Don't forget to post!

I'll be doing the drawing for the winner of 365 Ways to Live Cheap! in a little while. That is, after I decide whether I'll use it as one more way to put off cleaning the front room (the floor is positively gritty, hairballs keep drifting by, and the sad part about that last one is we don't have pets), or if --

GRRRRR.

Sorry. My son just came in and without saying "Excuse me," asked, "Mom, is your cell phone charged?"

WOW, do I hate that kind of question. It really punts me into Instant Sarcasm Mode. "WHY? Are you taking some kind of survey? Is this one of those weird homeschooling projects I'm always hearing about? For the love of Pete, TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!"

Apparently we just had a brown out and he wanted to make sure that we had charged cell phones. Fine. Good. He's an excellent citizen. But next time, please put the statement and the question in reverse order, okay? I REALLY don't want to have to wonder just exactly what kind of question I'm answering here.

Sheesh. What next? "Hey, mom -- do we have canned food and bottled water?"

Anyway. I'll be doing the next drawing at some point today, assuming I haven't completely lost my mind (or had it stolen).

But don't forget to post a comment at the appropriate blog posting if you want in on the action. I was over at Facebook yesterday, updating the magazine's page, and I made a rare stopover at my own personal page. And I saw some absolutely lovely and wonderful comments about the magazine about the giveaways, and the fact that SHM needs articles. And since I'm an idiot (look, you've seen for yourself that what's left of my mind keeps getting chipped away), I can't remember who it was. But I don't think I saw her post here.

I'm a dork. A low-tech dork, I might add. When it's time to do the drawings, I go to my email and write down all the people who posted comments, in chronological order. If someone got bonus points, I write them down twice (or three times, in this case). And I make this list a nice numbered list, because I want to give all my stuff to all the people who want it and this is the only to keep me honest when I go over to random.org.

Between the hairball floor and Random Question Lad and desperately trying to pull yet another issue of the magazine together, there is no way I'll remember to write someone down for a drawing if I don't see them right in front of me. So please post! And maybe win! And thank you so much for playing!