I Picked the Winners. // December 30, 2009

I know I said I was going to pick you guys out of a hat, but then as humans (or just me, specifically, I guess) are wont to do, I became very biased and started picking people I liked. Which isn’t very nice of me. So, with the help of http://www.random.org, I “drew” 6 numbers and counted which comments they corresponded with. And the six lucky people are:

1. Darliza
2. Patricia
3. Ley
4. Diana
5. Kasey
6. Tim

Congratulations! I’m going to send y’all an e-mail, so you can reply with your mailing address. If we already know each other in real life (cough, Kasey, cough), I can just leave them somewhere in school. I can’t do meet-ups because my dad told me to stop oversharing online and I don’t want to be the dumb girl who blows off her dad’s advice and ends up dead in a ditch somewhere.

Ahem.

So, some of you seem to be really big Strokes fans and I’m kind of sad that I can’t give everyone a t-shirt. But I have a few favorite answers, and I want to give you guys something Strokes-related. So, I’m trying to work something out. I’ll get in touch with you over the next few days if ever I can work something out.

Anyway, thanks for joining! I’ll try to see what else I can give away next time. :)

 

Post-Holiday Give-Away. // December 27, 2009

Dear Nothing Spaces reader —

First of all:

As is probably obvious by this late Christmas greeting (that I recycled from the one I made for my Tumblr followers, for shame), I am awful with timing. I am so awful that what I intended to be something done by Christmas still hasn’t pushed through.

What I am trying to say is that I’m giving away 6 The Strokes shirts. They are handmade (as in, not official band merch) and are ill-fitting the way band shirts usually are, but they are free and they are helpful in proclaiming that you like the Strokes, and they were in the first Transformers movie.

My brother made them a long time ago and decided to give a bunch away, but I managed to wrestle away 6.

Leave a comment, and you get one. I’ll close this in a few days. If more than 6 comment, I’ll put all your names in a hat and the first 6 I draw will get them. :) If no one comments, I’ll go skulk away in a corner and cry.

So, there. That’s it! Leave a comment (any comment, but I’m curious as to what Strokes song is your favorite, so that’d be a nice comment) and we’ll see what happens.

Merry Christmas. :)

And because I feel this is obligatory, my Christmas loot:

 

Kind of a Useless Update, But the World Needs More Photos of Children. // December 26, 2009

Today, I attempted to clean my room and work on my thesis. I managed to clean a portion of my room and continue ignoring my thesis. However! I have unearthed some gems. I will now show you photos from 1993, when my family went on our first trip to North America. These are from Vancouver, Canada. :)

Prospect Point! My family looking cute. And me… eating string.

Us, on a boat with mama.

My brother, channeling “Mansard Roof!”

With papa, looking at some fishies.

Me, with a starfish. I don’t understand what I was feeling.
My facial expression does not help very much.

In 1993, my life was books and animals.

My sister being a cutie pie.
She turned three years old about a month after this photograph.

HAHAHAHA. Booger jokes.

Favorite! Me & a beluga whale. I think we can all say there was a connection.

OK, that’s all! I wish I could say something more profound about these photographs, or why I posted them. But I just did because I thought we were cute children (what the heck happened, right?!) and I liked beluga whales.

It’s funny how these photographs bring our family closer, in a we’re-all-laughing-at-the-same-thing or that-was-a-nice-time-wasn’t-it? kind of way, whenever we look at them together. My dad says he looks at these pictures when he’s feeling sad or whatever, and he gets cheered up instantly.

I can say the same for myself, since that’s what I did the whole afternoon — and I’m not even sad. Again, apologies to my thesis. I’m afraid that I’m going to have to wing it, making you.

 

 

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