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Back to You: Clear 1,000 emails from your inbox in 10 minutes

{This is my first installment in the Back to You project that I am doing this monthwith Meagan Francis at The Happiest Mom. Read more about the project here.}

Last week, I peered over the Not Boyfriend's shoulder while he typed away at his computer to give him a quick kiss on the cheek, when I saw a flash of words I'd never seen before. I gasped.

"Your inbox has 0 messages."

What in the hell? That can happen?

That's, like, a real place for your 14 forwarded email addresses to be? There is a Zen, a centered and still place where messages don't settle in to live out their days, where there resides no tips for melting fat from Prevention magazine nor variations on Groupon nor forwards from your mother's best friend with the dancing old lady cartoon and 76 safety tips should you ever be pulled over by a cop on a deserted highway at night? 

What I saw on his pale, gaunt and empty screen was heaven, like Xanadu or unicorn town or a shoe shop where everything is marked 100% off. I didn't think it existed and yet, there it was. An empty inbox.

At that very moment, there were 21,735 emails living in the cramped quarters of my Gmail account. 

 

You might be a winner of this giveaway I had a million years ago. That is, if you are still breathing.

That was supposed to be funny. It was supposed to be a rip on me and this crazy contest that ended sometime in the mid-80s and has been sitting patiently awaiting a winner. In case you've had any momentary lapses in breathing or no longer have a viable heart rate, my apologies. Hopefully, you're just a little dusty over there in your orange plastic waiting room chair with your hands folded.

Alas, it is time to reveal the winner. If you skip on over to my review blog, you will see if your Miagi-like skills have been worthwhile.

Just to make you want to jump even more, I will tell you that the woman the winner says she listens to help pull her out of the tough times is pretty bad-ass. For that alone, she deserves a $100 Visa gift card, perhaps to download tunes for happier times, perhaps to by something snazzy for herself, or perhaps just to an end to this damn giveaway once and for all.

Go get 'em, tigress.

And the winner is...

Sea! Woohoo for you, mama.

Sea said she loved the hammerhead shark tee and now her little guy can pose in one like crazy. (If you haven't checked out Sea's amazing kid and family photos, you must. She's amazingly talented.)

Lil E is going to be so happy to know another kid will be sporting one of the coolio tees that he is loving from Dadoo. Everyone's a winner since Dadoo's offering Sassafrass readers a nice 20% discount. Keep an eye on the site and, as soon as shopping is enabled, enter the code SASAFRASS20 when you make a purchase.

Thanks so much to all of you who entered this fun little giveaway and offered up your kind words of encouragement to Dadoo mama extraordinaire, Christine. The Sassafriends have your back, Christine!