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Today is December 3rd and that means that Overstock.com has just launched their new contest. It is called the All I want for Christmas Giveaway. Sounds good huh? Before I even read the rules of the contest I started to ask myself what all I wanted for Christmas this year? Let us not get ahead of ourselves though, I would hate to wish for an island in Dubai when they are only giving away shoes.

So the contest goes like this. Prizes can be picked from hundreds of items. The contest is a daily give away where you have the chance to win gifts that YOU chose from Overstock.com. Gifts will be valued up to $1000.00. More than one chance to win? Sounds great so far. There is also a Grand Prize. A chance to win five gifts worth $5000! At the end of the 5th day your name may be chosen to win all five gifts you have chose so it’s important to submit a new gift every day.

If you want to share the love and tell your friends about the contest you’ll have the opportunity to invite five friends every ay to register to win just like you registered to win. Pretty normal, except for the fact that if you win your gift THEY DO TOO!

So now what do I want to win? This year I am more into electronic gadgets than I have ever been. So I would probably put a new camera on my list like this Cannon EOS. Also an iPod, a portable gaming system, and since I am in love with old fashioned jewelry this year a ring, like this white gold beauty.

I’m also going to spread the word to by BFF in the whole world who doesn’t have a site. I imagine all my fellow bloggers like Lindsey, Jenn, Klumsi, Teresa, Anna, and anyone else you can think of will be entering to win. Actually, I think I’ll wait for them to invite me because they all have impeccable taste and I want what they win!

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My tooth broke, I have to go to the dentist tomorrow. The girl who was helping me on the phone transfered me to someone who was less than stupid. Before that all happened I had wrapped up all the presents and thought we’d get them under the tree. Then I started to lose my motivation.

I turned on the tv and saw a live snippet of the Sean Taylor funeral. I’m going to be honest with you when I tell you that other than he played for the Redskins and went to THE U I don’t know anything about the man. He may or may not have had an ordinary lifestyle that fit his age, and some people may not have liked him. What I know is that I hear he has matured since the birth of his daughter and at least had the chance to become a man that she’ll be proud to call her dad some day.

I also know that I started to cry my eyes out when I saw that little girl who is not even two, and will have little actual memory of her father when she gets older. She was kinda bobbling around like most 18 month olds do and everyone clapped, she clapped excitedly. She had no clue that they were clapping because someone was eulogizing her father.

How sad is that? Now I’m completely unmotivated. I started to think about how Sydney was that age when she came to live with us, younger when her father died. She doesn’t know him, she never will, and she spent very little time with him when he was alive. There are about 3 photos, and I have them in my possession.

At any rate my daughter will tell you she was a baby so she had to get a new daddy. She needed taken care of and she got a new daddy, and he’s her best daddy. She came up with that on her own after asking Kevin why he didn’t get a new daddy when his died. Not all kids get new daddy’s and that’s what makes me so sad.

I think I’ll cry in my ice cream now.

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