Blog of the Year Award 2012

The first part of the year I was getting peer blog awards hand over fist.  As I stopped posting as frequently it tapered off and they just stopped coming.  I have spent the last six months of the year trying to get my audience back so imagine my surprise when I was nominated for a blog award.

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I have to admit I was totally excited to be recognized for the “Blog of the Year” award by fellow blogger seattlepolychick. I did a little dance then put off accepting it until I was driving myself crazy with guilt for my overwhelming laziness. I am so grateful for the recognition I receive from my peers.  I was also excited to be recognized by a woman who, like myself, is so open to new experiences and shares her experiences on her blog.

As with every award, there are rules, rules that I must follow because the creator of this award made it very clear that I was not to alter the terms of accepting it in any way, shape or form.  I kind of view that a s a challenge but I opted to be a good girl… just this one time.  Besides any award titled blog of the year is way too fancy to fuck with. The rules are as follows.

1 Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award

2 Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen — there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required — and ‘present’ them with their award.

3 Please include a link back to http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/our-awards/blog-of-the-year-2012-award/ and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)

4 Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them.

5 You can now also join the Facebook group — click ‘like’ on the page above ‘Blog of the Year 2012′ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience.

6 As a winner of the award — please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award — and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar.

The blogs I would like to nominate are

The Wandering Mind – I absolutely love Stephen’s poetry.  He is a a fantastic writer and sometimes I feel like we share the same brain. Maybe we were separated at birth.  I thoroughly enjoy his blog. If you haven’t read his blog you really should.

The Dribbling Pensioner – Harry’s blog is great.  I enjoy his work so much.  He is also an amazingly supportive reader and actively engages other bloggers.  He is a great and active member of the blogging community and his support is so appreciated.

The Chick Dick Mysteries – Nancy’s blog is fun and very interactive.  This professional writer’s blog covers a variety of topics.  She does a lot to support and engage her readers and fellow writers. She has been amazingly supportive of me, even when my blog is in the gutter. Her blog is definitely one you don’t want to miss.

B(itch) Log – Heather’s blog is funny and heartfelt.  Her views of the world are often dark but honest and open with a cutting sense of humor.  Her writing inspires me. Her work is relatable and intelligent. She is insanely funny and talented.  Be sure to check her out.

I am always inclined to nominate a bunch of bloggers for these awards and I always feel like I’ve left someone out.  I just wanted to honor some blogs I really enjoy for many different reasons. Each of these blogs are great examples of blogging and the diversity of this writing community. I hope you’ll all spend some time visiting these blogs.  I know you’ll enjoy them as much as I do.

Thank you again to seattlepolychick for this honor.  I am thrilled to be recognized and I hope the other winners enjoy the award as well.

Well It Took You Long Enough

Way back in July one of the baddest bitches I know gave me an equally badass award.  It may be one of the coolest and most applicable awards I have ever been bestowed.  I have been meaning to give Bossy Moksie a shout out for a long time because while my dumbass was busy falling in love she is still in her prime, out in the world breaking hearts and documenting it so all the world could live vicariously through her adventures in the sperm pool. In short this Sexy Beast and her blog ROCK COCKS. She saw fit to give recognize me and for a myriad of reasons primarily laziness, I took my sweet ass time excepting this bitchin’ award.   I am truly honored to be recognized (and let’s be honest I haven’t written anything award worthy in quite a while.) But I’d like to thank THE Sexy Beast for honoring me and my blog.

Dr. Horrible’s Blog Award!!!!!!!!

Bad Horse, from “Dr. Horrible”, is a villain you should be afraid of apparently and if you don’t do as he pleases you will be very sorry. I like this horse. We are on the same page.

This award is for the baddest of the bad, who should rule the world! This award laughs in the face of rules! But gives them anyways. That’s how baddass it is.

Rules:

1. You MUST accept, otherwise Bad Horse will be very disappointed. And you will not like him when he is disappointed.

2. You MAY NOT pass this blog award to someone that has already won this award. That means that it can’t go back to the person that gave it to or to anyone else that has already received it.

3. Put the tag on your blog, so that others may recognize your awesomeness and not gift you again.

4. Thank the blogger that gave you the award and link back to them on your blog. Thanks again BM (heehee!) ;P

5. Award as many, or as few, bloggers as you would like. You must give it to at least ONE badass blogger. After that, it’s at your discretion.

I am nominating some bitches who are way cooler than I’ll ever be.

Jen @ Sips of Jen and Tonic

Cakes @ Pasta for One

Lauren @ Viciously Sweet

Silly_g @ Three Months to Forty

DaterofBoys @ How to Date Boys

Lizzie @ Running Naked with Scissors

More than a Blonde @ More than a Blonde

6. Answer these questions:

a) If you ran the world, what would you outlaw immediately? The bans on gay marriage and the idea that government can tell anyone what they can and can’t do with their own bodies.

b) Boxers or briefs? Boxer briefs are sexy as hell.

c) If you made a Nobel speech, who would you thank? There’d be a list primarily composed of the people who helped teach me to be the person I am. (I think many people would be suprised they were getting thanked.)

Done and Done.  Congrats to the new winners.  I love you all but make no mistake… I still love me best!

 

The Reader Appreciation Award!

It is odd to me that right now I am winning any kind of award.  It isn’t that I don’t appreciate the acknowledgement, I am just in transition.  Everything is just bouncing off the the giant steel enforced, Great Wall of China like structure rising up before me.  The award is amazing.  I really appreciate it.

Dark Jade created and honored me with the Reader Appreciation Award.  There were no rules to go along with the award so to be honest I am uncertain if I am meant to pass it on.  If I am I want to pass it along to everyone who is reading this post.  Your support in this difficult time has been immeasurably appreciated and you have all helped in your own way, even if it is just tolerating my lack of posts, interminable whining and  and current disregard for writing anything that addresses the purpose of this blog.

I fear I have lost some readers.  I regret that and hopefully I can win them back but so many of you have stuck it out and continued to support me even as my blog temporarily teeters on the edge of the abyss.  I haven’t abandoned my lifer, my dreams or the ultimate purpose of my blog.  I have just been… otherwise occupied.

I am still here in all my snarky, egotistical glory.  I am still the same girl suffering through my questionable choices, sharing my wisdom so that you might make better informed decisions.  I do the stunts.  Just consider my recent predicament a failed attempt at jumping all nine buses.  I think I only cleared seven and I need a little more time to recuperate, then I’ll be back on my bike trying to jump through twelve flaming rings suspended from helicopters.

I am really happy and honored to accept this award.  And I am passing it on to everyone.  Really, it is the least I can do.  Congratulations and thank you all for sticking by me.

 

Reader Appreciation Award

I was nominated for the Reader Appreciation Award by Tidbits and Dollops. Yippee!  I have the best readers and supporters in the world!  Seriously, I am a lucky girl and I really appreciate you all so much!  I am super stoked to get this award.  So excited I would use the word stoked in a sentence! I am really happy to accept this award and to have my blog recognized for those I really aim to please… my readers.

Tidbits and Dollops is a fairly new blog to me.  I really enjoy her blog because her sense of humor is very much like my own.  Her writing often puts a smile on my face.  Thank you lovely!  I truly appreciate the recognition.

The rules are (…so simple and I truly appreciate simple lately)

  1. List six nominations.
  2. Link the award image back to the one who presented it to you.

I choose you…

Pink Ninjabi

Dribbling Pensioner

Running Naked with Scissors

benzeknees

The Drunk Archer

wild geese that fly

Congratulations and thanks again to all my peeps!

¡Te amo mucho!

Beautiful Blogger Award

I was messing around on the internet doing a little research for my blog and I discovered something awesome! Back on April 4th I was nominated for a blog award and didn’t even know it.  Omar at Amor’s Thoughts nominated me for the Beautiful Blogger Award.  I am thrilled to accept the award.  As you know I love being acknowledged by my peers and I really like attention.  This was a really nice surprise.

The Beautiful Blogger Award!

Here is what you need to do if you accept the Beautiful Blogger award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you and provide a link back to their blog.

2. Share the love by passing the award along to seven other bloggers you adore.

3. Keep writing, inspiring, loving and living in joy and beauty!

Thank You!

Omar describes himself thusly, “I have an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Sometimes I wish I could know everything, but that would take the fun out of learning. Right?”  We actually have that in common, Omar.  I, too have an insatiable appetite for knowledge.  I just seemed to get through a lot of trial and error. (A LOT!)  Amor’s Thoughts is a culmination of interests.  He shares the wealth of knowledge he has acquired along with some humor, photography and his culinary adventures.  He is also pretty helpful in offering the some insight into the minds of men, something a single gal looking for a man who isn’t a total douchebag can appreciate.

So thank you Omar, for nominating me and for helping me make a little more sense of men.  I really appreciate you recognizing my blog.  It is super sweet of you.

And the nominees are…

Seven(ish) of the coolest chicks I have never met in real life but I am bound and determined that will all hang out and get into tons T-R-O-U-B-L-E! (and have blast doing it.)

Cakes McCain at Pasta for One

Jen at Sips of Jen and Tonic

Lauren at Viciously Sweet

Silly G at Three Months Until Forty

MC at Mystery Coach

Jeanna at Xanax or Running Shoes

Cdn Stormlover at Life in the Dash Lane

Kat at SnarkySnatch

(And yes I am awarding eight bloggers)

Congratulations to all the beautiful bloggers I mentioned.  If I could I would have a list three pages long of all the amazing bloggers I would love to hang out with and recognize because you are all beautiful bloggers to me.

 

I Am Worthy

I was recently nominated for the TMI Award by Brooke at xoxoluvbb.  Sometimes I get awards I wonder if I truly deserve the honor.  I am not being modest, I just question the idea that my writing is inspiring or that my blog content is in fact awesome.  Of course being honored with these awards makes me all happy inside because I THINK my blog is awesome and I hope that my writing is inspiring.  But my blog has TMI in abundance.

From reading my blog one could safely assume I don’t have much of a filter which is true but my ultimate aim is to share my experiences in a way that is humorous, insightful and hopefully beneficial to my readers.  I hope that through my experience, knowledge and understanding can be gained and that my trial and error approach to life can help others as much as it helps me.

I live my life with no regrets.  I, as my friend Cakes McCain once said, “own my shit.”  I believe that by accepting the outcome of your experiences and finding ways to learn from every opportunity we can live a life without regret.  I don’t see the need in regretting any choice you can use to positively develop as person.  This line of thinking allows me the bravery to discuss my life without fear of judgment or persecution.  I love my world, my life and I don’t have regrets.

The TMI Award is an acknowledgement of those who do the same.  The writers brave enough to share even the difficult parts of their lives.  They share their experiences in the hope that others might take something of value away from their learning experiences.  I am proud to be in their company and graciously accept the TMI Award.

Here are the rules

Thank the person who presented you with the award.

Brooke at xoxoluvbb has a fantastic and wildly funny blog about the ups and downs of dating.  She always approaches the topic with optimism and humor.  Her writing is smart, funny and completely relatable. If you haven’t discovered her blog yet you should swing by and say hello.

Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.

Share an awkward, embarrassing and intimate story in 250 words or less.

The last time I went to Disney World, I was travelling with a female friend, my son and one of his friends.  As we all piled off the bus at Hollywood Studios, my friend pointed out a t-shirt and I looked behind me to read it.  As I turned back around my glasses flew off my face followed by a loud ding.  My head instantly hurt.  It took me a moment to realize that I had walked face first into a pole in front of about two thousand other people exiting the Disney buses.  They pointed and laughed and whispered.  The bastards!  My son turned around at the sound, smirked at me and asked, “Mom, did you just walk into that pole?”  My friend, who was doubled of laughing, managed to squeak out a yes.  She tried to ask if I was okay as felt the throbbing spot on my forehead.  Then I quickly yelled to my son, “Quick, take pictures of me before you can see the knot.”  He rolled his eye and said, “She’s fine.”  *I am actually fairly positive I had a concussion.  I was nauseous for the rest of the day, my equilibrium was off and I was having trouble focusing. But I stayed at the park all day because there was no way I was spending that kind of money to sit in the first aid building or my hotel room. ** I also theorized that the whole incident occurred due to the fact that I had said the “c” word the day before at the Magic Kingdom and Mickey doesn’t allow that kind of language in “the happiest place on earth.”

Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.

Present the TMI Blog Award to 5 – 10 deserving blogs.

Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

And the award goes to…

Life in the Dash Lane

Halfway Between the Gutters and the Stars

Xanax or Running Shoes

a2realhousewife

bornoutofbourbon

Thank you so much for the acknowledgement and congratulations to the winners!

 

 

The TMI Award Part Deux

The TMI Blog Award honors those blogs that discuss everything in detail and do it well. These bloggers aren’t afraid to discuss their most awkward, embarrassing and intimate experiences with honesty, humor and little to no filter. 

The lovely and talented Lauren at Viciously Sweet and I put our heads together and decided that there was an award that was missing here in the blogsphere.  Where, oh where was the blog award that acknowledged the bravery and insanity required to share every messy detail of themselves with the good people of the interwebs?  Lauren was kind enough to use her talent to create this beautiful award and it is awesome.  So without further ado, I would like to present the rules and award to some of its first recipients. (Lauren and I are both handing out the awards.)

Here are the rules

Thank the person who presented you with the award.

Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.

Share an awkward, embarrassing and intimate story in 250 words or less.

Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.

Present the TMI Blog Award to 5 – 10 deserving blogs.

Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.

And the award goes to…

Snarky Snatch

Liv Unleashed

The Obama Crat

Viciously Sweet

Another beautiful day in chaos

sexwithdexxx

xoxoluvbb

Creative Chaos Award

I am the Champiooon… I ammm the Champiiiioooon… of the wooooorrrrrlllllddddddd!  Jueseppi B. over at The Obama Crat nominated me for the Creative Chaos Award.   This is an award I think we can all agree I rightly deserve.  I am creative and though process is clearly chaotic.  And now I have this awesome award to show for it!  It’s so fuzzy.  And look! The monkey is smoking just like yours truly.  (I know it is an ape! Don’t get your panties in a twist!)

Thank you Jueseppi!  I really enjoy your blog and I love how much love you’ve shown mine.  The work you do and the time you take to interact in this community is inspiring.  Your work is inspiring and appreciated by this girl.

Welcome to the Creative Chaos Award! This award is for those who think outside the norm…And the designer of this award came from I’m not just weird

So brace yourself for the following requirements below:

1. You must tell 3 completely weird things about your habits. If you claim to have no weird habits, you’re lying and we’ll have to send an investigative team for further analysis.

2. You must tell why you look at the “glass half full” scenario and ask “what? No coffee?”

3. Complete one of the following essay questions:

A. You find yourself in a desolate place when your car breaks down. You have no cell phone service, no Walmart (I know, GASP, right?), and only a candy bar for food. It is 150 miles to the closest town. What color are your pants and why?

B. You find yourself having to ride an elevator quite frequently. How do you pass the time to show off your creativity?

4. Then you are to nominate 5 random people.

5. Make sure to show proper gratitude to the person who nominated you whether that is to shower them with gifts, prizes, and cash or to see that they are put into a clown costume and photographed for internet mocking.

6. Make sure to post the award somewhere other than the underside of the toilet seat.

Okay, here are my answers:

3 completely weird things about my habits:

1). When I eat dinner, I eat all of one item, then the next and always save the thing I like most for last.  I also don’t like for my food to touch.

2). I hate feet.  They make me sick.  Feet are gross.  I won’t rub them so don’t ask.

3). I play with my hair all the time.  I have one strand of hair I am constantly twirling on my finger.

My “glass is half full” scenario:

I am pretty optimistic.  Even in bad situations you have the opportunity to learn and grow.  What’s not to like about that?

B. You find yourself having to ride an elevator quite frequently. How do you pass the time to show off your creativity?

I sing and dance when I am alone in elevators.  I always justify this by thinking that I am simply providing entertainment for an upcoming company event. “Show the video of the uncoordinated, tone deaf girl in the elevator, William.”  I do love making people laugh.

The 5 I nominate for the outside the box Creative Chaos Award are……..

I tried to choose five blogs I feel exemplify what this award stands for.

Dolly at allaboutlemon

Cakes McCain at Pasta for One

Janice at Aurora Morealist

Stephen at The Wandering Mind

Kat at SnarkySnatch

More Blogger Love

I was recently nominated for two more awards.  Normally I am on top of this stuff but best friend from high school has been here.  I have been hanging out with her laughing, drinking and making her husband uncomfortable.  It has been a lot of fun.  She left this morning and I need to get back on task.  So here goes.  Jueseppi  at The ObamaCrat nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger Award and MysteryCoach nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award (for the third time.)

The ObamaCrat is a great blog that focuses on contemporary issues.  Jueseppi  has been doing a series titled “One A Day” in honor of Black History Month.  Each piece highlights the amazing contributions of pivotal individuals in American history.  They are very well written and fascinating to read. Check out his blog.

MC at MysteryCoach is one of my favorite bloggers.  Not only is her blog entertaining and fun to read but she is also so involved in our community of writers.  She really interacts with everyone in our community offering insight, sharing others’ posts and commenting on the work of her peers.  Her blog discusses a wide range of topics and is always a good read.  If you haven’t checked out her blog you should.

The rules for the awards are:

Thank the people who nominated you.

Thank you Jueseppi!  I really appreciate being acknowledged by you.  I really enjoy your work and I am glad you like mine too.  MC, I adore your blog and our continued interactions.  I smile every time I see your comments and really admire your all of the heart and honesty you put into your writing.

Name your nominated blogs 5 – 10 is the standard number.

My Ideal Woman – Ben has an awesome blog.   I love his perspective.

Ohmygawd, just do what I say! – This is a very funny blog.  These ladies always crack me up.

Dalesa Nicole – This woman always tells it like it is.  Great blog and offers some great insight.

An Evil Nymph’s Blog – Is a wonderful blog from a talented young writer.  She is great and wise beyond her years.

A2realhousewife – A great well rounded blog that has a little bit of everything.

 My story to you… – Great photography and discussions about the art of great pictures mixed with some very funny content from around the web.

Share seven things about yourself.

  1. Recently I have been finding a lot of my old high school friends on Facebook.  A lot of the guys I went to school with, who paid me no mind, now hit on me constantly (especially the married ones.)
  2. I was accused of being a player recently.  The idea was so ridiculous I laughed out loud.
  3. I am currently dealing with three (THREE!) creepers at the same time.  I find it completely overwhelming.
  4. I need a vacation!
  5. When I was twenty three, my appendix burst and almost killed me.
  6. I got felt up by my married neighbor the other night, in front of my son.
  7. I love tequila but whiskey makes me really mean and cranky.

Congrats to all the winners!  I hope you enjoy them and continue to spread the love.

 

 

 

Glitter E. Yaynus Award!

I have received the Glitter E. Yaynus Award.  When I checked the award I laughed.  Apparently the award is to be given to people who A) Like to talk about themselves and/or B) Have shown their proverbial ass on their blog.  I am proud to say that I have done both on more than one occasion and proudly except the award bestowed on me by the lovely Lizzie at Running Naked with Scissors.

Thank you Lizzie!  Lizzie said, “This may be the only award I ever get that she doesn’t already have so I have to take the opportunity.”  You are correct, madam.  I knew nothing of the Glitter E. Yaynus Award and it is probably the one award, no one could argue is appropriate for my blog.  And now for the rules…

First: Tell people at least five things you do that would make them want to kill you, or at the very least, make them hate you for the rest of their lives. I could name way, way more than five.  If listed the unintentional things I would have enough pages for a novel.

I am constantly showing my girlfriends pictures of all the hot (and I mean hot) guys I have dated. My favorite time to show of my eye candy pics is when I am being accused of trying to poach some creepy bar troll from one of my friends while out.  I simply take out my phone find a picture of the guy I am dating and remind them that “I date guys that look like this.”  It typically shuts them up and pisses them off.  

I swear all the time.  I swear as much if not more than my Scottish friend and he cusses a lot.  I am constantly being shooshed.  I spent the bulk of my youth hanging out with kids who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.  It is just the way I talk.  I am getting better about controlling it based on a situation but once I have had a few drinks all bets are off.

I will Google something and prove to you that I am right. If you feel the need to attempt to correct me when I know I am correct then I will return the favor by proving you wrong regardless of who is around.   If I am wrong then I am wrong and I don’t make a big deal about it but if I tell you something and I can prove that I am correct then you can bet your ass I am going to do so.  It is totally ego but if I feel like someone is just trying to be an asshole then I will be one right back.

I will talk about sex with complete strangers at a bar, restaurant or in a store.  It doesn’t typically start out as a conversation with strangers.  I am normally talking to friends and someone overhears and chimes in or someone asks me what I do and explain that I write about dating and/or that I used to write porn summaries for an adult video company.  Regardless of how the conversation starts, with me, it typically ends in a conversation about sex. 

I will write about anything I feel like writing about.  If I need to write about something, I write about it.  If I am mad then I say so.  If someone pisses me off I’ll share that story.  If someone does something stupid then I will recount it as accurately as I can.  The problem is everyone assumes everything is about them.  I’ll say something like, “No it is about me,” and then they hate me. 

The next thing you have to do according to the rules is this: Run across a freeway blindfolded. I am nowhere near a freeway and I value you my awesome self way too much to risk getting hit by a car and I have no insurance.

The third thing I am supposed to do is pick out five things that I would stick up my ass if I was forced to.

Anyone’s poor opinion of me. But then I would pull it back out and insist they carry it around with them.

Anything I might lose. I misplace my keys and debit card on occasion.  If I shoved them up my butt then I wouldn’t have to worry about losing them.

My purse.  My son is under the misguided impression I can shit money anyway.

My “Fat” pictures. There aren’t many of these still in existence but I would gladly shove them up my ass if it meant no one would ever see them again.

Marshmallows.  Everything else will take up so much room that I think a few marshmallows may be the only thing that will still fit.

I am also supposed to pick out five bloggers who I feel are worthy of Prom Court. Who has a glittery ass?  Hmm.  Who won’t this offend?  Hmm…

Jeanna at Xanax or Running Shoes because she is awesome and loves her “bad” self.

MC at MysteryCoach because she is outspoken and I LOVE her for that.

Cadence at Search 4 a Soul Mate because she is honest.

Carrie at ladywithatruck because she posted those pictures of her smashed finger.

Jen at Sips of Jen and Tonic mostly because I want to see what she has to say about getting the award.

And included the award in you acceptance post.

That is all!  Thanks for reading.  I am going to return to staring at myself in the mirror now.

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