Whirlwind of Excitement at Conference: Winning Big and Fulfilling Dreams!

OK, now I can't say I don't win anything! :blushing:

I went through most of the conference hearing drawings ... and nobody in our cluster won until the last day. One of my new clustermates won a free night in a hotel room next year. This will make the trip so much easier for her! I was so excited for her! :angel:

So we finished with conference, quickly got surprise boxes and shipped our minis away in them ... and got in line. The driver gave me a sticker but not my clustermate in front of me. I noticed it just as we finished our tour and walked into the room ... they were nice enough to give her a number. Since she has had some circumstances this year, I was praying that one or both of us would get it!

So they drew "her" bus first (they gave her a number for the blue bus even though we were both on orange) and she didn't get it.

Then they drew the orange bus and the guy said "Thirty .....

"eight," I thought.

Then I heard EIGHT!

I screamed so loud I could be heard in the parking lot!

They announced that we'd get in the money machine ... stuff tickets into our pockets ... and that we really should grab the "golden" ticket, which is worth a 7 piece set of stainless cookware! Nobody had failed to grab that ticket any time they did this ...

I got it with only 4 seconds to go! They let me get stuff off the door as well!

They would not tell me what I won ... but I looked at my bag and saw that it had a silicone floral cake pan and "dotts" which hopefully be the large bowl! I'm hoping it is ... since I'm guessing that they packed it with products that will help us improve our sales!

They said, "Tell your husband you only bought a thing or two ..." I don't have a husband, though! Roomie is discouraged that it's not non-stick!

HOWEVER .... I said to several people, "You have no idea how much this means. I have been cooking in saucepans that I inherited from my mother ... the old copper bottom pans that have duct tape holding the handles on!

This is also the ultimate confirmation that I was supposed to go to conference ... my car broke down in June ... I had to replace my computer soon after ... my roomate encouraged me to "cancel one of your trips" not seeing the value in either! (The other one was a cheap trip to New England to visit family.)

I am thinking of holding an "inferior cookware" yard sale in August!

A fellow cheffer took a photo of me in the booth ... I encouraged her to post it. I am sure it will be quite blurry but I said I'd verify it!

Does anybody know a good video sharing site, since somebody said they'd video it to me?

ALSO ... those of you who have won in the past ... what did you get? The suspense is killing me!

I'm so excited for you! You have to post a picture of youeself with all the boxes once they arrive.

That is so awesome!!! I am so excited for you!! I know I busted my butt when the Executive was introduced and they had the Pan-O-Rama for that and was so excited when I earned it all!! I can't wait to hear what all you have won!! Make sure you tell us!!!

Di~

I am sooooooooooooo excited for you! I was thinking of just how much you deserved to win...and how appreciative you would be because of all the crappy things you have put up with recently!!

Thank you, Lord, for blessing Di this way!

I can't wait to hear all that you won!!

That is SOOO awesome! Congratulations. I can't wait to hear about everything you got.

Thank you, everyone! Your words touched me deeply, Kelly!

Now I know why the enemy was trying to stop me from going ... and why God cleared the way ... I truly believe having products will help me build my business! Clustermate and I are already talking about an open house at her church, since she goes to church near where I am.

(I'll e-mail you the "chef Chris" story)

Di- how awesome is this!!!??? I cannot wait to hear what all you won. How cool will it be to open that box once it arrives? Way to go and Yeah God for blessing you with this surprise!

Di_Can_Cook said:

OK, now I can't say I don't win anything! :blushing:

I went through most of the conference hearing drawings ... and nobody in our cluster won until the last day. One of my new clustermates won a free night in a hotel room next year. This will make the trip so much easier for her! I was so excited for her! :angel:

So we finished with conference, quickly got surprise boxes and shipped our minis away in them ... and got in line. The driver gave me a sticker but not my clustermate in front of me. I noticed it just as we finished our tour and walked into the room ... they were nice enough to give her a number. Since she has had some circumstances this year, I was praying that one or both of us would get it!

So they drew "her" bus first (they gave her a number for the blue bus even though we were both on orange) and she didn't get it.

Then they drew the orange bus and the guy said "Thirty .....

"eight," I thought.

Then I heard EIGHT!

I screamed so loud I could be heard in the parking lot!

They announced that we'd get in the money machine ... stuff tickets into our pockets ... and that we really should grab the "golden" ticket, which is worth a 7 piece set of stainless cookware! Nobody had failed to grab that ticket any time they did this ...

I got it with only 4 seconds to go! They let me get stuff off the door as well!

They would not tell me what I won ... but I looked at my bag and saw that it had a silicone floral cake pan and "dotts s" which would be either the small bowls or the serving bowl! I'm hoping it's the latter ... since I'm guessing that they packed it with products that will help us improve our sales!

They said, "Tell your husband you only bought a thing or two ..." I don't have a husband, though! Roomie is discouraged that it's not non-stick!

HOWEVER .... I said to several people, "You have no idea how much this means. I have been cooking in saucepans that I inherited from my mother ... the old copper bottom pans that have duct tape holding the handles on!

This is also the ultimate confirmation that I was supposed to go to conference ... my car broke down in June ... I had to replace my computer soon after ... my roomate encouraged me to "cancel one of your trips" not seeing the value in either! (The other one was a cheap trip to New England to visit family.)

I am thinking of holding an "inferior cookware" yard sale in August!

A fellow cheffer took a photo of me in the booth ... I encouraged her to post it. I am sure it will be quite blurry but I said I'd verify it!

Does anybody know a good video sharing site, since somebody said they'd video it to me?

ALSO ... those of you who have won in the past ... what did you get? The suspense is killing me!

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Tell your roomie that she can buy one non-stick skillet at Target or something for $25.00- YOU JUST WON a 7-piece SET OF AWESOME SS cookware!!!! There is nothing to be discouraged about!

Well ... I really don't care what my roomie thinks of the cookware ... we already have the executive saute pan and the family skillet I got with my PC dollars ... that way I can tell customers that EVERY KITCHEN needs some of both!

I also heard, "Good, we needed that."

Of course we don't "need" many of the other products but it will be nice to have them ... very, very, very nice!

Di_Can_Cook said:

Well ... I really don't care what my roomie thinks of the cookware ... we already have the executive saute pan and the family skillet I got with my PC dollars ... that way I can tell customers that EVERY KITCHEN needs some of both!

I also heard, "Good, we needed that."

Of course we don't "need" many of the other products but it will be nice to have them ... very, very, very nice!

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Well- I'm just super excited for you!!!

Thanks, Kacey!

BTW ... I was thinking of you this week. One of my roomate was a sister director with my former director ... I really bonded with her, and we know many of the same people ... I said I wish we could pick our director when our director stepped down ... because we picked going in. At least, many did!

The rest of our "mini cluster" already goes to her meetings and would surely pick her too!

AWESOME, congrats! That is wonderful!

CONGRATS!! That is AWESOME!! I can't wait to hear what you get!!

So will they send you your stuff now? Or will they wait until after Wave 3?! How does that work?

That is so awesome! Let us know what you get. Have fun opening everything.

Di_Can_Cook said:

Thanks, Kacey!

BTW ... I was thinking of you this week. One of my roomate was a sister director with my former director ... I really bonded with her, and we know many of the same people ... I said I wish we could pick our director when our director stepped down ... because we picked going in. At least, many did!

The rest of our "mini cluster" already goes to her meetings and would surely pick her too!

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Yeah, life is a fun little experiment, isn't it?

SHUT UP!!!!!!!! (totally said in a Stacy London kind of way)

can you tell how excited I am for you????!!!!! Can you even believe how discouraged you had been in the past and then to have this happen!!!!!

You sound just like Stacy!

pamperedlinda said:

You sound just like Stacy!

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why thank you! I love that show....................but I am not going to hijack Di's thread to tell you how much I love it!

I am new to confrence so when do you get the chance to go in this booth?

I love the show!

OK ... at every home office tour they do a shopping spree. They pick one person from every bus to do this.

In the past you had to run through and grab every item and put it in the cart.

NOW .... they assign everyone a number and pick a number out of one of those bingo type machines ... if it's too high (20 people on the bus and they pick 30) they draw again. They put all those slips into a money machine and spin it around.

There MAY be other chances to win something like this too.

And SHUT UP, Meg! I love Stacey London and that show too ... and felt like I got a "what not to cook with" style makeover of my kitchen!

Were you in the 7am tour or 8am tour?

Congrats!!! I bet that was so much fun. Wish I could have seen you doing it!

No ... I went on Saturday.

woo-hoo, that is sooo exciting congrats!!

OH ... and Sis-in-Commonlaw calls about the broken a/c ... I tell her about this and she says, "Oh cool, you'll have lots of gifts for OUR WEDDING.

Apparently my bonehead brother proposed on July 2 and they didn't share any news w/me!

They have not set a date ... I told her she has to do a wedding registry. It may be a "destination wedding."

Di_Can_Cook said:

I love the show!

OK ... at every home office tour they do a shopping spree. They pick one person from every bus to do this.

In the past you had to run through and grab every item and put it in the cart.

NOW .... they assign everyone a number and pick a number out of one of those bingo type machines ... if it's too high (20 people on the bus and they pick 30) they draw again. They put all those slips into a money machine and spin it around.
There MAY be other chances to win something like this too.

And SHUT UP, Meg! I love Stacey London and that show too ... and felt like I got a "what not to cook with" style makeover of my kitchen!

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So you try and pick as many slips (with merchandise labled on them) in the whirlwind machine then?? I'm trying to grasp this new concept?!

Did you not see it last year Heather? It's one of those booths (like a phone booth - remember them?) It's got all these slips of paper with products on them. Once you get in they turn on the cyclone air machine and you have to grab as many as possible. They out a PC apron on you so you can put the slips in the pockets.

Yup ... the slips have words printed on them. I think it was on the national conference video.

You can grab them off the walls but not the floor or ceiling ... I think they want to keep you from getting your fingers chopped off by the fan!

pamperedlinda said:

Did you not see it last year Heather? It's one of those booths (like a phone booth - remember them?) It's got all these slips of paper with products on them. Once you get in they turn on the cyclone air machine and you have to grab as many as possible. They out a PC apron on you so you can put the slips in the pockets.

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I did but I was confused with that and the Wherehouse tour prize winner who used to be able to run the rampit of the entire wherehouse to grab as much as they can!