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Monday, November 5, 2007

Weekly Contest Winner for Week 1

Congratulations to Julie, our Weekly Contest Winner for week 1! She has won a $100.00 gift certificate to Executive Gift Shoppe!

For details about our weekly contest click here: Weekly Contest

Here is Julies hysterical story:

By the age of twelve, I was a "well-rounded" child-- an early bloomer, to say the least. On the playground, I heard all of the jokes about being Dolly Parton, and, except for that one time I beat up a boy and made him call me uncle, I learned to live with it rather gracefully. By my senior year in high school, in the early 90's, I had learned to hide my assets to some degree. I chose to wear a lot of baggy clothes, and I never left the house without a jacket so that my chest wouldn't draw too much attention.
Of course, my true friends never teased me for being a little top heavy. It never mattered to them. In fact, none of them ever even seemed to notice. In a lot of ways, they were a second family to me. We were such a close-knit group that we spent our school days together, our afternoons practicing in the high school band, and at least one night a week, the four of us would get together at my house to watch our favorite prime time television show. It became a routine for us.
The Christmas of our senior year, the band director decided to let us have a Christmas party at the school. All of the students got to have snacks and exchange gifts with their friends during the first class of the day. My buddies and I were really excited about this. We were prepared with tons of gifts and the knowledge that everybody would get to see the cool presents we got each other. Some of the gifts were comical - a Millie Vanilli spiral notebook was the gag gift I got my best friend, Michelle- but most of the gifts were extremely fitting and thoughtful, the kind of gifts that only true friends would think to get for each other.
I still remember opening the Christmas gift from my buddy, Michelle. Everybody had gathered around to see what we had gotten for each other, and the crowd all seemed curious about the soft red package I was about unwrap. As I removed the gift from the paper, I was surprised and extremely embarrassed at the present my naive friend had given me. Outdoing herself yet again, she had managed to find a form fitting t-shirt featuring the logo of the television show that we had been getting together every week to watch : Twin Peaks.
Nowadays, I would wear it with pride, but, at that moment, when everybody chuckled, got out their cameras and asked me to pose with the shirt, I turned six shades of red.

by: Executive Gift Shoppe