Mar 18 2008
bloggy giveaway
in the latest of blog fashions, we are hopping on the train of giving away cool stuff. that’s just how generous we are. for you men, you may not be as thrilled with this, so i promise to make the NEXT giveaway more, ahem, masculine. OR…men, you could enter and win and give this to your wife, sister or mother for mother’s day. that is about when they will receive their first issue!!
here’s the prize: a 1-year paid subscription to O magazine. can you believe it??? twelve issues with oprah winfrey on the cover of each one. (craig, i was going to give this away before you posted YOUR giveaway…this is just a coincidence…) anyway, this is seriously one of the best magazines out there right now. it’s got everything in it, from recipes, to stories, to advice columns, etc. i read it from cover to cover every month and oprah is typically a travel companion for me on my business trips. i wouldn’t go anywhere without her.
here’s how you put your name in for the giveaway:
1. post a comment. make sure you leave your email address when you leave the comment. it won’t show up on the blog, but i’ll have it to contact you if you win.
2. your comment should make me laugh. tell a joke, share an embarrassing story. tell me if you read magazines in the bathroom.
3. linking back to this entry is optional, but if you do, i’ll give you TWO entries for the PRICE OF ONE. yeah!
4. tell us how lovely our easter banner is and tell me how toned my arms look. lie if you must.
contest runs through midnight, friday, march 21, mountain standard time (uh, daylight savings time??). i’ll draw a winner over the weekend and announce the lucky soul’s name on monday, march 24.
**edit** p.s. i updated the “jess” page. if you’re bored, check it out!
Stumble it!
There was this time that I took a photo of bridgy flipping me off on the toliet and…Oh, wait…You wanted an embarrassing story about ME.
I have none.
My life is a blameless, vanilla book.
I need the big “O” to put some spice and excitement in it.
P.S.
I’ll give you a link.
P.P.S
Refer to “Hugh Heffner’s Girlfriend” comments in previous post for #4
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dudes. i just noticed i might have creepy zombie hands. can i get a hell yeah?
oh and i’ve been inundated with requests for the value of this giveaway…it’s a $30 value. but i won’t send you a 1099-MISC.
I linked to your blog on my blog but I can’t figure out how to make it show up like Loralee did. Does that count as my embarrassing story? I am technologically incompetent. It’s embarrassing. Also? I keep misspelling embarrassing. Good thing I have spellcheck.
I would love to win O magazine. I think it will make my life better. I was scheduled to be a guest on Oprah for a show about High Maintenance Women. Not me. I wrote a letter about my friend. We were to fly out on September 12th 2001…the show was cancelled because of 9-11 which is also my birthday. Oh shoot. This was supposed to make you laugh or be embarrassing.
My F-in Girl Scout still hasn’t shown up with my F-in Cookies. Where are my F-in Cookies! I want my THIN MINTS.
Sorry…I’ve got nothin.
Oh and I forgot to tell you that Loralee sent me!
lor - i’d love to live at the playboy mansion. a maid! chef service! helloooo!!! and thanks for the linky love.
hiLL - LOL. i have no idea how that stuff works, either!
connie! F those girl scouts! if you were closer, i’d bring you a box for RIGHT NOW. do you know this girl scout personally?? call her up!! and were you really supposed to be on the show? and i laughed, rest assured.
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel tied to his waist.
The bartender asks, “what’s up with the wheel?’
The pirate responds (think in pirate speak), “Argh. It drives me nuts.”
Ok, that was my attempt at making you laugh.
Regarding the banner, I love it. Although Al looks a little creepy. I suppose that fits though huh!
luann - bwahahahhahaa. i had to read it out loud to get the full effect. i LOVE it!
shit. all my responses are going to skew the random number generation. oh well… i’ll make it work.
I refuse to believe Loralee has nothing embarrassing to say - she just doesn’t want to waste good blog material.
I hate jokes - there’s too much pressure to laugh.
Giving birth - that’s embarrassing, no matter how you play it.. and people trying to teach you how to breast feed.. good Lord.
Jess, your arms sure do look toned. Does that feel as good as an unforced response?
Are you checking the box on comment luv?
Jess:
WILL YOU LET ME BUY SOME MORE DAMNED THIN MINT COOKIES ALREADY????!!!!
P.S.
Connie is awesome. She lives in Ogden and took the fact that I called it “The Detroit of Utah” with grace and appreciation.
Okay, I don’t have really have a funny story but if you give this to me, I might. Because Craig hates hates hates Oprah, to the point of gagging when he sees her on tv. And I think it would be so freakin’ hilarious if we won and he had to see a new picture of her face on our coffee table every month.
But my desire to win isn’t solely to annoy Craig. I like her magazine and it would mean 30 less minutes I need to spend at the library reading it, along with other fine literature like Cosmo and Martha Stewart. This is a good thing as the last time I went to read magazines at the library I ended up having to listen to two high schoolers break up. Why they would think a library is a good place to have such a volatile conversation is beyond me, but it wasn’t pretty and I just couldn’t concentrate.
Also, you guys do look good in the banner. I think the bunny ears are really what cement the picture into fine art territory.
Jess–i usually just read the blog, but I want the magazine dangit! And my opinion, the detroit of Utah would be Price.
The funnies that happen around here deal with my kids. At dinner the other night, my 8 year old sneezed major. My 6 year old said, “Hey buddy, you’ve found your talent!”
Another would be my husband, “pruning” the bush…since when was pruning chopping down to 6 inches tall and then digging it up? Anyway, one of the kids asked me what he was doing to the tree. I said, “apparantly eliminating it”. My son said, “Dad, why are you putting lemonade on the tree?”
Love the Blog.
Oh, and I linked to you too, but I don’t know how to do the trackback thingy.
I just like how you are the one with the egg in your mouth. What does that mean exactly?
I DO not want to win, and since I’m a writer, I am not eligible so bonus for me!
Lu- love the joke. I laughed!
Annika- the egg placement has to do with which one of us is see, hear, or speak no evil. Somehow, Jess is Speak No Evil. Still not sure how that happened…
Jess- HELL YEAH! You woulda laughed your ass off when we were taking those pics of me…. Stupid f’ing eggs wouldn’t stay on my eyes.
I was directed here by hillary (almost wrote/typed just one ‘L’ - tsk tsk)
Hmm, funny story . . . ’bout me? that’s a toughie
my husband, though . . .
My daughter is fussing because she doesn’t feel good, she’s teething, gassy? I don’t know. Anyhow, she’s sitting on the floor, playing and, well, burping, and well, . . . she has gas. Once, she immediately followed a burp with a fart and my husband said - without hesitation:
“that burp was so anxious to get out, it ran out the back door”
(bwahahahaha)
He makes me laugh!
(I plan to link, give me time - I have dial-up)
Hey, just throwing this in that I have now made a blog. It’s lame because I don’t have the tech skills that you girls do. And if I knew how to link, I would put a see hear speak no evil link on there. How do I do that?
zombie hands? more like jazz hands! arms look toned [you shit] oh and disquailfy me for the give away because i JUST renewed my own subscription [damn] if you want a funny story, visit my blog…. i think it may be a classic, my friend i used to be married to thinks we should make it into a movie…. happy easter!
Can this count as a negative entry for MacKenzie?
mac - LOL. craig actually gags at oprah? that’s hilarious. is it because she supports obama?
annika! i miss you! and thanks for finally de-lurking! the eggs…we are just dorks.
al - yes, you are correct. employees of SHSNE are not eligible. by using the term employee, you’d think there was an attached salary and profit sharing program. what a load.
donna - yay! new reader! thanks for stopping by. come back often. we are funny. and humble. i promise.
jessica - YES! another CV blogger! i’m an idiot at html, too. don’t worry.
fri_yet - jazz hands! lol!
craig - now you have two entries. i hope you win. i’ll put it in YOUR NAME. lol.
Every once and a while, I purchase an O magazine.
I use every picture of Oprah to wipe my ass.
I mean, she gives so much, you just want to give something back.
And what do you give to a woman who has everything?
I posted a link (in case you already checked) Dial-up is slow, but I’ve been told mine is faster than others, so it’s not too bad. (Just enough to make me curse at random - with the kids awake . . . in the living room, beside me)
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Whew…good thing I don’t need a year of “O”. Tell me to say something funny and…well…I got nothin’.
How nice of you for the giveaway though. I think it should go to Mike up there. He apparantly is out of toilet paper.
Ooh…competition for O mag! I’m in! I’m pretty sure Oprah is God, or just below that status. Not only does she have her own talk show, and magazine but now she’s got another show in which she looks like the giver of all life by having private donors fund her Big Give. I’m so grateful for her. Because of this new show I’ve donated used underwear to the naked, leftovers to the starving, smelly old shoes to the shoeless, and hugs to the lonely (but only if personal hygiene is at my standards). Please help me make my new found Oprah lifestyle complete by giving me a subscription to O Magazine–aka The Bible.
As for a funny story– A couple of years ago while still in school, I had to dress up as a hippo for a class. I found a child’s hippo costume in which I fit almost perfectly in (solution to the massive wedgie that reached my ovaries-mini skirt). While on my way to class (in the ESLC at USU), I tripped and fell down an entire flight of stairs just as class was getting out. I landed on my knees…directly in front of a unsuspecting male student’s crotch. It was awesome.
You are linked on my page now. But don’t judge it isn’t nearly as cool as your blog! I wish I had Bridge’s talent!
Also-Your arms, butt and legs are awesome. Let’s switch.
Okay, so I must confess….I really hate Oprah but I LOVE you guys. Will you still visit my blog?
I love the new banner–Jess, have you seen Pulp Fiction? When I see that egg in your mouth, I keep thinking of “Bring out the gimp.” Your arms kick my arms’ ass (Wouldn’t that be weird looking? Arms with asses? I smell a post!).
Al, your egg-eyes are rad. It would be even cooler if your banner was a gif image and they were spinning.
Bridge, you always look so cute when you do the kissy face. Please share your secret. When I do it, I look like I caught a whiff of something unpleasant.
Joke: Why does Snoop Dogg need an umbrella? For drizzle.
And Oh. My. God….I JUST got that you guys are doing the see, hear, speak thing with the eggs. Wow. Slowness AND a Snoop Dog joke? What’s not to love?
disclaimer: Please note that my previous comment was not to be taken as a “bash” on Oprah. Love her, love the mag, love her designer Nate, and most of all love her show.
Another funny story (just because I wanna win!):
Last night my little sister’s boyfriend went to her house, went to use her bathroom and came out laughing. You see she sometimes talks on the phone while doing her business in there and she had pooped and didn’t want to flush while on the phone. She then went to work and then he came over.
He came out and asked if maybe she was talking on the phone earlier while in there. All of a sudden it doned on her that she didn’t flush the poo. She was mortified.
This adds to him recently walking up behind her directly into her fart that had just reached the height of it’s stench.
lemme know what other ways I can earn/bribe your vote!