Thursday 31 October 2013

First Friday of Movember!

Another bout of the Friday blues: no 8 am Gold Digger! I didn't get to play at all the time around, and in fact, barely got a ring! I got through twice where it just rang and rang, once I was caller 5, and once I was caller 6. Those are the only times I remember getting through, despite calling for 95% of the times. Bah! Maybe Friday will be my lucky day after all!

Friday's schedule. I've added the $1000 Minute for those brave enough to try it (I am not).

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. If I hear it, I will tweet it.
6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - tickets to VSO
6:30 - Peak DYOB word
7-8 - Shore DMB
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word

7:00 - Virgin codeword (text it to 99999 to win $250)
7:09 - QMFM Paris
7:30 - Virgin $1000 Minute
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - Beat Punta Cana
8:15 - Peak DYOB Word 
9:15 - Peak DYOB word 
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:09 - QMFM Paris
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12-1 - Shore DMB 
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
12:15 - Peak DYOB word
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:09 - QMFM Paris
4-5 - Shore DMB
4:40
 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
6 to 7 - Shore DMB
6:40 - Jack Bahamas
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

Short and sweet today. Too tired to elaborate. More interesting posts coming after the Halloween hubbub is over. Barely keeping my eyes open right now...zzzzzzzz

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Halloween - frighteningly busy!


Yoiks! It's scary how busy these mornings are! Scary! 

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. If I hear it, I will tweet it.
6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - tickets to VSO
6-7 - Shore DMB
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution (expecting it early, before 2)
7:09 - QMFM Paris
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - CFOX Mind Your Manners
8:00 - Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - Beat Punta Cana
8:15 - Peak DYOB word
9-10 - Shore DMB
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
10:15 - Peak DYOB word
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:09 - QMFM Paris
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger

2:15 - Peak DYOB word
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3-4 - Shore DMB
3:09 - QMFM Paris
4:15 - Peak DYOB word
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
6 to 7 - Shore DMB
6:40 - Jack Bahamas
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

Don't forget to watch the Rock 101 "Now Playing" on their website for Revolution! And also listen to CFOX for them to play Mind Your Manners, played twice between 8 am and 8 pm.

Short and sweet today. Too tired to elaborate. More interesting posts coming after the Halloween hubbub is over.

As always, good luck! 

Tuesday 29 October 2013

What's up, Wednesday? Nice to see you!


Aaaaah, wonderful Wednesday. Wonderful in SO many ways - the day before Halloween, the middle of the week, etc. For OUR purposes, it means we only have three more days to get in on all of these draws! Fabulous trips await! Let's at least get in ONE draw, if not more!

Wednesday starts off the usual way:

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. The person who calls in to give the word wins Fan Jam tickets. If i hear the word i will tweet it (@contestsvan). When you hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win tickets to the Chad Brownlee concert at the Commodore. Both great prizes, but again, still holding out for $5000!

6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them. When you hear the words before 7 am, caller 10 wins tickets to the VSO's Cocktail Hour, Mad Men Era Music Nov 8-9. Nice. As much as I'd like this, I want to save my one win for either the Paris trip or the Punta Cana trip.


7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution (expecting it early, before 2, hopefully by 10!)
7:09 - QMFM Paris
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - CFOX Mind Your Manners
8-9 - Shore DMB
8:00 - Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - Beat Punta Cana
9:15 - Peak DYOB 
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:09 - QMFM Paris
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
1-2 - Shore DMB
1:30 - Peak DYOB
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2-3 - Shore DMB 
2:30 - Peak DYOB
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:09 - QMFM Paris
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
6 to 7 - Shore DMB
6:40 - Jack Bahamas
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

During down times, I will be listening to CFOX for Pearl Jam's distinctive song Mind Your Manners between 8 am and 8 pm. The Rules and Regs on their site say they will play it twice between 6 am and 10 pm, but Drex assures me that the contest runs only 8am to 8pm. The draws will be on Mondays  - only 10 people in each draw.* If I don't win a trip, the consolation prize rocks - two tickets to the Vancouver Pearl Jam concert! Sweet!

*note* you can only be in ONE draw, ONE time. That is, if you get into the first draw (and won tickets to the Vancouver show) but do not win the upgrade the following Monday, you CANNOT enter the subsequent draws. You had your chance, you won concert tickets, that's the end of the line for 30 days. Bummer for you, but great for all the people trying to get into the other draws!

In the meantime, I will be watching the iPad Corus App from 7 am to 7 pm for Rock 101 to play Revolution. Luckily, for this contest, you call in at the END of the song, so the few seconds lost during streaming doesn't matter. It gives me time to run to a radio and listen live. I NEED that trip to Vegas!!! However, I won't listen during the Robin Larose show, as I'm sure that even if I WAS caller 10, he'd tell me I was caller 8... 

Monday 28 October 2013

Tuesday's a-tizzy!


Hoooooo boy! Monday was buuuuuusy! But there's no rest for the weary - the rest of the week is equally busy! JRFM gets us started...

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. The person who calls in to give the word wins Fan Jam tickets. Follow me on Twitter to get the word if you miss it (today's word is TEA). Hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win tickets to the Chad Brownlee concert at the Commodore. Both great prizes, but again, still holding out for $5000!

6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them. When you hear the words before 7 am, caller 10 wins tickets to the VSO's Cocktail Hour, Mad Men Era Music Nov 8-9. Nice. As much as I'd like this, I want to save my one win for either the Paris trip or the Punta Cana trip.

6-7 - Shore DMB, Where Are You Going
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution
7:09 - QMFM Paris
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - CFOX Mind Your Manners
8:00 - Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - Peak DYOB
8:15 - Beat Punta Cana
9-10 - Shore DMB
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:09 - QMFM Paris
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12-1 - Shore DMB
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
12:30 - Peak DYOB
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:09 - QMFM Paris
3:45 - Peak DYOB
4:30 - Peak DYOB
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5-6 - Shore DMB
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
6 to 7 - Shore Buenos Aires
6:40 - Jack Bahamas
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

During down times, I will be listening to CFOX for Pearl Jam's distinctive song Mind Your Manners between 8 am and 8 pm. The Rules and Regs on their site say they will play it twice between 6 am and 10 pm, but Drex assures me that the contest runs only 8am to 8pm. The draws will be on Mondays  - only 10 people in each draw.* If I don't win a trip, the consolation prize rocks - two tickets to the Vancouver Pearl Jam concert! Sweet!

*note* you can only be in ONE draw, ONE time. That is, if you get into the first draw (and won tickets to the Vancouver show) but do not win the upgrade the following Monday, you CANNOT enter the subsequent draws. You had your chance, you won concert tickets, that's the end of the line for 30 days. Bummer for you, but great for all the people trying to get into the other draws!

In the meantime, I will be watching the iPad Corus App from 7 am to 7 pm for Rock 101 to play Revolution. Luckily, for this contest, you call in at the END of the song, so the few seconds lost during streaming doesn't matter. It gives me time to run to a radio and listen live. I NEED that trip to Vegas!!! Hopefully it'll be super early in the day so I can relax the rest of the day - it played late on Monday and I was stressed all day! GAH!!

Good luck, everybody!

My Weekend Rap Up (KCS style)

The weekend started
With a Halloween party.
Son was a pumpkin
Daughter, a zombie.

Hyped on sugar
Bedtime was a zoo
Mom and Dad going crazy
Kids too.

Saturday went trick or treating
At the stores in our 'hood
Community centre had a haunted house
It was all good.

Kids got to eat
As much candy as they could
Stomach aches oughtta teach 'em
At least I thought they would.

Sunday morning
The kids were jonesin'
Asking for candy before breakfast
And I ain't jokin'!

I said NO
They got mad
And made a fort in the living room
And I was glad.

Later, took 'em to Kits beach
Where the sun was grand
Threw rocks in the ocean
Played in the sand.

Nothing like fresh air and exercise
To keep them in shape
My backup plan
Was to wrap them in duct tape!

Sunday 27 October 2013

New this week

While the song remains the same for Gold Digger, 5 for 5 words, DYOB, Bahamian Odyssey, and Sonic's NYE trip, there are a few noteworthy additions to the schedule.

Firstly, The Peak's DYOB trip this week is to Whistler for Cornucopia, the food porn fest. The trip is from Nov 15-17, Friday - Sunday, and includes "some" tickets to events. There are OODLES of events taking place, so hopefully you get more than one or two pairs of tickets. I checked the Cornucopia site and event tickets are NOT cheap! It would be worth the trip just to stay at the Pan Pacific Mountainside for 2 nights though! So I will be entering these draws with you, fully expecting to NOT win. LOL!

Second item of note is the QMFM trip to Paris for the Celine Dion concert. Now, I'm not a big fan of Celine, but I would be thrilled to go see her in Paris! Thrilled! Or else I'd scalp the tickets and go up the Eiffel Tower instead, except that I'd probably get ripped off because I don't speak French and am unfamiliar with the value of the Euro. LOL! However, the thoughtful folks at Bell Media are including $500 spending money! Very nice! So that will at least pay for some bread and cheese (I hear Paris is expensive!) ;) You have 3 chances per day to get into the draw for this, and there will be only ONE winner. Everyone in the draw wins Celine's CD. More thoughts on that in my "Bell Media upping the ante" post.

Another addition this week is the Punta Cana trips that The Beat is giving away. There are 20 trips total, one given away to caller 94 each weekday. The cue to call will happen at 8:10, but I personally won't start calling until 8:20, as I expect them to drag this out too. It would be a wonderful getaway, but this too is at an adults-only resort. Winning this would require flying in a family member to care for the kids while we are away. Spend a little, get a LOT! Totally worth it...

Last but certainly not least is Shore's trip to Buenos Aires to see the Dave Matthews Band on December 14th! Flights, four hotel nights, tickets to the concert, and a sightseeing tour. Merry fricking Christmas!!! Listen for DMB's Where Are You Going and call in to get into the draw. Caller 9 gets it! I will post and Tweet the times for it each day, so check back for daily schedules...

And as always, good luck everybody!

Schedule Oct 28th to Nov 1st


5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. The person who calls in to give the word wins a prize. When I know what that prize is, I will update this post. Follow me on Twitter to get the word if you miss it. Hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win a different prize. This week they are awarding Fan Jam tickets and tickets to a concert at the Commodore. Both great prizes, but I don't know which will be awarded when. We will know tomorrow!

6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them. When you hear the words before 7 am, caller 10 wins tickets to the VSO's Cocktail Hour, Mad Men Era Music Nov 8-9. Nice.

7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word

7 to 8 - Shore Buenos Aires - Where Are You Going, DMB
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution

7:09 - QMFM Paris
7:30 - Peak DYOB word - Whistler, Nov 15-17 plus Cornucopia tix
7:40 - Jack Bahamas

8:00 - CFOX Mind Your Manners
8:00 - Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - Beat Punta Cana
9:40 - Jack Bahamas

10 to 11 - Shore Buenos Aires
10:15 - Peak DYOB word
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger

11:09 - QMFM Paris 
11:15 - Peak DYOB word
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5

2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3 to 4 - Shore Buenos Aires
3:09 - QMFM Paris 
3:15 - Peak DYOB word
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw

6 to 7 - Shore Buenos Aires
6:40 - Jack Bahamas
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

During down times, I will be listening to CFOX for Pearl Jam's distinctive song Mind Your Manners between 8 am and 8 pm. The Rules and Regs on their site say they will play it twice between 6 am and 10 pm, but Drex assures me that the contest runs only 8am to 8pm. I hope to get into the draw for the trip to Australia to see Pearl Jam! The draws will be on Mondays  - only 10 people in each draw.* If I don't win a trip, the consolation prize rocks - two tickets to the Vancouver Pearl Jam concert! 
Sweet!

*note* you can only be in ONE draw, ONE time. That is, if you get into the first draw (and won tickets to the Vancouver show) but do not win the upgrade the following Monday, you CANNOT enter the subsequent draws. You had your chance, you won concert tickets, that's the end of the line for 30 days. Bummer for you, but great for all the people trying to get into the other draws!

In the meantime, I will be watching the iPad Corus App from 7 am to 7 pm for Rock 101 to play Revolution. Luckily, for this contest, you call in at the END of the song, so the few seconds lost during streaming doesn't matter. It gives me time to run to a radio and listen live. I NEED that trip to Vegas!!! However, I won't listen during the Robin Larose show, as I'm sure that even if I WAS caller 10, he'd tell me I was caller 8... 


Good luck, everybody!

Oct 27th 5 for 5 words are here!

Here are all of the 5 for 5 words that I collected this week. For some reason the last one wouldn't display. It's MOOLAH.

Monday, October 21 : 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Tuesday, October 22: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Wednesday, October 23: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Thursday, October 24: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Friday, October 25: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Saturday, October 26: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Sunday, October 27: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm

Saturday 26 October 2013

Bell Media upping the ante!

Are you bummed out because you don't get to go to Mexico with Mike and Tara? Are you sad you didn't win the trip to Vegas from the Beat? Well, Bell Media has a consolation prize for you - a trip to Paris to see Celine Dion! (I know, I know. But if you have to sit through a Celine concert, PARIS is the place to do it!!!)

The down side: there is only ONE trip to be won. Starting Monday October 28th, you get 3 chances per day to get into the draw. Every weekday at 7:09, 11:09, and 3:09, listen for the cue to call. If you're the correct caller (10?), you are in the draw. Oh, and you also get a copy of Celine's CD, which I personally probably won't pick up if I win it, as it would cost more in gas to drive to the studio to pick it up than I would spend just buying the CD. Ha ha.

The winner will be announced at 7:09 on Tuesday November 12th, so there will be about 30 people in the draw - pretty good odds! If you are the lucky winner, you will be in Paris for Celine's concert at the Palais Omnisport de Paris Bercy on November 30th. You also get $500 spending money, which may or may not cover your taxes and flight insurance that you may have to pay for your trip.

If you DON'T win the trip, I'm not sure if winning the CD precludes you from winning anything else from Bell Media for 30 days. I will find out and keep you in the loop. If you can't win for 30 days, I will be giving this draw a miss - I'd rather try to win a trip to the Dominican Republic!

The Beat steps in to provide us with new hope for a warm getaway, and not just ONE winner! Taking over from Mike and Tara's Mexico trip (which I didn't win, boo!), this trip is to Punta Cana with Holly, Jonny, and Nira. It's to an adults-only all-inclusive 5 star resort. Thank you, Transat Holidays and Uniglobe Travel!!!

The Beat has informed me via Twitter that there are 20 trips to be given away (TWENTY!!!) and the trip will take place in January. It would be wonderful to have something like that to look forward to!

So, Bell Media, please advise: if I win a Celine CD but not the grand prize on QMFM, am I allowed to win a Punta Cana trip on The Beat? The Rules and Regs on The Beat's site imply that you canNOT win for 30 days on an on-air contest but you CAN win on an on-line contest if the prize is worth more than $1000. But this is not an on-line contest, sooooo... ???

Friday 25 October 2013

This one time at band camp...

...no, no, no. Wrong story. This one time at Virgin Radio's Fake Film Festival, I had occasion to sit on a couch next to Nat, who was talking to Scooter. I must have been giving off some nasty vibes that night because both of them looked at me like I had barf on my costume before I even said anything. Yes, I was in the VIP section, no, I was not a VIP. Yes, I had a mask on, no, I wasn't drunk.

These poor radio people must constantly be harassed and approached by strangers as they are going about their daily lives, trying to blend in. But many people know what they look like thanks to their faces being plastered on the TV. Oh, and the fact that they were the announcers at their own party. Then there's that.

I'd had a bit to drink (okay, a lot) but the fact that I can remember it speaks to how sober I was! Things get a little blurry later (I probably drank more later so I'd forget what happened), and I don't actually remember the cab ride home. But I digress...

I was having a blast! If you've never been to the Fake Film Festival, you absolutely MUST try to win your way in! It's the only way to get in, short of shooting a ridiculously amazing 60 second film that scores you a spot on the Elite List. That will never be me. So I win the tickets, which they generously dole out for the month or two before the party.

And what a party! It's two hours of mingling and dancing and FUN! And as soon as the prizes are awarded, POOF! It's over, and the venue turns into a nightclub and all the Fake Film people disappear. Which is fine, and probably preferable, since you've already spoken to and perhaps offended most of the approachable people at the party.

So there I was, masked and happy, probably grinning like a fool, trying to think of something clever to say to Nat. Nope, I had nothing. I really should have something clever prepared for such occasions, but this is only a recent realization. I eventually managed some garbled sentence puctuated by giggles as I looked at the floor between our feet, and as I looked up with hope, somewhat like a lost puppy, I saw the looks on their faces. They were not impressed. Nat politely nodded and half smiled, while Scooter just stared blankly at me as if I hadn't spoken. Mercifully someone else whom they knew joined them and distracted their attention long enough for me to skulk away.

Before having kids, I think Nat and I could have been friends. I was very much like her, and even now as I listen to her stories I can hear myself telling similar ones in a time long since passed. Now I find myself relating more with Drew, especially as his daughter grows and he talks about the challenges he often faces with parents, parenting, and relationships. I especially love to hear what Erin has to say! I GET her, even though I'm nothing like her. I appreciate the person she is, and I value her thoughts about parenting because I think she has great views and advice, even if I don't agree with some of it for MY own situation (lax parenting style).

And I can't WAIT to see them at the next Fake Film Festival! I'm going armed with a list of anecdotes, clever ice breakers, and breath mints! And of course my cell phone, so I can pretend to get a call if I get tongue tied again...

Weekend "What's Up?"

What's up for this weekend? Not much. Unless you're a Robin Thicke fan (not so much).

The Beat is stepping up to get us contesting throu the weekend with tickets to the Robin Thicke concert all weekend long. Jessie J. may be the biggest draw - I know people bought tickets just to see HER. So if you want to see one or both, listen to ther Beat all weekend long. The first tickets are given away at 12:10, and then every ten-past-the-hour until 9:10, both Saturday and Sunday.

I'm not especially interested in either, and don't want to waste a win on THAT when there is a trip to Punta Cana on the line!!! Starting on Monday Oct 28th, be caller 94 and you instantly win the trip. The cue to call happens at 8:10, but I won't actually start dialing until 8:17 (that's an extra 7 minutes I can use to get my kids ready for school!)

Again, no details could be found on the site so I don't know when the trip will happen, but does it matter?? Just knowing that you're going will ease the bone-chilling ache of winter! Dreaming of Dominican Republic...aaaaaah.... Oh yeah, you have to go there with Holly, Jonny, and Nira, but that doesn't mean you have to hang out with them.

:D

*Update*

It's now Saturday morning and I just saw on Twitter that Sonic is still taking qualifiers for the Vegas NYE trip! How could I have missed THAT?!?! Dropped the ball. Sorry! So tune in all weekend for the cue to call: 8:10, 12:10, 5:10, and 8:10 pm. WOOT!!!

Thursday 24 October 2013

No new beginnings, only endings

The morning starts out the same as Thursday. This may be your last chance for many of these prizes, so if you had your heart set on any of them best set your alarm!

The JRFM Secret Word prizes will change next week, as will the QMFM Wake Up and Win prize. Also, today is the last day to get in on the trip to Mexico with Mike and Tara. Boo! They would be fun to hang with at the pool. Shore's Lumineers in Paris contest is also over, but I can't find any info on their site as to when they are doing the draw. Maybe tomorrow? Hopefully they have a World Stage #6 contest starting next week with another fabulous trip to someplace exciting!

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. Win Lions game tix to give them the word. follow me on Twitter to get the word if you miss it. Hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win Johnny Reid Xmas show tickets. 


6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them. When you hear the words before 7 am, caller 10 wins a West Coast Women's Show prize pack. 

7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word

7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - Peak DYOB word
8:15 - QMFM Mexico - Last chance to win this trip! :(
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
10:30 - Peak DYOB word 
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
1:30 - Peak DYOB word 
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:30 - Peak DYOB word
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

During down times, I will be listening to CFOX for Pearl Jam's distinctive song Mind Your Manners from 6 am to 10 pm. Drex assures me that the contest runs only 8am to 8pm, so maybe I won't start really listening until 8. I hope to get into the draw for the trip to Australia to see Pearl Jam! There will be draws on the next 4 Mondays - only 10 people in each draw* (the song is played twice each weekday)! If I don't win a trip, the consolation prize rocks - two tickets to the 
Vancouver Pearl Jam concert! Sweet!

*note* you can only be in ONE draw, ONE time. That is, if you get into the first draw (and won tickets to the Vancouver show) but do not win the upgrade the following Monday, you CANNOT enter the subsequent draws. You had your chance, you won concert tickets, that's the end of the line for 30 days. Bummer for you, but great for all the people trying to get into the other draws!

Good luck today! May the odds be in your favour! And let me know if you win!!!

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Thursday could be tricky


It turns out that while Thursday looks much like Wednesday, it is, in fact, much busier! With the addition of a new obsession - a trip to Australia to see Pearl Jam - the day is somewhat more tricky.

As yesterday:

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. follow me on Twitter to get the word if you miss it. Hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win Johnny Reid Xmas show tickets. I slept in this morning but will try to catch it tomorrow.

6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them. When you hear the words before 7 am, caller 10 wins a West Coast Women's Show prize pack. 


7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution - I screwed this up on Wednesday so I will be on alert till 7 pm!
7:00 - Shore Ho Hey
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - QMFM Mexico
9:00 - Shore Ho Hey
9:15 - Peak DYOB word
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
12:15 - Peak DYOB word
1:30 - Peak DYOB word
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:00 - Shore Ho Hey
4:15 - Peak DYOB word 
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:00 - Shore Ho Hey
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas


During down times, I will be listening to CFOX for Pearl Jam's distinctive song Mind Your Manners from 6 am to 10 pm. I hope to get into the draw for the trip to Australia to see Pearl Jam! There will be draws on the next 4 Mondays - only 10 people in each draw (the song is played twice each weekday)! If I don't win any of the four trips, the consolation prize rocks - two tickets to the Vancouver Pearl Jam concert! Sweet!


In the meantime, I will be watching the iPad Corus App from 7 am to 7 pm for Rock 101 to play Revolution. Luckily, for this contest, you call in at the END of the song, so the few seconds lost during streaming doesn't matter. It gives me time to run to a radio and listen live. I NEED that trip to Vegas!!!

Good luck today! May the odds be in your favour! And let me know if you win!!!

Did I ever tell you about the time...

... I met Clay and Karen from JRFM? No? Well, let me tell you what happened!

Years ago, maybe 8 or 9 years ago, they had people come into the station to plug their businesses on air. It was free advertising, and my then-boyfriend and I had just opened a store. We desperately needed some exposure, and jumped at the chance to tell people about our little business! So I called in, we made an appointment, and were on air that week (or the next, I don't remember).

We were poorer than poor. The rent at the store was ridiculous ($2100 as I recall) and we barely had two nickels to rub together. We spent little, and earned less. I was working full time but making only $1400/month and he was trying to get the store up and running.

Clay and Karen had asked people to bring them gifts (bribes, I believe they called them). Did I mention we were poor? Yeah, well, when you think of the poorest you've ever been, we were poorer. So we did the only thing we COULD do: we bought them gifts at the thrift shop (what would YOU have done?) I remember I bought Karen a folding stool with a cooler underneath, thinking she could use it at Merritt Mountain Music Fest. I bought Clay a leather shirt/jacket, which would have been great if he were a hippie. He is not. Far from it. He cast it aside in thinly veiled disgust, and made some comment about donating it to the homeless. Karen was more gracious, at least saying thank you and saying (if only in jest) that she would use it.

Later that week, after everyone had gone through, they evaluated their haul: the best presents they got were booze. Well, DUH! Upon hindsight, which is always 20/20, we should have pooled our nickels and bought them beer. BEER! I don't know WHAT we were thinking, except that we didn't have any money and a measly 6 pack would look bad. Or maybe it just didn't cross our minds to take alcohol into a studio. Whatever the case, I left there feeling degraded. And ashamed.

My wonderful boyfriend turned it around for me: as we walked back towards our car, he non-chalantly proposed! He tossed me a little bag with a lovely box in it, and said "I wanted to do this on air but I chickened out: will you marry me?"

And that's the only thing I want to remember about that day. <3

Tuesday 22 October 2013

Winning Wednesday!


W is for Winning! Maybe it didn't happen yet, but you're definitely due for a win. You've already taken the first step - reading my blog!! Sometimes we all need a little help, and that includes Lady Luck. So here's what is happening on Wednesday (looks a lot like Tuesday, I know!)

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word. follow me on Twitter to get the word if you miss it. Hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win Johnny Reid Xmas show tickets. What an awesome prize! I am seriously considering saying f$&k it to the $5000 and calling in for these tickets!!! I love Johnny Reid. I met him once, when I won meet and greet passes for his show. I made a complete ass of myself (won't share details and he probably wouldn't remember it, but I am ashamed of myself!) It would be nice to replace that horrid memory with something pleasant. *sigh*

6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them. When you hear the words before 7 am, caller 10 wins a West Coast Women's Show prize pack. I'd be interested if it wasn't in Abbottsford...


6:45 - Peak DYOB word
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution - I probably won't tune in until after 10, when the morning DJ is done. He already gave away the trip, now it's the next DJ's turn.
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - QMFM Mexico
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:15 - Peak DYOB word
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
1:30 - Peak DYOB word
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:45 - Peak DYOB word
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

It will be great when you finally get in on some of these draws so you can cross those ones off your daily list! This list doesn't even include the CFOX Pearl Jam trip. I will look into that when I have some time (as you can see, I'm BUSYYYYYYYY!!!) ;) 

Good luck today! May the odds be in your favour! And let me know if you win!!!


T is for Tuesday Trips!


Here's today's schedule. Who's with me?! Let's win something fun!!!

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word (UNREASONABLE) - hear it said live btwn 7 and 9, call in to win Johnny Reid Xmas show tickets. What an awesome prize! Wish I didn't need $5000, I would try to win this myself! But as long as that $5000 carrot is dangling in front of me, I don't want to win anything else on JRFM. Drat! I love Johnny Reid...

6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words - watch my Twitter feed, I will post them when I hear them.
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution - I start watching their website now and refresh every 3 minutes. It happened around 2:25 yesterday, so I predict an early one today.
7:30 - Peak DYOB  7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - QMFM Mexico
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
10:30 - Peak DYOB
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:30 - Peak DYOB 
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
3:30 - DYOB 
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas

Good luck today! May the odds be in your favour! And let me know if you win!!!

;) 

Sunday 20 October 2013

Just another Manic Monday...

...ooOOooh, I'm glad it's not Sunday...

Today was nice: contested a little (it can be a verb, right??), then spent the afternoon with my kids. Well, kind of. I took them to the candy store then let them eat it all while watching TV. That's parenting...of a sort! Anyway, it was nice to take a break from all the contests before tomorrow's mayhem! Have a look and see what's in store:

5:40 - JRFM Secret Word
6:00 - QMFM Wake Up and Win Words
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
7:05 - Rock 101 Revolution
7:40 - Jack Bahamas
8:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
8:10 - Sonic NYE in Vegas
8:15 - QMFM Mexico
8:15 - Peak DYOB
9:15 - Peak DYOB
9:40 - Jack Bahamas
11:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
11:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
11:40 - Jack Bahamas
12:15 - Peak DYOB
2:00 - JRFM 5 for 5
2:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
2:40 - Jack Bahamas
4:15 - Peak DYOB
4:40 - Jack Bahamas
5:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word
5:00 - Virgin Gold Digger
5:15 - Peak DYOB draw
7:00 - JRFM 5 for 5 word

Holy SH!T. Throw in a few times to qualify for Sonic (don't know yet how often they will do it but my guess is 8:10, 12:10, 4:10 and 8:10. I hope.) and also all-day listening for Revolution on Rock 101.

Sooooo...guess my little guy will be watching me work most of the day! But as I have some successes, the week will get easier. I hope to qualify for the Jack and Sonic trips early so I can relax for a few weeks! There are two weeks left of Gold Digger, and at least one more week (if not two) for QMFM Mexico trip. I will be taking the week off for the Peak DYOB, as I'm not really interested in going to Penticton and I want to save my possible win for a different trip. I've got my fingers crossed that there's one coming up for the Island!!! But I may try to catch the words for any Twitter followers that might want them... but as you can see, my day is pretty full... LOL!


Here are the 5 for 5 words I collected this week

Monday, October 14 : 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Tuesday, October 15: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Wednesday, October 16: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Thursday, October 17: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Friday, October 18: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Saturday, October 19: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm
Sunday, October 20: 7am
11am
2pm
5pm
7pm