Winning is something that doesn’t happen to me very often. I’ve never won the lottery (but I once dated a guy who has, believe it or not), grocery raffles, or even The Statue Dance. The only things I ever win are arguments, and even those don’t really count because The Husband never admits I’m right anyway.

Now, I don’t mind losing, as long as I’m losing pounds (as you can probably tell from my numerous almost-diet pill reviews) and not my dignity. But it does feel good to win once in a while – something that I’ve started to discover as of late.

It all started on the flight to Caticlan. When the flight crew started their silly “show me” game, I was only half paying attention. In fact, so immersed was I in reading The Grass Crown that it was almost complete instinct that made me lift the book up when I heard the word “novel”. I was rewarded with a Centrum bag that contained 2 pieces of Centrum, 2 pieces of Advil, and a lemon-flavored Chapstick for my troubles – I say ‘troubles’ because the book weighs about a kilo, so lifting it above my head was no mean feat!

Six days later, on the flight back to Cebu, I won the same prize, thanks to the same book. This time, I was ready and hell-bent on winning The Husband a Chapstick.

Strangely enough, as I was blog hopping the next day, I found out that I won something again – this time, from Kessa’s birthday giveaway. I am currently waiting for a full set of Twilight books and some L’Occitane goodies (if the latter fits the package, according to Kessa) to be delivered from Manila. How cool is that? And how cool is Kessa for giving these away?

And it doesn’t end there, mind you. I went to the Sky Cable office to pay our cable bill, and before I knew it, I was the proud (haha) winner of a Sky ZPDee t-shirt.

I am now seriously considering buying a lottery ticket. Before I do that, however, I’m definitely joining this beauty giveaway. The oh-so fabulous Frances is giving away Maybelline products aplenty, and I can’t possibly NOT join!

Aaahhhh… Contests are definitely growing on me. Maybe I should do one of my own to celebrate Goddess, I Am.’s first anniversary, albeit belatedly (the anniversary was back on the 16th). I have to put my thinking cap on and figure out what to give away. Who knows? Maybe my little contest will become the start of someone else’s winning streak.