Mental Meanderings

Dear You Contest - A Hit!

Ok, before I begin, Scarlett, (and anyone else who needs the tips) a detailed "How to Backup to CD Rom if you have Windows Operating System" is included in the comments for yesterdays journal entry. Feel free to ask questions if you have any. I'm always happy to help.

Now to todays topic. I'm grinning with pride today. I didn't imagine how successful the Dear You contest might prove. Those of you who remember my mentioning the idea might remember how unsure I was of myself. I personally thought it could be a great idea but well, I don't really trust my opinion all that much. But with all your positive comments I went ahead an created the contest.

In the first week I ran a pre-contest contest. This was to get actual Dear You letters which I could use as prompts in the contest. There were 8 great responses to that contest and so I ran with the first one for the first round.

Round One is still open with about 5 days left and already I have 21 acceptable entries. There have actually been 23 submissions but two of them aren't the kind, supportive, and helpful entries I'll accept. I know, the current contest doesn't list any rules, I plan to remedy that next round.

I think that this is a great response and I'm so pleased that the contest has proved popular. I hope the Mother of Teens who wrote this first letter finds the responses helpful. I'm sure she'll get a wealth of idea's and hopefully feel encouraged and supported by the advice.

I must admit I'm not looking forward to judging. I've read each letter as it comes in (and copied it to another item so that I can send Mother of Teens a compilation) but deciding the top three is going to be really tough.

I am looking forward to the next round. The donations have been wonderful and I've even created a group to keep aside funds so that I can keep the contest running (without worrying that sponsering will deplete prize money lol). Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to go ahead with this contest idea.

For anyone who's interested, feel free to check it out:

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Now, finishing my entry just in time for "House". Stay tuned for tomorrows entry which will hopefully have some good Weight Watchers news. I'm really starting to wonder how my weigh in will go. G'night everyone and have a great day.