Birthday Winners!

I'm late!

Good reasons though, I was having fun and that's what Cindy Week is all about.

Now, I started Birthday week last week on Tuesday night. Why do I say this? I bought myself a two pieces or art (not like real art but things you hang on the wall) and I don't normally buy myself stuff like that so I declared it the beginning of Birthday week. Tuesday to Tuesday.

Tonight Bob says he thinks Birthday week should really be the week the birthday falls on so last Tuesday through Sat shouldn't count.

I'm in.

Seriously, my man spoils the hell out of me!

But enough about me, it's about YOU! Who gets to have a Birthday Week today?

Thank you to all those who 'played' and it's good to know some people still love a good paranormal.

I'm going to make you watch the video - Bob picks the two winners (poor sleepy monkey).



Did you watch the video?

To the two ladies who won, where would you like your gift certificate from? I happen to know both ladies are Canadian which leaves me with Chapters or Amazon.ca but maybe there is another bookstore online.

E-mail me - rsmith41 at cogeco dot ca

Thank you all for my birthday wishes. It was wonderful to get up on my birthday *cough*4pm*cough* and see that people were thinking of me.

I'll re-cap this last week later. Bob's been off since Thursday and tomorrow is his last day off and we have grand plans for tomorrow. Well, grand plans if you're me ;)

OMG, get this, tonight I told Bob while with my family that I was going to get really skinny and become a clothes horse.

Bob: A what?

Me: Clothes horse

My Mom: It is kind of an odd phrase to use isn't it.

Bob: You're not a horse! *Poor guy thought I was talking about my weight - usually I use 'cow' as my descriptor*

Me: A clothes horse is someone who buys tons and tons of clothes (my definition) and I need a new goal.

Bob: *wheels turning* So I'm a Home Depot horse.

Me: No, you're a Home Depot Ho.

*family is all laughing*

Bob: So you're a book ho?

Me: No, I'm a bookworm. Wait. Why do we call people who love to read bookworms? I need to google this stuff.

Mom: They ('they') used to get worms in the cover of books.

*dead silence*

And being the family of thought train engineers that we are, we veered off onto another subject altogether.

If you made it this far and that damn video didn't load or co-operate the winners are Nath and Mary G!!

Sneaky I am.

The Winners!!

Congrats to the Winners!



C2
Mollie
ReneeW

Let me know which bookseller you want a Gift Certificate from. I wonder if I need e-mails also? Off to figure out the logistics.

Yep, e-mail you check so you'll know it's there! Let me know if it's different from the e-mail you used to play.

Thanks for playing and I should probably post people's favourite 2008 reads and their longest auto-buy authors but I can save that for tomorrow.

Today is truly a lazy day.

Birthday Week Contest is On NOW!!

Sticky Posted - scroll down for new posts but don't forget that Friday is the deadline!

All right, Birthday week is all about the love and as I said earlier it's time to share!

We have THREE $25.00 gift certificates available for your favourite online bookseller.

Open to all cause I gots me some friends from all over the planet.

This will be easy because my brain cells are not up to their normal intelligent self.

Hey! I heard that!

Okay. You're right but still, free stuff peeps.

Uh, where were we? Right!

You will have until Friday Sept uh...crap *goes to find an online calendar* the fifth to send in your answers.

Friday September 5th midnight my time (central?), got it.

Many of these answers you can find on links along the sidebar just in case you are new (Welcome!) so let's dive in and I can clear up things if there are questions. If you've been here before having a few addendum will not surprise you.

1. Who are the Book Binge Ladies? Looking for names of the Ladies.

2. What favourite character did Jenster name her cutie pup after?

3. Who do Max and She-ra belong to?

4. Who are Kristie(J) and Katiebabs alter-egos from Ramblings on Romance? (okay, I'm not sure *I* know Katiebabs' alter-ego name!)

5. Shelfari or Librarything? That's right, I'm looking to stalk ya.

6. What is your favourite read of 2008? Please be a romance so I can buy and read too.

7. Besides blog hopping, what is your favourite past-time on the internet?

8. Who's ARC did I just recently win? Okay, someone revive Kat O for me - you should have it by this week, right?

9. Alright, I'll put this one on here. If you're new just ask around. Who's my ALL TIME favourite author? (you know I've been reading her since 1994 and she's been on my auto buy list now for 14 years!! Is that a record?)

10. On that note, who is your longest standing auto buy author?

Easy peasy eh?

E-mail answers to dogzzz2005@gmail.com

Obviously some answers are about you and some are about everyone else.

GO!!

Have Fun!!

Birthday Week in Three, Two.....

So things are still the same.

The choking cough that never settles mixed with that heavy feeling in the chest ain't so fun but it's better than where I was last week.

This weekend is going to be BUSY!!

Tomorrow night we go see West and her potential new home here. I'm excited but I don't know how close she is to pulling the trigger. All the same, dinner out peeps!! I'm thinking fries and gravy - wonder if I can find a place that'll have a BLT without the LT - yum!

Saturday is super packed with my Godkids and every friend they have coming for swimming, food and fun. I figure Bob will need to take a nap half way through.

Now that would normally be where I pull the rip cord and call it quits but my Dad goes back to Malaysia on Monday.

Sunday is family day by the pool and of course, a BBQ. They don't eat beef in Malaysia so I'll be cooking up some home made burgs for my Dad. Sunday looks like a killer day to stay by the pool though so it's all good.

Except for the algae.

With us sick we didn't get near the pool for two weeks. It started to go green there last week but I shocked and killed it. But again, we were sick so we didn't vacuum out the dead stuff and well, more has grown. Tonight we shocked but I didn't get the algicide in. The key to killing algae is making sure you brush down the pool (including the sides) and well, I don't have the strength - takes an hour at least.

I did it when I was sick a week ago and my upper lip had sweat on it!!!!! That's not normal, right?

At the same time, my family wouldn't care because we swam in lakes as kids - a pool is downright glamorous!

Not so for Bob.

Wants it all vacuumed out.

Sounds like he has his marching plans for the weekend.

*looks around* All right, for those of you who made it this far, the rest is going to make you vera happy!

Bob is off next week! Yeah, baby! Birthday week will begin. I'm thinking we need a giveaway.

Ah, you caught that did ya?

I don't get ARCs unless I win them so I can't do anything like that.

I'm thinking gift certificate from your choice of Online Bookstore.

Yeah. That works.

You should have to do something though right?

What to do?

Maybe a blog hunt?

Do I hear moaning? Makes me think I'm on the right track.

To wet the appetite we'll do TWO winners of $25.00 gift certificates.

Huh - Who's birthday week is it, eh?

Birthday week peeps. You point to it, you get it.

Screw it, we're doing THREE winners for $25.00 each.

Yeah. Sometimes I roll like that.

AND we'll put up the questions tomorrow night and you all get a week cause I'm too excited to wait too long.

Check back tomorrow cause I'm too brain dead to go looking for questions right now.

Yep, It's That Time Again

Today's my birthday!!

Woohoo! So far I've raked in the loot. Okay, I don't think I'll be getting anything else because we did the birthday thing yesterday.

Chapters gift certificates from the kitties and Cody. (Amazingly they are the only ones that know me!)

Homesense gift certificates. (Okay, we do spend a lot of time over there and maybe that money will help me buy something really spiffy!)

Cineplex gift certificates. I think the last movie I saw at the theater was National Treasure II. Yeah, thank goodness these don't have expiry dates.

Oh! Got a lucky loonie. For those not in the know, it's a silver dollar with a red maple leaf that is for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Can't get pic but can go here to see it. Cool.

And ...

From Bob ....

An iPod Touch!!!!

I have a learning curve coming at me huge cause things are happening without me doing anything. Okay, I plugged it in and things 'synced' but after that the computer didn't know what to do. At the moment it won't connect to itunes so I'll have to wait and see.

Now, I would normally suggest that Birthday Week has begun but with Bob and I being sickies, I'm thinking of postponing it until next week which just happens to fall on Bob's week off. Thus, he will be at my beck and call.

Hmmmm.

Me likey.

And I'm 38 years young.

My SIL said 'You're 38!!!' and I was all, 'Yeah, but my hubby is 50 so I'm forever young.'

Still, it does give someone like me pause.