The Great American Blog Dream Come True

Recently, Pauline from Deadlines and Diapers , The Ruff Ruff Reviews, and Berrie Sweet Picks had a contest with a winning prize of a blog make over. The rules were simple, just explain why your blog needed a little bit of plastic surgery. Be creative, Pauline encouraged, this is not a random raffle.

Up until this point, the only thing I have ever won in my entire life was a frozen duck. Yup, I was eighteen years old and I won a frozen duck in a tavern raffle. Now there is a word you don't hear every day, tavern. Nowadays they are called bars. Eek, who uses the word nowadays any more. Cripes, how old am I? Cripes? I just used the word Cripes!

Apparently I had found the right combination of words when I put together my winning explanation of who/what/where/when/how I needed a blog make-over. Read it for yourself:

Dear Pauline: I would like to win/earn/cheat my way to a nip/tuck/make-over for my blog. My writing style is fun/fresh/high-energy and my blogspot template (although I am grateful to have one of those for free) does not radiate the same ambiance as my writing. Wait, there is more! Primping for me, means pimping for you ;) I will shamelessly and publicly provide you with adoration up the wazuu and back out through the ying yang.

Still not enough? Let us go for the pity vote. I, just like my new best friend Pauline, am html illeterate (I even spelled illiterate wrong for added emphasis). If you don't help me, I could end up blogless by accidentally deleting all my html code while trying to load a seemingly harmless counter.

Here's what else I am willing to do! If you want, I will post this contest information on my blog thus decreasing my chance of winning (damn it) but driving up traffic for your competition.

How do you like me now, Pauline?

Love, Candid Carrie

Move over frozen duck because I feel like I just had a visit from Ed McMahon and his Prize Patrol!

Shauna, from See My Designs By Shauna and Blah Blah Blog has been working non-stop to accommodate my every whim and I am absolutely giddy with delight. When I saw the preliminary draft, I was barely able to live within my own skin. During the second draft I literally proposed to her and asked her if we could make BlogBabies and live happily ever after. The final result is what you see here today and I am so full of joy that I could start my own Glee Club.

I always thought blog upgrades were for Other People. The Savvy Sophisticated Other People. I never imagined myself living outside of my original blogger template. I was grateful and content, but now I am living the Great American Blog Dream Come True. Me, gas passing, vomit spewing, hearing impaired, crappy cooking me.

I was incredibly impressed with Shauna and her amazing ability to take my thoughts via e-mail and have them magically come alive on my blog. I had absolutely no idea how to speak Super Computer yet she patiently allowed me to babble away while she translated it to Super Computer Code.

I am now ready to help you live The Great American Blog Dream Come True right along with me. I would like to give each of you the opportunity to win a make over. There is nothing that can compare to this high I am riding. I don't care how much weight you've got left to lose, or how much of your roots need to be touched up, or how far behind you are in your waxing, shaving, or plucking because nothing says I Look Good Right Now This Minute Of Today like living The Great American Blog Dream Come True.

First of all, I have never asked you to do very much for me. Alright, there was this one time I entered a contest and asked you all to vote for me, blah blah blah. However, this is probably the last time I am going to ask for something selfish this month.

Please leave a comment for me and tell you how much you like my new blog design. Even if you have never left a comment before, this would be the time to leave it. Don't be shy because I am having the best time of my life right now and when you leave a comment for me, it is like I have a Polaroid Picture of you sharing that moment with me so I can haul it out and look at it whenever my heart desires.

Second, if you would like to have an opportunity to live The Great American Blog Dream Come True right along with me, send an e-mail to me at carriestuckmann@gmail.com and tell me the real reason you want/deserve/need a blog make over. Be candid, be yourself, be honest. I will personally choose the winner, it will not be random.

Sorry, my money ... my game ... my rules.

Also, my thanks.

Thanks to Pauline for this incredible opportunity.

Thanks to Shauna for being so patient.

Thanks to Johnina of Barbies, Bottles, and Boys ... you were the first Big Kahuna to lend me a helping hand.

Thanks to T of Outnumbered 2 to 1, without you I would have never had the courage to go public with my writing. I know I've been a real pain in the ass (somedays, but certainly not every single day), and if you wouldn't have shoved me out of the nest I wouldn't be flying this high today.

And thanks to all of my readers. Yesterday, today and tomorrow ... Without a doubt, I Less Than Three all of you.

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