Buca di Beppo Gift Card Giveaway!
I've also noticed that some of the blogs that receive heavy traffic are also very confessional (TMI) in nature. I think harboring a few secrets is healthy, so I'll continue to keep some things to myself, thankyouveddymuch. I'm also keenly aware that I don't really have a reliable shtick on which to hang my blogger hat. I don't have six kids. I don't even have six dogs.
Anywho . . . I'd like to thank my readers who do keep coming back voluntarily and for those who have passed the link to others (and to my sister for posting it on Facebook in the middle of the night, when she may or may not have had a few adult beverages). I'd also like to announce that, because I have no shame, I am having a giveaway! You'll recall that I devoted one blog entry to kvetching about the fact that Buca di Beppo served me dead animal flesh even after I explicitly told the server that I am a vegetarian. Buca rewarded my whining with a $25.00 gift card. I was looking at the card the other day, fantasizing about garlic mashed potatoes, when I noticed that the gift card expires on 12/31/09. The nearest Buca is two hours away from me and there is no chance I'll make it there before the end of the year. Other than that one unfortunate incident, I've always enjoyed going to Buca's and leaving with garlic oozing out of my pores. I also have fond memories of various Buca outings, such as the time my husband hit the Chianti too hard and then did the "I love you, man" routine with all of my friends.
So, I'm offering up the gift card (which is totally transferable, good at any location) to one lucky reader.* All you have to do is leave me a comment. I'm not going to choose the winner in any sort of fair or democratic way. I'm not going to use one of those random integer generator things to choose a comment. Nay, I shall select the one I dig the most.
Suggestions for comments:
- A suggestion for a song you think I'd like. **
- Something funny.
- Something incendiary or vaguely offensive.
- A compliment using lots of superlatives.
- A random fact. Bonus points if I learn something from it.
Updated to add: extending this until Wednesday because I won't be online most of the day on Tuesday. Also, I'm automatically disqualifying anyone who was too
*Void where prohibited. What does that mean anyway? What state is prohibiting fun?
**If it's a country song or something from the Top 40, then you owe me a gift card. Seriously.
Comments
Try out this song by the Eels http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ud-pdJh8S8
WARNING-not for the ears of A (or any other children)!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nULKw8s061E
I won't use the gift card, but if you want to give it to me, I have a friend in Milwaukee who would definitely use it.
Anyway, this is dated at this point, but I still think it's hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHX9R4Qtk
And it contains expletives!!
You have a talent for sure! You write what people think but don't say or don't know how to say and yet you capture the essence of exactly what they're thinking too. Obviously, it goes without saying, I have no such talent.
G and I discuss your writings now and the smile on his face when he talks about his Grand Daughter is just priceless. I looked and there is a Buca DiBepo in DC, so I would take him if I won because he brought me to you.
As a fun fact our wedding anniversary in next month too and it would be so lovely to celebrate Italian style!
Thanks!
Liz
An interesting fact...hmm...
Have you ever wondered why you can't buy cashews with the shell on them?
The shells of cashews contain a potent skin irritant chemically related to the more well known allergenic oil urushiol which is also a toxin found in the related poison ivy.
I remember when you posted that video of Adrienne singing the alphabet song. I was so in awe of her because she was, like, 18 months old or something crazy like that.... and here I had a kid who wouldn't talk at all.
Boy, we've both come a long way.
Anyway, gift card or no gift card, I've appreciated being able to stalk... ummm, I mean.... keep in touch with you over the years :P
In the state of Florida this is actually a real law:
"If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle."
Guess who's buying an elephant to save on gas....... :)
Here's some random trivia for you: Jennifer Aniston won her role on Friends after losing 40 pounds on Nutri-system diet plan.
(another random fact-- my boss sends out trivia questions every once in awhile, and if you are the first one in the office to answer correctly, you get two extra hours off paid. This was one of the questions!)
You rock, Miss C!
Jen