oh well.
Mar 20, 2019
Mar 14, 2019
Any day now
the ambush style visit alerting me of my grand prize should happen sometime between tomorrow and march 25th. in preparation i will be wearing my property brothers tee every day until then. when historians look back upon this blog i will be lauded as a genius.
Feb 18, 2019
Fín
well, that's it folks.
106 entries
53 days
13 sponsors
5 bedrooms
3.5 bathrooms
2 forms
1 dream
i've done my part. it's now up to Scripps to declare me the winner.
the drawing will take place on or about february 28th. following that, i will be contacted by either phone, email, in writing, or in person via an "ambush style" visit by Scripps representatives sometime between march 15 and march 25. it has been a wonderful journey, and i'm excited to witness the rest as it unfolds.
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total entries: 106
days until ambush: 25-35
106 entries
53 days
13 sponsors
5 bedrooms
3.5 bathrooms
2 forms
1 dream
i've done my part. it's now up to Scripps to declare me the winner.
the drawing will take place on or about february 28th. following that, i will be contacted by either phone, email, in writing, or in person via an "ambush style" visit by Scripps representatives sometime between march 15 and march 25. it has been a wonderful journey, and i'm excited to witness the rest as it unfolds.
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total entries: 106
days until ambush: 25-35
Feb 17, 2019
Which HGTV Dream Home 2019 Room Are You?
I would rather read a book about..
My ideal car is...
How often do you exercise?
Your kitchen sink breaks. What do you do?
You're at a party and it's 3am. It's dwindling down but there are still a handful of people awake. Do you:
With my free time after work, I would rather:
When it comes to immigration at our southern border, I think:
Your favorite color palette consists of:
I think bunk beds are...
You're pulled over on your way home from dinner. You had 5 drinks while you were out. What do you tell the officer when he asks if you've been drinking?
If I were an animal, I'd rather be:
Delta Shield Spray technology is:
My preferred date is:
After Robert Baratheon's death in season 1 of Game of Thrones, the rightful heir to the throne was:
The right amount of pillows to have on a bed is:
My opinion on cowboy hats is:
You got...
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total entries: 104
Feb 16, 2019
Feb 15, 2019
Reflections
today i submitted my 100th entry for the HGTV Dream Home 2019. what a journey it has been. it's wild to think about how i've entered this sweepstakes more times than i've brushed my teeth in 2019. i also can't believe it was 50 days ago when i threw my hat into the ring for the first time. it seems like these months have come and gone with the blink of an eye, but such is the way life goes as we get older.
doing anything for fifty days straight is not easy. after a certain amount of time it transforms from a mere task that needs to be completed each day, to something more concrete. it becomes a part of your life. it defines you. but that's not to say it gets easy. it drains me sometimes to sit in front of this screen, day after day, and post about the rustic retreat in whitefish montana. but i have an obligation to my readers to create content. this is the life i've chosen for myself for the time being.
during these days i have become become intimately familiar the Home, as one would with any subject they devote daily, unceasing attention to. i've imagined myself basking in the cedar hot tub, watching movies in the great room once i replace the moose head with a television, reading a book in the lodge room, sleeping off a hangover in the master bedroom. i've thought about what items would go in each drawer in the bathroom vanity. i've considered how i'll arrange my clothes in the walk-in closet. come march, i know i'll be announced as the winner because the house is already mine.
i will leave you with a passage from the novel a naked singularity by sergio de la plava.
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total entries: 100
doing anything for fifty days straight is not easy. after a certain amount of time it transforms from a mere task that needs to be completed each day, to something more concrete. it becomes a part of your life. it defines you. but that's not to say it gets easy. it drains me sometimes to sit in front of this screen, day after day, and post about the rustic retreat in whitefish montana. but i have an obligation to my readers to create content. this is the life i've chosen for myself for the time being.
during these days i have become become intimately familiar the Home, as one would with any subject they devote daily, unceasing attention to. i've imagined myself basking in the cedar hot tub, watching movies in the great room once i replace the moose head with a television, reading a book in the lodge room, sleeping off a hangover in the master bedroom. i've thought about what items would go in each drawer in the bathroom vanity. i've considered how i'll arrange my clothes in the walk-in closet. come march, i know i'll be announced as the winner because the house is already mine.
i will leave you with a passage from the novel a naked singularity by sergio de la plava.
"What happens when two people become friends Casi? I say that at least a part of what happens is that the two people become more real to each other. In a sense each feels that the other has become more of a human being. Anyone would agree with that but how does this happen? How does someone go from being a collection of flesh and bone who generally occupies the same space as us to being a real person who has an inner life that we, on some level, care about. Well I think the principal way this happens is through speech and language. After all, we can see the same person every day for years but if we've never heard them speak I maintain that if properly confronted we'd be hard-pressed to even think of them as human and we certainly wouldn't consider them friends. That sounds odd I know, but have you ever been in a room full of complete strangers who weren't talking? Did you ever then have a fleeting thought or feeling that maybe they didn't really exist at all the way you exist? On the other hand, people actualize through speaking. Actors know this. How many lines? they ask when considering a part, not how much face time. Hostages talk to their tormenters in the hopes of becoming more human and therefore harder to kill. These people seem to realize that the more we hear someone talk in a variety of situations the closer we become to them, the more real they become to us. Their speaking makes is harder to ignore their status as actual people with inner lives like ours. So why is that? The answer is probably obvious but I don't know what it is. Nevertheless, and more importantly, I'm going to make this happen in the context of The Honeymooners. Sure I've seen all these episodes before but half-hours at a time and diffused among all this other stimuli. This time, however, I'm going to be running these episodes in a constant loop. I won't move a muscle while they play. There will be no commercials. The result is that over time Ralph Kramden and to a lesser extent the others will begin to seem, no, will in fact become, more and more real."
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total entries: 100
Feb 14, 2019
Checking out the local bar scene
i searched for 'whitefish montana bars' and combed through some of the results on google. i wanted to get a feel for what the bars in my new city will be like. below are couple of the ones i looked at.
looks like a pretty cool dive bar. it's up on the mountain, so it's closer to the house and it's accessible from some of the trails. they've got a neon pabst sign, a pool table, and a bunch of local beers on tap. it closes at 10pm though, so this seems like more of a place to grab a pint or two after you finish snowboarding than one you would go out to.
in the heart of the city we have the great northerner, which is described as a "classic bar hung with vintage signs [that] offers live music, burgers & a summer deck." i think covering your walls with something 'unique' is kind of a tired bar trope, but i'm not willing to write it off just yet.
named after famous child murderer casey anthony, casey's is a "woodsy-chic haunt in a 1905 building with pub grub & a rooftop bar, plus a dance floor & live music." i don't like when places are described as 'haunts'. it's too spooky. anyway, this definitely one of the more up-scale bars in whitefish. i took a look at their menu and it ranges from a $12 classic burger to a $25 new york strip.
i really like the rooftop seating/bar. it looks like this is the place to go for music and dancing. it's probably the closest thing to the bars/clubs here in dc. i am slightly puzzled by a few of their upcoming events though. on may 2nd they have something called 'HUNKS The Show'.
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total entries: 98
The Bierstube
looks like a pretty cool dive bar. it's up on the mountain, so it's closer to the house and it's accessible from some of the trails. they've got a neon pabst sign, a pool table, and a bunch of local beers on tap. it closes at 10pm though, so this seems like more of a place to grab a pint or two after you finish snowboarding than one you would go out to.
Great Northerner Bar & Grill
in the heart of the city we have the great northerner, which is described as a "classic bar hung with vintage signs [that] offers live music, burgers & a summer deck." i think covering your walls with something 'unique' is kind of a tired bar trope, but i'm not willing to write it off just yet.
the bar was opened in 1919, by a presumably racist owner, to serve as a local tavern for the railroad workers and passengers. some cool things about this place are:
- $1 pbr cans on wednesdays
- they don't allow children after 9pm
- shuffleboard tables
- bruce springsteen once played there
Bulldog Saloon
what's a cowboy without a saloon. i could see myself grabbing my gun, throwing on my hat and spurs, and riding my honda pilot down there for five or six drinks before driving home. it's okay for me to do that because of the lane keeping assist system.
the pitchers look pretty massive. you can also pay for drinks with canadian at the same menu price which is neat. maybe i could profit off that somehow.
Casey's
named after famous child murderer casey anthony, casey's is a "woodsy-chic haunt in a 1905 building with pub grub & a rooftop bar, plus a dance floor & live music." i don't like when places are described as 'haunts'. it's too spooky. anyway, this definitely one of the more up-scale bars in whitefish. i took a look at their menu and it ranges from a $12 classic burger to a $25 new york strip.
i really like the rooftop seating/bar. it looks like this is the place to go for music and dancing. it's probably the closest thing to the bars/clubs here in dc. i am slightly puzzled by a few of their upcoming events though. on may 2nd they have something called 'HUNKS The Show'.
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total entries: 98
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