Earth Day Contest Winners!

I'm happy to announce the winners of the Los Angelista Earth Day giveaway! Thanks to those of you who entered by sharing your best tips for green living! It was nice to see all the stuff you're doing to reduce, reuse and recylce, not just on Earth Day but on every day of the year.

I wrote all your names on pieces of paper, folded them and then let my kids throw them up in the air. They then chose two off the ground. The two winners of the Brita faucet mount filtration system and two new HDPE Filter for Good Nalgene bottles (which is BPA-free) are:

Jameil and Ian!

Congratulations to you both and email me your addresses so I can head over to the post office and have your prizes on their way to you!

No Longer A Writing Contest Virgin

I did something this week that I'm very very proud of. I entered my very first writing contest. It's the Great Big Awesome (and short) Fiction Contest over at Moon Topples' blog.

The story could only be 500 words and had to somehow fit into a general theme of "vision". It was a great theme because there are lot's of places you can take it, not just the, "You need to get your eyes checked," direction or the, "I just don't think you have the vision this position requires," direction.

You can read all the entries and vote for ONLY ONE STORY (I know, so hard to choose just one!) by leaving a comment in the comments section. Just make sure to say who you are in your comment because anonymous votes are not accepted. Voting ends at 11:59 pm CST on February 13th.

I'd love to tell you which story I wrote but that would probably be stacking the deck/breaking the rules so I'll refrain. I'll only say that there are no sly, sardonic, wanna-be witty observations of folks being themselves in Starbucks.