I made an embarrassing discovery as I was kind of straightening up at home last night. (My modest activity could in no way be called “cleaning.” It simply didn’t rise to the level. Not even close.) I discovered I had broken Blogging Rule No. 38. If there were such a place as Blogger Jail, I most certainly would be in it.

How did picking up my living room lead me to this discombobulating revelation? I found a little box that I didn’t recognize. I opened it, spotted a glint of silver and was immediately overcome by an intense sinking sensation. The camera. The one I posted as a giveaway. Back in July. Oh. Crap. Bad Cat! Bad, bad Cat!

I honestly thought I had sent it out. Evidence clearly proves otherwise, and for that, I offer my most sincere apologies. It wasn’t deliberate.

Blogger Rule No. 38 clearly states that if you are offering an item as a giveaway, you must actually give said item away. OK, I made that up. But it should be rule, right?

I blame Elämä — life, as Kristen C. correctly translated (with a little help from Google) a few months ago.

I am not offering excuses. I take full responsibility for forgetting to follow through on my blogger duty.

This has been a strange year for me in terms of the 3-Day.

Last year, I rather immersed myself in it, allowing it to consume a good part of my life. That’s not a bad thing, but this year, life — the non-pink portions, anyway — has reasserted its dominion over me. With a vengeance. Not in bad way. I don’t mean to imply anything negative, but the non-pink parts of my life were not going to be neglected this year. I can only assume that’s because I wasn’t training on a near daily basis to walk a mere 60 miles in three days. I’m crewing this year (Yay, Team Twitter AZ!), which not the long-term commitment that walking is.

It will be interesting to see if I can find a happy medium next year, when I am once again planning walk. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, I am so sorry, Tammy K. I drew your name on July 28, and had every intention of e-mailing you “tomorrow.” Oops. Big oops.  It’s been a very long day, but “tomorrow” is finally here. I promise it won’t take me another three-plus months to get to the post office.

So, there’s my mea culpa.

Please don’t send me to Blogger Jail. Hercules would miss me. Or at least he’d miss my feeding him.