live from sublurbia

But I don’t know anything yet. Won’t for weeks and weeks, if ever. Well, if they don’t call, they’re just not that into me. But you don’t know if you don’t try. And I found a Twitter page that might be useful for updates. :)

But I’m busy reliving the adventure part of traveling to NYC. :) Re-reading the YA books I grew up with, watching a second remake of The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, and emailing everyone I met there. They just showed a scene shot in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; kind of makes me wish I’d dawdled there sometime instead of working the entire trip. Sometime I’ll take a leisurely trip there; but helping plan the invasion of big chunks of family here reminds me that there are many things to explore here.

Of the things I enjoyed, I think I liked the variety of Mexican food, the art supply stores and the Highline Park most of all. In a few years the kids will be old enough to read my little Manhattan-specific reading list (Remember me to Harold Square!) and maybe we’ll either plan a trip to re-create that adventure or plan one of our own.

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If so, head over here and answer the poll! Don’t forget to leave a contact email address so you can be contacted if you win!

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Going to be picked using a random number generator at 9pm EDT Sunday evening. Stay tuned!

Comments on the entry post are now closed. No comments made after now (midnight Friday) will be in the drawing.

Thanks for playing! See you Sunday (I’ll update this post)!

Update 9pm EDT:

I ran a random number generator to pick between 1-113 using this generator: http://www.random.org/integers/

I checked the official time using this site:

http://time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5

And the winner is:

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

43

Timestamp: 2008-04-28 01:00:06 UTC

Which makes our winner (skipping dupe entries):

# CanCan
April 22nd, 2008 07:50 e
43

I’m all about going green! If I can go green and have bling at the same time, I’ll be a very happy mama!

CanCan, you’ll be getting an email from me this week to get your shipping address.

Congrats and thanks to everyone for stopping in!

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I’ve been paging through some of my old entries and it seems a lot of my pictures have gone missing. And while this is a pretty layout, it’s difficult to go back and forth between entries. In the short term, I’m changing to a different theme that allows you to search more easily.

In the long term, say, now through May, I’ll go through and move to a new system (still WordPress) but with the ability to add more options and themes. I’d like to allow OpenID posting since that seems to be all the rage, and I’ve got a few more surprises in store for you (never fear, Milehimama , not too drastic!).

So there might be a few broken links yet, a few oddities here and there, but it’s just a shedding of one skin and moving into a new phase. Or maybe just looking for a new, larger shell. Meantime, kick back, stay a while, and party on. Don’t forget to sign up for my carnival give-away, too!

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Welcome Spring and Summer – and to the Spring Bloggy Giveaway Carnival, organized by Don’t Try It. Many thanks to them for hosting this Carnival.

As promised last week, my giveaway is the grocery store bag I blinged up in last week’s T.O.A.S.T. (Think of a Something Thursday). The winner will be chosen from comments placed by users on this post (I’ll find a random number chooser online) and will receive one free shopping bag, shipping included (no wine, sorry).

Just comment on this post; let us know how you found the site, link us a favorite post at my site or yours or someone else’s … just say hi. I’m feeling spunky enough to try conquering international shipping, so we’ll throw caution and postal codes to the wind.

Good luck and happy Carnival!

Thanks to everyone who has stopped by! I’ll close comments on Friday night, midnight (by the post stamp on your comment). One entry per person please!

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Not yet known. I’m a bit wowed by the number of entries. To pick a winner, I’m going to use this site:

http://andrew.hedges.name/experiments/random/

If your number comes up, I’ll post here and email you directly.

Thanks to everyone for participating; a full list of winners is growing here!

Our Winner Is:

Post 88 – Summer! Congrats!

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All posters and commenters will be entered in a drawing to take place Sunday night at 10pm eastern for a $15 Amazon.com gift certificate.

You can get it in $15 American, or $15 American equivalent of your preferred monetary amount.

Comments are screened because of spam, but bloggers and non bloggers alike are welcome to post a comment to this entry to try and win!

Good luck!

PS for a list of more participating blogs, see here: HERE.

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