Officially Official Results.
Things have been tabulated, and we have a winner.
Ahem!
FANCY MATHEMATICAL WINNER DETERMINING METHODOLOGY:
1. First, I combed through the entries for duplicates. Several (five!) of you were so eager to correct your spelling or share a forgotten talent that you commented twice, and so I unapproved one of the comments of each double entrant.
2. Next, I typed the number of remaining comments into the Random Number Generator, and clicked the button.
3. Lastly, I matched the (Random! Because of math! And, according to the website, “atmospheric noise,” WTF?) result (273) with a comment number (273) to find the winner.
It was, as you can see, a complicated and taxing process.
But it’s over, now, and the winner is…Ariel!
Thank you to everyone who entered and astounded me with your collective weirdness, and to Tania for her generosity. Without this contest I would have never known that my friend Alexis once sat astride Shamu, or that among my readers there was someone who “can correctly adjust the idle on a 1974 Porsche 914 using a quarter. In a formal gown.” I myself would have used the quarter to call a mechanic, which is why I am less talented than Michelle.
Ariel, congratulations. I am forwarding your contact information to Tania, so you might want to start thinking of what to engrave on your lovely new necklace…
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Um! WOW! Am Shocked! Thrilled! SUPER EXCITED!
Many thanks to both of you :)
And would you believe today is my birthday??? It is! I am thirty! WEEE!
Random number generator must have known something, birthday-wise! AND you we’re the first to post! All the stars are in alignment for you, go buy that Lotto ticket, and let me know your numbers so I can get in on that action. :)
Have a delightful day/week/however long of celebrating, Ariel! :)
It was New Year’s Eve. Had I called a mechanic we’d have missed the party! 8-)
Yay Ariel!
“would have used that quarter to call a mechanic.”
How quaint and old time-y.Imagining you, the young and lovely Alexa, making a call on a public telephone (for only a quarter!) strikes me as some delightful anachronism–which reminds me of how scarily sped up the succession of technologies has become in the last ten years.
But seriously! It’s like watching the Brady Bunch where/when each telephone call cost a dime.
A DIME!
Ah well; you win some…
Thank you for introducing me to Tania and her gorgeous designs. I’ve already emailed her and understand that they ship to the UK so I’ve given my lovely husband a HUGE hint as to what I’d like for my 40th birthday in March!