BalletMet – Twitter  Contest

I am willing to share this with you even though it will decrease my chances of winning tickets  to BalletMets’s Midsummer Nights Dream… for Valentines Day 2010.

BalletMet – Twitter Contest

You tweet your worst Valentines Day. #BadVday   BalletMet

If you are on Twitter you can compete against me and anyone else for the worst Valentines Day ever.   Be sure to read the directions (in the link above.)   Basically you tweet your worst Valentines Day ever…  It started on February 1, 2010 and ends February 10, 2010, so we only have three days left… including today.    Creative writing time?  Or do you have a real bad Valentines Day you could recount in 140 characters, remember “be sure to include a reply to @BalletMet and the hashtag #BadVday.”

My bad Valentines Day?  I had to go back to unrequited love and a poorly decorated Valentines Day Box in 6th grade… Wonder if you just  tweet the same thing… or if some people in Columbus are using  I have to believe I am blocking something traumatic or at least bad  from  7th grade through 11th grade.   Or as an adult?  Maybe I will try some creative writing.

Today is the beginning of home buying season.  Super Bowl or the end of the professional football season is the kick off the home buying seaon according to a 2005 article in CNN.Money. com written by Sarah Max, CNN/Money senior writer:   Kick off! Game plan for home buyers

Columbus Ohio native, Harley Rouda Jr. was quoted in 2005:

“First and foremost you want to get pre-approved by a lender,” said Harley Rouda Jr., CEO of Real Living, one of the largest real estate firms in the Midwest, explaining that in markets where sellers get multiple bids, it’s critical to line up your financing before you make an offer.

That was  back in a sellers market right?  Yet it is probably more important for buyers to be pre-approved in 2010.  Could you get in a multiple offer situation today?  You betcha!

Lender recommendations on MaureenMcCabe.com

Columbus Ohio homes for sale SEARCH

Buckeye Chuck predicts an early spring… way to go Chuck!

This is a Real Living Ecard.  Happy Groundhogs Day!

It is good luck to say “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit”  first thing each month,  so ColumbusBestBlog.com tries to.

Superstition?  Magic?

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, Ground Hog!

Will we have six more weeks of winter in 2010?   That’s entirely up to Buckeye Chuck!  Will Buckeye Chuck see his shadow in 2010?  If the groundhog sees his shadow we get 6 more weeks of winter.  It scares him, he goes back in to sleep for 6 more weeks of winter.  If he does not we get an early spring.

We eat at the Polaris, Smokey Bones a lot. Officially the name of the Polaris area restaurant is Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill.

Smokey Bones has great coupons… In the Columbus Dispatch… Sunday Dispatch I assume. What does a Sunday Dispatch cost? Isn’t a “Buy One Entree, Get One Free” Coupon worth the cost of a Sunday paper?

I did not really know where the Smokey Bones coupons come from… The Columbus Dispatch, The Bag, in the mail, direct from some barbecue heaven…. but Dino the manager of Smokey Bones at Polaris said the Smokey Bones coupons are in the Columbus Dispatch. I don’t know when we started going to the Smokey Bones at Polaris. It is a chain* and it is not the only barbecue place in the Polaris area. Smokey Bones might not even officially be my favorite barbecue restaurant in the Polaris area but it is the barbecue restaurant we go to the most often because of those coupons.

I love their pulled pork…  I love their barbecue sauces.  I’d like to describe the flavors but sorry I am not a food blogger…

Smokey Bones at Polaris was our first choice last Saturday night. Their parking lot was jammed so we went to our second choice, Claddagh. Bad decision. We should have just waited for a table at Smokey Bones. I wrote a post about dinner Saturday night at  Claddagh on Discover Columbus OH another blog.

Recently I won a free happy hour at Smokey Bones for my office.   We went Thursday… It was a real small group from Real Living HER Worthington. I won the Free happy hour by putting a business card in a box (fish bowl… it’s a clear box)  in their lobby. A FREE happy hour is free appetizers, buy your own drinks. We had Fire Sticks (french fries dressed up), Nachos, Onion Rings… some little mini burgers.

Stimulating the local economy…

1. Buy a Columbus Dispatch

2. Pray for a Smokey Bones coupon

3. Visit Smokey Bones at Polaris -1481 Polaris Parkway Columbus OH 43240 ( Polaris Town Center  looks like it was made with Lincoln Logs, on the south side of Polaris Parkway)

4. Remember to put your business card in, in the box in the lobby for a drawing… your office could get lucky

5. Tell ‘em Maureen sent you

* Not being a food blogger I have the freedom to eat at chain restaurants and blog about it.

I really do not like their website but here’s the link –   Smokey Bones

Thanks to Dino, Rob (or Robb?) , Erin of Smokey Bones Polaris…