Yesterday was a very interesting day. Lots of things seemed to be going wrong, from a leaking pipe under the bathroom sink, Denali making a mess of all of the items underneath aforementioned sink, irate clients upset about work that had already been sent to them but that they had apparently never received, and a bunch of other things I’d really not get into. Horrible day.

Or so I thought.

It started looking up when the UPS delivered a package that turned out to be an advanced reader’s copy of Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, Or How I Learned About Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat by Gwen Cooper, a book that I have been dying to read, that I had won from GoodReads.com. The day was looking up.

Then I got an interesting email from Margie at PU2B asking me to update my phone number so that they could contact me. That gave me a bit of a panic attack. I couldn’t help but think that I had done something really, really wrong and was about to get chewed out or something. So I checked my information – it was correct. Did I forget to pay the bill, I wondered. It’s happened before and when it does Verizon has this annoying message that they’ll play for you and no calls can be received or made. So I dialed my mom’s cell (she has Verizon too). I expected to get the recording, instead it went through just fine. Ironically my mother (who should have been working) answered and after a few minutes of chit chat mentioned that she had phone problems the day before yesterday. Apparently none of her calls would go out for a few hours. Network troubles then? I dunno. I emailed Margie back then waited on pins and needles to find out what I did wrong.

Turns out I did absolutely nothing wrong, one could even say I did something right, they were emailing me to let me know that I had won the Disney Gift Card contest!

In all honesty, I hadn’t been able to blog regularly and had honestly thought I was out of the running. First there was the ISP issues and the loss of the desktop computer which forced me to go online only when I was at a hotspt. Then of course, after I finally get the laptop hooked up to use at home, my laptop crashed. Between all that I seriously thought I had no chance. So imagine my surprise when Tony called me and told me I was the winner! I was in such a total state of shock that even after I hung up the phone I was sitting there like an idiot starring off into space, just trying to process the fact that I won before smiling like an idiot and bouncing around in excitement. Unbelievable. I think I even scared Isis with my behavior.

I’ve never been to Disneyland before so this is truly a golden opportunity, and for fear of sounding like a kid, a dream come true. Now I just need to find a friend or two who would like to come with me!

Thank you, Tony, Keith, Margie, and everyone else in the PU2B family. You guys are wonderful!