It’s no secret that I’m a dork.  I even have a whole category called Dorks R Us.

I’m comfortable with that and I’ve received confirmation of my dorkhood.

(Like when Sally and her family picked me up from the city and within 5 minutes her oldest daughter proclaimed “you are such a dork!”  I like her.  Alot.)

HP was very present at BlogHer.  And their way of contesting was pure genius in that you had to follow their tweets in order to win.

We all know that I was not present to win the laptop, but I was around later on Saturday to partake in some of the other giveaways.

For example, when the tweet came through that prizes would be given to people who came to see Ann and Marco at the HP table and sang two songs that had the word touch in them, I was thinking all the way up the stairs and when I arrived at the table (the first one there) I had two in my head.

The problem was, one of them I DID NOT want to sing.  Especially in front of a man.

So, they told me to sing.

Not only did I sing, but I danced and performed my rendition of “Can’t Touch This”.

One song down, and one to go.

I hemmed and hawed.  I kept trying to think of something other than the song that was in my head.

But I drew a blank and yes, I sang “I touch myself.”

After some laughter and admittance that they had not though of that song, I was able to chose my prize… a PC back up photo program.  Won’t work, I’m a Mac girl.  (And I had no problem telling them that followed by I would gladly give up my Mac if they gave me one of those fancy touch screens they had…)

A pretty pink USB mouse.  Eh.  Not a pink person and I need another mouse like I need a hole in the head.

How about one of those webcams back there?  Yeah.  I’ll take that.

We have a webcam and I have an iSight on the Mac but the PC one was crap and Matthew can make his little videos now from the comfort of his own computer and stop kicking me off the Mac.

Off I walked with the new Webcam.

Happy.

I won something.  I never win anything.

But today?

The prize Gods were shining down upon me.  Brightly.

Later on, during the day there was another tweet that came out that said the first two people who brought them a limerick would win a  7″ digital photo frame.  I took off, and up the stairs I composed my limerick in a text message.  This was after I had to stop and think of how a limerick was constructed.

And after I knocked into several people trying to type a limerick out on my cell phone between the lobby of the hotel and the HP table in the mezzanine.  (If you were the one carrying the freshly poured cup of coffee, I apologize profusely!)

I was the first to the table and they said I could win as many times as I wanted.

So I presented them with this:

There was a blogger who has a Mac

Who came to San Fran for the Blogging Track

But she loves the Touch Screen

It’s so very clean

She might never want to go back

Yes, I realize that I will not win any poetry awards in the near future, but it was good enough to get my picture taken with my new photo frame which currently sits on my desk displaying all 428 pictures I took while in San Francisco.

Until next time…

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