Day 285: The Agony of De'sweet

Today I won a $100 Visa Gift Card in the Somebody's Mother's Chocolate Sauce Contest for my Pumpkin Chocolate Filled Donut Holes

Which brings my 2011 total earnings to:  $12,438.10

I was one of the 6 runners up (barf), so I didn't win the trip to San Diego or the chance to stay at a haunted hotel.  In moments like these it helps me to keep my serenity knowing that it just wasn't supposed to be....slash envisioning that that hotel is totes going up in flames and my life has been spared.  Kiddiiiiing (kinda)
That's just my little Halloween Carrie telekenetic moment popping out.

And we're breathing throuuuuugh the resentmiiiiiint.  Gooooood.  Aaaaaaaaaaaaand we're back. 

I was beat out by some pretty 'sweet' competition.

The winner made apple pie coffins.

Another runner up did a "Stack-O-Lantern"Crepe moment (totes beyond way cute)

Someone else made Pumpkin Ice Cream Sandwiches...yumsville.

For mine, and all the other recipes, you can check out their website:
http://www.somebodysmothers.com/halloweenwinners

Anyway.....Happy Halloweenskeeeees!

Aaaaaaaand we're gunna breathe the burning hotel fantasy out one more tiiiiiiiiiiime.....

There ya go.....

Since I won't be traveling across the country, I figured I'd enter a contest today to win a Vespa to explore NYC.

Today's Contest: Mapquest Love your neighborhood Sweepstakes
Prize:  A Vespa
How to enter:
http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=3&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=1&zu=http%3A//sweeps.mapquest.com/

Day 284: Nightmares

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:  Six Flags Fright Fest Sweepstakes

Prize:  Xbox 360 with Kinect and the Game RISE OF THE NIGHTMARES

How to enter:

http://www.sixflags.com/national/footernav/RiseOfNightmaresSweeps.aspx

Nightmares.

Nightmares.

Night.  

Mares.

I was reeeeeeeally into this Latina last night I saw dressed up as Freddy Krueger.  She was like..."Dohn evun laugh, oh go a'sleep...I'm gunna come fine you in yo dreeeeeemz".
That's a nightmare.
Or amaziiiiiiing!!!!

Sometimes nightmares are the ones that actually happen in my sleep.  Like the one where I'm supposed to go on stage for some show I've never rehearsed and it's opening night.  Balls!!

Other times nightmares are in real life, like the lines at Starbucks.

Or people on their cel phones on the subway.

I think my biggest nightmares are those of a future of unrealized dreams and bad life decisions. To me this looks like being single in a gay retirement village, somewhere in Arizona,  performing in a drag show, and doing a relyriced version of Gaga's "Born this Way"...
(Sung)  Baby I Eat Corn This Wayyyyy....

Day 283: Haunted Houses

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:  General Growth Mgmt: Haunted House of Savings Sweeps
Prize:  A $1,000 Mall gift card
How to enter:
http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=40&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//ggp.promo.eprize.com/hauntedhouseofsavings/

The first haunted house I ever went to was the Disneyland one.  That one where the pictures on the walls morph into horrible images and at the end a ghost is sitting next to you.  Even as a kid, I was like, 'This is maayyyyjerrrrrrrr!"

Tonight I'm off to a Steampunk haunted house.

Steampunk is a motif filled with Victorian Age garments....

a little old school technology...

LOTS of goggles and monocles...

and lots of lonely bachelors sci-fy guys

Day 282: Tricks and Treats

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:  HGTV's Frontdoor.com Trick or Treat Sweepstakes
Prize:  3 grand
How to Enter:  http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=8&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.frontdoor.com/Buy/Enter-Trick-Or-Treat-Sweepstakes/55968

Tricks are everywhere during Halloween....

Day 281: Alcatraz

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:   FEARnet: San FEARsisco Sweeps
Prize:  A trip to SF complete with a tour of Alcatraz

As I looked at Alcatraz online, I was less scared and more inspired.  I have friends with apartments in NYC about the same size as those cells.  Give a homosexual 200 square feet and Look the Fuck Ouuuuuuuuut!
Trust and believe, just a matter of time before they have
"Extreme Makeover:  Prison Edition".

Day 280: Wonkaween

2011 Total Earnings:  12,338.10

Today's Contest:  Nestle Wonkaween Sweepstakes

Prize:  Trip to LA for Halloween, and sum cash

How to enter:

https://www.facebook.com/wonka?sk=app_227979467252465

I need to figure out what I am going to be for Halloweeeeeeeeeeeen!

This contest made me consider going the Willy Wonka route.   Maybe I could dress up as one of those characters....but which?  I find Halloween to be a time where we dress up as that which is either most us, or most opposite us.  On that note, choosing to dress up as a spoiled little rich girl in a pretty red dress who won't be satisfied until she possesses everything in the world would be...my opposite...yeaaaaah...myyyyyy opposite.

Day 279: Crossing the Streams

2011 Total Earnings:  12,338.10

Today's Contest:  MGM Ghostbusters Slot Machine Giveaway

Prize: A trip To Vegas to celebrate the new Ghostbuster Slot (gross word) Machines

How to Enter:  

http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=10&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//mgm.promo.eprize.com/ghostbuster/

More Halloween contest shenanigans.

I forgot how much I love Ghostbusters.   

Of course there are things I totally couldn't forget, like the characters....

The Gate Keeper

The Key Master

And the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man

But while poking around la'entrenet, there were things that I totally DID forget!

...like Annie Potts

 

....the ghost lady in the library

...and the black guy!

There were the amazing scenes too, particularly at the end with Gozer...

....who, incidentally looks like if Victoria the Jellicle cat had baby with 

my performance artist friend Jack Ferver.  

This is what happens when you cross the streams

                             

Day 278: Halloweek

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's contest:  FEARnet Halloween Sweepstakes
Prize:  A basket full of ruul scurry stuff (including a skull candle, sum horror DVDs, and the clap...just kiddding...about the DVDs.....muh hahahahaha)
How to Enter:  http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=7&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.fearnet.com/holiday_sweepstakes/index.html

Fearnet.com's got a bunch of Halloween movies and pics to download, totes in time for Halloweenski.  I'm writing and simultaneously streaming a flick called "Idle Hands" as we speak...OMG....the wife just found blood on the floooorrr!!!!! (high b flat)  I'm totes like a third grade girl when I watch horror movies. 

 Ok, now the wife just got sucked under the bed and then eaten.  EEEEEEEEE!!!!!
 Gross but at least Atkins friendly.

I think I'm going to enter Halloween contests all week while watching scary flicks to get in a deadly kinda mood.
Sum of my horror movie faves....

Rosemary's Baby
Don't put it past me...I would totally have the Devil's baby to get an apartment at the Dakota...and for the prominent cheek bones the pregnancy provides.

The Lost Boys
The Hair, the Horror, The Haim (RIP)

Planet Terror
Robert Rodriguez makes a camptastic zombie horror flick that gives new meaning to chemical peels.

Day 277: Wasting a Sunday...the Musical!

2011 Total Earnings:  12,338.10

Today's Contest:  Fandango: Bring it On! The Musical! Sweepstakes (exclamation point)
Prize:  A trip for 2 out to LA to see the opening of this musical I'm sure I'd flip for (bum dum bump)
How to enter: 
http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=4&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=1&zu=https%3A//www.fandango.com/sweepstakes/bringitonthemusical

I got sucked in. I didn't want to but I did.  At first I scoffed at the singing cheerleader concept and was like "Gawwww, another movie turned into another The Musical!"  But then I watched the trailer.  High energy power ballads, cute boys, bitchy girl rivalries and basket tosses.  It's like gay crack.  Like when I watch ESPN at 2 am (the only time I ever watch it) to see the cheer championships..BUT. SET. TO. SHOWTUNES.  I'm powerless. So I went to the website and the facebook page and a bazillion other pages and so on and so on and down the rabbit hole I tumbled.
How could I not?
I was finally able to dismount from my ever downward spiral, but fortunately stumbled on this brilliant performance before I did.
If the producers of said musical know what they're doing, they will put this lady in their show, STAT.

Day 276: Curve Balls

2011 Total Earnings:  12,338.10

Today's Contest:  MLB Fall is best trivia sweepstakes
Prize: 10 grand
How to enter:  Answer a bernch ah kershtins in under 2 minutes all about baseball
(shocker...this was a tough one for me)
http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=2&f=22&tt=11&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//mlb.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/trivia/index.jsp

I was going to make some sassy remarks on curve balls, and wanted some supportive imagery.  So I googled 'gay baseball' This popped up...
WHUT?  Amayyyyyyyyyzzzzz!!!

Day 275: That's Dirty

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:  Listerine Think You Know Clean Trivia Contest
Prize:  1,000 bucks and a 500 dahlah gift card from Walmart
How to Enter:  Answer a series of questions about which thing you think is cleaner
http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=3&f=22&tt=11&bt=1&bts=1&zu=https%3A//listerine.promo.eprize.com/hub/

Day 274:Where's the Beef! (honestly, cuz I've been eating carbs for a week now)

2011 Total Earnings:  12,338.10

Today's Contest:  Wendy's T-Shirt Random Drawing
Prize:  A vintage Wendy's tshirt
How to enter:  Play some (actually super fun) games online
https://apps.facebook.com/wendysheresthebeef/

I actually had a blast entering this contest.  You get to play online games where you whack-a-ingredient (like whack a mole), skeet shoot frozen burger patties in the tundra, and play Wendy Says (Simon Says, but with said red head).

This is not one of the actual shirts that you can win, but I am LIVIIIIIIIING for all of it.  I'll join a pre teen girl's soccer team if I need to in order to get it....slash you better believe she is going to fringe some shirts next summer.  Wendy betta werk, and actually be careful, cuz she's about to get hit in the head.

Day 273: Still Carbo Loading Slash Where's the Race She's Running?

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:  New World Pasta: It Pays to Eat Pasta Sweepstakes
Prize:  Groceries for a year
How to Enter:  http://contests.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=2&f=22&tt=11&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.itpaystoeatpasta.com/sweeps/

This is my second day in a row of entering a contest specifically targeted to winning carbs.
And such is my carb whore life.   During the day I eat yogurt and coffee and am the picture of manorexia, but when the sun goes down, I turn into Precious (the black girl, not the Gollum ring) and put away a endless conveyer belt of refined sugar whateverness.

If she is what she eats,  than she is totes Jabba The Glut

Day 272: Carbo Loading

2011 Total Earnings:  $12,338.10

Today's Contest:  Roman Meal 30 Days of Whole Grain Sweepstakes

Prize:  A grand and a basket full of bread

How to enter: 

http://www.facebook.com/RomanMeal?sk=app_28134323652

This is a carby carb carb contest.  I have been eating them (carbs) again...and am looooooving iiiiiit (high a flat there).  Gimme some rice with that Thai Basil.  I say Yes yes yes to a bun on a burger!                And a chocolate croisssant... I meeeeeeean, Prehhhhhciousssssssss......

I wore a fitted shirt tonight...which was even more fitted because of the little rock n'roll that's formed around my belly.  I actually pulled up my pants a little under said fitted shirt to flatten her out.  It was like man spanx.  Manx.  In my mind it totally worked, and didn't leave a red imprint around my belly button at all.