There’s a Cake in My Pocket…

….and so we come to the end, Seven Days leading up to Theodor Seuss Geisel’s birthday. This post is entirely toooo late, and for that I apologize. I had intended to post the results of the contest earlier in the evening, but Mother Nature it seems had other plans for me. I have been fighting off a cold or something for the past several days, and I think I’m finally losing that fight.
All is not lost! I have everyone’s answers and I’m compiling them all into four groups for the four lotteries and will draw the winners tonight. The results will be posted tomorrow morning and I will make efforts to contact the winners (many of you failed to also include your contact info….Boo on you I say!)

Again, I apologize for the delay.

But let’s take this moment to wish Theodor Seuss Geisel a very happy Birthday, and I’d like to personally thank him for his books that my father read to me every night (well, at least until I was four) which inspired me into doing many of the things that I enjoy doing today.
Dr. Seuss, I’m glad I got to grow up with you. Happy Birthday!

…and here’s an added bonus…I received this on my phone during the day. It’s my favorite two little munchkins who I shall forever now refer to as Thing One and Thing Two:

The Last Day Before….

 Dr. Seuss Quote of the Day
"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.."

Seuss Fact:
The line “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” from “Horton Hears a Who!,” has been used as a slogan for anti-abortion organizations. It’s often questioned whether that was Seuss’ intent in the first place, but when he was still alive, he threatened to sue an anti-abortion group unless they removed his words from their letterhead.

                                            -Horton
                                            ballpoint pen on paper

Last night folks! Sorry for the late post of this my seventh drawing for the late Dr. Seuss. You didn’t think that I’d actually leave out Horton did you? In all honesty, I almost did. Somehow, I cannot count up to a full week. I realized this morning that I had only drawn six little tributes, thinking that the last day would fall on Seuss’ actual birthday, and the lottery subsequently.
So here we are….seven days, seven drawings, plus three that are available to win. Not a bad week…even if I am exhausted and my mother just gave me grief that I’m doing things for free and other motherly concerns….in all honesty, I kind of blocked her out and started daydreaming of monkeys made of marshmallows having a knife fight in the treetops.
I will draw the names of the three (i mean four) winners tomorrow evening and post the results right afterwards. Until then, keep the guesses coming….I’ll accept them until midday tomorrow.

Day Six of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quote of the Day
”Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.”

Seuss Fact:
Frankenstein’s Monster himself, Boris Karloff, provided the voice of the Grinch, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and the narration for the movie. Seuss thought his voice might be too scary for kids and all of the high tones in Karloff’s voice were removed in post production. That’s why the Grinch sounds so gravelly.

Also, Thurl Ravenscroft, (the voice behind Tony the Tiger in the old Frosted Flakes commercials) is the voice behind “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.” song, although he received no credit on the film.

                            -Tweedle Beetle  
                                       ballpoint pen on paper

With two days left of the Seuss Week, I bring you my little version of the Tweedle Beetle Bottle Battle Bug. There is still time on the contest. There have been a lot of correct answers given by many people, but there are still some with incorrect (albeit very good) guesses as well. I encourage those to give it another shot.

The Things Three…

So here’s a recap of the three drawings that are eligible to be won by you good folks. Like I said at the beginning, it isn’t necessary that you guess all three in order to win anything; the ones that you guess correctly put you into a drawing for that piece. But….here’s an added bonus for those of you who can guess all three correctly (of which, there are several already), there will be one last lottery and one lucky person will win one of the first copies of the Crumbly Nevertheless Collection that I’m currently putting together.
So again, Good Luck!

Thing One
_______

Thing Two
_______

Thing Three

HERE’S THE RULES: The contest ends on March 2nd, so you have until then to guess the above characters. You can guess as many times as you need…that is, if you realize that your first guess was wrong, you are allowed to guess again to make up for it, and so on. You can give your guesses to me either by commenting on this post (the comments have to be approved by myself, so they won’t be seen by anyone else) or by messaging me from my Facebook profile. DO NOT post it on my profile’s wall for everyone to see! Doing so will disqualify you from the contest…for real and stuffs.
Please include your email with your guesses so that I can contact you in the event of your winning one of the three drawings.

Day Five of Seven…

 Dr. Seuss Quotes of the Day” 
“It's a troublesome world. All the people who're in it 
are troubled with troubles almost every minute.
You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
for the places and people you're lucky you're not.”

Seuss Fact:
“If I Ran the Zoo,” published in 1950, is the first recorded instance of the word “nerd.”

                                               -Braggarts
                                               ballpoint pen on paper

More than halfway there folks! There are still a few days left for those of you who have made some wrong guesses or who haven’t guessed at all…like I said, I will accept answers all the way up to noon on the 2nd of March, this coming Tuesday, so keep at it! I will be posting the three drawings together in a single post later in the day (I know, I know…I said I’d do this yesterday but I got sidetracked with an overly long power-nap, sorry) to make it easier for everyone to reference them and make their guesses.
Congrats to all of you with correct guesses so far! Your names have all been added into the lottery for the drawings in question.

In related news, the film 2012 will have it’s dvd released on the 2nd of March, Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Coincidence? Yeah, I hope so…