A Long-Time Coming: Thank-You Homespun Honolulu For The Prize

call HART crazy .. but

My how time flies…

HART’s RAVE

April 26, 2007 – Homespun Honolulu – A Honolulu Blog .. puts a call out to its readers by way of a contest form to create a new category name … for posts about things that have made me angry, upset, etc.

May 3, 2007 – HART is announced as the winner of the contest with the *ingenious* category name called .. “Honolulu Rant” .. and a bottle of wine is promised as HART’s Contest Winning Prize!

May 18, 2007 – Difficulties were arising .. I received a private message from Evelyn in MyBlogLog and apparently … The US postal service won’t take the wine to a foreign country and the courier services won’t either. They can only do it from wine store to wine store. She asked me if anything else from Hawaii would interest me … I casually “put it out there” that I just so happen to collect Fridge Magnets!

Summer of 2007 – We laughed, we cried .. we all had a great summer! And, time passed on and we continue our daily lives.

November 3, 2007 – HART was innocently TAGGED in a meme called “Life’s Indispensables and Melodies to Live By”. At the time, HART didn’t notice the little comment next to my name, when I was tagged .. (who needs to watch his mail) but just brushed it off as my Dashboard noticed the Link to me (and I didn’t need any email reminder)

November 7, 2007 – HART participates in the above mentioned meme! Actually, I started late at night on November 6th but by the time I posted it – it was dated after midnight, as November 7, 2007.

Friday, November 9, 2007 – A Package arrived at HART’s residence .. from Hawaii. We were painting our living room this entire weekend (from November 9th until November 12th .. and the package was just put aside for the moment and mixed with a whole bunch of other furniture.

That was a hectic weekend for us .. you see my wife’s father was in a terrible car crash on November 7th, 2007 .. and although we didn’t know it at the time, now suffers brain damage and loss of eyesight in one eye and requires 24/7 care. We have been on pins and needles ever since the accident .. especially those first two weeks in recovery. Not to mention that my wife planned our house renovation and we had to paint our main floor by the 12th or else!! Anyway … It happened, but it’s no excuse.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 – I finally opened the box and sent an email to Evelyn to acknowledge receipt and initial thanks, and I promised I would post a picture up on one of my blogs within a week or so .. when I had a chance!

Well – I have to apologize for taking so long .. it was a great gift! A bunch of Fridge Magnets and other Hawaii goodies (postage etc) but I must say – I enjoy these Fridge Magnets EVERYDAY. I was at an event in November 10, 2007 and had a picture taken with my wife .. and I surround that picture with the magnets that I received as my contest prize .. take a look:

Neat eh? Here’s how it looks like every day when I go to my fridge. Although, every other fridge magnet is from a location we have actually travelled to .. we hope to eventually make it out to Hawaii before we are old and grey and decided to leave it on the fridge to remind us I’m almost embarrassed it has been taking me so long to take a picture and write a blog post about this. Besides busy with my own business, I have been trying to close down my father-in-law’s business, taking pictures of inventory and customers. I’ve been taking pictures of my meals daily and even posting it over on Battling Obesity blog .. yet, kept forgetting to take a picture of my fridge door that I see many times every day!

ALOHA EVELYN!

Thank-You and your Homespun Honolulu blog (which is part of the Home Turf Media network) for your great gift and prize! It is greatly appreciated and enjoyed!

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