A new year, a new life, and a new contest!

You heard me! I'm contesting this biatch!

One week from today, I will be boarding that airplane to cross an ocean and cross into a whole new experience. I'm beyond excited!

I returned from Georgia Saturday morning, and spent most of the day in a daze from exhaustion. I managed to unpack, open my mail, and I had a nice improvised Chicago dog for lunch. I fell asleep around 10pm, but was awakened for a glass of midnight champagne before going back to bed for another 10 hours!

The new year meant a few treats: cream puffs, pizza, Starbucks, cookies, popcorn, and Italian sausage. I'm going to miss some great food in Japan, though I am looking forward to a whole bunch more great food! I already love ramen (and I mean the real ramen, with sliced pork, a hard-boiled egg, etc) and yakitori (mmm, meat on a stick!). I brought back a few hundred cards from Georgia to scan - all the awards cards, my non-sport hits collection, and some of the type collection. The rest of the type collection was shipped (at great expense, hopefully it arrives safe!) and should be here for scanning in a couple days. So my preparations are moving along as fast as I can make them!

You're welcome.

I came home to a couple trade packages. Robert and Napkin, thanks! A full post is coming soon!

Today is hunting day. I need to hunt down a few last items for my trip. Really, other than tons of scanning, baseball cards have been on the back burner for the past month. I miss writing posts of real substance about cards. I need to finish up the Japanese cards series that I started sometime last month, Yes I intend on finishing that this week. Maybe after I finish scanning cards and photos today I can hammer a post or two out. I have been somewhat neglecting the Cardboard Zoo, but I haven't forgotten it!

Wait, didn't I mention something about a contest? Oh yeah! I have some great items to give away as a going-away present. There are some good prizes to be had. Seven total gifts to be distributed! Or more? Not sure. Anyway, leave a comment here to enter. Enter by Thursday January 5, 2012, 11:59pm Pacific time. I'll post the prizes and their winners Friday morning, and I'll need mailing addresses that day since I flee fly out of the country Monday morning! You can win only one prize. Pimping gets you nothing!

Speaking of shipping stuff, I need to get these clearance lots shipped. I'll email you if you don't respond today, but if you claimed a team or teams in my clearance sale I need to arrange payment and shipping this week. There are eight boxes packed and ready to go as soon as the money is here! (Please email me about this instead of leaving a comment. My email is located through my profile.)