because we all love shiny happy objects, right?

In the history of all things Sunday School Rebel, there's never been a real, honest-to-God contest on the premises.  That's because I started blogging way back when, before there was such a thing as blog contests, and I still tend to think of them as rather new-fangled inventions. However, I decided to jump in and join Swistle's Pay It Forward Extravaganza, because why not?  It's not like I'm doing anything incredibly time-consuming or anything in the next couple weeks...oh wait.  I am.  I decided to participate as a way to have something to say besides oh woe is me with my many, many boxes to pack.

Check out Swistle's blog for the complete list of blogs participating.  I think it's fun, because you can enter as many contests as you like, which why wouldn't you? Don't you like to consider winning cool stuff, whatever that cool stuff may be? It's a bit like the lottery, without having to go to the grungy gas station for your ticket. The only hitch is that IF you win, you are encouraged to pay it forward - you have to host your OWN Pay It Forward contest. If you don't have a blog, then we can host it here on my blog, so don't let that keep you from entering!

Another reason I agreed to do have my own Pay It Foward contest is to have a valid excuse (next week) to visit the lovely, shiny Target that is only minutes from our new apartment, when I actually MOVE to the new apartment.  You know, a visit to Target can brighten ANY day, especially days in which you are in a new town with no friends and the only people you know are the ones that you are, lawfully or by blood, related to.  Of course, my own particular prize package will be customized to the winner's taste as much as possible, with some local Mississippi flavor as well.  Then I will have a splendid excuse to find my local post office and post the package to the winner.  So see, if you enter my personal contest here, you are helping me adjust.  You are doing a GOOD DEED.  Think of all the karma, just piling up, by allowing me an excuse to go to a happy place, learn my way around the new town, and also giving me something to do besides unpack boxes. 

So! All you have to do to be enter is leave a comment by Friday July 4th at 11:59 p.m., and if you don't know what to say, tell me, how many times have you moved in your life? Moving in the same town doesn't count, really, unless that's the only time(s) you've moved, and then of course it counts.  I have moved six times, and by next week, I'll hit lucky number seven. 

And for your parting shot, please giggle over the boxes Beaux picked up from his workplace (a hospital).  I snort a little every single time I see them. 

Comments

[MzEll]

Let's see, 6 times and 7 if you count the 2 different places I've lived where I am now. Good luck!

[Barb @ getupandplay]

I have only moved three times. Lucky so far!

[Lorraine]

Oh good gravy, please don't make me count. In the last 8 years alone I have moved 5 times. 4 times too many.

[Sara]

five times

[Erica]

I've moved 11 times. Wow. I'd never realized it was that many until I stopped to count just now.

[Bethany]

I've not moved too much. Ummm...4 if you don't count in the same city/town. Most of those were before I remember!! If you count in the same town it's like a billion. But still, most of those were before I started school! :D

[moo]

AT LEAST 6 times ... after that, I've kind of lost count!

[Mary O]

3 for me!

[Jessica (aka Rose)]

I've moved a LOT in my life for someone whose family wasn't even in the military. 6 cross world moves and a bunch of little moves.
Now we're staying put... don't care how much it costs to live here in CA.

[Michelle]

Ooo, I love the boxes!

I've moved ... 8 times :) One more move for me, and that's to the retirement townhome many many moons from now!

[Kait]

About a gazillion. The only time I even thought about moving to a different city I had a panic attack the day before and decided not to go. Crazy, right?

[Janice]

well, if the same town doesn't count. I've only moved twice.

[lizardek]

29 times :)

[Missy]

I've lived in three different houses in two cities.

[Tina]

Heehee -- Tendersorb??
Does college count? If not, Starkville to Stuttgart, then H'burg. 3?
Moving to H'burg, I was 4 1/2 months pregnant w/ Nellie. Just had an ice storm in Stuttgart, Ark. that knocked out power and it was freezing. Keith was in Hburg, I was in Stuttgart. Ugh. Hope you have better luck.

[Emily]

I've moved to new towns 3 times.

I've moved from place to place within those towns 11 times.

All within the past six years.

[Fiona Picklebottom]

Nine, I think. I HATE moving.

[Miz]

9 as well...the thought of moving again makes my stomach churn! (albeit an inevitable task ahead of me!!)

[Sassy Pants]

Not counting moving in the same town, 8 times. Oy! That's a lot and when you add in the same town but not the same neighborhood, as in moving but clear across a big city it's 12. Most of those were when I was a kid. Then there was the college to married shifting around. I haven't moved in 8 years now though. I like it where I am.

[Parkingathome]

Ummm, 9 times? Yes. Nine

[Julie]

Since marrying Sid almost 12 years ago, we have moved 9 times. This past weekend was the LAST move for a very long time, I hope!

[Emblita]

Oh god... like a gazillion times? After some careful counting (using my fingers and everything) I've come to the conclusion that I have moved 17 times... and at the moment I have two(rented and rent controlled thank goodness)apartments in two countries

[Playful Professional]

I've moved lots of times... I think six?

[Miss Grace]

10 I think, but I didn't move for the first time until I was 18, and I'm only 25 now!

[Paige]

Oh, good luck on your move. Since I've been married, we've only moved five times.