Hello everybody! Welcome to today’s show. Hope you’re having a good day. Staying warm, or cool, depending where you are. Smile on your face. Spring in your step.

Johnny, why don’t you tell the people what they’re playing for!
Sounds good Bob. Heeeeeeereeeee’s SHOWCASE #2:

WOW Johnny! That’s a lot of swag – why don’t you break it down for the people.
Sure thing, Bob.

First up, you’ve got

THREE SKEINS OF MANOS DEL URUGUAY
#114 – BRAMBLE

Next we have some wonderful Snowflake Bath Confetti in a vanilla bean and some Pine Tree Bath Confetti in a refreshing berry pine scent. Bob, throw some flakes in a warm bath, lay back with a nice hot toddy and Calgon! Take me away!

But wait! There’s more!

These cutie pie sheepys are free to a good home, Bob. They can either hang from your ears, or turn them into stitch markers to adorn your knits.

And finally, we’ve got a Lantern Moon project bag and of course, sheepy or flower cards. Winner’s Choice!

Thanks Johnny! Now here’s how you play. Answer the following question:

That’s right folks. This here blog had a DIFFERENT NAME when I first started it up. What was that name?

Now, here are the directions on how to answer:

ALL ENTRIES MUST BE EMAILED TO showcase2 AT januaryone DOT com. ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. ANY ANSWERS LEFT IN THE COMMENTS WILL BE DELETED AND DISQUALIFIED. CONTEST ENDS AT 8PM EST MONDAY 12/12/05. ANY ANSWER RECEIVED AFTER THAT WILL BE DELETED. THE WINNER WILL BE PICKED AT RANDOM FROM CORRECT ENTRIES. WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON TUESDAY, 12/13/05. GOOD LUCK!

Ready. Set. GO!

Have you been sitting on the edge of your seat? I’m posting a bit later today – am I driving you crazy? First off, thanks everyone for coming out to play. This one was a gift (well they’re all technically gifts, but I’m going to make you work a little harder next time.) First, Bob, let’s review Showcase #1:

We’ve got two skeins (450yds total) of SOCKS THAT ROCK in the Pebbles colorway, a Lantern Moon project bag, a glow in the dark sheepy (ask Margene – she’ll tell you – it REALLY glows in the dark) and some super cute sheepy earrings/stitch markers. (They will be real easy to make into stitch markers – just add a jump ring instead of a hook.) Oh and some sheep cards or flower cards, depending on what the winner wants. I had to order new stock, so no pictures right now.

And there you go Bob. Showcase #1. Thanks Johnny. We’ll be back to annouce the winner after this short commercial break.

La la la la la. Hey – want to see something funny? While I was out with my peeps on Saturday, G tried to do some home repair. Thanks honey! When I came home he pulled me into the den/guest room/work out room and showed me this:

I said, “Oh. Max will love that.” And he said, “Well. They only had one.” My goofy Georgie! He loves his Spidey night light. When I asked him if I could blog it he said, “You better.” Awww.

HA ha ha Johnny. And I said to the cat – don’t worry, I’ve been spayed! Ha ha ha – oh we’re back on the air? Let’s review. That’s two skeins STR. One Lantern Moon bag. Glow in the dark Sheep. And Sheepy earrings/stitch markers.

Look how cute!
Johnny – tell us who won!

Congratulations Nathania! Send me your address and the prize will go out in a bit. Tune in next Saturday, for more fabulous games and prizes!

Thanks for all the kind comments about my appointment yesterday. It went okay – my doctor is a sympathetic person – she just can’t wrap her head around why someone – who’s gone through all that we’ve had – would stop things at the final stage. And I can’t help her understand because I’m not sure I understand myself. It is what it is. I needed the pap and that’s done. Everything else is good. Although I’m a little bit pissed that she now considers me high risk – meaning I pumped myself full of all those drugs and hormones and to quote her “we don’t know what that stuff does to you” so she puts me in the high risk category. For cancer I guess or anything else that’s out of the ordinary. I understand being proactive, but I think that’s a little bit too much. Put together with my family history, I’m probably no more at risk than someone who took birth control pills for ten years or something – and I know plenty of people like that. Whatever. I may not go back to her. We’ll see. I do need a baseline mammogram. Guess I’m really getting old, huh. Edited to clarify: I’ve been going to my doctor for years, and for years I LOVED her. She was very proactive with my infertility testing when other doctors would have poopooed me and pointed me back to the bedroom. I understand that she can’t understand – and I feel for her. She wants to help me and she doesn’t know how besides to say go and get pregnant. And to a certain extent she’s right. A lot of my issues are MY issues. I may search out another doctor, but this is a complex situation and even the most compassionate of people can get very confused. I appreciate your good thoughts. Thank you.

I was up really late last night – no knitting involved. But I got A LOT of picture work done and I can barely see the light at the end of the tunnel – it’s there – however dim. Back to the grind. Thanks everyone for playing!!!!

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES…C’MON!

It’s time for our first SHOWCASE! As you know, every Saturday between now and my birthday I will be giving away some wonderful prizes, all in celebration of BIRTHDAY MONTH! Each week you will have to answer a question that relates to MEMEMEMEMEMEMEME (c’mon – it’s all about ME!) and each correct answer in the comments will be eligible for the random drawing on Monday night. Contest winners will be announced on Tuesday morning.

Alright JOHNNY! Tell the people what they’ll win!

That’s right folks! It’s some coveted SOCKS THAT ROCK, but wait – what’s that I see? TWO SKEINS? Over here at January One we don’t discriminate. We know there are some unfortunate people out there with BIG ASS FEET! (or as Ann likes to say – she has a big ass AND big feet. didum dum.) Here we have

But, BOB, that’s not all!

Today I will be out galavanting with some mighty cool chicks. Rumor has it there will be shopping involved. I will be adding to the prize package – maybe I will update, maybe I will SURPRISE your ass. But however it goes, you got to be in it TO WIN IT! Here’s this week’s question:

All correct answers in the comments please will be eligible to win! The answer is buried deep in the blog. Look hard, little grasshopper! 😉

And the retail value on this particular showcase is….PRICELESS! (It’s YARN people – isn’t all yarn priceless?)

Ready, set, go!

PS – When you’re done guessing here – go on over to Larissa’s and help a girl out. She wants you to take a survey and be eligible to WIN MORE PRIZES!

Thanks everyone for leaving me so many awesome jokes. It was great fun reading all of them – I laughed out loud, I scratched my head, I had a couple ewww moments – but all and all I had fun!

Without further ado – we have a winner!

Tiffany’s joke was:

The momma and daddy tomato were out for a nice walk with their baby. The farther they walked along the further the baby tomato would fall back. The momma tomato called out to her baby “Come along little one!”, even so he kept falling behind. The father called back sternly “Hurry up, lets get going!!”, and he fell back even further. Finally the momma tomato became fed up and walked all the way back to the baby tomato and stomped her foot down and yelled “KETCHUP!!!”

I love it! Tiffany will receive the Jamieson & Smith yarn and some sheepy or flower cards. And a little goofy something else.

The funniest joke prize goes to Jody. My sister kept track of the jokes with me and we both agreed that her joke was the funniest, smartest, and all around just a great joke. We laughed every time we told it to anyone that would listen. What’s the joke you ask?

A chicken and an egg are laying in bed together. The chicken rolls over, lights a cigarette, turns to the egg and says “Well, I guess we answered that question.”

LOL! Excellent! I haven’t gotten tired of it yet! Jody – you will receive sheepy or flower cards and something else goofy.

Girls – email me your addresses!
Thanks again for playing and have a great, laugh riot weekend!

If you’re American when you go in the bathroom, and you’re American when you leave the bathroom, what are you when you’re IN the bathroom?

European!

It’s so good it’s worth repeating. Lord knows I need some cheering up these days – and I know I’m not the only one – so tell me a joke!

This ain’t no kids site, so make it bawdy, make it silly, make it stupid, make it witty, make it BAD, but whatever you do MAKE IT FUNNY!

Leave me a joke in the comments and I’ll put your name in the hat for this:

That’s 4oz. of Jamieson & Smith 2-ply jumper-weight in Cream – perfect for that End-of-Summer-of-Lace pattern! Oh yeah and you’ll get some sheepy or flower cards, whichever you prefer. Or both if you want. And maybe some other goofy prize. We’ll see how funny you are.

Feel free to leave as many comments as you want, but I’m only going to enter your name once. I’ll close the contest Friday night.

ETA: I’ve also decided to give a runner-up prize (photocards and a little goofy something) to the commenter who tells me what I consider the BEST joke of the bunch. So GET FUNNY!

A guy walks into a bar and asks the bartender if he will give him a free drink if he would show him something truly amazing…

The guy replies, ” Do you really think I wished for a 12 inch pianist?”´