The Junk Drawer

As you know, Windy had a birthday yesterday, complete with cake and balloons. Someone who saw me walking into the building with obvious party items asked me "Whose birthday is it?"

I couldn’t bear the thought of responding "A plastic bag," so I said simply "Someone special." It wasn’t really a lie, was it?

I emailed colleagues from my building to let them know they should come to my office for the cake cutting at lunch time.

But then something strange happened.

I heard a rustling coming from the cake room. A plastic kind of rustling.

Somehow Windy’s friends must have intercepted the email.

That’s right! Our little Windy turns one year old on Wednesday and I’m celebrating the day with cake and a party.

It’s not every day I order cakes for non-human entities. The poor guy at the bakery didn’t know what to make of it when I handed him a picture of Windy to put on it.

We spent a lot of time discussing what color and decorations I wanted on the cake. I thought violet and green would accent her tree quite nicely.

When we finalized the order, he said "And you want this written on it?" He held up the note I gave him at the start of my insane order.

Him: "Happy Birthday…. um….."

Me: "Windy."

Him: "Riiiight."

He told me it would cost a little extra to put her picture on it.

I said, "That’s OK. She’s worth it!"

I skipped away to do a little grocery shopping and I’m pretty sure he waited until I turned a corner, then called security and told them "Crazy lady in Aisle 9. Keep an eye on her."

I’m taking the cake to work so I don’t eat it all myself. If you work with me, swing by my office Wednesday for a piece in honor of Windy. It’ll be the craziest thing you do for a long, long while.

I mean it, too. I thought I was ordering a quarter sheet cake, but when I picked it up, I realized I ordered a half sheet. Seriously. SHOW UP FOR CAKE!

And try to excuse that the baker put Windy’s picture on upside down. Poor Windy. Stuck for a year and now hanging by her toes.

“Happy Birthday Windy, Sorry you’re still stuck!”

Finally! We have a winner!

Jodith of Administrative Arts guessed correctly that there were exactly 252 "Robin’s Eggs" in the container.

There aren’t that many now, though. Despite deciding they tasted gross, my husband Dave and I kept eating them. What is wrong with us? Don’t answer that.

For guessing correctly, Jodith will receive a Junk Drawer magnet and a small bag of non-funky Robin’s Eggs.

Thanks for playing!

OK, OK! Enough torture! In my last post, I showed you a picture of a small part of an object and asked you to name the object. No one guessed correctly with the first shot, but Dazureus got it with the help of the second.

The above pieces are part of a drum head tightener on a conga drum. My husband is a bass guitarist, but somehow when his band broke up, we got the drum. It lives in the basement and never gets played. So sad.

Thanks for playing the What’s That game. Your guesses always crack me up.

Dazureus declined the Junk Drawer magnet prize because, as he says, "It’s fun enough just to figure things out." See? These games don’t have to make you insane.

I still want to award a magnet to someone, so how about another challenge? Whoever guesses the exact number of candied malt balls in this container wins! It should give you a smaller-sized headache than the first contest.

Go!

CONTEST CLOSED: Click here to see who won!

I have a bad feeling about this. Something tells me someone is going to guess this object right away.

What is that?

How to play:

1. The photo shows a small portion of a larger object.

2. First person to guess the object it’s a part of wins either 500 Entrecard credits or a Junk Drawer magnet, your choice.

Go!

UPDATE March 30

I read through all the comments so far, and only one person is close. And I only mean "close" by the way he described the top part of the object pictured.

Shinade asked if I’m enjoying torturing you. Why, yes. Yes, I am. But not so much that I won’t give you more of the object to go on. This picture shows the bottom half of the part you see pictured above.

Does this help?