{"id":41941239,"date":"2011-03-04T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howlucky.posterous.com\/41941239"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T16:36:00","slug":"41941239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/2011\/03\/04\/41941239\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Win for Maktaaq!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another win!&nbsp; This time it&#8217;s two movie tickets for <em>Unknown<\/em> from the Georgia Straight.&nbsp; It sounded like a plot-twister of a movie and I rarely even have a chance to read up about movies these days, never mind actually seeing them.&nbsp; Aside from <em>The King&#8217;s Speech<\/em>, which my coworker saw and recommended, I didn&#8217;t recognize any of the nominated movies.&nbsp; I discover movies these days from the trailers on the DVDs I borrow from the library.&nbsp; Thus, my wonderful husband and I will be off to see this psychological thriller.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never did get my winning tickets in the mail from the first contest.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the contest entries continue:<\/p>\n<p>January 31<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During lunch, I scour Urbanspoon for my favourite local restaurants and add them to my Burnaby Now entry into their $2000 contest &#8211; shopping sprees at Lougheed, Brentwood and Metrotown Malls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 4<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Valentine&#8217;s Day dinner at The Teahouse, via Raul&#8217;s Hummingbird 604.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 8<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entered to win an iPad (four entries actually).<\/li>\n<li>Entered to win another $500 grocery gift card.<\/li>\n<li>An iPod Nano (because I am sure someone in my circle of friends can use it &#8211; it&#8217;s a music thing I assume).<\/li>\n<li>A Tide gift basket because I am into doing laundry a lot.&nbsp; At $125, that&#8217;s like a few years&#8217; supply of laundry detergent.<\/li>\n<li>Tickets to the ballet for two orchestra seats to the February 19 performance of <em>Volo.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tickets to the musical <em>Falsettos<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 9<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entered a Surrey Public Library contest for four movie tickets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 10<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entered to win two tickets to the Spirit of Africa Festival opening night concert.<\/li>\n<li>Another iPad entry.<\/li>\n<li>Tickets to a Vancouver Cantata Singers concert later this month.<\/li>\n<li>Tickets to the <em>Gnomeo and Juliet<\/em> movie, which, thanks to the skill-testing question, I remembered I had a nascent crush on James McAvoy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 11<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entered the Leonidas Chocolate contest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 13<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A vacation in Richmond: two nights at a Richmond hotel, dinner at a good Chinese restaurant and more.&nbsp; I can fit all this into my unusual work schedule!&nbsp; I really hope I win this one!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>February 20<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The True Grit novel &#8211; apparently it&#8217;s now some sort of Oscar-nominated film.&nbsp; I like books, especially nonfiction ones, but there aren&#8217;t many book contests, so this is as close as I can get to entering a book I want contest.<\/li>\n<li>Entered for tickets to the Vancouver International Dance Festival.<\/li>\n<li>Tickets for Bach&#8217;s <em>St. John Passion.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tickets to <em>Hard Times Hit Parade<\/em>, a play about a dance marathon.<\/li>\n<li>Tickets to a string orchestra.<\/li>\n<li>A double movie pass to Biutiful.<\/li>\n<li>An espresso coffee maker.<\/li>\n<li>A Carnival cruise, because I could use a trip anywhere and because cruises basically mean I will be reading a lot and getting ahead on my to-read list.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>A holiday at a Mexican resort.<\/li>\n<li>A trip for four to Jasper, because I only ever went to Banff when I lived in Alberta.&nbsp; Heck, it would be nice to go anywhere in the Rockies.&nbsp; There are some really nice places I have good memories of over there.<\/li>\n<li>A trip to Tokyo because I love visiting Japan.&nbsp; It&#8217;s been three years almost since I&#8217;ve been to Japan and I think I am past due for my biannual onsen visit.<\/li>\n<li>A diamond bracelet, earrings or ring, which I would give to my mom.&nbsp; Seriously.&nbsp; She would love this.<\/li>\n<li>A contest for a kitchen makeover.<\/li>\n<li>A trip for two to London or else a Nintendo gadget, because I could use the trip and I am sure Matt would find some use for another electronic doodad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>March 1<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A contest from Pacific Cinematheque for two tickets to a South African music documentary.<\/li>\n<li>Tickets to a flamenco performance on Saturday (which I would give to my parents).<\/li>\n<li>Tickets to the movie <em>Unknown<\/em>.&nbsp; (This is what I won.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another win! This time it&#8217;s two movie tickets for Unknown from the Georgia Straight. It sounded like a plot-twister of a movie and I rarely even have a chance to read up about movies these days, never mind actually seeing them. Aside from The King&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,3,4],"class_list":["post-41941239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-entry","tag-maktaaq","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41941239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41941239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41941239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41941239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/globadom.com\/howlucky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41941239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}