Divya!

Divya-I’ll need your name and address where you’ll be able to receive mail on Friday!

I had so much fun reading all your comments but before I get to that, I am BURSTING at the seams with excitement!  Because I ALSO won today and I am the PROUD owner of this!

Including the awesome, special addition Windows 7 bag (you could only get one of these if you signed up to host a Windows 7 party-yes someone on my team did sign up to host a party):

I had to be quite ruthless.  It was between that and this:

I stole both many times but on the last turn the champagne had been stolen 3 times in that round (meaning it couldn’t be stolen again) and the Clapper was off limits to me since it had just been stolen from me. I stole something that Elaina wanted and somehow she got the Clapper back and we traded. I don’t remember the exact details of how it happened BUT we were totally devious.

Some of the other gems?

There was another Snuggie (a much more tame blue):

And, quite the find-Handerpants!

Just look at all the uses! Night Blogging! Texting! Cruising!

The recipient of the leopard print Snuggie was quite pleased:

And yes that IS a huge banana saver in the background!

We had a ridiculously fun time.

Check out the rink (I feel like this picture could have been taken 25 years ago):

On the door-No prohibited skates!:

Roller Derby Elaina!

My skates:

My skating abilities did come back.  Although not to their full glory.

Now, onto some of the comments from the giveaway!

First, the winner mentioned fruitcake-I never liked fruitcake until my wedding in Jamaica.  The traditional wedding cake there is a rum fruit cake with fruit that has been soaked in wine for a month or more-it was the best cake ever! So dense and delicious!

Next, stuffing! I LOVE stuffing and have plans to post my grandma’s cornbread stuffing recipe very soon!

Then there was mention of gingerbread.  MMM MMM GOOD!  I have a FANTASTIC and time consuming totally unhealthy ginger snap recipe that may need to share with you all.

Oh and then the mention of Latkes.  Latkes are quite literally heaven on earth.  Mmmmm, with some apple sauce and sour cream-nothing better!

The last one I wanted to comment on was tamales.  Tamales on Christmas is a HUGE tradition in my family as well.  We had many Latino friends who would bring them over for Christmas and we always had a Mexican feast on Christmas Eve.  This year will be no different-if you look at my monthly menu for this month, you’ll see that I’m planning on a Mexican feast for Christmas Eve!  This was a huge shock to Shaun.  I had to mentally prepare him for Christmas Eve with Mexican food for his first Lingo Christmas.  Now? He loves it! 

Does anyone have a foolproof tamale recipe?  I even know where I can get lard, which I hear is crucial to tamale making. Or, if you have a foolproof lard-less recipe, I’ll try that one out too.