Kindle Fire giveaway!
Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 4:52PM I love to do giveaways. I wish I could hand out cars and houses and dream vacations.
I could be Oprah for a living.
I'll settle for Yarnista. And I won't let that diminish my excitement about giving away a just-released Kindle Fire to one lucky member of our Sock Yarnista and Stash Menagerie clubs.
I thought fireworks were in order.
The Kindle Fire looks really sweet. I don't have one myself, because I'm giving it away to one of you. But I do have a traditional Kindle, and it's great.
The Fire is both an e-reader and a digital media player, plus it's web-enabled.
On to the drawing!
I had the names of our subscribers randomized. (Yes, I know that statistically, your chances of winning a random drawing using the Three Irish Girls-assigned number is exactly the same. This is just to make all of us feel like it's 100,000% random.)
I also smudged over the names here, because the world does not need to see the names of our customers. But if you were in the club in October, you were in the drawing. If you were in both clubs, you were in twice.
I then asked Random to choose one number.
Have I shown you the Fire packaging? It's perfect.
Small. Lightweight. But it protects nicely. I had to open the box to make sure it wasn't broken.
And because I am intractably curious.
See how I'm building suspense by not telling you who number 237 is? See that?
Such a novel idea.
I think I will tape up the packaging and then wrap it in some brown paper before I send this off to the winner. I don't need the entire world to see I'm shipping a Kindle Fire. (Yes, it's printed on the outside of the box.)
You know what? I do not like meatloaf.
I just got back from Disney World.
I fell and scraped my knee badly my last day there.
I think it might be infected, it hurts a lot.
I put some Neosporin on it.
Hopefully it will feel better.
I did not knit one single stitch the entire time I was gone. I fell into bed 19 seconds after arriving back any my hotel each evening.
We walked an average of 11 miles every day in the hot 85 degree sun.
It was an amazing time. My kids were the perfect ages. (9, 7, and 4.5)
I was SO glad to not to have a child in a stroller.
You can not bring a stroller into any attraction at Disney World. Not one. You have to park your stroller outside and then haul everything with you so no one takes it out of the stroller while it's sitting outside the attraction.
Disney World has a lot of good restaurants (particularly in the world showcase in Epcot and in their nicer hotels). I ate at many of them.
How am I doing? Are you feeling stalled yet?
I took my girls to eat dinner with the princesses inside Cinderella's castle. We met Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Ariel, Belle, and of course, Cinderella.
When Sleeping Beauty came to our table, she asked my four year old if she made a wish on her wishing star (they give you a wishing star when you receive your royal invitation).
(Here she is, intently writing her name, complete with tongue sticking out for extra concentration.)
She told Sleeping Beauty, "Yes, I did! I wished for a WHEEL BARROW!"
Sleeping Beauty laughed -- hard -- and said, "Well, I hope your wish for a wheel barrow comes true!"
I have no idea where that came from. We already own a wheel barrow, and she's never been overly attached to it. I asked her later why that was her wish, and she couldn't really give me a good answer, other than, "I just want one."
I could go on like this for two-three hours. You know I could.
But the game must end eventually, and I'll put you out of your misery.
Number 237 corresponds with...
Congratulations, Deborah! You won! I will send this to you on Monday!
Thanks for being part of our club -- we appreciate it!
Off to figure out what else I can give away.
Anyone in need of any single socks? I have a Rubbermaid container full.
Reader Comments (6)
Oooh. Congrats to the winner! I just got my Kindle Fire on Thursday and it is SO MUCH FUN! I haven't done much with it except download my patterns for knitting projects. . . but how great is that?!? No more printing off patterns to take with me to knit night.
Sorry about your knee, Yarnista. I hope the Neosporin helped. :) Sounds like you had a great trip :) Awesome.
Congratulations, Deborah!
You laugh about the socks but I have a college freshman whose favorite thing to do is wear mismatched socks! I'm in if you're serious... lol.
Congrats Deborah!
I would totally take single socks if I could find the patterns to make the second ones -- it would be the fastest I have ever whipped out pairs ;)
My husband wishes for a wheelbarrow too. And his answer, when asked why he wishes for a wheelbarrow, would also be, "I just want one." Who'd have thought?
Just talked to Deb last night and she is very excited!! Will see her next month for a rocking weekend of quilting (I know, such a shock that there is more to do then Knitting...). Now that we both have Fires, we will be comparing notes on the cool apps!!
Thanks for making this such a fun club!!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that takes a spill while at Disney World - I get so busy looking around that I don't see the curbs at all! Nothing like tripping up a curb in the middle of Main Street! Yeah, I did it in San Francisco too. I just a rubbernecker!
Hope your knee is better!