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If your blog is listed here, please read this.

October 18, 2007, 3:16 pm
Filed under: Announcements, Contests, Entertainment, Friends, Fuel My Blog, Fuelmyblog, Fun, Thanks, Voting | Tags: fracas, Friends, snorgtees.com, Fuelmyblog, win money, contest, win $500, Fuelmyblog contest, win a shirt, win a snorgtees.com shirt

Your blog is listed below and linked, because for the past two weeks, I’ve been voting for you over at Fuelmyblog.

Big Deal. That’s what you might be thinking. Well, it kind of is, but only if you like getting something for free because someone out there liked your blog, you, or something about your blog.

The thing is, Fuelmyblog is a great place. Not only is it a great blog directory, it’s a great community of people, thanks to Kevin and Sylvie Dixie. It’s their baby. Well, not their only baby… they have live children too for heaven sakes.

So they’ve been running this contest in conjunction with snorgtees.com. For the month of October, all members have to do is create a post indicating that you’re entering the contest, link that post back to the Fuelmyblog blog, and tag the post with snorgtees.com. Then.. you have to go vote for the people you like, appreciate, or just plain would like to see in a free snorgtee. The thing is… when all is said and done on October 31st, the person getting the most votes will win $500, and 99 other people will receive a free shirt. It’s that easy.

So how do you fit in and why did I call you here with a trackback?

Because for the better part of two weeks (unless I just discovered you of course) if your blog is listed below, I’ve been voting for you daily trying to keep your blog on the top 100 list to help you get a free shirt. I’d like to think that you’ll be pleasantly surprised and that you’ll get warm and fuzzy feelings for Kevin and Sylvie’s baby. I’ve grown to rather like these folks, and want to do my part to make their contest a success.

Yes.. I’m trying to win the money, as are others. But the fact is, I’ve voted for you as close to daily as I can, and most of the blogs on the list below have not voted for me at all. I vote for you anyway. The idea that you’ll end up with a shirt and a good feeling because someone bothered to do that is something that makes me feel pretty neat.

So why did I post this?

Because many of you have not posted a post to say “I’m In” and without that post, Kevin and Sylvie won’t be able to award you with a shirt if you indeed, end up in that top 100 on October 31st. Please… take a moment to write a post and do that. I’d hate for you to win a shirt but not be able to claim it. There is also a weekly winner, chosen from all the entries based on how funny your post is. That person will automatically receive a shirt. Week 1 and 2 winners were Saskboy from Abandoned Stuff and Auntie Dar from Auntie Dar’s Life. I assure you, the contest is legitimate.

So pop over to the Fuelmyblog blog if you’d like to read the instructions from their site, and do consider writing that post. If you find my blog entertaining, informative or enjoyable in some way, I won’t complain if you vote for me. If you don’t, I’ll still be voting for you anyway. It’s my way of letting you know there’s something about your blog that I liked, and supporting Kevin and Sylvie by making a good effort at their contest is how I can be a good member of the Fuelmyblog community.

Thanks for reading. Please take part in Kevin and Sylvie’s venture. Honest to goodness… there isn’t another blog directory community that has made anyone feel more welcome than they. Jump in, meet the others and you won’t be sorry!

[Contest image: Fuelmyblog; Oh No Jack Image: Rapid Eye Reality]

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Spilling the fraccy beans… or not.

October 18, 2007, 2:36 am
Filed under: Blogging, Entertainment, Friends, Fun, Meme, Random | Tags: , Entertainment, Friends, Fun, memes, people I like, random things about me, strangers

Carrie, over at chocolate the other white meat, tagged me with the 7 random interesting things about me meme. Once upon a time, I was tagged by the infamous Bill Blunt (as well as Diva and Kendall) to do that 8 things about me meme, and I did. I can’t promise everything I said was true, and I did warn Carrie that like then, I might not exactly tell truthful things about me, but she said that was ok.

I think it’s more fun when you’re not quite sure which things are true and which things aren’t. I played that game when telling you about my trip back in August. It was fun (even if only for me) to see what you might have believed about me.

So here goes 7 random things. This time, I’m making it even harder because I’m not telling you how many of them aren’t true and how many of them are. Some of you smartie-pants types will think you know. Let’s just see.

I have a strawberry birthmark somewhere no one can see.
I have secretly and anonymously signed up someone I hate for unmentionable-type services, just to get even with them.
I think Danny Bonaduce is an admirable person.
Jelly Beans make me sick.
I have sent in a story request to America’s Most Wanted.
I can talk like Kermit the Frog.
I have memories from when I was younger than two or three years old.

This is the part where I’m supposed to tag people. Long ago, I’ve given up tagging people on my blogroll for memes, just because once you’ve tagged your friends more than once, they start to get a little annoyed with you.

Does that mean I won’t tag anyone this time? It does not. I learned a while back, that tagging people you don’t know is the way to go.

Why?

Because it’s a great way to meet the people you’d like to know better. I’d like to point the fraccy finger over to the blogroll in the sidebar to show you Pass the Chocolate (Shauna), Swimming Upstream (Joebec) and Irregular Bones (Anita). All three were tagged in this manner and whether you’d call it that they decided to keep me or I decided to keep them, I just called it a good day.

And so, in hopes that the following seven people feel the same way about my choosing them to tag (and to you seven, it is really because in some way, I found your blog entertaining, informative or just plain great for some reason, and if you don’t do the tag I will understand), I give you:

May you all find something to laugh at here at fracas, and may all of you already here at fracas, find something you enjoy at one of their blogs.

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