Hello, poppets! You're never going to believe what day it is. I could hardly believe it myself.
Today is Post #300 on this totally random, narcissistic online brain dump I call Going Country.
Did you catch that? That's 300 posts. Hundreds of photos. Thousands of words. And all with no plan or coherence whatsoever! Wheee!
In celebration of my inexhaustible ability to blather about inconsequential matters on a daily basis, and in gratitude for all of you who stop by here regularly (especially those of you who comment--hinthintcoughcough), I'm going to do something I've never done before.
I'm going to have a giveaway.
Yup, because I am a generous, big-hearted, veritable saint of a woman (except minus the miracles and ministering to lepers and plus the babbling about myself every single day), I'm going to send one lucky person a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com. That way, the winner can buy whatever his/her little heart desires. As long as his/her little heart doesn't desire anything that costs more than $25, that is.
So here's what you do. Leave a comment on this post. Any comment! Anything at all! Examples:
1) I love you, Kristin.
2) I think you're the funniest writer since Erma Bombeck, Kristin.
3) Do you ever plan on talking about anyone but yourself on this site, Kristin? (Answer: no)
4) Does anyone else think this Kristin broad is a complete nutter? (Answer: yes)
But only one comment per person, so make it a good one. I'll enter any comments posted before, oh, let's say . . . Sunday, January 18, 2009, at midnight EST. The WINNAH! (this is how this word sounds in my head--my crazy, nutter head) will be chosen randomly by a yet-to-be-determined method. Most likely having A. draw a number out of a hat or something equally professional. And I'll announce the WINNAH! on Monday, January 19.
You're all excited now, aren't you? You're all practically salivating at the thought of that gift certificate, aren't you? You're all wishing I would shut up and let you get to commenting now, aren't you?
Okay, duckies. GO!
Update: If you're going to post your comment anonymously (which someone already did--hi, Anonymous!), make sure to sign with a name at the end of the comment. ANY name. You could make it up if you want, but it will be easier then for me to distinguish between the anonymouses (anonymi?) if there end up being, like, five of you.
39 comments:
I've never won a damned thing, but I do enjoy reading your post every morning while I sip my coffee.
I'm not one to pass up a chance to win something--particularly something that might allow me to get a free book! So count me in. Besides I am a faithful reader of your blog, Kristin. Mary in MN
I think you're witty! Not a nutter at all!
How's that for being a suck up for $25.00 bucks!
Enjoy reading this with my morning email. Thanks for sharing. We in Mich have somewhat less snow....but that will now probably change.
I never needed an incentive to comment, but...well... this is a really good incentive!
They are predicting snow in DC later this week! I'll be able to relate on a very tiny scale to what life is like in your neck of the woods - minus the animals, garden, and big old house.
Woo! Contest!
Kristin is rad, and also bad-ass for living in a house that HAS ICE ON THE WALLS IN WINTER.
I love you, Kristin. You're the best proofreader since...well, me. Or something.
Seriously, though, I really enjoy your blog. As someone who has her own blog that she can't seem to post on more than once a week (if that), I'm envious of your creative ability to get on here every day and write something. so good on ya!
Kristin you are a hoot. Love your blog, keep it all about you babe, that's what we love! Up here, in Saskatchewan, it's warmed up today,to -26 C (approx. -14 F) with a nasty wind. Lovely weather to stay in and read, so free $ for a book sounds great.
Faye S.
How generous of you. I enjoy reading your posts in the morning while enjoying the delicious coffee Mr Chiots brings in to me.
As for being a nutter? Aren't we all, I wouldn't want to be a normal (too boring!)
Congratulations on your 300th post! That's quite a few. I'm glad I found your blog because I think you are hilarious and it's great to read about a life even more rural than mine. Carry on!
Ok Kristen, it took a contest to bring me out of lurkdom. Where I am the reigning Queen. To post here and hopefully win something. Your freaking blog is addictive, and I will have you know I read every.single.post. But I don't comment because I'm lazy, and I get distracted easily. But I do read it, and now I'm outed! Ahh.. lurkdom was so nice. But I digress. I love your blog, so keep on babbling, I mean posting!
Gosh, what a moral dilemma. I'd really like to post to congratulate you for the milestone, but I don't want it to seem like I'm just commenting for the shot at the dough. I wish you hadn't done the giveaway, so that you'd know my congratulations were sincere.
Oh, but if you draw my number you're still sending me the gift certificate. I'm not that noble.
It's time for some payback, lady! Just kidding, you earned your $25 fair and square!
I do love your blog and, since you seem to be the only person who ever comments on mine, that means I have to love you, too! Or, um, like you as much as I can like someone I've never actually met (which is actually quite a bit, it turns out).
Did you say the longest comment wins? Because, if so, I totally win.
You know, I'd have never guessed you could be so long winded. But you surprise me every day when I'm supposed to be working but I run my feed and YOURS is the first entry in the list.
So pick me. And as an additional bribe, if you pick me then there's a gift certificate for YOU to a certain gigantichugeenormous outdoor store with your name on it. HA!!!! Beat that, ya plebes!
Congrats on your 300th post - and, seriously, we do LOVE that you post every day. BTW, didja get more snow yesterday/last night? We got about 4 inches yesterday morning so it should be well on its way to you by now.
Filthy lucre for ME ME ME!!!!!!!
p.s. I love you Kristin and I love and appreciate the comments you leave at my site. Many thanks.
I love that you post every day and I can't even remember the last time you posted something I didn't enjoy reading. Plus, you might have inspired me to get chickens! I could use the $25 to buy a book about chicken raising!
Jeesh with all the blog giveaways I might just quit my (day_and_night) job and make a living out of it!
Kristin - I just recently found your blog but now it's at the top of my daily reading. I'm sort of a tough one comedy-wise, it takes a lot to make me laugh out loud, but you have many times!
Congrats on the milestone - to another three THOUSAND more!
I like your blog & I nominated it for something the other day! Tamara
Ooh! Happy 300!
I enjoy your self-blabbering because it makes ME feel less self-conscious about MY own SELF-blabbering.
Because it's all about ME. Except today, it's about YOU and 300 posts.
Wuv you, Kristin. You're just freakish enough.
I enjoy reading your witty stories about life at Blackrock. Which, by the way is a kick ass name. I knew your blog was for me after I read a post and you cussed in it. Keep it real sista, keep it real! (sista...winnah) Anyway, I'm not one to pass up a giveaway...even though I never win!
Erika
Hi, another anonymi(sp?), but I really enjoy your site, have been reading for several months. Julie from CT.
Since I won the big bell pepper price guessing contest a few months back, maybe my luck will hold out for this one!
I just found your blog a couple of weeks ago and enjoy it. I live in a big old drafty house and enjoy knowing I am not alone. Keep up the good work. Congrats on 300
Congrats on your 300th post. I love reading your blog!
Traci in Tn
I am a complete narcisist at heart too, so it's weird that I would enjoy reading other people's blogs like yours, but I do. :)
Melissa
300th post about, let's see...dining room rugs, frosty walls, butchering road kill, scary cellars, eternal tomatos, mattress dragging, never baking with yeast, woodstove huddling Kristin. I must say I've enjoyed every single insane post! Kim
Yep yep yep love yer blog. Hey you could make fried tomatoes with that weird mater up there USING EGGS FROM THE CHICKENS! Eh? Eh? Eh?
I would have commented sooner, but I passed out after the ice on the walls post. That kind of cold is inconceivable to me here in the PNW and I applaud your fortitude. You're not crazy. At. All. Happy 300 posts!
I thought I commented. Did I not already say something clever? I can't think what it was.
I love reading your blog, it is so nice to come everyday and see that you have posted something! Everyday, I wish I was that good....I am very jealous of the chickens, we got ours a few weeks after yours, and we have no eggs....boo! (it is especially annoying when I go to the store and have to pay 4$ a dozen!! what the heck, is this only in California?)
I know we are family and cannot be considered for the prize, conflict of interest and so forth. But we admire and are humbled by your perseverance confronting the pioneer tribulations that Black Rock affords! Lance&Annetta&Ashlee.
I think the internets should be giving *you* a prize! Good work on 300 posts--keep it up. One day I will be sending Arlo to the Going Country archives for advice on how to get hens to deliver eggs early.
SOME PEOPLE (you know who you are) are not leaving comments on the right post, despite clearly stating their intention to enter for the prize. So I will copy and paste their comments here in the order they come in, so it will be easier for me when I run the random number thingie.
So here's Mayberry Magpie's comment:
I love you, man. And I love Amazon. And, hey, I comment A LOT.
Enter me, enter me, enter me!!!!!!
And here's Arlo's (by the way, I'm really impressed that my 6-week-old first cousin once removed--or whatever he is--has already mastered the keyboard. The boy has a bright future.)
I hardly have time to leave a comment because I, too, am schlepping water back and forth to farm animals all day today! But bless your heart for taking the time yourself to write such fun to read posts that always make me smile.
ANYWAY.
$25 for amazon.com sounds SWEET! So here's my comment... Thanks, Kristin, for all the fun posts!
*Arlo
Just found your site, thru your comment on Bossy's site about the frozen egg. All the way from Amsterdam, Els
eavdveen@planet.nl
Your a brave soul...
Don't remember how I discovered your blog, but now that I have it has been added to my daily list of "must reads." And Amazon is just about my favorite place to buy from!!
Well hot damn - I'm out of of town and internet free for a week and you go and start giving stuff away?
Dammit.
I missed the cut-off by fifteen minutes too.
I loooooooooove you Kristin.
Really....
I do...
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