Hello Bookworms!
Today is a very BIG DAY. 6 months ago today, I started up this insane little corner of the internet known as Words for Worms. It is my blog’s half birthday! You know what else? This is my CENTENNIAL post! That’s right, 100 posts of pure bookish ridiculousness now exist. I am SO GLAD I started blogging! The whole blogging community has been so cool and supportive. All you glorious bookworms have been AMAZING. Today, I LOVE EVERYTHING! In the spirit of gratitude, I’m hosting a giveaway. Free stuff, from me to you.
Words for Worms Happiness Hullabaloo Prize Package includes…
1. $15 Starbucks Gift Card (because I purchased spare gift cards during the holidays so I’d never be caught giftless… But I don’t go to Starbucks very often.)
2. $25 Amazon Gift Card. So you can buy books! (At least in theory. I’m not going to stalk your purchases or anything. Or am I?!)
3. A mysterious DOUBLE from my Mom’s book collection. (If you don’t know why this is significant, click here.)
4. A fake check written out for ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS. (It’s not a real number…yet. Of course, even if it becomes a real number it will still be a fake check, so. You know.)
5. Something with penguins on it! (Because I’m me! And PENGUINS!)
Despite the lack of diamonds and bacon, how excited are you right now? Now for the RULES. Don’t worry, there are only two.
Rule 1: Be over 18. I can’t be held responsible for what’s in my mother’s book collection. (Kidding, but really. Be an adult.)
Rule 2: Live in the US or Canada. I adore my international readers, really I do. I just can’t be shipping things to other continents. It’s expensive. And I don’t know how. Come to think of it, I don’t know how to ship to Canada either, but I’m willing to look stupid in a post office for YOU, my friends from the Great White North.
How can you enter to win this magical mystery giveaway? You will be entered for doing any or all of the following:
1. Leave a comment on this post telling me your opinions on coleslaw. (The correct opinion is that coleslaw is icky, but dissenting voices will not be penalized.)
2. Like my Facebook page!
3. Share this post with your Facebook friends!
4. Follow me on Twitter! @KatieBelle1121
5. Tweet this post!
You could theoretically get your name into this drawing 5 times! I will be tallying the entries and choosing a winner via a random number generator, because I’m fair and stuff. The winner will be announced on Wednesday, January 16th. Share, share, share! Win, win, win! Thank you all for being awesome!!!
Ashley F
Awww you included Canada just for me didn’t you? Personally I think homemade coleslaw is good but that lime green crap you get at KFC is nasty on so many levels.
Words for Worms
I’d look stupid in a post office any day for you, Ash!
Ashley F
Am I the only one who like coleslaw? *hangs head in shame*
Just think of it as a learning experience!!!
CorrieP
Cole slaw can be amazing, or horrible, depending on how its made. But that’s just me…I’m super psyched about the give away…love your blog and tell everyone I know to read you!
Words for Worms
Thanks Corrie!
TL
cabbage and mayo? – ick!
i just found your blog recently. i completely adore it and am excited for more!!
Words for Worms
Seriously, who came up with COLESLAW? Just no. And thank you for visiting! You are hereby entered!
Quirky Chrissy
I’m an Irish Polak, so I love me some cabbage…but cole slaw. Kill. Me. Now. Gross. Why they feel the need to serve it beside my favorite things: pulled pork, cheeseburgers, reubens? Stupidity. Also, do I get bonus entries for being certified awesome? I mean…I’m just saying. I want an Amazon gift card… 🙂
Megan M.
Coleslaw is so gross! It’s right up there with sauerkraut as the Worst Food Ever. As a kid in Germany my stepdad would make us eat sauerkraut. I used to mix my ketchup in it in an attempt to make it more palatable. Result? I can no longer eat ketchup. Cabbage should just be stricken from the vegetable codebooks altogether.
momlarky
I liked and shared on FB, are we supposed to tell you? I may or may not be utterly clueless about the workings of giveaways.
Liesel Hill
I’m not a fan of slaw, either. Always thought it smelled like seaweed. Once my chef boss showed me how to make the dressing, it actually make me like it more, not less, but I still can’t stomach the taste very well. 😀 Awesome giveaway! Congrats on your blog’s half Birthday! 😀
Mel
Coleslaw is AWESOME, Honey BooBoo is a idiot savant and 50 Shades is probably the most well written….Bwahahaah, I can’t do it. I should get an extra entry just for all the uber lies of the universe I tried to pull off here. Whew! I’m now hungry after laughing so hard, maybe I’ll get me some coleslaw….no.
Great giveaway, thrilled that sending some out to us Canucks, maybe even us Islanders (PEI) hinthint.
Words for Worms
Sure, why not? In honor of Anne of Green Gables, Prince Edward Islanders are totally eligible!
Teri
I’ve always hated cole slaw. I had it ONE time at a Pennsylvania Dutch restaurant where I DIDN’T hate it but didn’t really LOVE it. Yet, for some odd reason, I keep trying it. I must be crazy, therefore I should be compensated with gift cards and books! 🙂
ashley
Cole slaw?! Yuck! I’d prefer potato salad if I had the choice. Have I mentioned you are awesome Katie? My literary guru!
Daddio
The creamy goodness of shredded cabbage, carrots and celery root can be too cloying and slimy for some folks. Done right however, YUM! On the other hand, the sweet-sour vinegar, sugar, olives and oil variety is great for the first week or so but my recipe makes such a giant batch that eventually I get tired of it. Don’t get me started on sourkraut, the key to long life and health.
Jayne
You had me at penguins! And I concur wholeheartedly, coleslaw is gross! This giveaway sounds awesome. Thanks for being so nice to your readers!
Kerry Duggan
I have a love/ hate relationship with coleslaw, depending on the type. The creamy kind is disgusting, when people ask why I don’t like it I just say “because it gets in my mouth”. Now a nice fresh,coarsely grated coleslaw with vinegar, a smidge of sugar and pepper… Yum! It’s a party in my mouth! Tangy, crunchy, refreshing, and so healthy.
rachelewang
Coleslaw–done right!–can be good. But finding yummy versions can be hard. But when I think about how much mayo is on it…ugh.
Marianne Crowe Loes
Cole slaw is yucky! Words for Worms is yummy (in a non-literal, more food for thought kind of way)!
Rachelle Butcher
Coleslaw homemade with lots of shrimp!
June
Coleslaw is so disgusting – I don’t know how anyone eats it. Granted, I’ve only touched in a couple of times. Perhaps I haven’t given it a fair chance?
Nah, it’s definitely gross.
Christine
There is a little cafe in my town that makes an Asian style slaw, with sesame oil and other ingredients of delicious goodness. It is the bomb, and converts all I-don’t-like-coleslaw adherents to mindless-coleslaw-eating-zombies within moments.
Does this mean I’m entered?
Sarah M
coleslaw is icky… too much mayo and such!
Charleen
Coleslaw is the worst thing ever. (Okay, that might be an exaggeration, but it’s definitely up there.)
AND I follow you on Twitter, AND I tweeted this post. Those Penguins shall be mine!
Lucinda Younce
Coleslaw I happen to love–sorry! However, more than that I love the joy and delight you share with all of us! I am so proud of you. I can live without coleslaw–but not without BOOKS!
bwithbooks
Coleslaw is not so fun… I’ve had the vinegar + the mayonnaise versions and I like none. Icky stuff.
I’ve tweeted this, FB’d it, Liked your page, wrote on the coleslaw debate and now this counts as a comment 🙂
Erica M.
My dear Katica…I usually love you and all your ranting awesomeness, but…but…coleslaw?! How could you dislike it?!! I am mystified. Truly. Concerned, even. (K…so I admit, there are some really bogus versions out there, but dude! Still goodness to be had. I recently just tried a version with grapes and poppyseeds. I was confused at first, but dang it if wasn’t the best ever!)
Darlene Overton
Crunchy coleslaw – an Asian style slaw/salad – is FABULOUS!!! And like so many other things, coleslaw can be good or bad depending on the recipe and the maker.
Love the give away. I enjoy Starbucks, Amazon, Penguins and eleventy- billion dollars.
Sharing now!
Cindy
I just like my mom’s coleslaw. But not enough to eat a whole serving of it.
I follow you on twitter & facebook. And I re-tweeted!
Happy 6 Month Anniversary and 100th Blog Post!
mrscrazypants
I think coleslaw rocks and I will happily eat your portion!! 🙂 xoxo
Natalie
Coleslaw is only delicious when it’s made from scratch and to my liking. KFC coleslaw– NO WAY JOSE! In fact, any chain restaurant’s coleslaw should be outlawed. However, my gramma’s coleslaw is amazing and she sometimes adds apple chunks to it. On a slightly related note, broccoli slaw is delicious, too! 🙂
It's A Dome Life
I didn’t like coleslaw until I was 27. True story. Then I liked it. Weird, right?
Lisa G
Like the cole slaw variety that is made with ramen noodles (yes, I understand I’m weird, you don’t have to tell me). And I love that so many people are reading this today! BTW, followed your suggestion and read A Redbird Christmas. Fannie Flagg makes my soul happy! And so do Penguins!
Katie Chamberlain
Cole Slaw is always, always, always 6 degrees past revolting! In fact, it should be outlawed.
justagirlslist
Coleslaw is definitely icky. No question about it. But you blog is awesome! Congratulations on your 100th post!!
Leah
Agreed: coleslaw is disgusting. I am always horrified when the boyfriend orders it as a side at restaurants. Why would you eat coleslaw when there are other options? He is baffling sometimes.
KC @ Average: More or Less
Coleslaw is icky and not just because you said so even though you saying so would be enough reason for me. Congrats on 100 posts!
carole
I want to like coleslaw. So I will try it from time to time. But I don’t like it. It is icky. 🙂
Kelly from Readlately.com
I’m allergic to coleslaw! Along with some more C’s – califlower, cabbage and carrots.
Alley
Coleslaw is delicious, especially when on a pulled pork sandwich. And when it’s not weird and watery. anyway yay for blogging for 6 months AND for hitting 100 posts.
alenaslife
Congrats on the 1/2 birthday. I dislike creamy coleslaw, but I make an excellent slaw with red & green cabbage, red onion and cilantro in red wine vinegar. Seriously, it’s good.
reformed marching band geek
Actually, coleslaw dressing is yummy on tortellini salad (cooked tortellini, cherry tomatoes, raw broccoli, and crispy bacon-mix with the dressing) 🙂
Congrats on 100 posts!
melissa
Coleslaw is icky by itself, but in my advanced years, i have developed an appreciation for a dollop on my bbq pulled pork sandwiches- the flavor combination is super yummy 🙂
everybvideos
I never really liked coleslaw that much 😛
lucysfootball
I am torn on coleslaw. I like it at certain establishments, but not others. And I don’t know what’s in the coleslaw I like that makes it likeable. But when it’s bad, it’s TERRIBLE. Blech.
Congrats on your 100 posts! Whoo-hoo!
loraliej
I don’t like coleslaw at all. I was helping this woman make a buttload of it for a wedding (not a fun story) and she kept telling me how awesome her coleslaw was and how everyone loved it. I told her that I didn’t like coleslaw and she said “That’s because you haven’t had mine. You will love mine.” Ummmm I helped you make it, I know that there wasn’t a magic super yummy ingredient added!
Congrats on 100 posts!
Jen
Coleslaw is wrong and I’m pretty sure it shouldn’t be counted as food.
Lyssapants
I actually like coleslaw in small amounts! So there!
I already follow you on the twitter, so I get two points.
RebeccaScaglione
1. Coleslaw – ewwww, not a fan.
2. Like my Facebook page! Done as Love at First Book
3. Share this post with your Facebook friends! – I’ll let you know if I do this one!!!!
4. Follow me on Twitter! Already following as @RebeccaScags
5. Tweet this post! Doneeee!!!
Heather
Coleslaw is quite icky.
Meg
1. Eleventy billion is my very favorite made-up number!
2. Cole slaw is okay as long is it’s prepared by me and thus not too sweet nor too mayonnaisey. Restaurant cole slaw is akin to the vomit of someone who’d just eaten a McChicken sandwich.
Meg
Oh, also I liked your FB page :). I don’t have Twitter or I’d tweet the crap out of ya…or however that sentence should be worded to sound correct and not vaguely sexual…
Kelly
1. Coleslaw–only likeable if it has the right dressing. And most restaurants (because who serves coleslaw at home?) do NOT have the right dressing.
2. I already follow-stalk you on Twitter, whoop whoop!
3. Am going to tweet this out right now!
Final side note: eleventy billion is my favorite number, and my husband cannot stand it when I use it to answer simple questions. (“What time is it?” “Eleventy billion o’clock.”)
Anna Grace Photography
Coleslaw is NASTY. It even smells bad 🙂
Sami
1. OK Coleslaw…Coleslaw traditionally is served here in Texas with BBQ and when done right is amazing. There is this cajun seafood place that serves a vinegar based one that is spicy and awesome! I think mayo based coleslaw has gotten a bad rap…never eat leftover coleslaw…it’s like never eating yellow sno…just don’t do it.
2. I already follow you on FB!! 🙂
3…Done…I shared. I’m going to tell my 4 yr old as to set an example.
4. I already follow you on Twitter: SamiAlford
5. I’m not really a tweeter…that sounds so wrong….but I’ll do it for you!
Sami
or SNOW…I believe sno is what comes in a cone with super healthy syrup during ridiculous Texas summers
Melissa
I like coleslaw when its good coleslaw but yeah, I would go for potato salad over slaw if choosing between the two. My husband and daughter love it but they are polish so maybe it is the cabbage thing. Anyway, coleslaw or not I love reading your blog! It always make me giggle and brightens my day!
Kristal
Coleslaw is one of my fab things ever, yummy! I’m making some for dinner tonight, true story!
Sarah Says Read
UGH, coleslaw makes me gag. It’s so gross. Though there is a funny episode in season 1 of Cougar Town where Bobby eats a whole tub of coleslaw and then can’t think straight cause his brain is all “mayonnaise-y”, and it’s hilarious.
Happy Half Blogoversary!!!
Heather Christena Schmidt
By coleslaw, you mean vomit slathered in mayonnaise, right?
Bitch, if I win I want my eleventy billion dollars!!