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All right, people. This is a surprise contest. The first person who can tell me exactly where this picture was taken wins a souvenir from the place:

And now back to the barbecue…

Before any wise asses ask, no the prize is not horse manure.

I decided I need to post a photo of the one and only box I did not examine. For anyone who has not read today’s prior post, you need to read that first. Okay, are we on the same page now? Alrighty, this is the box:

I also learned this evening from Theresa that the only reason he found the passport in that box is because, in his frustration, he began taking shoes out of that box and throwing them against the wall.

Katie, who got a whopping 13 answers right out of 16.

Here are the Monkling Trivia questions with the correct answers in red and my favorite responses in blue. I also included some links to posts where I mentioned the answer. Not all of them have links because some were never mentioned (thus, the psychic questions) & some had too many references to list them all (like my complaints about my neighbors).

1. What is the name of my favorite Italian restaurant? Luigi’s – Mario…No, wrong brother.
2. What is my middle name? Sadly, I don’t have one
3. Am I the oldest, youngest or middle child? oldest – Oldest, but you certainly don’t look it!
4. How old am I? 50
5. Where did I go this past fall to celebrate my birthday? San Antonio
6. How did I get tennis elbow? chopping ice after a sleet storm – probably trying to beat your family at Wii
7. What kind of pet do I plan on getting after Nicky goes home to Jesus? none – grandchildren
8. How many wives does Frank have? 1 or 14
9. What did my MIL’s nursing home roommate accuse us of? drinking & doing drugs – doing tequila shooters
10. What is across the street from me? a school & a playground
11. I have been to 2 countries in Europe – which ones? Italy & France – Slovenia and Transylvania
12. How tall am I? 5′ 1″ – not all that tall, but big enough to sit at the dinner table and reach your plate
13. Why do I dislike my next door neighbors? they’re loud & obnoxious – park cars in the backyard and probably have also buried bodies back there
14. Which baseball team do I root for? Yankees – The Mets. Haha!!! YANKEES
15. Who did I see in concert recently? Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood – Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Reunited

Time is running out! Surely there have to be a few more of you out there who want to enter my contest. Do y’all want me to become completely discouraged with the pitiful lack of participation and stop running contests? Get moving! You have until tonight.

And on a completely different topic – why on earth would someone take 2 banged up, broken, old basement window frames out of someone else’s trash?? If I had know there was a demand for that sort of them, heck, I could have sold them on Ebay! Gee, I wonder if anyone wants to bid on those broken basement window screens…

I’m thinking I may need to add on a special category for that anniversary contest. Something like if you make wrong guesses but they’re incredibly funny, you get points.

I would have had y’all just post the answers in the comments but that wouldn’t be fair because those of you who worked at the answers would just be giving them for free to anyone else. It is more like a scavenger hunt, eh?

In any case, I’m going to have to share some of the really funny ones this weekend.

Oh, and completely off topic, so how about our governor here in NY? I just gotta ask something. Who in the hell would pay thousands of dollars for sex?? I mean the guy’s married. And if he wasn’t getting it from his wife, then divorce her for Pete’s sake. Oh, wait. Maybe he figured paying thousands of dollars for someone else would be cheaper in the long run than getting a divorce…

Alrighty, I have finished creating the contest. You can view it here. It will open in a new window. You can leave things blank but it would be way more fun to guess if you don’t know something. After all, there is the psychic portion of the trivia quiz.

The contest officially closes at midnight on Friday. The prize is a $30 gift certificate for Amazon.com. If we had hit that big jackpot in Atlantic City, I would have given away a million dollars but I’m a loser.

I couldn’t think of what I wanted to do for this Anniversary Contest. That’s why I didn’t do it on Friday. Now I have arrived at a decision.

After reading my blog for months and months, you guys have to know me somewhat, at least to the extent that I choose to reveal myself on here. So we’re going to have a special Monkling trivia contest but with a twist. There will also be some questions that will require psychic ability. You will have to guess the answers to some of the questions.

Now I just have to decide how long to run it. I’m thinking on that one…

This Friday, March 7th marks my 1 year anniversary on this blog. Almost 365 days of blogging with barely a day missed deserves a contest, don’t ya think?

I’m not quite sure what sort of contest it’s going to be. Nothing like waiting til the last minute, eh? I do know, however, what the prize will be: A $30 Amazon certificate. And I won’t even spend any of my own money on it because I earned a whopping $31 from doing a couple of online polls & surveys.

What I’d really like to do is another photo contest like I did this summer. The problem is, I’m going to have men working here starting tomorrow so I don’t want them to think I’m too strange. “What the heck is that lady doing taking pictures of little cereal men?”

I may do a little quiz. We’ll see what I come up with. Stay tuned.

But wait. Before we get to that, I want to say that Frank picked the winner. I had no part in it. I wrote down all the GPS potential names without telling him who picked what.

The winner is… (long, dramatic pause) Gladys.

Now personally I don’t think it’s quite fair for my sister to win because ya’ll can think I was sending psychic messages to Frank to pick her so here’s what we’re gonna do. She is the official winner and she gets not 1 but 2 bars of famous Monkling homemade soap. But I am going to give out consolation prizes. Everyone who entered gets a bar of soap (if they want it). Even Peggy.

So – send me your mailing info (there’s a link in the sidebar to email me). Tell me which soap you want. I am listing what’s in it so that if you’re allergic to something, you can avoid picking one that’s gonna send you to the ER.

1. Oatmeal Soap

• Palm Oil
• Coconut Oil
• Shea Butter
• Cocoa Butter
• Aloe Extract
• Safflower Oil
• Olive Oil
• Oatmeal

2. Chocolate Coconut Soap

• Palm Oil
• Coconut Oil
• Grapeseed Oil
• Shea Butter
• Cocoa Butter
• Castor Oil
• Almond Butter

For those of you who read this blog and didn’t play – well that’ll teach you to ignore my contests! Maybe next time you better consider joining in.

Remember the Name My GPS Contest? Well the deadline is tonight. Then Frank and I will vote on the winner. Let me make sure I have the entries thus far:

Ann Marie – Laura
Jer - Mom
Kim - you never picked a name
Katy - you didn’t either
Janet - you’re gonna have to pick either Gladys or Blanche
Nancie - Tripsy 2 (Too)

We’re going out to dinner later and will be having wine so who knows what will strike us as funny so get working. I want to see more entries before the deadline!