{That is an actual picture I took on Sunset Blvd, 12/26/2005.}
The Holidays are upon us. We’ve put up our Christmas Tree (Hannukah Bush) and I’ve dusted off the Menorah. But I still have literally TWO BOXES FULL OF STUFF in my office just waiting to be given away to you guys. And in those two boxes? Some cold, hard cash. If you follow me on Twitter, you might have heard me whining about it the other day.
See…in the midst of all that’s happened this year, one of the things I’ve gotten really weird about is this blog. (We’ve been over this, I know, but there’s new information coming at you in a second.) A lot of my freakiness surrounds giveaways. If you read a lot of blogs, you’ve probably seen other bloggers write similar posts to this one in which they lament the state of free-stuff in the blogosphere. But I’m not going to do that, because free stuff is awesome. And for bloggers and blog readers, free stuff seems like it’s at an all time high. Still, to be just a regular person and suddenly have PR reps flooding your inbox asking you to endorse their product, things can get weird. For me, I’m not a machine. This isn’t a corporate blog. I don’t want you guys to feel like you’re coming here and having someone else’s corporate agenda shoved down your throat, so I try to keep my giveaway-to-meaningful-blog-post ratio weighted on the meaningful blog post side, no matter how rad I think the things I have to give away are. But in a year where sitting down to write a meaningful blog post has been known to send me into bouts of wild hysteria, that’s left me with a little bit of a back log of awesome giveaways. And now that I can function like a human again, and it’s the holidays and all, I’m going to throw caution to the wind and just start giving stuff away like a crazy-eyed daytime talk show host.
Starting with a $100 Visa Gift Card, courtesy of BlogHer and Olay. Right HERE, right now. Also, if you click that link, I’ve written an actual heartfelt post about y’know…starting to play just the tip with aging and stuff. So even if you don’t care about giveaways you should read it. And don’t pretend like you couldn’t think of something to do with an extra $100.