Dear Everyone,

I'm counting "everyone" to be everyone who reads this blog.  It has recently come to my attention that I have surpassed 5,000 views of this blog.  This is both lame because this whole blog thing has been going on for about a year now, and a bit amazing seeing as I only really have about 15 people who actually consistently read this thing (and maybe I am related to 6 of them).

This is exciting.  Here is a facial expression to match that emotion:

Adorably, I might add.  

What is even more exciting than this?  A giveaway.  I will be giving away something.  I'm not going to tell you what that thing is just yet.  Because - This giveaway will not be occurring until I have surpassed 10,000 pageviews.  

So the way I see it, you have two options:

1)  Check my blog obsessively several times a day so that the total number of pageviews that I have goes up.  5,000 more pageviews divided by 15 people is about 333.3 pageviews per loyal reader.  Are you willing to wait until each of my readers has done this to find out what it is?  I promise, it will be something absolutely awesome that you will wish you had had in your life way earlier than this.  It will be something of actual value.  

2)  Tell someone else about my blog.  That's right folks, I'm going public.  As in, I am going slightly more public than I am currently.  In that I am trying to reach a wider audience.  If you think your friend will need a little convincing, tell them about the time I wrote a letter to a television.  Or the time I made a stupid comic out of my family.  Or maybe about the time I saved my family from a raging fire.  And the infamous one-girl-dance-parties, are a must-read, if I do say so myself (conceit is  fact of life here, people).  Or on the more serious side (as if I have one of those), you could suggest about my thoughts on children, or on how everyday life can be awesome.

To keep morale up, (as I suspect even with this big (awesome) promotional event, it will still take close to a billion years for us to make it to 10,000 views), I will be giving away a hint about what the awesome giveaway will be every time that another thousand milestone is passed. (If you're interested, you can see the number of pageviews by scrolling all the way to the bottom of my blog).  

Okay so Go! Go! GO! Grab your gopeds, gokarts, and gondolas and vote for Gigi Gamboa for Valencia Secretary*.  I mean, go do whatever you want.  

*May or may not have been the last line of my sixth grade speech to be the secretary of my elementary school's student council.  Which I won be tee dubs.  

Your adorkable bloggy friend, 

G


P.S.  I've gone back and forth about a billion times on whether or not I want to do this, so be kind.  Give me the Benefit of the Doubt.