Giveaway!

Hi everyone! Firstly, in housekeeping (because if I had an internet house this would totally be it, and it would look like this:

mixed with this:

and a little bit of this:


and I would be forever yelling at you all to get off my lawn.

Also, while I was doing "house research" on Google Images I found this:

Does anyone else find that mildly disturbing? I mean, it's not Vegas. Having an extra helping of pudding and not telling Daddy isn't on the same level as getting drunk off a hooker's ass, or something. (I have never been to Vegas.))*

Anyway! Moving on. In housekeeping. I am attempting National Novel Writing Month because apparently I have nowhere near enough to keep me busy, even though my next free evening is 7 days away and I am pretty much running on adrenaline but NaNo must be done because otherwise Vampire Hospital will never be written, and the loss to the literary world would simply be too great to bear. As a result, posts may be sporadicer than usual. (You can tell I'm a serious writer because I use words like 'sporadicer.' Vampire Hospital is going to be full of writorious words like that.)

In other news - Michael Hill are running a competition for couples to win the Ultimate Engagement Ring, and as part of their promo they did two things of which I am aware: hired Kim Kardashian as the face of the competition, and also sent me a copy of the ring, to tell you guys all about it. They may have done other things as well, but I'm not sure. Clearly, once you have Kim and I on board, you've just about done all you can. We are an unstoppable, sexy publicity machine, as seen below:

(I am the half of the machine that is wearing a onesie.)

Thank you to the nice marketing people at Michael Hill who were so kind as to send it to me in the first place, have been trotting around work playing 'engaged' for the last couple of days. Everyone is tired of 'engaged' except me.

ANYWAY, enough about that! After some thought I have decided to run a giveaway for the ring! Partially because I don't really wear rings, and also partially because then I feel better about totally selling out for shiny things. Dear Everyone: my love can be bought. Can yours? (What happens at Grandma's stays at Grandma's.)

Here is the Winnable Ring, being modeled by me:

and again:


Man, I always forget that I have weird-looking wrists. The ring is nice though, and pleasingly ostentatious - if you think it would look good on your finger, or the finger of your intended, you should enter to win it.

To enter the draw, which may or may not be a video draw depending on how busy I am and how my hair is looking, leave a comment saying so! Doesn't matter where you live, ring = small and not expensive to post. (It also doesn't matter if you're a regular reader/commenter, or have never been here before in your life.) And I will draw it in um a week. Yes! This time next week. (If you're shy, flick me an email.) You can comment about other random things if you like. I can't control your comments. Get off my lawn!

I am so tired. It is Vampire Hospital time. BLOOD TRANSFUSION, STAT!


*this bracket is from right up the top. I know it doesn't make much sense there, but I couldn't really find anywhere appropriate to close it and wouldn't have slept well if I just left it open.