carol
  • A Charlie Brown Christmas
  • The Ref
  1. one entry per person, yo. Unless you leave a second comment with a twitter or facebook or blog or skywriting link in it.
  2. I’m foregoing 2.5 reduced fat eggnog chai lattes to pay for this and postage, so make with the guesses.
  3. or not.
  4. oh yeah, I guess we need an end date on this one, don’t we? How’s about…next Sunday, 11:59pm, PDT? Cool? Cool.