Hold The Phone! It’s Slanket Time!

My goodness, what an odd evening. I’ll come to that in a minute but first… news!

The Sleep Deprivation Carnival!! Wow – what a response! I’ve had dozens and dozens of submissions via the comments and email, thank you all so much! And from all round the world too. I’m going to have to start calling this the (probably) World’s First INTERNATIONAL Sleep Deprivation Carnival. The UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, all across Europe – a veritable feast of multicultural bleariness.

There’s been an amazing variety of stories and experiences coming in which was just what I was looking for. Hopefully, once it’s up and running, the posts from the Carnival will provide a permanent refuge and resource for all the world’s sleep deprived looking for a bit of advice and solidarity.

Pretty awesome I think you’ll agree. But that’s not the best part.

No the best part is what happened to me earlier this evening.

It’s a normal evening. I’m amusing myself being my usual random and slightly annoying self on Twitter. And I happen to mention the rather amazing discovery that I had just made via a lovely friend on Facebook. The discovery of THIS:

I know.

Isn’t it the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen??!

I thought so too. It is a Slanket. A blanket. With sleeves.

Anyway. Innocently tweeting about the fabulous Slanket, I soon found myself at the root of a veritable Twitter frenzy as news of the Slanket spread like wild fire through a Slanket factory.

EVERYONE wanted one. Well, almost everyone.

By the time I had put Kai to bed and got around to emailing the MD, he’d be inundated with requests from bloggers to review a Slanket on their site. I thought I had missed the boat (and was rather peeved about it too since I had started what shall be known as the Great Slanket Twitter Madness 2009).

But do not fear dear readers, do not fear.

For I, queen of Slankets, have obtained one for you. Offered up as probably the world’s greatest give-a-way in the history of give-a-ways. Turns out the MD Gary is an absolute peach and was all too happy to oblige.

There is no difficult question, there is no need to tweet it or stand on your head to prove your worth. Just submit something to the Sleep Carnival and you will be in with a chance of winning (all names in a hat and picked at random). If you’ve already submitted something you will be automatically entered. If not then hop to it!

Here’s the bonus though. Submit a post and you’ll receive one entry. Submit a sleep deprived photo of yourself? And you get an extra THREE entries into the competition. You can even just submit a photo if you like – I’ll still give you three chances to win.

Yes. I want to see the bags under your eyes and your bed head THAT much.

So what are you waiting for??! You’ve got till Sunday…

P.S. If, for some reason, you haven’t fallen madly in love with the Slanket (mental illness perhaps) then you are very welcome to opt out of this competition and just submit a post or photo with no Slanket-strings attached. Just let me know and you’ll be excused.

P.P.S Images courtesy of Slanket.com - you should go check it out! It’s brilliant!!

P.P.P. S Is it just me or is the word ‘Slanket’ starting to sound really weird?

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