Trudging the Road of Happy Destiny since August 1992
15 October 2007
My prize
If you've been paying very close attention, you know I won a prize over at the Daily Piglet. Well, after a missed connection, my prize arrived in the mail the other day. You can see a picture of it to the left. Piglet told me she perused my blog to get an idea of what would be a good gift and, in the end, it was a toss-up between this and a night-light replica of the leg lamp from the movie A Christmas Story. To the right you can see a picture of the prize I didn't win.
My first thought on opening the package was, "Is it that obvious, just from reading my blog?" Who better to ask than Mr. Sarcastic Ball. You can see his answer here in the picture to the left.
In return for her offer that let me win this wonderful prize, I gave her a chance to win something back (if you follow all the links you'll see I challenged to figure out how I knew the answer to her question). She succeeded. So now I get to look over her blog and see what might make an appropriate prize for her. Any and all suggestions from her friends (and enemies) are welcome. Please e-mail them to me privately rather than post them here, so she can have the same delightful sense of surprise that I got to experience.
Contact me—via either e-mail or Gmail chat—at namenlosen dot trinker at gmail dot com (replace ' dot ' with '.' and ' at ' with '@'). What I show as my birthday on my profile is actually my sobriety date.
The opinions expressed are my own and not those of anyone else (though they should be). Absolutely nothing contained herein is intended or should be construed as being affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous or as being representative of the opinion of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Dramatis personae
• A Zany Billiard — Sister-in-law, married to BassMan I
• Abbott — The Rock's first sponsor
• AdenineLush — Current Area Delegate
• Alf — Step-son
• Amadeus — Brother-in-law
• Banner Sky — Not a person; a nearby bar I never drank in, though I'm not sure why—it was just my kind of cheap dive
• BassMan I — Brother
• Bear — Former DCM who unexpectedly died in Feb 2007
• Bitter Cookie — Ex-wife
• Bumblebee — a sponsee, now deceased as a result of his alcoholism
• Calked Marlin — Garden-variety drunk
• ChinBeard — an old A.A. friend
• Cumulonimbus — Close personal friend and former drinking buddy who spent four years in A.A.
• Dad — My father
• Dancing Bear — Long-time pigeon
• Deadbeat Dad — Wife's ex-husband, who at one time really was one of the biggest child support deadbeats in the state
• Dean-o — Brother-in-law, married to Sis
• Diego — One of Dancing Bear's sponsees
• Doppelganger — Brother
• Ferdinand — Brother
• Graven Latte — A very close friend and recovering alcoholic in general service
• HennaLoge — Sister-in-law, married to Doppelganger
• Idlerich — Ex-wife’s boyfriend and now husband
• J.J. Rangstorm —My first service sponsor, though I didn't know that's what he was at the time
• LaTroy — Step-daughter
• Lloyd Right — a double-trouble sponsee, now deceased
• Luigi — another recovering alcoholic
• Macron Larks — My [non-alcoholic] therapist
• Mobs Sissy — Step-daughter
• Mom — My mother
• Mr Riches-to-Rags — one of my newer pigeons
• Ms Sobriety — Long-time sober friend & high school sweetheart
• Nimue — Wife (soon to be ex-wife)
• Nonces Juicy — First cousin and wife to Cumulonimbus
• OneEighty — Sister-in-law, married to Ferdinand
• Overseer — Temporary pigeon as of October 2007
• Painter — Daughter
• Placido — Brother
• Ralph — My second sponsor
• Revson — Son-in-law, married to S-Cat, , father of my four grandchildren
• Rock, The — Current sponsor
• S-Cat — Daughter, married to Revson, mother of my four grandchildren
• Sharia Fettle — Not a person; a local bar I used to drink in
• Sis — Sister
• Tamborine — my girlfriend
• ThetaMayos — Sister-in-law, married to Placido
• Thorn — Step-son
• Timber Ruse — An alcoholic friend who got sober just after I did
• Tom Florentine — Panel 53 DCM
• Vertebrae Shanty — Not a person; a local bar I used to drink in
6 comments:
too funny
this is going to show up as daily piglet, but i'm not really her. she told me she would really really like a bentley. and gum. and jelly beans.
I'd like a sarcastic ball. Hard and smooth and a little bouncy.
Have a good day.
LOL. I NEED one of those. Fun stuff!
the sarcatic ball looks like a perfect thing for Monday mornings. it's great!
Oh, I love both of those. I need to get them myself.
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