I’m just going to state for the record that I am clearly not meant to be a person who does a lot of giveaways because every time I do one (all three times!) something always seems to go awry, which then results in me having to do some math.
Math is not my gift.
Just ask Mrs. Love who taught me Algebra II. Twice.
Anyway, when I announced the giveaway for Travis Cottrell’s new Christmas CD “Ring the Bells” last week, I was so excited and hoped that the comments would come pouring in so that everyone would have a chance to win.
And y’all delivered. The response was incredible and so appreciated.
Then, WordPress got cranky and decided it didn’t like all those comments. In fact, it hated them. It wanted to wipe them off the face of the blog.
And so it did.
Much panic ensued.
So I created a new post for people to continue leaving comments, but I still had to figure out how to retrieve 921 comments that had disappeared into the vast expanse of the internet.
After what some may call a panic attack I realized that all the comments were still visible, but the only place I could see them was in the “Comment” section of my dashboard, along with every other comment that has EVER been left on the blog.
I’m so sorry because I bet none of you care about this story, but yet I am compelled to share.
I decided the only thing to do was enter all 921 previous comments into an Excel spreadsheet so that I could see them in the order in which they had been originally left.
P came in while I was in the midst of this process and told me I had lost my mind, it was a CD giveaway, not the lottery, and I just needed to randomly pick some names and be done with it.
Clearly, he is healthy and has the proper perspective, although winning “Ring the Bells” is as close to winning the lottery as someone can get.
It’s just that good.
But since I have a touch of the OCD, I continued to enter in all the names. There were 921 legitimate comments on the first post and 151 on the second post, which brings us to a grand total of 1072 entries.
Stay tuned next year when I will be calculating the results of the Academy Awards. I’m like my own Price Waterhouse.
Anyway, blah, blah, blah.
Here are the winners! Congratulations and thanks so much for participating. I really did love reading about everyone’s favorite Christmas gifts (who knew there were so many Christmas babies and Christmas proposals out there?) and seeing so many readers come out of hiding to enter.
Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers:
389 1063 1045 741 441
374 640 990 263 520
Timestamp: 2008-10-13 01:55:38 UTC
389 Heather at Running from the Little People
374 Danielle with a Yahoo email address
1063 Donna with a Bellsouth email address
640 Melodies of Mercy at Melodies of Mercy
1045 Mandi at Two Tikes Under Two
990 Paula with a Gmail email address
741 Heather with a Yahoo email address
263 Amanda with a Triad email address
441 Lauren at Ethan’s Mama
520 Chrysta Joy at Winning in Life
Email me at [email protected] with your address (please write giveaway winner in the subject line) and I will get your copy of Travis Cottrell’s “Ring The Bells” in the mail.
If you didn’t win, you still need a copy of “Ring the Bells” to make your Christmas complete. You can download it on iTunes or go here to buy it.
Have I mentioned that it’s really good?
And it will make your house smell like cinnamon and Christmas trees?
But not really on that last part.