This lady emailed me awhile ago asking me to basically hype up a product for her. It was a pretty generic message…didn’t even have my first name on it, so I disregarded it with a “hmph”. Yesterday she emailed back again, still generic, still no name, asking me to let her know if there “are any other materials you need at this time?” Any other materials?
I decided to have some fun with this.
I told her indeed I would need a sample of her product to give away to one of my readers in a contest, in addition to a sample for me to keep. After all, how can I hype a product I know nothing about? Then for kicks and giggles I threw in that I’d like 100 dollars cash. Hey! Why not. Maybe this is how the big timers do it. I’m playing hard ball now.
I really wasn’t expecting a reply, but she emailed me back today saying they’d be more than happy to supply two samples of their product…a $460 value (seriously?), but unfortunately could not provide me with a hundred dollars cash (dang.)
Is she for real? Does she think I’m Oprah? Like all I have to do is tell you guys something is great and you’re all gonna jump up and go buy it? Do I have that much clout? I don’t even know what clout MEANS. Anyways she left numbers for me to contact her…and I can find out if she’s really some spammer from Africa trying to get me to send travellers checks overseas (yeah, I watched that Oprah…not getting me!) or is she’s seriously just trying to promote her company.
If she IS legit…should I do it? Do you guys want to have a contest where you can win something worth 230 dollars? You’d have to read a post (doused in sarcasm I’m sure) about why I think it’s great…but for free stuff?? Why not. It’s killing you to not know what it is, isn’t it??
So what do you think??
Sounds like time for a poll to me!!!!!
ps I forgot to add the directions for the recipe in the post below this one:
Ravioli Lasagna
1 jar red pasta sauce
1 family sized package (20 ounces) refrigerated cheese or meat ravioli
1.5 Cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 Cup shredded carrots (gross)
1 Cup thinly sliced cooked turkey sausage
Preheat oven to 375. Coat a 9 inch square baking dish and one side of a foil sheet with non stick cooking spray.
Spread a few spoonfuls of the pasta sauce in the bottom of the dish. Top it with one layer of ravioli (let their edges touch but not overlap). Top the ravioli with half of the veggies and half of the cheese as well as the turkey sausage. Repeat the layers once more, ending with the cheese. (You will probably have some leftover ravioli, which you can cook separately for pickier eaters.)
Cover the lasagna tightly with the foil, sprayed side down. Cook it for 1 hour, and remove the foil for the last five minutes of baking.
