WIN A TRIP TO FIJI! ‎#BulaFijiAirways #bucketlistpublications

Check out Bucket List Publication's awesome giveaway for a trip to Fiji! It's so easy! ‎#BulaFijiAirways #bucketlistpublications

Win a trip to Austin with Tito's Homemade Vodka!

Any fans of vodka and delicious down-home Texan food out there? Of course there are! You guys must check out this contest from Tito's Homemade Vodka where the winner gets a trip to Austin and a tour of the Tito's Brewery! How awesome is that?! You also get gift certificates to some of the best restaurants Austin has to offer, and that's a place for some FOOD! And the best part is you can enter every day, several times a day, so enter now, now, now, then come back again and try your luck tomorrow! Check it out! I've already entered! Never had the pleasure of experiencing Tito's before? Check out this review!

Modcloth Giveaway!

Hey, check out this awesome giveaway from Scenic Glory to win a gift certificate from Modcloth.com!

I WANT TO GO TO THERE.

Hey everybody!

So, as some of you may know, I like to dabble in these things called "contests." Even when my odds are left to fate, I've been fairly lucky, but this time, I need as much help as I can get. I'm currently a finalist to win a trip to Belgium (I KNOW!) Basically, to explain the premise of the contest, this blog came across a very old picture of a young girl who emigrated to the USA in 1905. Her identity is unknown, and the blog has been going through great lengths to figure out who she is and her life once she arrived in America from Belgium. As a finalist in this contest, I was asked to write an essay about what happened to her once she reached American soil. The winner of the contest is determined by whose essay receives the most votes. So I'm asking y'all-- PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE-- to vote for me.

It's super easy, and it'll take less than 30 seconds! All you have to do is "like" The Red Star Line Museum on Facebook and vote for my essay here (if I've fumbled the links, just click on the "Do You Know This Girl?" Vote Now link on the left-hand side. I want to make sure that everyone who votes, and everyone who gets a bunch of their Facebook friends to vote will be handsomely rewarded. You've got until August 19th at noon to vote, so please get to votin'!

THANK YOU!!!

Modcloth Giveaway!

ATTENTION MODCLOTH LOVERS! $100 Giveaway via Blythe Hill: http://blythehill.blogspot.com/2011/03/100-modcloth-giveaway.html

Fashion Week!

Ladies and gentlemen, if there's any solace in this miserable, tundra-esque New York winter it's that the joy of Fashion Week is just around the corner! I don't know why fall fashion excites me the most, but Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is one of my favorite times of the year. Maybe because it reminds me of spring, or the prospect of new and beautiful things being created during the bitterest of seasons. Seriously, everyone, stop what you're doing and get thee to Grease and Glamour's website for a chance to check out the Allegri show February 15th. How many awesome chances does one get to see awesomeness in the making? Plus, you can act out Lady Gaga's Paparazzi (in your mind) as the photographers at the show inevitably create a storm of lights around this totally buzzworthy event. And you even get to sit next to fabulous fashion blogger herself Jinna Boo (twitter.com/jinnaboo) as she guides you through the wilds of the fashion safari. It's a heck of an opportunity! Go check it out, NOW!!!!

With Every Heartbeat

Courtesy of iheartradio and their semi-secret intimate shows at the PC Richards and Son Theatre, I got to see Robyn perform up close and personal one very hot July afternoon. I showed up at the Tribeca venue early in order to secure a spot right up front. A few others had the same idea, and, unfortunately, we were relegated to waiting outside. It must have been at least 90 degrees that day and the sun hovered right above us. Luckily I had brought some water with me, but I was still melting inside my sundress. There was still an hour to kill before the doors opened and we would be let inside, so I prepped myself by listening to all my Robyn songs on my Zune (in fact, once I hit None of Dem, I just kept it on repeat).

One sweltering hour later we were let inside the building and led into a surprisingly small room and I hustled to get as close to the front as I could without literally breathing down someone's neck. There was about another half-hour or so wait while everyone was let inside, and after a brief announcement from an iheartradio rep and a local radio station, Robyn appeared from a secret side door and strutted out to the stage. She was wearing the perfect little black dress, but more awesomely, had a streak of blue dye along the side of her hair. In between songs she engaged in a bit of stage banter, and her small, accented voice seemed a striking difference between her strong singing voice against tight, catchy beats. She performed a couple of songs from her new album Body Talk pt. 1 (although, sadly, not None of Dem) plus a cover of Alicia Keys' Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart, which was 1000% more interesting with her singing it. She closed the show with With Every Heartbeat, a song that is So Damn Good. She even did this adorable twirling dance move. I was so close to the stage, a couple of times it felt like Robyn was singing right to me. I had to do my best not to fangirl out, and luckily there was a rope strung between me and the stage. I still can't believe this is the same girl I wrote off back in the '90s for being a one-hit wonder with Show Me Love.