Happy Fifth Night of Hanukkah! I’m really excited about today’s giveaway prize. I use mine all the time.
Today’s prize is: Sudio Fem bluetooth earbuds!
I have a pair of them and use them constantly. I use them for yoga which I do with an app on my phone, and when I’m sewing and want to listen to music or podcasts. The case charges them, so in between uses they are topped up, and there’s a light indicator on the front to tell you when to charge up the case.
My favorite thing is that once they were paired with my phone, when I take them out of the case, they activate and re-connect to my phone automatically. Since I usually work out first thing in the morning, and am often in my pjs, not having to fiddle with buttons is wonderful.
Want some specs?
- 20 hours total playtime on a full charge
- Ambient noise reduction with microphones on each earbud
- You can use one or both
- Comes with four sizes of earbud to get a good fit
- Bluetooth range of 10m
Want to enter? Yay!
Just leave a comment and tell us about something you loved listening to this year! Sounds? Music? Podcasts? Audiobooks? We want to hear (ha ha) all about it!
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Open to international residents where permitted by applicable law. Must be over 18 and ready to relax in auditory splendor. Not responsible for hours of possible relaxation but highly encourage doing so as soon as possible.
Comments will close 15 December 2020 at or near 12pm ET, and winner will be announced shortly afterward.
Good luck, Happy Hanukkah, and thank you for being part of Smart Bitches!
Winner update: Congratulations to Libby! Please check your spam and inbox folders.
I have been listening to the Fated Mates podcast, Wicked Wallflowers, and of course the excellent Smart Podcast Trashy Books!
Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes by Ella Fitzgerald and Wildflowers & All The Rest by Tom Petty.
Definitely a podcast year this year! Especially This Week in Virology, which has had the most reliable updates on the new science this year. Fun stuff, too, but really the science in action listening is also pretty cool.
Forever 35 podcast, a podcast about self-care
I love listening to the Michelle Obama podcast. It is inspiring.
I’ve been listening to a lot of audiobooks this year, the longer the better for walking the dog.
I am incredibly easy to distract, so I listen to music at work, but it needs to be something without words or a strong beat; something that’ll disappear into the background. This year I realized my favorites are movie soundtracks, and I’ve listened to The Nightmare Before Christmas and The Corpse Bride music almost every week since March.
So many podcasts. Binging Jay and Miles Explain the X-men got me through early lockdown.
I’ve rediscovered my love for early 2000’s Brit Pop this year. Somehow it makes working from home easier.
Got back into rock music in a big way this fall, in part inspired by Metallica’s drive-in pandemic concert!
My daughter is a Murderino so we listen to the My Favorite Murder podcasts as we cook or in the car (R.I.P Elvis the cat). I have never been one for audio books but I am giving them a try.
Home Cooking podcast with Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway
It’s been BTS this year for me. A lot of BTS. I’ve also downloaded lots of podcast episodes but haven’t done a good job of actually listening to them.
Romance podcasts: Smart Bitches, also Fated Mates, Heaving Bosoms, Learning the Tropes TSTL. I love the Allusionist, about words and language, also Reading Glasses and Get Booked. When in doubt, Hamilton.
I listen to a stupid amount of podcasts.
My favorite new podcast this year was Fanti. From their website description: Sometimes the people, places, and things we love don’t love us back. We’re fans, but we also have some ANTI- feelings toward them. Every week on FANTI, journalists Tre’vell Anderson and Jarrett Hill bring their pop culture and political expertise to things we must stan and stand up against.
I have been making a point of listening to Discover Weekly on Spotify this year so that I am discovering more music instead of just listening to the same thing over and over.
Started listening to podcasts this year. Fated Mates!!!!
I love audiobooks! I listen to a lot of Georgette Heyer and lately Dick Francis mysteries.
Been cooped up at home for months so listening to all the things…
Audiobooks – all the comfort rereads. Currently on deck is Very Good, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse narrated by Jonathan Cecil. Comedy gold.
Songs on repeat – the Virtual Hug playlist on Amazon prime music has some good ones
ASMR videos – Doggie Corgi animation channel on YouTube – so many comforting sounds and adorable imagery. There’s a Harry Potter common room, a hot springs sauna, birds chirping in the park, beach waves, coffee shop, you name it.
Podcasts – Smart Podcast Trashy Books episodes with Sarah and Amanda, and Ask Me Another from NPR with Jonathan Colton
I’m a nerd who listens mostly to history podcasts, but one that I highly recommend for a general audience is Tides of History by Patrick Wyman. He’s doing a series on pre-history right now that’s really great.
Instrumental soundtrack music while working, and Broadway tunes while cleaning.
I love the Ologies podcast – so many interesting topics, and Alie Ward is such a great host!
I re-listened to several seasons of an actual play podcast and then relistened to the parasol protectorate series from Gail Carriger. I needed the comfort of knowing where things would end up.
Podcasts (Smart Bitches and Heaving Bosoms) during my couple hour drive from medical school to home, and also headspace background rain noises for studying!
This year has been music that makes me happy, everything from “the later 1900s” (which is now a phrase students use0. This morning it was Dolly Parton, then the Ramones.
Something I loved listening to this year was the podcast Dungeons and Daddies. It’s a DnD podcast about four dads who accidentally get transported into the forgotten realms and then have to find their sons who were transported with them. This podcast is absolutely hilarious and such a joy and delight to listen to. If you like fantasy, humor, and a ton of dad jokes then I highly recommend checking it out.
I like listening to Sunday Baroque on NPR. I also like listening to classic rock. It sometimes makes me feel old that the music of my teen/college years is now referred to as classic or even oldies!
I really liked the A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole on Audiobook. It’s a super fun listen!
Also the “Library Takeout” song on YouTube gets played on repeat whenever my husband and I pick up holds at the library.
I’ve been listening to economics podcasts lol.
The American Girls Pod – I love the mix of scholarship and nostalgia!
I’ve started listening to episodes of ‘The Double Cleanse’ by Robert and James Welsh. Robert is an MUA and James focuses on skincare. It’s super cute and fun and they have such a wonderful, wholesome energy. They’re relatively identical and I thought that they were the same person for a while on youtube. I am not alone in that misconception.
I’ve also spent the year enjoying youtube read-aloud channels. Mark NArrations is my current favorite. Again, really wholesome guy,
Fated Mates podcast!
It feels like all my answers are the same. I listened to Murderbot for comfort. I also listened to Ezra Klein podcasts, because he explained things with the right amount of righteousness balanced with a high level, we will get through it, kind of attitude.
Looking back over the past year or so, the thing I’ve probably listened to the most is Lizzo’s album “Cuz I Love You.” So good for cleaning, packing, and grading.
Besides various baking driven workouts, I find myself seeking out mellower music than I’ve listened to in the past. As an introvert’s introvert, I need almost white noise kind of relief. Something to tune out the ‘mom, mom, mom,’ soundtrack of my life for short periods of time.
“Relax Melodies Premium: Sleep Sounds, White Noise, Meditation & Fan” is an app and absolute lifesaver this year. So many sounds to choose from, infinite combinations, all in the service of sleep.
My favorite all time music that sends my spirit soaring as high as high can be is Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. How I love it.
Happy Hanukkah!
I have been listening to a lot of podcasts this year – one of the ways I make myself get out of the house for some exercise is to have some podcasts I’m *only* allowed to listen to if I’m out of the house walking/running/exercising in someway. Want to know what happened next to the fundamentalist Mormons? Go for a walk bitch!
The fundamentalist Mormons in question is series 2 of Unfinished – (called Unfinished: Short Creek) which is about Warren Jeffs and the FLDS and is one of the most interesting (best seems like the wrong word for the subject matter tbh) I’ve listened to this year. Also good – Wind of Change – about whether a power ballad that became the soundtrack to the fall of the Iron Curtain was actually secretly written by the CIA…
Just discovered “Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet”
Cooking and baking podcasts!