I’m holding a contest!!
This is my first one. I’m excited. It’s not hard and if it were me, I would totally enter.
Here’s the deal:
I feel like I don’t know a lot of you because our relationship is very one-sided. I do all the talking “Blah Blah Blah” and I pick the topic. Who wants to be friends with someone like that? How about YOU pick the topic and then I’ll do all the talking? It’s not the most ideal relationship, I agree, but it’s something.
I want to know what YOU want to hear about.
Pretend like we’re at lunch and you have something to say. Get it out. You pick the topic and you start. You say what you want to say and then I’ll take it from there. I promise to be honest and forthright. Basically, I’ll be the same as I always am. If you’d prefer to just throw down a topic, and not elaborate on it, that is good too. Maybe other people will comment after I go and then it will be like a big lunch, not just me and you. Then you will be happy because it will mean that other people want to have lunch with you.
RULES:
Contest Dates:
Starts now, Easter Sunday 8:00 AM (Happy Easter, by the way)
Ends Wednesday, April 27th at noon.
All topics must be submitted by then.
Body of Topic
Your idea could look like this:
Hi Robyn. I think you should talk about how awesome everyone thinks Eminem’s latest album Recovery is even though, in reality, it’s really not his best. The good songs are REALLY strong, I could listen to “WTP,” “No Love” and “Untitled” all day, but there are a few songs that truly depend on the strong hook. I think America likes a good comeback story because his Relapse album was scary bad. I also think that everyone on his payroll lives up his ass and the critics have found their way up there too.
Your idea could also look like this:
Hi Robyn. I think you should talk about germs. How do you feel about kids and germs?
Your idea should not look like this:
Hi Robyn. YOU SUCK AND SO DOES YOUR BLOG.
There are 3 ways to enter the contest:
1. You can leave your idea as a comment on this blog entry.
2. You can leave your idea on the Dim Sum and Doughnuts Facebook page (Just click on the Facebook badge on the right of this blog home page, it will take your over there–there are some cute pics and videos there too).
3. You can leave your idea on my Twitter page (you can get there by clicking on the twitter icon on my blog home page). I’m new to Twitter so I don’t have any cute videos.
Prize
Why else play? I will send you a prize for sure! But there’s a catch. I know, I’m sorry. I can only mail within the Continental U.S. I know I have readers from all kinds of really cool countries, and you guys are my favorite because you’re so exotic with your cool accents and stuff but I just can’t mail to you. If you don’t want to play, I understand. If you still choose to play, I’ll make a donation to a charity in your name and I’ll say really good things about you.
How the winner will be chosen
I have a list of topics saved up for the blog. Ideas come to me all the time. I’m looking for something that I haven’t already thought of. I want to know what you guys are thinking about and honestly, I also want to see if I can write about it.
Questions
I know I have a rule that I won’t comment on comments but if you genuinely have a question, leave it on the blog, the FB page or on Twitter. I promise I’ll get back to you.
If you have anything, anything at all, bring it on. Don’t doubt yourself. Look at the crazy stuff I write about. I’ll take anything!
Good luck.
PS. The prize is cute. I got one for me so I decided to get one for you too.
If a guy wins, you’ll get a different prize than the “cute” one. I promise it won’t suck.
~R
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I like the germ idea. I want to know how you feel about germs. I think everyone knows how you feel about eminem. :):) LOL. (oops!)
What do you do if you can't stand your son's best friends mom? I would love to hear how you would handle that.
Hi Robyn!
First off, you most certainly do NOT suck. Second, I don't want to compete…I'm here purely for moral support. Personally, I would love to hear your take on rudeness in society today. Especially rudeness coming from people who email, text or phone their nastiness and don't have the balls to be say their piece face-to-face. What is our society coming to? Do we join in or kill 'em with kindness (with a pinch of sarcasm)? Maybe we just take solace in the fact that the rude people are ugly and fat while we are hotties? ummmm…did I just type that? SO rude!
Hi,I think you should do a blog post on how Alaska is still an important state that is part of our country even if it isn't in the Continental US and no one ever sends us things.
Just kidding.
My real topic is How do you recover from texing the wrong person. Like you thought you were texting your husband that your cramps are killing you and could he pick up some tampons on the way home. Then you get a text back from boss because you forgot she was the last person you texted.
Hi! I want you to do a post on how I can get out of going out with other couples I don't particularly like but just from reading your other entries I think I already know what you would write.
Hi Robyn! I am delurking just for you because you crack me up and are awesome (Do you hear some sucking-up? Naw!)!
My husband and I were junior high youth counselors for 7 years (B.C. – Before Children). During that time, we found ourselves saying things we NEVER thought we would have to say (especially out loud)!!! I guess it was to prepare us for parenthood. Now with a 14 year-old son and a six-going-on-twenty-six year-old daughter, we are still saying astoundingly stupid and extremely strange things. What are some of the things you have found yourself saying that you would NEVER have said B.C.?
Keep Blogging!
Sam @ Just Keep Swimming
How about family traditions that you do and want to keep up every year? And then of course the weird ones that you wish you could just forget about but Aunt Gertrude makes sure the family obliges? I imagine you would have some funny stories on this 🙂
What you think about the notion that you only adopted because you couldn't get pregnant, not because you just wanted to….and all the dumb things people say to go along with it.
Ohhhh, that's a good one but I kind of did a post on that. You should check it out if you have time. It's from Feb: "We Don't Care If You Stare." You might like it. That was a good call though. Thank you. 🙂
How about pre-school kids getting kicked out because they are screaming, due to anxiety. What a horrible injustice it is to them. How they then feel that they can screnm and get out of everything! How poorly some teachers handle things because they are not educated…
i like the one where someone said you should talk about what you do if you don't like your kid's friend's mom. how about if you don't like your kid's friend???
I think you should do a post on those stupid little stick figure stickers that people put on the back of their minivans that represent their family. 1st of all they are ugly, 2nd of all they are WAY overdone. 3rd of all, what do you do if kitty or doggie dies or runs away. Do you take a razor and scrap their sticker-likeness off your car? Or what about when the baby is no longer a baby. Do you scrape off the baby and replace it with a sticker of a child?
Yes, I'm a hater, at least when it comes to stick figure stickers. I also hate precious moments figurines and halmark anything.
So, I like this for a topic, it's been re-posted all over FB this week and well, I think it makes perfectly good sense…
How do you expect kids to listen to their parents? Tarzan lives half naked in the woods, Cinderella comes back home at midnight, Pinocchio lies all the time, Aladdin is the king of thieves, Batman drives at 200 mph, Sleeping beauty is lazy, and Snow white lives with 7 guys.. We shouldn’t be surprised when kids misbehave! They get it from their story books.
Hi Robyn,
Great idea, contest.
So, here's my hot topic du jour–Young Children's Birthday Parties: Why oh Why? Do we really have to submit ourselves to the horror?
Is it worth our children having huge meltdowns an hour after the sugar is ingested? Is it worth my sanity? Is it okay to be the mom who says "um, no thanks" without being perceived as a total party pooper?
OOOOO Hazel, I like that one… I got all kinds of stares when asked what kind of birthday party I was planning for my 2 year old. Uhhh, well, grandmommy came over for dinner, does that count? No party! I am a pooper! I will do the party thing when Abby is old enough to even get what it is.
Ok, I would like to know how you would have handled this situation.
Last saturday, we took our children ( grandchildren) to an egg drop in Hartland. They had sections for different ages: 1-2 , 3-5, 6-8- 9-12. Our children are 16 months, 3 and 7. Our 7 yr old got 2 eggs because he took off running. We had to take our 3 yr old out of the mix before the parents trampled him and our 16 month old didn't even to get play because their was noone to go with him ( not that it would have mattered) because the parents in ALL the groups were picking up the eggs for their children instead of guiding them to them. I wanted to say something to the people in charge but they took off after the 30,000 eggs were dropped. Just curious how you would handle this? I am sending you this Anonymously there was no where to leave my name.
Dear egg drop-
You should covert to Jewdaism. We need some more people on our team and we'd be happy to take you and your family. We hide matzoh and eat eggs. There is a bit of trampling but there is usually at least one doctor at every seder because most of our families have one. If you'd prefer to stick with the egg hunt, I have to say that I would probably avoid that one in the future. That is total chaos, and it's unfair to the kids when the parents are "helping." Here's my advice and you will probably hate it which is why I never comment on the comments, but here it is:
I would host an egg hunt at your house next year and each kid will get a set number of eggs. You can do this by putting their initial on their eggs or doing it by color, something like that. If a kid sees one that is not theirs, it has to be put back for the real owner to find. That way everyone has fun, everyone gets eggs (the same amount), no one gets hurt and everyone is happy. What do you think? Not bad for a Jewish girl, right?
Robyn,
That is a great idea and we do something simalar to that now at home. We difinitely will not be doing the egg drop thing again, I guess I was wondering more how you would handle the situation though I was actually there (which was probably a good thing). I don't take kindly to partents pushing their weight around. Would you call the church or just let it go? I think the way it was handled should be addressed but I sort of need a PC way to do it (which when it comes to my grandkids I am not usually lol).
Would I call the church? You better believe your chocolate bunnies I would. I'll even do it for you! Don't let it go. It's bothering you. Take care of it or it will continue to bother you. If you're worried about not being PC, write down what you want to say so you have direction before you make the call. You can do it. HUGE HIGH 5!!
Back to Suzanne: I'm with you on the stick figure thing, but for a different reason. It's that feeling I get when I see twelve people in that stick line. Somebody, please stop these people from having more "stickers". It's almost like they're bragging. 🙂
I love the mental image of "scraping off the baby". And I worked for a Hallmark store for 4 months right after graduating….shudder.
im really bummed i missed the deadline on this. i wanna know how you feel about summer camps 🙂
especially ones with stubby tailed goldens-friendly cabins!