Zack and I polished off our Impromptu Thursday Night Date Night (Chicken tacos, homemade margaritas and Drive [Ryan Gosling, w00t]) by doing a little FaceTime chatting with my family. Said FaceTiming was possible because my mom won a free iPad2* today from a bank** for refinancing her car***. So, feel free to just go ahead and call her by her new nickname, Lucky Liz.
*How many “iPad Giveaways” have you seen advertised since the iPad came out? About 3,500,000? Is that a good estimate? And how many of those have been legitimate? NONE? That’s my count, too. So how my mom tracked down (AND WON!) the only REAL iPad2 Giveaway on the planet is totally beyond me.
**Who wins things from a bank?! Banks don’t give away stuff! Ever!
***Who has good and fun things surprise them in life as a result of refinancing something?! Lucky Liz, that’s who. Lucky Liz.
Believe it or not, I watched Drive last night, too. I thought it was so excellent! I loved the rock-steady camera (rather than the jittery hand-helds that shake their way through so many movies), that hot and cold use of color, and the unbalanced compositions–until at the very end when the shot of Albert Brooks’s upper torso on the parking lot is balanced by the gym bag of money right next to him that he wanted so bad. That’s your router on top of the bookcase, right? Looks like an AT&T household. Just Sherlocking a little. Well, congratulations to Lucky Liz!
Sarah, you are just getting prettier and prettier. Such a gorgeous gal!
Actually, my husband won an iPad2 a few months ago at a conference. His boss threatened to take it “for compliance with their gift policy” but he was only kidding. There actually was no conflict as my husband wouldn’t have made a decision involving that vendor.