Tips for Thanksgiving Voting
OK guys, we have kept a flame by Bo’s name on VH1 for 2 solid weeks and we’re into the 3rd. Jordin Sparks has been without a flame most of this week and she WON Idol just this year! Even Daughtry lost his flame for a day last week.
But with Thanksgiving coming up, and everyone getting busy, I’m concerned that we might slip. First of all, this means that we foreigners have to redouble our efforts. Canadians, you had your turkey a month ago so you should be recovered by now. Everyone else, what else is there to do in November? (Hmmm, well Aussies, maybe you could take your laptop to the beach?) For the rest of you, here are some tips to make sure we don’t fall behind:
1. Get your entire family to help out with cleaning the house so that you can spend your time voting.
2. Pick yourself up off the floor and stop laughing at #1.
3. Tell your family they either help you clean or sit at the computer voting for Bo. Check on them regularly to make sure they’re keeping up their end of the bargain.
4. Shorten the time needed to clean by just pushing the dust under heavy furniture (I do this all the time and it works a treat!)
5. Make your party a BYOLT party (bring your own laptop). Dinner is conditional upon voting for at least one hour prior to food being served. At the last minute, just as everyone is salivating, tell them you changed your mind and they need to put in an extra 30 minutes.
6. Women: Threaten your husband that you will stand in front of the TV just as the game starts and say “we need to talk” if he doesn’t put in a solid hour of voting.
7. Guys: Just show her the video. She’ll do the rest,
8. If you have kids who like VH1, tell them the voting squares got all messed up and that if they want to vote for Fall Out Boy, they need to click on the long-haired guy’s picture.
9. Sacrifice your fun day of being pushed, pulled and kicked around by people desperate to get a $5 DVD player, and stay at home on Black Friday. Pour a big glass of wine (or three) and spend the day catching up on all the votes you missed.
If we all pull together, we can get through this. C’mon … what other ideas do you have to make sure we keep Bo on top, where he belongs. (That one is just waiting for someone …)
November 20th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Good thing my dinner with friends and spouses Friday night was cancelled so is son’s dental appointment on Saturday (I’m a day ahead of you guys).
Here’s a couple of tips:
- Buy or borrow the latest blockbuster dvd and keep the family busy on the tv.
- Get some office work to bring at home. Pretend you’ll work at it, spread the papers on the table, and put a no-disturb sign in the room where you have the computer.
I don’t know what else to add. I haven’t even been watching the evening nor late news the past couple of weeks. My boss was wondering when he asked me yesterday if I’ve heard about the latest transport strike. I said I haven’t been reading nor watching the news the past few days. But I did see some newsbits about Lindsay’s 80 minutes detention. It was on Yahoo main page a few days ago.
November 20th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
If you are invited to someone else’s house for Thanksgiving, you can excuse yourself, sneak your laptop into the bathroom, and start voting. No one would dare disturb you, especially if you tell them before you excuse yourself, “Boy, something I ate didn’t sit right with me!”. Good luck!
November 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
OOOPS! You don’t want to insult your host.
Just say that it was something you ate YESTERDAY. ;)
November 20th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Sorry, no laptop at my house. I may not get much voting in on turkey day, but I’ll make up for it somehow.
I AM going to take Suggestion #9 to heart and have the wine bottle open on Friday while I bake cookies. Anyone want to come over? After a few hours of wine and voting, those cookies might start looking pretty funny! ;-)
November 20th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
I’m laughing at lulu’s #8 and DeeFender.
Pretend you have to go on-line to look for a recipe. One that’s pretty hard to find. Especially since you doctored up your purchased contribution and really didn’t bake this year due to voting.
Pretend you have to research any subject that is brought up during dinner conversation.
Solidify to your son’s in-laws that their daughter did indeed marry into a wacko family by excusing yourself from the table and announcing that you have to vote on VH1.
Skip dessert. Think of the calories you expend voting!
November 20th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Not going to bother to clean at all so I can just vote, vote, vote. If they don’t like it they can eat at their own damn houses.
November 20th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
You know that you are going to fix way too much food anyway, so forget about one or two side dishes. The time you save in NOT preparing green beans with those crunchy onion things on top or ritz broccoli/cauliflower casserole can be spent voting.
Bribe your children to vote while you cook.
Convince your very conservative mother that the VH1 online voting is actually a vote AGAINST long hair and she should drag that long-haired hippy dude to the #1 spot repeatedly (ThreeD will like that one).
November 20th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
I don’t have a suggestion at the moment, because I’m laughing too hard at lulu’s suggestion of having the family help clean the house…thats a good one, lulu…you’re funny!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I’m laughing because I will have to throw my hubby out of the kitchen. He does all the cooking and cleaning and I demand my kitchen back for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hell, he retired at a young age and has nothing else to do with his time LMAO Now if I could blindfold him and guide his fingers on the computer…he could vote all day. Great blog!!!!!!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Man alive! A husband who does all the cooking and cleaning? you struck the motherlode sister!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Cooking and cleaning? What are those things? I only know…vote on vh1..vote on vh1..vote on vh1…
November 20th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
BWAH! I think some of these might work. I could use this opportunity as karmic payback for my parents. When we were little we had a chestnut tree in the backyard that would drop tons of chestnuts each season. They used to threaten us by saying “No dinner until you pick up a bag of chestnuts!”
Ha! No dinner until you vote for Bo 25 times!
November 21st, 2007 at 12:09 am
Teach your pet a new trick. I’m sure some pets out there could be taught to vote.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:25 am
Working on teaching Nichols. He tends to be clumsy though and closes the window all the time.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:08 am
I have cats, so the only thing I’ve managed to train them to do is look disdainfully at me before going back to sleep. Not helpful.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:11 am
Bullet’s ready to help.
Bet one of you will fix this:)
November 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I think Bullet is hoping for a steak to appear on the keyboard.