What is Meme Blogging?

We have our first entry in our win a free phone call from Santa contest. Thank God at least one person has entered other wise I might have had to given it to the General and he doesn't sound too happy with Santa right now due to last year. Hmmm, makes me wonder if the General may have found a little bit of coal in his stocking last year???

Being on the computer almost 24/7 I like to think I am up to date on most of the current fads online. Not this time though after reading NYCO's Blog. She posted a great meme and it has to do with snow questions.

What's a meme? From reading around it appears to be where one blogger will post some questions for their visitors to answer and then other bloggers will post the same questions or answers on their own blog linking to the blog that they first found the questions at. I THINK! Anyways I really like the questions that the nyco came up with on her blog at http://www.twentyfour01.com/nyco/ and I want to play the game also :) So here are the questions from NYCO for you to answer:

1. What’s the winter tool you can’t do without?

2. The winter tool you could do without (i.e., find unnecessary or silly)?

3. Your favorite music to listen to when stuck in the house in a snowstorm?

4. The winter sound you least like to hear?

5. Your driveway shoveling pattern: vertical (up and down)? horizontal (pushing from side to side)? Or any which way?

My answers are;

1. One of the lightest and cheapest plastic snow shovels I have which probably cost less than $5.00 several years back. The kids aren’t allowed to use it. They get the heavier expensive shovels I have :)

2. A snow brush. My coat sleeves and the cheap plastic shovel seem to do a better job.

3. I love all kinds of music but most likely during a snow storm it’s whatever music the weather channel is playing for the weather on the 8’s.

4. Like Sean, the snow plow slamming down the blades and the reverse alarm. Normally about 4:00 am like clockwork.

5. A path from the garage door to the end of the cars and then down the middle and side to side. My real favorite patterns are my kids which means they are in town and I don't have to shovel )

Ellen feel free to chime in if I am playing the game wrong :)

Have a fantastic week all!

Win a Live Phone Call from Santa Claus

Win a FREE phone call from Santa. Yup, The snowman is playing Santa's helper this season. The North Pole called me up yesterday and said Santa needs a break and wants to give a little child a phone call. They offered me a free phone call from the real Santa Claus. I thought I would offer it up here because unfortunately we no longer have any little ones who believe like I do that there really is a Santa Claus. Two little ones on the way though to start off the next generation of snow lovers :)

We will have a random drawing on Tuesday afternoon if more than one person emails. So lets set the deadline to enter at Tuesday, December 11Th at 12:00 PM. It's really that simple. After the drawing all emails will be deleted and we will only contact the winning parent. The winner will receive a free call from Santa to one child which normally costs $21.95. Hey long distance phone calls aren't cheap from the North Pole ya know. The call on average lasts about 3 - 5 minutes and is personalized thanks to the help you give Santa online. You can add extra stuff like a recording of the conversation but your on your own for that at your cost. This offer is just for the call to one child and none of the extras. You can find more information about the calls from Santa Claus at http://www.letters-from-santa.info/ .


If parents, aunts, uncles or grandparents are interested in winning a free phone call from Santa all you have to do is email Santa's Helper at santashelper@goldensnowball.com with your name, city, state and email address that you want us to contact you at. Also please put ENTER SANTA DRAWING in the subject line to make sure I notice it. I receive thousands of emails a day. Remember, This is all just a fun little contest and Good Luck to everyone.


THE RULES!!!

None really other than you must be an adult and a phone call will be made just to verify it.
Must live in the US.
Must love snow! (not really though, I'm kidding of course)
Entry Email must be received by 12:00 pm EST, Tuesday December 11Th. (we will email you back just letting you know that we received your entry).

Disclaimer:

We are not responsible for any emails that do not reach us. As mentioned above we will email you back just letting you know that we received your entry.

The snowman at Golden Snowball IS NOT responsible for anything else as normal and any questions can be mailed to santashelper@goldensnowball.com . This is all in good fun and Good Luck!

Now where was all this stuff when I was growing up. Don't worry we never went without no matter what the circumstances were. To this day and since before I was even born Santa has always like clock work showed up at our house on Christmas eve and even with all the non believers now I'm expecting he will show up this Christmas eve also. You can also order letters from Santa and live phone calls if you would like to at http://www.letters-from-santa.info/

Drive slow and keep an eye on your local weather because there may be a mixture of a little snow and freezing rain on it's way. Enough said and have a great Sunday all!