the winner is...and another giveaway!

being the techno-savvy sophisticate i am, i picked the winner by printing out all the comments, folding them into tiny squares and picking the winner out of my rachel ray garbage bowl (called the vomit bowl around here due to it's noxious color, not because i barf in it ). the winner is...

saltwaterwitch!

please email me with your mailing info and i will get your beautiful blue ipod with the cocktail sticker on the front shipped out to you within the next day or so.

i have decided i will have a giveaway every week. this week, the giveaway is a book:

"hip handbags- creating and embellishing 40 great-looking bags" by valerie van arsdale shrader, as pictured above! yeah, i did it! i actually published a photo!

it's a cool book with great tutorials on making the best handbags.

entering is simple: leave me a comment and tell me about your purse- it can be the one you are carrying, the one you want/covet with all your heart, the one you lost on the bus, or even the ugly one your co-worker thinks is so fashionable, it doesn't matter. be sure to get your entry in by 12:01 a.m. on april 5! that's next sunday! lower 48 states only, please!

i plan on opening my birthday purse later tonight and making the switch. my new bag is much bigger than the one i am using right now, so i will have room for a water bottle and a book.

i ended up eating this great chinese food at a buffet restaurant. they are very diverse: i made a plate with lo mein in the middle, surrounded by 6 T. of chinese meats picked out of various dishes, topped with a big spoon of PICO DE GALLO! fantastic! i will never be able to eat plain chinese food again!

i also ate sushi, 1/2 pound of cocktail shrimp, 2 tiny tender steaks and a wad of crab rangoons. i didn't even bother with dessert. after all, i still have perfect birthday cake: white cake, white icing white flowers, white writing.

my oldest friend, pepper, called me right at midnight last night, so he could be the first one to tell me happy birthday and we talked for an hour. he lived across the street from me when i was 2. then we ignored each other until i was 17. we are going to do pizza sometime this week. he is my best friend! and no, he's not gay!

i found out that kate gosselin's birthday was march 28th, yesterday. happy birthday, ya heifer! tmz caught them eating at mr. chow's earlier this week and i look forward to watching the recap tonight. there were almost 400 comments on tmz.com the other day. i know, i read them all friday night! i also made a sims 2 family that looks like jon & kate, but didn't give them any kids. they just wanted to drink coffee and have sex.

yah, a friday wasted on tmz comments and the sims! i live like a rockstar, what can i say!