1. Sandalwood Vanilla candles from Bath & Body Works
2. college football
3. fall (I LOVE IT SO MUCH)
4. hearing the little man laugh
5. laughing with someone who shares my (admittedly odd) sense of humor
6. clean sheets
7. going to Steinmart(s) alone
8. taking a road trip with my hubby
9. great music
10. The Office
11. friends who have known me forever and love me anyway
12. getting the house ready for company
13. an entire day spent in pajamas
14. The Sweeney Sisters
15. Kristen Wiig
16. coffee with two Equals and half & half
17. Popeye’s
18. purpose
19. diet Coke on ice
20. haircut and highlights
21. singing. loudly.
22. Mentholatum
23. Krispy Kreme original glazed
24. the beach
25. family

You?

Here are the five lucky (PROVIDENTIAL) winners of Matt Wertz‘s great new CD Under Summer Sun (along with a fayncee t-shirt):

1 – Shane
36 –One Beloved Sister
51 – diXymiss
77 – Catherine
126 – Deanna

Winners, if you’ll send me an email with your name and mailing address, I’ll forward that info to the nice people who are shipping your prizes.

And if you didn’t win but would still like to own the CD, you can find it right here or right here.

Congratuations, everybody!

Well, I found tonight’s episode of “The Office” to be delightful in most parts, a little frustrating in others, and just plan weird at times (um, hello? Toby? In the hospital? Sort of bizarre). However, there were plenty-o-memorable moments.

1. Dwight hammering the apple into the vending machine.

2. “What up, 212?”

3. “Under my Ange-rella, ella, ella, hey, hey…”

4. “Dangerous. Tacky. Sharks. Haunted.”

5. “I’ll marry you in the eye of a hurricane in the middle of a snowstorm on top of a monsoon,” OH GOD BLESS HIM.

6. Dwight kicking the cheesecake.

7. Ryan’s back. And Kelly Kapur likes him.

8. “…and you burned over a thousand calories walking home…PHYLLIS NANCE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.”

9. “Andy Bernard does not lose contests. He wins them, or he quits them. Because they’re unfair.”

And finally:

10. WHO KNEW A QUICK STOP WOULD BE THE SIGHT OF PURE MAGIC?

So. What did y’all think?

Many of y’all know that one of my primary objectives in life (okay. maybe not “primary.” perhaps I’m overstating it. but still.) is to find great music that I can listen to even when there are kids in my car. And it’s certainly not that I have any objections to music that features the song stylings of high-pitched puppets, but I hit sort of hit my limit with that stuff when the young’un was around three.

So, if I had to succinctly state my musical goals, they would be as follows: 1) great music 2) no puppets 3) family friendly lyrics 4) good beat, can dance to it.

I’m not even kidding about number four.

About a year ago I heard a guy named Matt Wertz for the first time. I found him to be oh-so-enjoyable, but for whatever reason, I never transferred his music from iTunes to my iPod, which means it wasn’t getting any playing time in the car. Playing time in the car is critical to entering our family’s music rotation since that’s when we do the majority of our listening and singing and dancing.

Yes, I said “dancing.” I can flat-out break it down at a stoplight, y’all.

Anyhoo.

Back in June I finally put the Matt Wertz tuneage (totally a word) on my iPod, we listened to him all summer long, and we are officially fans. No, we’re Fans. FANS. Love his music so much.

Last week the talented Mr. Wertz released a new CD called “Under Summer Sun.” It’s not only safe for little ears, but it’s also a perfect soundtrack for a date night with your fella. In fact, it’s especially perfect for a date night with your fella, and if you’ve ever headed out for a date night only to have the Veggie Tales blare at you when you turn on the CD player, then you understand why appropriate music is a critical component of the date night process.

Because “O Where Is My Hairbrush” doesn’t really add a whole lot of ambience to a romantic night on the town.

So.

If you’d like to win one of five signed copies of Matt Wertz’s oh-so-excellent “Under Summer Sun” along with a free t-shirt (FAYYYYYYYYN-CEE), here’s all you have to do:

1. Go to iTunes or Amazon.

2. Listen to the song previews.

3. Come back here and tell me which clip you like the most.

4. The end.

I’ll leave this giveaway open until noon Thursday, September 25, and at that point I’ll turn over the proceedings to the fine random number generator over at random.org.

Happy music, y’all!

This giveaway is now closed.