Rant: I am tired of contests, surveys, sweepstakes, blog giveaways and surveys! I am too discouraged!

I am sick of sending in Publisher's Clearing House stuff and never winning!  I have filled out numerous paper ones and even online!  I'm tired of answering surveys and never winning the prize offered in a drawing for submitting it.  One time I even did a thing for Nielson, I think it was, where I was supposed to scan all my groceries with a barcode scanner to earn points and be entered in sweepstakes.  Not only did it take forever to accumulate points, but then they wanted me to scan my prescriptions, and even record when I bought gas!  Are you kidding me?!?  All that work, for like a year, to get what?  A toaster?  And then they'd have these huge prize drawings quarterly, which of course I never won.  Would you believe I got another thing in the mail where they included a pre-paid envelope and they wanted me to send them ALL MY JUNK MAIL - and hey, we'll put you in a drawing with 3,483,029,662 other people to win $100!  Yeah, like I'm gonna send you my blank credit card applications.  (One time I got sent a survey where they had me take pictures of my toilets - yes my toilets! And answer questions about them.  They even included $5 in the envelope and a disposable camera, so I actually did that one. :-P )

On top of that, please excuse my whining but, I actually won TWO different blog giveaways at the very beginning of the month and nearly three weeks later, so far I have received neither prize.  I got the impression from both that the item would be sent out right away...??  For the first couple of weeks I kept eagerly looking forward to the mail each day hoping for my prizes, but by now I'm starting to really think I've been forgotten about.  :-(  Now I realize the right thing to do at this point is for me to email each of them and ask if the prize was sent, to make sure it's not lost in the mail.  But I'm sure they're BOTH not lost in the mail, I mean, what are the chances of that?  (And both bloggers live in the continental US, as do I, so it's not like it's coming through customs, or across the ocean on a boat or anything.)  There is probably a really good reason why neither has arrived, right?  But, I'm feeling so discouraged I'm considering not even bothering hunting down my "prizes".

I am tired of contests, surveys, sweepstakes, blog giveaways and surveys!  I am too discouraged!  DO YOU HEAR THAT PUBLISHER'S CLEARING HOUSE?  One of my 8,243,007 superprize numbers better come up soon or I QUIT!

The end.

P.S.  Murphy's law dictates that now that I've whined about it, both blog giveaway prizes are going to show up today, just to make me look like a doofus.  Well, I hope they do!  They are nice prizes!  I will update later when the mail comes, and we'll see if I get to look like a doofus or what.