9 Sep

“Baby Mama” Giveaway-tell me your crazy roommate story!

Author: Elizabeth

This giveaway is closed. Congratulations to the winner chosen with the random.org list randomizer-Rebecca from Mommyhood is Thankless! She earned all five entries and it paid off! :)

The movie “Baby Mama” is out on DVD today. I got an advance review copy from CLICK, and I was seriously impressed by this movie. Not only is it crazy funny, but there are scenes where both Tina Fey and Amy Poehler do some serious dramatic acting, and it was like wow, those ladies can act, you know? Kate Holbrook (Tina Fey) a successful and single businesswoman, hires an agency to match her with a surrogate mother so she can have a baby. However, Kate ends up getting more than she bargained for when her surrogate, Angie Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler) ends up on her doorstep needing a place to stay after she left her deadbeat boyfriend. Angie’s unorthodox ways begin to chip away at Kate when their conflicting personalities finally butt heads.

The Baby Mama website also surprised me, because of the sheer amount of content. You can watch a video from the filming, the movie’s trailer, download wallpapers, learn more about the cast and crew, see a gallery of stills, take a personality quiz to see if you are a “Kate” or an “Angie”, vote in polls, share your surrogacy stories, and play a game called (I am SO not making this up) “Baby-Mama Destination Insemination” (oh god the spam hits I’m going to get for that)-”Help some special sperm make a hot hook-up in Destination Insemination, the hilarious game based on the movie “Baby Mama”, starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The farther you swim, the more points you earn…but bump into an obstacle and your “love trip” comes to an end!” Um, okay then.

GIVEAWAY: I’ve got a “Baby Mama” prize pack to give away, it contains the DVD and a surprise promotional item. To be entered to win, I need you to tell me a story! Angie takes over Kate’s apartment and really shakes up her life. Have you had a roommate who drove you insane or took over your apartment? Leave me a comment telling me a story about a crazy roommate, and I’ll pick a winner at random from all eligible comments to win the prize pack. You must use a real name or blog alias when you leave your comment, and comments that do NOT have something related to a roommate will be deleted (comments like “thanks” or “great giveaway” WILL NOT COUNT). I’ll choose the winners on September 23rd at 9:00 AM EST.

EXTRA ENTRIES: You will get one extra entry in this giveaway for doing any of the following. Tell me in your comment with your roommate story which of these you did, trackbacks are okay too.

  • Write a post on your blog linking back to the URL for this giveaway.
  • Mention this giveaway on Twitter, use TinyURL to post the URL. If you want to @me, my Twitter username is Table4Five.
  • Submit this giveaway post to StumbleUpon, Digg, Kirtsy, or any other bookmarking site that will send traffic to the post. Leave me your username in your comment so I can check :) Bookmarking links are at the bottom of the post.
  • Add Table for Five to your blogroll, it’s http://table4five.net, no “WWW”

    • Good luck everybody and I can’t wait to read your crazy roommate stories!

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29 Responses to ““Baby Mama” Giveaway-tell me your crazy roommate story!”

  1. Andrea McMann (2 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 11:31 am

    Hmm…I haven’t had much experience with bad roommates, but I think I was one once, without really meaning to be. When I got pregnant with my first baby, my husband (boyfriend back then) and I were young, without jobs or anything. We moved in with his grandparents. I tried to be as conscientious as I could, but I think they eventually wanted their house to themselves. I can’t blame them!!

    I’m tweeting about this giveaway. I’d love to see the movie. :)

  2. Naomi (28 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 1:01 pm

    I had a roommate who only listened to two bands: Fleetwood Mac and the Cure.

  3. Cathy (3 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    I have very little roommate experience. My first time away from home was my freshman year in college. My randomly assigned dorm/room mate liked to bring guys back to the room. After they had, umm, worked out their mutual attraction for each other, she would be sober enough to regret her impulsive behavior. She would come to my side of the room where I was hiding under a pillow, pretending I was not there. Then, she would crawl in that tiny twin bed with me. Eventually, I started sleeping on the sofa in the dorm basement. It was a very long, miserable freshman year.

    Cathys last blog post..ferris wheel

  4. mimipz5wjj (27 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 3:12 pm

    Oh, my crazy college roommate… She was a real weirdo.

    She used to lie to me — the most outrageous lies just to see what I would say or do. Like that she went to parties and saw people I know hooking up with multiple other people…

    She would call her mom at least 4 times a day, I kid you not. Then she would tell her mom lies about ME while I was in the room. Nothing major, but she would say nasty things. And then when it came time to move out at the end of the year, she told her parents I refused to help — when in fact I didn’t know they were coming and would have helped dismantle the loft, but another friend who had no help asked me and I said I’d help her — before I knew crazy roommate’s parents were coming.

    She locked me out of my room several times while I was in the bathroom or shower. I’d come back and find the door locked. Luckily after it happened once I kept my keys with me (and I lived in an all girl dorm at a private christian college).

    She was a b–. I refused to move out. If she was going to make my life miserable, I was going to make hers miserable too.

    mimipz5wjjs last blog post..I thought Weekends Were for Relaxing?

  5. Jean-Luc Picard (384 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    I’ve never had a roommate, Elizabeth.

    Jean-Luc Picards last blog post..Ro Laren’s Secret Assignment (Part One)

  6. Alexia (13 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    My only roommates have been my sisters (when I was little) and my hubby! And I’m pretty sure that I was the “crazier” one…if you could call it that LOL

    Alexias last blog post..Tasty Tuesday: Cheesy Chicken & Salsa Skillet

  7. chirky (19 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    I had a roommate who would steal my underwear. My SILK underwear (she had good taste, at least). And then she would WEAR THEM TO HER BOYFRIEND’S HOUSE.

    WHERE SHE SPENT THE NIGHT.

    AND DID GOD-KNOWS-WHAT WITH MY UNDERWEAR ON.

    Everytime I think about it, I kind of want to vomit. I never knew until one day I offered to throw her laundry in with mine, AND MY (USED) UNDERWEAR WERE IN HER DIRTY LAUNDRY.

    chirkys last blog post..Skin Deep

  8. Clenna Emery says:
    September 9, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    I had a crazy roommate in college. She took ‘horse’ courses and always smelled like hose poop! OMG, she was terrible. She also had a tendency to ‘invite’ her male friends to sleep over. I might wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom or whatever, and there would be a man in the bed below mine! Yikes! Sometimes that was scary, especially when he stayed over and she wasn’t there! We fought over this constantly and she could not see anything wrong with it. Man, I couldn’t stand her.

  9. Mary_Freebies (6 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    I never had to share my place with a roommate, so no funny/weird storied from me. :(

    I am the 1st to give you thumbs up on SU! Same nickname.

  10. Melissa (43 comments.) says:
    September 9, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    I had some really crazy roomates, the craziest was this girl from Minnesota I had while going to LDS Business College in Salt Lake City. She told me that her mom was dying from cancer. She also said that she had no money and her parents would not help her out because they were really upset about her being LDS (Mormon). Natuarally we were all really concerned about her and people gave her money and food. It turned out her parents came to visit and we learned that her mom did not have cancer and her parents were both Mormon, her dad was even a Bishop!

  11. Mama Kelly (4 comments.) says:
    September 10, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    Years ago I had a roomate who was very free with her sexuality. One saturday before Halloween we had several friends spending the weekend, and I had plans to go see a stage production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. When I arrived home I walked in to company crashing in my living room and the sounds of my roommate sleeping with my then boyfriend.

    What made the situation even crazier was when she kept telling me that I was wrong to be hurt and upset.

  12. valmg (3 comments.) says:
    September 10, 2008 at 10:43 pm

    Right before hubby and I got married we lived in New Hampshire. We had little money so we took a roommate named Nelson. Nelson took one of the rooms in our tiny apartment. For almost three weeks he blew us off and didn’t give us any rent money. Finally we decided he had to go. We went into his room to get his things together and found his room was wall to wall dirty laundry. We found receipts and bags. Rather than pay to do laundry and pay rent he just bought new clothes every week. Bye bye Nelson!

  13. Go Amie says:
    September 11, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    I had a roommate who wouldn’t clean anything. Anything. The other roomie and I tried dropping hints, asking poiltely, and finally demanding. We said we were tired of cleaning up everything and gave examples: the kitchen, vacuuming the living room, the bathroom – at that she jumped in. “What would anyone be doing in the bathroom that would mean you had to clean it?” she wanted to know. We were dumbfounded.

    She ended up moving out shortly after that. Phew.

  14. kidlet (2 comments.) says:
    September 12, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    I had a roommate who didn’t eat meat and didn’t want us to eat meat either, so the rule became that no one could consume flesh inside the house. Thank God for BBQs and warm evenings in California.

  15. Jo says:
    September 16, 2008 at 11:45 am

    thanks to my college rommie Yuki, I had to clean puke off the floor pretty much every weekend
    jceko77@yahoo.com

  16. Mary @ Adventures in Mommyland (40 comments.) says:
    September 19, 2008 at 9:16 pm

    When I was pregnant my husband and I had a room mate who was his friend. As I got more and more pregnant he never moved out, so at 8 mos. preggos I had to kick him out myself! My hubby thought it was too awkward for him to do himself… Anyways that my story! Great giveaway, thanks.

  17. Mary @ Adventures in Mommyland (40 comments.) says:
    September 19, 2008 at 9:27 pm

    Sent out a tweet, user name Mary512

  18. Mary @ Adventures in Mommyland (40 comments.) says:
    September 19, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    Stumbled it user name hellomary018

  19. Rebecca C (5 comments.) says:
    September 20, 2008 at 12:00 am

    I had a roommate who didn’t clean at all! Although, he would complain when the other people in the house didn’t clean. He never washed a single dish, but one day plopped on the couch and said, “someone needs to do the dishes” in that tone where you just know he is saying YOU need to do the dishes. When we kicked him out for this and other things his bathroom was disgusting. The shower was practically black (formally white) and we spent forever cleaning it :( Even after we kicked him out we were left cleaning up after him :( (((

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  20. Rebecca C (5 comments.) says:
    September 20, 2008 at 12:05 am

    I blogged about this giveaway:Here

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  21. Rebecca C (5 comments.) says:
    September 20, 2008 at 12:06 am

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    September 20, 2008 at 12:07 am

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    September 20, 2008 at 12:08 am

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  24. Cindi says:
    September 20, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    Hello, It wasn’t easy for me to have our two sons, so I know a little about a situation like this movie. I could use a good laugh from these two ladies. Please enter me in your DVD drawing. Many thanks, Cindi

  25. Cindi says:
    September 20, 2008 at 1:53 pm

    Sorry that I didn’t answer the roommate part. I have never had a roommate except my husband! My oldest son has just come home from a year at Purdue University. He had an awful roommate. His roommate never hardly left the room, thus my son never had the room to himself! His roommate was constantly texting and emailing my son’s girlfriend trying to break them up. He had parties, so my son would go across the hall so he wouldn’t get in trouble!!!!!! My son now attends an University back here in IL. about 5 minutes away from our home. Thanks, Cindi

  26. Janet F says:
    September 21, 2008 at 1:13 am

    I think I am lucky that I have never had a roomate!

    Thank you!

    janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com

  27. jeni larson says:
    September 21, 2008 at 1:44 am

    I had a roomate who got angry with me because I didn’t vacuum in a straight line.

  28. Kerrie says:
    September 23, 2008 at 2:31 am

    During my first year of college, I lived in a 3 bedroom suite – 2 girls in each room. We all had a great time, until one of my roommates told us all one night that after we can back from the Christmas break, she wanted to become a stripper. We were all like yeah, okay. Was she kidding? Nope. We came back, she went out and got that job at a really seedy place downtown, and even did a show of her outfit in one of our other roommates’ bedroom – stripper heels and all! Let’s just say the outfit didn’t cover a whole lot, and we saw more of her than we wanted. She came in and out at all hours of the night, bringing in random people we had never seen before. Sharing my suite was bad enough, I was just glad I didn’t share my actual bedroom with her! To top it all of, we learned that when she was alone in her bedroom, she was doing cocaine that she hid in a DVD case under her bed. Turns out the whole reason she was stripping was to buy cocaine! We had her kicked out of our suite ASAP. It was definitely a rollercoaster of a year!

  29. table4five says:
    September 23, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Jeni-Are you serious? That isn’t just crazy, that’s insane!