The EO Birthday and a Give-away!

Do you wanna know what's funny? Back when I did the little "interview" thing for 5 Minutes for Mom, I said I'd been blogging for about a year and a half.

Today I took a look at the date of my first post, and to my surprise, I'm just now coming up on one year of blogging. Yup, in October. Apparently I thought it was much longer than it has been like three months ago when I answered those questions. Time is so freakin' weird to me. I can't for the life of me keep track of it. You'd think it would be pretty simple, what with all the calendars and clocks and stuff around. But I actually don't look at either of those things all that often.

Anyway, I digress. (I wonder how many times I've typed those two words in the last year? I digress. I'd guess about 476 times, but I'm not too good with guessing. See above.)

But I digress.

It seems the thing to do when there's a bloggy anniversary is to give stuff away! And I'm all for following the crowd. At least if it's a good, healthy thing to do (and sometimes not). SO, I think I'll give stuff away! And I'm so excited. Because the truth is that I really do LOVE to give stuff away. Not only at garage sales in the free box, or setting things out on the curb as freebies, or randomly handing someone a half-eaten box of marshmallow Peeps, but I mean gift giving too.

Because I'm so kind and generous. Or maybe it's just selfish. Because if it gives someone a little moment of giddy happiness, then I get a moment of giddy happiness and I like those. So it's really just selfish. I want a moment of giddy happiness!

I know, stop rambling and just say what the give-aways are already, right? Well, I have had much difficulty making a decision, but I've narrowed it down to these things:

If you don't know already, I'm Sara Groves' number one biggest fan ever ever ever. This year, she's releasing her first Christmas album. And I want to give it to one lucky winner (and myself)
I am absolutely positive this album is going to rock the Christmas party. Mark.my.words.

Okay nextly, for the second winner:
I mentioned marshmallow peeps above. If it were Easter I would give some away. Even though no one likes them besides me. I'm sorry to say I had to think of something else since it's not Peep time in the fall.
I'm giving away a copy of Twilight (kidding, you all already have that.)

Okay, okay. I'm going to give away either the movie Sweetland or The Spitfire Grill. I say either because the winner will get to choose which one they would like! What fun. If you aren't familiar, take a look at the links. These are two of my favorite films.

Did you catch on that I'm giving away things I love? That's a selfish reason too. Because I like to try to get people to like what I like.

Now all you have to do is a leave one comment. Easy peasy. I'll do that random drawing thing on October 4th, the big one-year anniversary here at the EO. I'll post two winners that day. I hope you win. And you. And you. And you. I really do love it that I've met you here in the blogosphere, my favorite virtual grown-up playground. (Or if I haven't met you, I hope to sometime and I'm really glad you like my digressing ramblings.)

P.S. If you aren't familiar with how commenting works, you just click on the word 'Comment' at the end of this post. Then you can even click 'anonymous' and just sign your name in your comment so I know who you are if you win. That way you don't have to create a blogger account and all that jazz. Go. Fight. Win.

P.P.S. If I forgot anything or didn't make sense, just feel free to tell me. After all, I've no idea what in the world I'm doing, it's only been a year.