What is Stone Saturday?

Well, it’s a day when you roll with the stones and rock on!

Rules are simple. Just post a picture of stones, rocks, whatever. Has to be on a Saturday, thus “Stone Saturday.” Then, tag some of your blogging friends!

I tag:

Deborah
Michelle (let’s see some vintage stones)
Pete
Speedcat
Zelda a.k.a. JD (she’ll take pictures of stones so you won’t have to, unless you’ve been tagged too)

I’m pulling double-duty in this post, because, not only is this retro material, but also this is Weird Thing About Me #4. (Which, oddly, relates to Weird Things About Me #3, an old tag from Nina a.k.a. SF Girl).

Many moons ago, back in the tenth grade, for one semester, I wore something orange every day. Seriously. I had an orange jacket, orange shirts and orange socks. I had an orange Coca-Cola shirt I liked too. So, my mom bought me this orange material so I could sew myself something out of it.

I never did come up with an idea for what to make out of it. I still have it.

I still have my jean jacket (with leather collar) too, which is like the coolest thing evah, but I digress…

Deborah of Debo Hobo dot Com has lost her muse.

Missing since December 12th. Possibly earlier.

If you can help, please pay her a visit and let her know where you found her muse.

No reward offered, apparently. Sorry.

Last week, I began my “Drawing on Thankfulness” drawing which ended Sunday night. The final prize ended up being $29.99.

This post is the drawing post.

First, let’s again give some link-luv to the players:

• Awake in Rochester (6 entries)
• Deborah (8 entries)
• Jesse Luna (3 entries)
• Miragi (25 entries)
• Renée aka Mekhismom (17 entries)
• Teeni (30 entries)

That’s 89 entries all together. So, I am going to do this by a reverse drawing. The last name drawn will be the winner. I have written all the entries on little pieces of paper and put them in my hat and shaken it up. Let’s go…

89. Renée; 88. Miragi; 87. Awake in Rochester; 86. Renée; 85. Renée; 84. Teeni; 83. Miragi; 82. Teeni; 81. Teeni; 80. Awake in Rochester

79. Teeni; 78. Renée; 77. Renée; 76. Miragi; 75. Miragi; 74. Miragi; 73. Renée; 72. Teeni; 71. Renée; 70. Miragi

69. Miragi; 68. Deborah; 67. Miragi; 66. Jesse Luna; 65. Teeni; 64. Miragi; 63. Miragi; 62. Teeni; 61. Miragi; 60. Deborah

59. Miragi; 58. Teeni; 57. Deborah; 56. Miragi; 55. Renée; 54. Teeni; 53. Teeni; 52. Jesse Luna; 51. Renée; 50. Renée

49. Teeni; 48. Awake in Rochester; 47. Miragi; 46. Renée; 45. Jesse Luna; 44. Miragi; 43. Awake in Rochester; 42. Teeni; 41. Teeni; 40. Teeni

39. Teeni; 38. Teeni; 37. Miragi; 36. Teeni; 35. Renée; 34. Teeni; 33. Teeni; 32. Renée; 31. Deborah; 30. Teeni

29. Teeni; 28. Deborah; 27. Awake in Rochester; 26. Deborah; 25. Teeni; 24. Miragi; 23. Miragi; 22. Miragi; 21. Miragi; 20. Renée

19. Miragi; 18. Teeni; 17. Teeni; 16. Deborah; 15. Miragi; 14. Teeni; 13. Miragi; 12. Deborah; 11. Teeni; 10. Renée

9. Teeni; 8. Teeni; 7. Awake in Rochester; 6. Miragi; 5. Teeni; 4. Renée; 3. Teeni; 2. Renée

And the winner is…

…drumroll please…

The winner is…

Miragi!

Congratulations, Miragi. Please let me know your PayPal address (or confirm if it is the address you use when posting comments here) so I can get your prize sent to you.

Thanks to everyone for playing!

Last week, I began my “Drawing on Thankfulness” drawing which ended Sunday night. The final prize ended up being $29.99.

The drawing sent players on a scavenger hunt throughout the blogosphere. The idea was inspired by blog scavenger hunt that Erina used to do many moons ago.

First, let’s give some link-luv to the players:

• Awake in Rochester
• Deborah
• Jesse Luna
• Miragi
• Renée aka Mekhismom
• Teeni

First Round of Questions

1. What did Pete crop out of his wild blue yonder image?
   Pete cropped out the parking lot. I also accepted “everything but the sky and moon.” Teeni, Miragi, Jesse Luna and Renée answered this one correctly.
2. What does Robert Hruzek hate that he first got in 2001?
   Robert hated his cell phone. Teeni, Miragi and Renée answered this one correctly.
3. What are Michael Kwan’s two newspapers of choice? (You correctly identify both.)
   Michael reads Metro and 24 Hours. Teeni and Miragi answered this one correctly. (Remember, you had to identify both, not just one. Sorry!)
4. What 11th century Indian yogi did Sasha Kane write about?
   Sasha wrote about Naropa. Teeni, Miragi, Jesse Luna and Renée answered this one correctly.
5. What type of societies did Miragi begin reading about earlier this month?
   Miragi started reading about secret societies. Teeni, Miragi, Jesse Luna and Renée answered this one correctly.

At the end of the first batch, Teeni has 10 entries (5 correct + bonus 5), Miragi has 10 entries (5 correct + 5 bonus), Jesse Luna has 3 entries and Renée has 4 entries.

Second Round of Questions

1. You can get a shoutout from Ed Lau if you send a donation where?
   Ed wanted you to donate to the Union Gospel Mission (UGM). Teeni, Miragi and Renée answered this one correctly.
2. What is Deborah’s brother’s name?
   Deborah’s brother’s name is Dan (or Daniel). Deborah, Teeni, Miragi, AiR and Renée answered this one correctly.
3. What kind of vegetable did Jaffer immortalize in verse?
   Jaffer immortalized sugar snap peas. Deborah, Teeni, Miragi, AiR and Renée answered this one correctly.
4. What is the item on StampAndInk.com that comes from the “North Pole”?
   The North Pole Wooden Nickel. Deborah, Teeni, Miragi, AiR and Renée answered this one correctly.
5. According to Beyond the Rhetoric, your exercise routine at the gym can be called this but not this. (Identify both words, in order.)
   Your exercise routine is a regimen, not a regime. Teeni and Miragi answered this one correctly.

From the second batch, Teeni has 10 entries (5 correct + bonus 5), Miragi has 10 entries (5 correct + 5 bonus), Renee has 4 entries, Deborah has 3 entries and AiR has 3 entries.

Third Round of Questions

1. Where did Teeni guest post last week?
   Teeni posted at Writer Chick Annie’s Place. AiR, Teeni and Renée answered this one correctly.
2. Nina talked about what fictional scientist and inventor using equipment held together with duct tape?
   Nina talked about Kirill. Teeni and Renée answered this one correctly.
3. Who was the blonde in Speedcat’s mystery photo?
   The blonde was Marilyn Monroe. (This was the hardest question–the answer is buried deep in the comments!) Teeni and AiR answered this one correctly.
4. What is the name of Erina’s new blog?
   Erina’s new blog is Discarded Matches. I also accepted Gas Oven Photography. Teeni and Renée answered this one correctly.
5. In what city did Mr. Baconpants recently try three different beers?
   Mr. Baconpants tried three different beers in Seattle. Teeni, AiR and Renée answered this one correctly.

From the third batch, Teeni has 10 entries (5 correct + bonus 5), Renée has 4 entries and AiR has 3 entries.

Miragi, Deborah and Renée stumbled the post for an additional 5 entries each. No one blogged about it, so no entries there. So, we have for total entries, the following:

• Teeni: 30 entries
• Miragi: 25 entries
• Renée: 17 entries
• Deborah: 8 entries
• AiR: 6 entries
• Jesse Luna: 3 entries

I’m not going to have the drawing just yet. I will leave this open for 24 hours to give everyone the opportunity to check my math or contest any answers.

The other day, I announced my “Drawing on Thankfulness” drawing. As of right now, the potential prize is $29.16.

Onward to today’s questions. Remember, as detailed in the original post, each correct answer in today’s batch gets you one (1) entry in the drawing. If you get all the answers correct, you get an extra five (5) entries.

1. Where did Teeni guest post last week?
2. Nina talked about what fictional scientist and inventor using equipment held together with duct tape?
3. Who was the blonde in Speedcat’s mystery photo?
4. What is the name of Erina’s new blog?
5. In what city did Mr. Baconpants recently try three different beers?

Don’t forget to eMail me your answers! Please send your answers to askdcr@dcrblogs.com.

POINT OF CLARIFICATION: You can answer questions from any or all of the days. So, if you miss a day, you can still answer the questions and get your entries. Sorry if that wasn’t clear!

Yesterday, I announced my little “Drawing on Thankfulness” drawing. Right now, based on my current number of Twitter followers, that potential prize is now up to $28.38.

I’ve only had a smattering of entries so far from yesterday, so I’m assuming most of my readers are out shopping and not blog scavenging. But, the contest continues on… Before I get to today’s questions, here are two more opportunities for you to score some additional entries.

1. Blog about this drawing in your own blog. Please link to yesterday’s post, “Drawing on Thankfulness,” and leave a comment on this post (the one you are currently reading) with your link so I can be sure to give you proper credit for your link. This will get you 5 (five) entries in the drawing.
2. Stumble yesterday’s post, “Drawing on Thankfulness.” Then leave a comment on this post (the one you are currently reading) to let me know so that I don’t miss you. This will get you 5 (five) entries in the drawing.

And, yes, you can do both of those and get yourself 10 (ten) entries.

And to answer a question that has come up, yes, you are allowed to enter even if your blog is one of those that get used for a question. Just be sure to answer the question correctly. So, onward to today’s questions. Remember, as detailed in yesterday’s post, each correct answer in today’s batch gets you one (1) entry in the drawing. If you get all the answers correct, you get an extra five (5) entries.

1. You can get a shoutout from Ed Lau if you send a donation where?
2. What is Deborah’s brother’s name?
3. What kind of vegetable did Jaffer immortalize in verse?
4. What is the item on StampAndInk.com that comes from the “North Pole”?
5. According to Beyond the Rhetoric, your exercise routine at the gym can be called this but not this. (Identify both words, in order.)

Don’t forget to eMail me your answers! Please send your answers to askdcr@dcrblogs.com.

On this Thanksgiving Day, I’d like to express my gratitude to all my blog readers and all my Twitter followers! Thank you for making it so that I’m just not talking to myself all the time. Because that would be worrisome.

Anyway, what better way to thank you all than by spreading the love a little bit and having a drawing to boot?

So, I am going to have a drawing where you can win the amount of pennies equal to the number of my Twitter followers. At the moment, I have 2,804 followers on Twitter. So, that would mean you could win 2,804 pennies, which is $28.04. (Prize will be paid by PayPal, so if you want actual pennies, you’ll have to go to your bank and ask them for the pennies.)

The final value will be based on the number of followers that I have on Twitter at the end of this month. So, when the clock strikes midnight (my local time, EST) and the calendar turns to December 1st, the number of followers I have at that time will determine the prize. The minimum prize will be $10.00, so even if I lose a bunch of followers (perish the thought!), there will be a minimum of a $10.00 prize. The maximum prize will be $50.00. The odds of me getting 5000 followers in the next few days is probably pretty slim, but I feel I ought to have some protection lest I somehow end up with 100,000 followers or something. So, minimum prize of $10 and maximum prize of $50. Got it?

And, if you’re not following me on Twitter, you might want to start right now to increase that prize money. You can follow me at dcrTweets.com.

So, now you’re wondering how you enter. It’s pretty easy. Below, you will find a list of questions. The answers can be found at the linked blogs. You visit the blogs, find the answers and come back here and leave your answers in the comments eMail me your answers. Each correct answer gets you one (1) entry in the drawing. If you get all the answers correct, you get an extra five (5) entries.

For example, if you answer four of the five questions correctly, you get four (4) entries. If you answer all five questions correctly, you get ten (10) entries. Make sense?

Throughout the Thanksgiving weekend, I will have additional sets of questions, so be sure to keep checking in so that you can get more entries. All this comes to an end Sunday night. I will draw a winner next week.

Void where prohibited. You must be able to accept a PayPal payment. So, if you’re in a country not served by PayPal, sorry. Any applicable taxes are the responsibility of the winner. And, I reserve the right to retroactively apply any legal stuff I should have included but didn’t know I should have.

Okay, with all that out of the way, here are today’s questions:

1. What did Pete crop out of his wild blue yonder image?
2. What does Robert Hruzek hate that he first got in 2001?
3. What are Michael Kwan’s two newspapers of choice? (You correctly identify both.)
4. What 11th century Indian yogi did Sasha Kane write about?
5. What type of societies did Miragi begin reading about earlier this month?

So, there are your questions. Get out there and start hunting down the answers! Don’t forget to come back here and leave the answers in a comment to this post eMail me your answers! Please send your answers to askdcr@dcrblogs.com.

You may remember a while ago that Teeni declared war on my avatar. Here is the list of her little army of thugs that did horrible, horrible things to my avatar:

• Note to Self
• Other Mac
• The Bead Den
• Birdpress
• Two Lazy Dogs
• MacBros Place
• Brit and Grit

Well, since my own band of minions went cowering under rocks and pebbles and all sorts of dark hiding places, I guess I was on my own.

So, I made this little guy as a special “gift” for all of Teeni’s evil minions:

So, last week, Teeni tagged me with this Tearjerker Song Meme, where you’re supposed to show a song that is meaningful to you in someway, and it doesn’t necessarily have to make you cry.

Which is a good thing, actually, because men don’t cry. Oh, sure our eyes water from time to time, but that is just the body’s way of flushing out the tear ducts to keep them lubricated and running smoothly.

Since this is somewhat one of those “make money online” blogs, my first instinct was, naturally, this song (1).

Or, maybe I could go more personal and mention this song (2), which I think I knew word for word at one time. Then, we can quickly go back to something related to money making with this song (3).

I used to know all the words to this song (4) too.

Then there was this song (5) which was on the first album I ever bought.

There was also this song (6), which reminds me of times I spent writing at the computer, listening to the radio. This song (7) also reminds me of that.

Oh, and speaking of the big time (a line from the previously mentioned song), there was of course this song (8).

There was this song (9) that reminds me of summer mornings going to computer classes.

I remember this song (10) from the first school dance I attended. And this song (11) I think was from a football game or something. One of my friends thought the lyric was “It moose’d have been something I said.”

This song (12) reminds me of early mornings waiting for the bus.

I’ve always liked this song (13) too.

I remember this song (14) from our second high school assembly.

Can we mention theme songs? Because I like this song (15). Well, of course I can mention it. I don’t care if it’s in the rules or not because I don’t care about the rules!

Then later there was this song (16), this song (17), this song (18), this song (19), this song (20), this song (21), this song (22), this song (23), this song (24), this song (25), this song (26), this song (27) and this song (28). I know what you’re thinking, but I just liked the songs. That’s all. Nothing more. Move along now.

I remember this song (29) from a pizza party at my house in high school. Only two girls showed up. None of my guy friends. I think we watched Doctor Who, but I know we listened to this song (30). I did my own mix of it too.

This song (31) was always good. Some kids in school complained they could have written that. But, they didn’t, did they?

In high school, we had to choose a song and analyze what the lyrics meant. I chose this song (32) and got an A. Of course, I had some help in that I had a couple of her books, one of which explained what the song was about.

Then there is this song (33) that our high school valedictorian ripped apart, and then went on to make the same point the song did. Evidently, he didn’t listen to the song.

I liked this song (34) too.

Of course, this song (35) is worth another listen. But, I think this song (36) may be my all-time favorite.

Okay, so who shall I tag? Here is who I tag: Deborah, Doug, Pete and Lewis.

And, just in case any of those songs get pulled (I did try to use authentic sources where available, but such were sparse), here’s the list:

(1) “Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)” - The Pet Shop Boys
(2) “Head Over Heels” - Tears for Fears
(3) “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” - Tears for Fears
(4) “Glory of Love” - Peter Cetera
(5) “Only in My Dreams” - Debbie Gibson
(6) “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” - U2
(7) “Don’t Mean Nothing” - Richard Marx
(8) “Big Time” - Peter Gabriel
(9) “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You” - Michael Jackson
(10) “Bad Boy” - Miami Sound Machine
(11) “(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight” - Cutting Crew
(12) “The Captain of Her Heart” - Double
(13) “Man in the Mirror” - Michael Jackson
(14) “Land of Confusion” - Genesis
(15) Doctor Who theme song, 1988
(16) “Lost in Your Eyes” - Debbie Gibson
(17) “Never Tear Us Apart” - INXS
(18) “Get Out of My Dreams” - Billy Ocean
(19) “Heart of Mine” - Boz Scaggs
(20) “Blue Moon” - Elvis Presley
(21) “Don’t Be Cruel” - Cheap Trick
(22) “Can’t Help Falling in Love” - UB40
(23) “Things We Said Today” - The Beatles
(24) “Eternal Flame” - The Bangles
(25) “Don’t Know What You Got (Till It’s Gone)” - Cinderella
(26) “Time and Tide” - Basia
(27) “Shattered Dreams” - Johnny Hates Jazz
(28) “Don’t Shed a Tear” - Paul Carrack
(29) “Kissing a Fool” - George Michael
(30) “Doctorin’ the TARDIS” - The Time Lords featuring Ford Timelord
(31) “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” - Bobby McFerrin
(32) “Electric Youth” - Debbie Gibson
(33) “I Wanna Be Rich” - Calloway
(34) “Vogue” - Madonna
(35) “Man in the Mirror” - Michael Jackson
(36) “What a Wonderful World” - Louis B. Armstrong