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One of my many tasks in my day job is to edit a monthly employee newsletter. In each issue, we give away a $25 gift certificate to a local store or restaurant to one fortunate reader. The winner must correctly answer a question that relates to one of the articles in the issue and be lucky enough to have his/her entry drawn from among the other correct entries.
I always enjoy calling the winner with the news. Invariably, the response goes like this:
Well, I have won a few things in my lifetime, but they haven't been big. When I was a teen, I won a Cowsills "live" album for sending in my favorite snack recipe that goes with milk. (At the time, the Cowsills were doing PSAs for the Dairy Board.) There must not have been much competition, because I entered two different recipes and was sent two copies of the album.
Shortly after I got married, my husband and I "won" medals in a dance contest at his company's picnic. If you have ever seen us dance, you would know the outcome was "fixed." We competed against a bunch of elderly folks and a very few middle-aged couples. The fact that we were newlyweds cinched our place as the winners. I guess we just looked romantic. Either that, or we looked so bad that they awarded us the prize just to get us off the dance floor.
Well, I figure after all these years, my time is due to win something big. My youngest daughter has her heart set on us winning the HGTV house of the year, and I've been dutifully entering daily (almost) online to appease her. But my heart is set on something else--Norm's Workshop.
If you watch This Old House, you'll know who Norm is. He's the lead carpenter on the show and also has his own show, The New Yankee Workshop. Norm is a master craftsman, and his work shows it. Well, now Woodworkers Journal has launched a sweepstakes with the grand prize being an entire inventory of workshop tools ($21,500 value) selected by Norm. The winner even gets flown to Boston to visit Norm's real workshop and watch a taping of his show!
My fingers get itchy when I think of all those tools--a drill press, dust collector (boy, do I need that!), plate joiner, 3 kinds of power nailers, band saw, and more. Just imagine how many mistakes I could make with that many power tools!
Of course, if I won, I'd need one more thing: a workshop. I wonder if the HGTV house of the year has one of those????
I always enjoy calling the winner with the news. Invariably, the response goes like this:
"I never won anything in my life!"
Well, I have won a few things in my lifetime, but they haven't been big. When I was a teen, I won a Cowsills "live" album for sending in my favorite snack recipe that goes with milk. (At the time, the Cowsills were doing PSAs for the Dairy Board.) There must not have been much competition, because I entered two different recipes and was sent two copies of the album.
Shortly after I got married, my husband and I "won" medals in a dance contest at his company's picnic. If you have ever seen us dance, you would know the outcome was "fixed." We competed against a bunch of elderly folks and a very few middle-aged couples. The fact that we were newlyweds cinched our place as the winners. I guess we just looked romantic. Either that, or we looked so bad that they awarded us the prize just to get us off the dance floor.
Well, I figure after all these years, my time is due to win something big. My youngest daughter has her heart set on us winning the HGTV house of the year, and I've been dutifully entering daily (almost) online to appease her. But my heart is set on something else--Norm's Workshop.
If you watch This Old House, you'll know who Norm is. He's the lead carpenter on the show and also has his own show, The New Yankee Workshop. Norm is a master craftsman, and his work shows it. Well, now Woodworkers Journal has launched a sweepstakes with the grand prize being an entire inventory of workshop tools ($21,500 value) selected by Norm. The winner even gets flown to Boston to visit Norm's real workshop and watch a taping of his show!
My fingers get itchy when I think of all those tools--a drill press, dust collector (boy, do I need that!), plate joiner, 3 kinds of power nailers, band saw, and more. Just imagine how many mistakes I could make with that many power tools!
Of course, if I won, I'd need one more thing: a workshop. I wonder if the HGTV house of the year has one of those????
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