Wooooo hooooo! The countdown is officially underway as of yesterday; less than a week until my friend, Patty, and I are in New York City!
I've been excited about this since winning the "Meet Taylor Swift" trip last April! Now, after one cancellation, (to Ottawa, Canada), in August, our rescheduled trip is just about to become reality!
So far, we don't know our entire itinerary, just our flights, where we'll be staying, and when we'll be at Good Morning America to meet Taylor. No worries though, we've been assured all details will be in place, and given to us before we leave for the Big Apple next Monday.
Definitely not wishing my life away, but I honestly can't wait for this adventure! To keep things under control however, I've limited myself to one word, if I feel my excitement getting out of control. Since just writing about this trip gets me excited, I'll end this post with that one word: EEK!
Twice a day for the past week, the "Simon in the Morning" show has been hosting their version of the "Hunger Games".
Each morning at 6:20am, and 8:20am, Scott, Jolynn and Jake would announce two "districts", (zip codes), to compete against each other. One caller from each zip code would call in and be given a type of food to name off. Each person would name a food from that day's category, and the first person to take longer than 5 seconds was eliminated.
My zip code was announced at 6:20 Tuesday morning, so I called, and actually got through. I and the person I was pitted against had to come up with various ways to prepare eggs.
I don't remember all the types we came up with, except the other person did say "candied" eggs at one point. No one was sure what that meant, however, I thought it could mean the candy eggs like you get at Easter. The last type I mentioned was "poached", and the other person couldn't come up with another type, so she was eliminated.
I was excited that I'd qualified for the trip to see Taylor Swift in Ontario, Canada; however, did I really think I'd win the grand prize? No, I didn't. I knew I'd have a 1 in 10 chance, however, I just didn't think it would happen.
On Friday, the final two were qualified for the grand prize, and a few minutes later Scott, Jolynn and Jake were to announce the grand prize winner.
I know that when a winner is picked, it takes time to call them, get it recorded for playback on the air, etc. That usually means a winner is picked and called right away. I was at work, waiting to start my day, and my phone wasn't ringing, so I knew I wasn't going to be the winner. The longer the phone didn't ring, the more certain I was I didn't win.
All of a sudden though, my phone DID ring, and it was an outside line. The caller ID was KUPL's number! So, I answered the phone, and there they were on the other side of the line, Scott, Jolynn and Jake! They asked if I knew why they were calling and I said I thought so; then Jolynn said, yeah, they'd just called to talk with me and tell me who'd won the contest.
Normally it's hard to pull anything over on me; I'm not a trusting person, and don't take things at face value. In this case though, already having it in my mind that I wasn't going to win, the length of time it took for the phone call, and the fact that I'm always giving them a bad time, (teasing), I figured maybe they really HAD called just to tell me who the winner had been! I was totally suckered on that, and I give them kudos for getting me good!
As it turns out, *I* AM the grand prize winner to go see Taylor Swift in Ontario, Canada!!! The whole process of picking the grand prize winner was even the subject of the Simon 90 video for the day.
Needless to say, that was around 9am; I haven't quite been the same since! I honestly don't think I really breathed for about 2 hours after I found out I'd won!
I know I can get very excited about things, so instead of rambling on and on about it from now, until the day of the show, I've told everyone I work with, all my friends and family, if I start getting hyper again, I'll just say "EEK!" Translation: "I'm sooooooooooooo excited!", and leave it at that. After all, winning is one thing, however I'd like to keep my family, friends and co-workers; not drive them away!
(Today's word will be in ALL CAPS, BOLD, ITALIC, and STRIKETHROUGH.)
April 13, 2011 was the first time I'd ever written a blog post. Now, almost seven months later, I'm writing my one hundredth post.
What should this post be about though? A hundred is a bit of a milestone, so it should be something special.
Previous posts have run the gamut of subjects, from the review of The Dirt Drifters,
to silly posts, like washing spiders down drains.
I thought, and thought, but couldn't think of anything special enough to be post one hundred. Then it happened! Something really special I could blog about!
For those who read this blog more than occasionally, you probably know that I entered a post in the MusiCares® Music Blogger contest. My entry was titled "The Magic of Music".
The contest ran from September 9, 2011, to October 31, 2011, and was open to any blogger in the U.S., 21 years or older. Six finalists were chosen from all entries, and I'm one of the six!
From now, until November 30, 2011, finalists have to get as many votes as they can, with the one having the most declared the winner.
The prize is being the only credentialed person for MusiCares® on the red carpet, attending the "Grammy Honors Paul McCartney" event in February 2012, and blogging about the whole thing. To say the least, I'm a teensy bit excited about all of this!
Okay, I'm more than just a little excited; I'm so excited that all I can say, without lifting off the ground is, EEK!
With that said, I would like to kindly ask anyone reading this post to please go to the following link and vote for my post. I'm listed #3 of the six finalists. You will have to "like" the page before you can vote. Also, please pass this link along to your friends and ask them to vote!
