Seeing as I am only on my fortieth post, I have made the decision that I shall end at 152, as I jokingly considered at the onset of this venture. Of course, since it has taken me nearly a year and a half to get just over a fourth of that number, I guess I won't being discontinuing the blog any time soon.Still, this number gives me a goal to shoot for, an end to anticipate, an inevitably anticlimactic moment to await. Maybe I'll even give away a "You've Got Mail" gift basket to mark the occasion. I'm already planning it:
- the movie, of course
- the soundtrack
- a copy of Pride and Prejudice with a scarlet rose
- Boy, by Roald Dahl
- a pop-up dinosaur book
- hot tea and a mug
- a small Starbucks gift card
- Echinacea and Vitamin C
- Tic-Tacs
- Scotch tape
- a bouquet of sharpened pencils
- daisies or daisy-themed items
- a box of Kleenex
- an embroidered handkerchief
- Anne of Green Gables
- Blue, by Joni Mitchell, on which "River" appears
- "twinkle lights" and funky ornaments
- a mango
- a Clark bar
- a lone reed
- an "I ♥ NY" item
- a dollar
- the Shoe books by Noel Streatfeild, except for The Skating Shoes (It really is out of print, and you won't believe how much it costs on Amazon.*)
Update: The Skating Shoes is back in print, so that old Amazon link takes you to a paperback for $6.99. Yay!
12 comments:
The basket sounds wonderful. I'm not a die-hard fan, so I can't suggest anything. I just know that whomever wins it in 5 years will be lucky indeed. Perhaps you can start collecting the items now and space out the cost.
I have to figure out a way to rig it so that I win that basket! Sounds FANTASTIC! Even worth waiting 5 years for, haha :)
I think I've watched that movie 152 times. Enough times that I think you should add caviar garnish, and a gallon of olive oil to your basket. Did your list have twinkle lights as well? If I win that basket, I'll be sure to send you a thank your card.
That's a pretty nifty idea, stopping at 152. I like sites and blogs that have a gimmick.
Remember the guy who traded up from a red paper clip to a house?
I want that gift basket.
I was going to ask you the significance of all the items to you, but I'm guessing from reading the comments, they are all related to the movie. I obviously need to re-watch it!
Anyway, the basket sounds like a great idea, and I think you will be such a successful writer in 5 years, Eda, that you won't have any problem funding it! xxoo KK
recordings/copies of the "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and the Christmas-caroling-around-the-piano-song; a book about foxes (Fox Books =); a sticker that says "I Voted!"; something with "Thank your" (don't know how you'll make that interesting); something with an electronic typewriter emblem; an article about Franco - this could turn into 152 things you know?
In five years, Meg Ryan will have had who knows how many more plastic surgeries for that formerly-cute face of hers. So, you should definitely include a photo of what Meg Ryan USED to look like in your gift basket!
Oh, and also an AOL disc. ;-)
Great ideas, Kev and Mom, and as I said in the last note, Cherie, the cost of the caviar would be prohibitive. But welcome--glad to meet another big fan. Do you blog?
A jar of peppermints. Wasn't that what she was pulling out of her bag and putting into a jar when she was talking in the shop about meeting a guy in a chat room and it being "harmless, harmless, meaningless, meaningless!"
A eucalyptus candle, "because it makes my apartment smell moss-ay."
a little pin of a butterfly and a bumblebee
A copy of the Godfather.
And now I've got something to think on when I lie awake at nights.
I don't know how I ran across your blog, but I had to click over when I saw the name. Great title!
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