Spring Fever – Contest With Prizes!
Spring Fever! Got it, yet?
Spring has definitely sprung here in California. I’m seeing attractive, smiling women everywhere. I feel a spring in my step, for sure.
We all know spring fever is highly contagious, and here at Dad’s House I feel duty bound to help it spread.
Announcing a contest, with prizes. I Rocked the House, version 2. The theme, of course:
Spring Fever!
The idea: write a blog post that has you feeling feverish about spring. For instance:
- Spring romance
- Spring dating
- Spring fling
- Spring as a season for renewal
- Spring break sex
- Spring fashion
- Spring walks in the park
- Spring as a much needed end to winter
The post can be a story or advice. It can be funny, sexy, heartwarming, bold, irreverent. Whatever you want. Anything goes.
Any adult can enter this contest. You don’t have to be a single parent, or a parent, or single, or even a blogger. Just be willing to help spring fever spread. If you don’t have a blog, write your entry as a comment on this post. (Please try to keep it PG-13.)
The two or three best posts (as determined by me; bribes and kabitzing are definitely allowed; don’t you love the looseness of the rules?) will each win a $20 Amazon e-gift card. Categories will be determined after I see the entries (ha!) Every entry will get linked to in a roundup post.
Some of you will remember the previous I Rocked the House contest: Great First Dates and Horror Stories. It was totally fun. Ask Honey from Honey and Lance – she won a sweet gift card by telling us all about her Perfect First Date, a very sexy evening with a guy who then became her current boyfriend. (Proof there’s nothing wrong with first date sex!)
Note: Spring Fever contest entries do not have to be about sex!
Okay, are you getting spring fever yet? If you’re in, let us know in a comment below. Then go write your entry, and when it’s posted on your blog, come back and leave the permalink in a comment here.
Contest starts immediately, and ends on Thursday April 2, 2009 at Noon California time. If all goes well, I’ll announce winners on Friday April 3.
Spring fever – catch it!
Ed. Note: contest winners were announced here: Spring Fever Sex, Love, Nature, and a Rockin’ Mini-Van
- Sexy and Funny Dating Stories
- Nude in Chains (An Actual Date)
- Hot Date, Cold Approach
- Sexy Flirty Dirty Text Messages
- Backyard Sex, Wild Animal Edition
- Napa Sexy Wine Country Date
- Youtube: Gloria Estefan and Marc Anthony – Mi Tierra
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Comment by Andrea
| March 26th, 2009
Sounds like a fun little contest. However I’ve got nothing for:
Spring romance
Spring dating
Spring fling
Spring as a season for renewal (maybe…)
Spring break sex
Sometimes it sucks to be married. Bummer. Look forward to reading the entries though.
Andrea´s last blog post..Special Award(s) and MamaKat’s Writers Workshop
Comment by Lance
| March 26th, 2009
I’m down with this.
Lance´s last blog post..Give Freebies To Build Your Creative Portfolio
Comment by MindyMom
| March 26th, 2009
OK – I’m in. An I hope the weather gets springy soon for some inspiration! I’m off to the store now to prepare for our BLIZZARD!
MindyMom´s last blog post..An Anniversary & A Mom’s Night Out
Comment by katherine.
| March 26th, 2009
interesting…I’ll have to check out the previous contest…
katherine.´s last blog post..wordless wednesday ~ flores encantadoras
Comment by Shelle-BlokThoughts
| March 26th, 2009
Okay…I’m going to give it a go…but I have to go over and write it right now…or soon!
Anyway…I’m excited to read the other entries!
Shelle-BlokThoughts´s last blog post..LIVE: Oh NO! Not another BLOG to add to my blog reader Shelle!
Comment by dadshouse
| March 26th, 2009
Andrea – don’t let the sample categories limit you. You can do anything spring related. Looking forward to putting away sweaters and wearing more fun clothes? Got a good dating story from your past? Is there something inherent about marriage that takes the fever out of spring? etc. Have fun with it
Comment by junctionmama
| March 26th, 2009
I posted about spring just the other day, does that count? If not, I’m sure something else will come up…
junctionmama´s last blog post..Disoriented by all this free time…
Comment by Eathan
| March 26th, 2009
Of course I’m in. You have to have a interracial twist on it. ;)
Eathan´s last blog post..Speak Up Single Dads
Comment by anjeee
| March 26th, 2009
okay, i’ll give it a shot… but i don’t have a public blog, so i’ll have to leave it in your comments. you’re cool with that? any suggestions as to how long the post should be? it will be nice to have a little challenge to encourage/inspire me to write, especially with spring blooming, in so many ways.
~ anjeee
Comment by Shelle-BlokThoughts
| March 26th, 2009
Okay…it’s all posted…but I’m not sure WHICH category it would fall under and since I’m new to your blog…I feel awkward…
but I’m ashamed to say I’ll almost do anything to shop at Amazon without using my OWN money! :)
Shelle-BlokThoughts´s last blog post..LIVE: Oh NO! Not another BLOG to add to my blog reader Shelle!
Comment by Laura
| March 26th, 2009
Ah ok – got it now! I was totally confused :)
Laura´s last blog post..If you are going to lie make it good at least!
Comment by TentCamper
| March 26th, 2009
Oh….how the mind is a churnin.
I’ll think of something good.
TentCamper´s last blog post..the good old days
Comment by dadshouse
| March 26th, 2009
Junction Mama – absolutely! If your already-written post got your fever going, then drop the permalink here.
And for those of you who just aren’t feeling springy yet (some have said as much in email), or who aren’t in a relationship right now (that would be me) – just remember, we become what we think about. Thoughts manifest. I intend to write something that will propel my spring in a feverishly good direction.
Or maybe in a filthy direction. We’ll see!
Comment by The Exception
| March 26th, 2009
OOOO a contest about spring. Let’s see, I shall put on my shades, grab my flippy skirt and fun spring shoes (the kind I can kick off to run in the sand or the grass) and settle in to write something just as flirty and springy and as fun as I look!!
Comment by notasoccermom
| March 26th, 2009
What a great Idea! will have to get a fever on.
notasoccermom´s last blog post..Pulling out the power suit again
Comment by Andrea
| March 26th, 2009
Okay, I’ll play cause it seems all the cool kids are doing it. But I’ll need a day or two to work on it. I’ll be back.
Andrea´s last blog post..Special Award(s) and MamaKat’s Writers Workshop
Comment by cyndi
| March 26th, 2009
My mother discovered my blog which 100% precludes me from blogging about my last spring break, girls behaving very badly weekend that involved a 23 year old professional surfer from Scotland. Yeah, NOT willing to deal with that fall out. I’ll have to see what else I can come up with.
Comment by Canadian Bald Guy
| March 26th, 2009
My contribution is now up. The link is attached to this comment.
Enjoy!
(I hope)
Canadian Bald Guy´s last blog post..If you catch spring fever, do you need a shot?
Comment by Vinomom
| March 26th, 2009
So we just let you know via comments or email that our “official spring post” is in? I’m always up for some good old competition!
Vinomom´s last blog post..Yes Ma’am
Comment by dadshouse
| March 26th, 2009
Cyndi – tell your mom not to look. You have to tell that story!
Canadian Bald Guy – great, thanks!
Exception – love your flirty springy attitude.
Andrea and Notasoccermom – glad you’re joining in!
Vinomom – easiest for me if you leave a comment on this post. Sounds like you’re bringing some game!
Comment by Mark
| March 27th, 2009
Great idea! should prove to be fun, I will noodle this around over the weekend.
Mark´s last blog post..Spring Is In the Air – Time To Clean House
Comment by Shelle-BlokThoughts
| March 27th, 2009
Hey–You really need to get a Mister Linky going on…I’m having a hard time finding where I should put the link… :) But don’t let that surprise you…or maybe it doesn’t? Whatever.
http://blokthoughtsnmore.blogspot.com/2009/03/death-defying-heart-stopping-adrenaline.html
Shelle-BlokThoughts´s last blog post..Death Defying, Heart Stopping, Adrenaline Pumping ACTION!
Comment by Shelle-BlokThoughts
| March 27th, 2009
Okay I meant to write something witty AFTER I posted the link…but yea, pressed enter instead.
Anyway…let me know if I need to put it somewhere else. Thanks Much!
Shelle-BlokThoughts´s last blog post..Death Defying, Heart Stopping, Adrenaline Pumping ACTION!
Comment by TentCamper
| March 27th, 2009
I just posted a little something about Spring… http://ipitw.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-is-in-thewater.html
Gotta love Spring!
TentCamper´s last blog post..the good old days
Comment by Laura
| March 27th, 2009
Ok mine is up today :) http://www.harassedmom.co.za/?p=1811
Laura´s last blog post..Spring is in the air
Comment by Andrea
| March 28th, 2009
Alright. My entry is up :)
http://bloggingmama-andrea.blogspot.com/2009/03/young-love-in-nations-capital.html
Andrea´s last blog post..Young Love in the Nation’s Capital
Comment by dadshouse
| March 28th, 2009
Here is Cathouse Teri’s Spring Fever post:
http://cathouseteri.blogspot.com/2009/03/sweet-cherry-wine.html
Comment by MindyMom
| March 29th, 2009
Spring Fever post from Single Mom Says… for Dadshouse
http://singlemommindy.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-storms-growth.html
MindyMom´s last blog post..Spring, Storms & Growth
Comment by Melifera
| March 30th, 2009
I’ve just added a spring fever posting onto my blog. So count me in for your contest!
http://meliferasmusings.blogspot.com/2009/03/spring-fever-running-into-my-ex-and-lot.html
Happy spring!!
Melifera´s last blog post..Spring fever and my brand-spanking new rose-colored glasses.
Comment by krn
| March 31st, 2009
I’m in. Be gentle with me, Dad’s. This ‘lil masterpiece might explain why I don’t blog. I usually write long, dry, heavily referenced healthcare pieces and had no idea my other style was Cheesy Romance 101. LOL and uhhh, thanks for inspiring me. It was slightly cathartic, anyway.
Twelve Springs Eve
Tonight. Twelve years later. How strange that I feel so happy. Dressing with such care and confidence. For myself and for this man. This new man. This tall, strong man with the soothing voice and strangely perfect hands. Hands that I want to know.
I remember. So long ago. I wanted the other man to be sorry. Sorry for her. Sorry for thier children. Sorry for himself. Sorry for being dishonest to someone who had begun to trust him and care. We had built the beginning of something that might have been good. We had taken time. We had talked. Whispered secrets even, heads pressed together, eyes closed, bodies silently still, breathing a shared rate, slow rhythm. We had played and laughed and ate and sunned ourselves, side by side. Hand in hand.
Mindlessly, I traced the lines in the back of his hand with my finger slowly, gently, lovingly. That same hand, part of the man she promised to have and to hold ‘til death. A psychologist and loyal wife of over twenty-five years. Through coincidence, I learned of her. Their three children. The family home. The business he built to secure an easy future for them all. It was time to let him know that I knew and that it mattered to me and that I knew it mattered to them. It should have mattered to him, too. I wasn’t angry. Just sad. Sad about the emptiness, longing and selfishness that led him to me. Away from them.
Twelve years ago in the car, I rehearsed carefully chosen words. Locked my car, stood tall in my heels and walked with strength, confidence and purpose. To our favorite meeting place. Calm and focused, unaware of anything else, I walked the steps to him. When I felt someone grab my hand and catch me around the waist, instinctively I shot a sharp glance, a warning. I felt his eyes scan my legs, heard his flirtatious sigh.
But, it was Tony instead. Funny Tony. Questioning Tony. Tony with a friend. A stranger. With deeply intelligent, yet sparkling eyes. Eyes slightly creased by the sun. Or the wind. Or something else. Something other than time. Eyes locked. Breath held. Caught. We started to talk at the same time. Both of us stopped mid syllable. Laughed nervously. Smiled. Knew. Tony who would walk me down the aisle to him six months later. Squeezing my hand. Kissing it before placing it those hands. My husband’s hands. The hands that held mine and promised to stay ‘til death. The hands that like the other man I knew before him, took another woman’s hands and made other promises. While we were married. The father of my child’s hands did that. The hands that were the first hands to ever hold our tiny baby’s hands.
Tonight as I finish dressing, I wonder about this new man’s hands. The strangely perfect hands that I want in mine. I don’t want promises. I just want to trace the lines on the back of these new hands and listen to his soothing voice carefully. Carefully, yet happily, on this spring eve. Twelve Springs Eve.
Comment by dadshouse
| March 31st, 2009
Krn – beautiful, mysterious, flowing.. very nice.
Comment by Susan
| April 1st, 2009
Oh, my. One day to go. I’ll see what I can cook up in the next 24 hours!
I used to be so ahead of schedule…sigh. But I am getting better at whipping stuff up at last minute :)
Susan´s last blog post..I do, take two
Comment by Eathan
| April 1st, 2009
Well my Spring Fever post is up and it’s official.. I’m in the contest. Be aware that my post will get your blood pumping. (it had mine going) :D
P.S. Leave a comment please.
Eathan´s last blog post..Spring Fling ‘09
Comment by The Exception
| April 1st, 2009
Does this work – it is short but could only happen in spring:
A breeze blows lightly through the open window tickling bare skin as it moves across my body. I pull the quilt up a bit more and curl more closely to the warmth beside me. Eyes not open, I appreciate the moment – that moment before the day begins. I know that the sun is breaking through the clouds and peaking over the horizon. Its rays are adding depth and color to the world; the world which I am putting off for just a few more moments. The birds sing lightly and I breathe deeply. The smell of the morning, the dewy grass, and the refreshing breeze mix with the scent of human warmth. I stretch and role to face the body next to mine. A touch here, a nibble there, light kisses… warmth generated… Let the Day Begin…
The Exception´s last blog post..Still Waters Run Deep (or Whether or not I am a Flirt)
Comment by Janet
| April 1st, 2009
At long last…my post is up! :)
Great idea, David.
Janet´s last blog post..Lost and Found.
Comment by Honey
| April 2nd, 2009
Check yourself before you WRECK yourself:
http://honeyandlance.com/spring-chicken-birthday-celebrations
Honey´s last blog post..Spring Chicken: Birthday Celebrations!