Sunday, January 1, 2012

Happy New Pair!

In my last post, I held a Hanukkah hide-the-grammar-errors sock contest. It's like hide the matzoh, but it tastes better. (I'm kidding; matzoh is delicious with butter slathered all over it like my grandma used to make.)

To your left, is the beautiful pair of socks that will be awarded to the lucky winner. If any men had entered, I would have gone for a more androgynous pair, but since men can't find grammar errors, luxe girl it is.

P.S. Just kidding, men.
P.P.S. I really wanted to capitalize luxe girl.

Three women entered the contest, so I wrote each of their names on a piece of paper:


Then, I crumpled up the pieces of paper:

Then, I ran into my room and got my furry purple hat (faux fur, of course) that I've had for years but have never worn. New Year's resolution: wear purple furry hat.

Then, I put the crumpled pieces of paper into the hat:

Then, I shuffled the crumpled of pieces around and selected one:

The suspense is killing me!

And, drum roll please: the winner is...

Congratulations, Jessica!

(Jessica, I can't find any contact info. for you on your profile. If you see this, email me your address at missedperiods@gmail.com and the socks will be yours.)

Happy New Year to everyone!

21 comments:

Shelly said...

The culmination of all contests should be this much fun. Happy New Year!

Kelly Polark said...

Ha ha! Love the play by play! Sorry I missed the contest! Cute socks for Jessica!

Anonymous said...

Happy New Year! And darn, I didn;t get those awesome looking socks.

Michael J. said...

Ok - I'm bummed. I missed out on cool socks. Next time I'll be on time and I will find the gramer erors. (just practicing)

:-)

Jessica said...

Hurray! I'm emailing you right now! Thank you!

the late phoenix said...

read the post title...thought it meant something else...:(...happy new year, it's the last one before the world ends, right?

DWei said...

Congrats to her for winning the socks!

anthony stemke said...

Wishing you a Happy New Year.
(Lets see- got a subject, predicate, period at the end; I guess I'm ok).

Shutterbug said...

happy new year! may 2012 bring you much joy and happiness! :)

Sharyn said...

Yay Jessica!

Glynis Peters said...

Happy New Year! Glad those socks found a good home!

Dylan Fitzgerald said...

DANGIT! I can't believe I missed the contest! Those are some fancy grammar socks.

Happy New Year!

Liz said...

Happy New Year! I work in theater. I absolutely know men who would wear those socks.

Deniz Bevan said...

Love the way you built up the suspense there.
Congratulations, Jessica!
And happy new year everyone!

Theresa Milstein said...

I haven't visited for too long, so no lucky socks for me. Congratulations, Jessica!

Mary Aalgaard said...

You can even make a sock award grammar contest funny. Cheers!

Gia said...

Oh my goodness I love this blog name. And I wish I had seen your contest - I totally woulda entered.

Terra Shield said...

Congrats to Jessica.

JDC said...

Jessica is the name of my girlfiend, unfortunately was not the lucky winner of this pair of socks.

Mark said...

Congrats to the lucky lady :) Oh and I'm a guy who loves to point out or at least try to find grammatical errors.

Wendy Ramer, Author said...

Dark-chocolate-covered matzah is the best! (The hyphens are in response to a more recent post, but I don't think it works here.)