12 Days of Blogmas: Day Seven (the 2010 edition)

Whoa!

It's snowy/slushy/slippery as a bastid out there.

A few hours ago, I went out to buy champagne and pick up some movies at the library. It seems that everyone else in town had the same brilliant idea; stay home and celebrate with good food and your favorite people in the whole world. The library DVD shelves were picked clean, and so was the champagne display at the local liquor store. But I perservered.

Tonight, the Buxoms will be eating spaghetti carbonara and watching movies. Various Buster Keaton shorts; Help; Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, and The Breakfast Club.

At some point the young people with active metabolic rates will break out the ice cream cake with sundae toppings. The older, more sluggish members of the family will start drinking champagne.

Happy New Years to you and yours, and if you do go out, drive carefully. Seriously. My nephew got a concussion in a car accident on Christmas night.

Now, ready to win a Mamarazzi t-shirt? Figure out what popular Christmas song is depicted in the following pictures (all CDs or MP3s available from Amazon.)

The 12 Days of Blogmas: Day six

My daughter is very busy. She's up in her room, spending the $100 in iTunes gift cards she received for Christmas.

To make this possible, I've been busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest. Seriously, getting my new MacBook Pro (smooch!) up to speed was a piece of cake compared to

1. backing up my daughter's old laptop to a zip drive
2. purging stuff on my old laptop to free up disk space
3. adding my daughter as a user on my old laptop
3. de-authorizing my iTunes account on my old laptop
3. authorizing her iTunes account on it
4. copying her iTunes files over
5. restoring her iPod to factory settings
6. synching it to her new computer

At which point--after about four hours of work--I handed the laptop and iPod over to her and told her to have fun.

So now my dining room looks like the terminal room in the Computing Group at The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (which is where I met Mr. Buxom lo, these many years ago.) It's also very reminiscent of the scenes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where the three nerds are trying to be super-villains.

Except they weren't becoming super-villains in the middle of a blizzard while wild turkeys patrol their yard.

Also, I'm still in my pajamas. Pink microfiber with little hearts all over them.

OK, now that I've seared that image into your mind and provided way more local color than you'd like, here's another entry--figure out what song I'm referring to (pictures are all from Amazon except for fourth one--that one wouldn't work, so I switched to Google Images) and win a free Mamarazzi t-shirt!

12 Days of Blogmas: Day Five

I'm late to post this, and I'm typing it on my brand-spanking new MacBook Pro, which has finally finished transferring the new files.

So, if you're new or just started paying attention, here's the deal. The following pictures represent the title/first line of a popular Christmas song. The images are from Amazon.com.

Be the first to figure out which Christmas song and win a free Mamarazzi t-shirt!

Ready?

12 Days of Blogmas: Day Four

After many hours in the car, I'm in New Hampshire. My sister gave me a biography of Mae West for Christmas! My mother gave my daughter a garnet and pearl ring that was her great great great aunts! We had pizza and I think I drank a whole bottle of wine all by myself!

The bad news I think we might be hosting my mother for New Year's Eve.

Anyway. Here's today's Christmas song. Guess the title and win a free Mamarazzi t-shirt!

12 Days of Blogmas: Day Three

I'm in Rochester, NY digesting my Japanese dinner and wondering why I left my souvenir ceramic Buddha tiki drink container in the restaurant.

But enough of my problems, it's contest time! Be the first to figure out what popular Christmas song is depicted in the following images stolen from Amazon and win a Mamarazzi t-shirt!

Ready?

The 12 Days of Blogmas: Day two

The first person to guess the name of this popular Christmas song wins a free Mamarazzi t-shirt! Yay! (Check yesterday's post for the rules if this is the first time you've played.)








(All images courtesy of Amazon.com--which means you can actually own these fine items.)

The 12 Days of Blogmas: Day one

Hey, it's Christmas! This means I got no sleep last night, and I've spent an entire day stuffing my face with delicious yet unhealthy food (when I wasn't drinking). It's therefore a miracle that I have the energy to start anything, let alone my annual 12-days-of-Christmas guessing game. But I do.

I have so much energy that I've decided to make this a contest. With prizes!

See, last summer I threw a party for the entire internet, and like any good hostess, I provided goodies for my guests. Only since the entire internet didn't show up, I wound up with leftovers.

So here's the deal. Guess the name of this popular Christmas song and you'll win yourself a super-fine Mamarazzi t-shirt. They're white with dark red lettering and say

in red ink. If you know Kristen of Mommy Needs a Cocktail, you know how nice these t-shirts are.

OK, here are the rules:

1. Look at the pictures. In previous years I've gotten my pictures from Google Images. Now I'm using Google or Amazon.com. Amazon has nice clear images. And after doing the majority of my Christmas shopping on Amazon, I figure they owe me.
   


2. Try to figure out what Christmas song the pictures represent. (Usually I show the first line of the first verse, i.e., "Silent night, holy night" because just "Silent Night" would be too short.)


3. Leave a comment with your well-reasoned and thoughtful solution. Or take the opportunity to make fun of me.


4. If you're right, you win a Mamarazzi t-shirt.
   


5. And here's a hint: most of the time, the phrase I'm using includes little words--basic verbs, articles, pronouns, and prepositions--that produce pretty strange results in Google Images. After all, it's THE first Noel and WE three kings OF orient ARE. And when you do a search for the, we, of, and are, you come up with pretty random images.
   
   So look for the nouns. Christmas carol-y nouns like angels, mangers, stars, nights, oxen, and asses.

Ready? Here goes: