Many, many thanks to ajaytao2010 for passing along this lovely award!
If you are not already a follower, drop by for an incredible dose of uplifting beauty!
You only need one to start a forest!
Planting is easy: if you receive this award, simply pass it on to another blogger who inspires you through the beauty of their words/images as well as any blog which brings joyful awareness to nature and our connection to each other.
Well now…there is nothing to lift the spirits on a dusty, dreary, Un-Springy weekend than to be honored with an award or two! Many, many, many thanks goes out to one of my favorite ranting blogging buddies, The Ranting Papizilla for bestowing the Best Moment Award on me and giving me reason to grin and smile (rather than bitch and grumble which is what I had planned for this insufferably windy weekend)!
Rules: Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awards! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and, winners, notify them the great news!
What makes a good acceptance speech?
Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
I’ve wanted to sketch out a post for awhile now thanking everyone who takes a few minutes out of their day to stop by blog and well…no time like the present, right?
When I started blogging here I wasn’t at all sure it was going to be worth it; hell, I wasn’t even sure what I wanted to rant and blog about at first! There are so many outstanding bloggers on WordPress I guess I figured it would take eons for anyone to ever get around to reading my mad rantings – if they ever did. Well, at this point – almost 2 full years after I started here – I am inching towards 30,000 page hits and 300 readers…and yes, I am a bit stunned and beyond grateful that I have as many readers as I do now. It absolutely blows my mind to check my notifications now and see all of the hopping activity!
What once felt like an echo chamber has morphed into so many connections with such a wide variety of folks that I am constantly learning and expanding my horizons thanks to all of you interestingly wonderful fellow bloggers from around the globe. And I really, really appreciate all of you that take time to stop by to read the posts here…it means the world to me to know that you find my posts interesting enough to Like, comment on or even consider some of them worth reblogging. I do what I do here in hopes of shaking people up a bit and if at all possible, waking them up from their discontented slumber – so thanks a million for the reblogs and for making it possible for important issues to reach an even larger number of people.
Now, without further rambling, babbling, here are my nominees to pass the Best Moment Award along to:
Congratulations to all of the nominees – Enjoy your awards! Thanks again, Papizillafor bringing some sunshine into the weekend…and for giving me another purty award to add to my blog!
And thanks again to all of you who stop by here…you may not know it but you truly are helping to make this a very enjoyable and memorable time in my life. I feel very blessed to have stumbled into such a welcoming and interesting community…
Many, many thanks to willowdot21 for honoring me with this award, it is very much appreciated. And this award has a dragon which just tickles me to pieces so a great big double, “Thank You!” is in order here!
You really made me smile with this one!
The rules are:
1- Display the Award Certificate on your website.
2-Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented you with the award.
3-Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers.
4- Drop them a comment to tip them off after you have linked them in the post.
When I was little I swore that I was going to be a horse when I grew up.
I create artwork out of pieces of bone, sticks, broken glass, rusty nails and pretty much any other interesting objects I find on outdoor journeys.
If I don’t get a new tattoo soon I am likely to go insane from the itch.
I got married to Steve while wearing a black T-shirt with two skeletons have sex that says, “Love Never Dies” and a baseball cap that reads, “Bitch”. (Yes, I married a freaking prince, I know!)
I once moved to California with everything I owned in 3 suitcases and with only $20 in my pocket.
I failed ceramics in high school.
On my 5th birthday, I got a card from the Gremlins that lived under our house. True Story.
(Who would think that Gremlins handwriting was just like Dad’s, eh?)
Congratulations to the other nominees…I hope enjoy your happy dragon awards!
Thanks again to willdot21 for passing this one along! Please stop by and check out her amazing blog!
~♫~
*Oh, and if your name was not listed as a nominee here, check back real soon- as usual, I’ve been slacking and there are a few more awards post to come!*
Many, many thanks to Kurt Rees for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award!
Rules:
Thank the person who gave you this award. That’s common courtesy. Include a link to their blog. That’s also common courtesy — if you can figure out how to do it. Next, select 15 blogs/bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award — you might include a link to this site. Finally, tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself. ~~~
The hard part: Seven things about me –
I don’t believe in using white paint for anything. Go bold, or don’t bother.
Every day I battle with a nearly lifelong eating disorder.
I’ve not seen my natural hair color since I was 18 and don’t remember what it even is anymore.
When I was a kid, I drew faces on rocks, wrapped them in blankies and played house with them because baby dolls scared me.
I wear shoes less than 10 times a month.
I love enticing bees to come land on my hands and play.
I can howl like a coyote and can call a pack down to camp when I’m in the wilderness.
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Now for the FUN part! My nominees, in no particular order…
A simple “Thank You” doesn’t quite begin to cover it but I do not know what else to really say…so…thank you, thank you so very much! I am honored to be acknowledged and to know that my efforts and words are not just falling into an abyss never to see the light of day. Thanks not only to those who bestowed the awards but to everyone that takes time to drop by for a read and to those who like posts enough to share/reblog them!!
And if you’re not already a reader of these blogs…get on it already, will ya?!
~Better To Ask For Forgiveness Than To Beg Permission~
I know there are rules that should be followed as part of some of the awards but I am going to follow the example of Papi and shrug off the rules – and hope that I’m forgiven for being a slacker, a cheater…or maybe just someone who doesn’t have another 11 interesting things to say about herself..? My failure to comply with the ‘rules’ isn’t for lack of trying – there’s been an open document on my desktop all week with questions to answer and questions to ask but after a week, I’ve only gotten 3 questions answered and 5 prepped to be asked…Now that the weekend is here and I can devour the hours of being alone with hubby, there is no chance on earth that I’m going to finish up the document and close it out anytime soon. (Google “Procrastinator” and my name will come up as Queen Leader of Procrastinators, I promise.)
Then there is the matter of having to choose only a select few folks to pass the awards along to and that part is the most dreaded and hardest for me to get done. I would not follow and read anything or anyone that isn’t worthy of awards, kudos and praise, dammit! So how to choose 7 for this award or 11 others for that one when every blog I follow here ought to be praised and rewarded and the authors all acknowledged and thanked for their efforts?!
Since the task of choosing is impossible at this point, I am offering nominations for both of these awards to everyone here. ALL of your blogs are awesome, informative, enlightening, entertaining, creative and artistic…and above all, worthy of more awards and praise than I am capable of expressing. Don’t believe me? Just pick an avatar from anyone who shows up here or check out the (short list because WP only allows 50 to be shown) Blogs I Follow link in the side column…you’ll find something wonderful, I promise.
Thanks, thanks and thanks again for the recognition and awards. I am honored and grateful.
~Peace, Blessings & Wishes For A Beautiful Weekend~
Thank you, tuttacronacafor this Beautiful Blogger Award! I am honored!
The rules:
1. Copy and place the Beautiful Blogger Award in your post.
2. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog.
3. Tell 7 things about yourself.
4. Nominate 7 fellow bloggers for the Beautiful Blogger Award & tell them by posting a comment on their blogs.
7 things about me:
- I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up.
- I do not like being in vehicles and did not learn to drive until I was 22.
- I’ve washed and prepped bodies for burial, including my mom’s.
- I can whistle any tune; even classical music and wicked Mozart riffs.
- I got Tigger inked on my back while drunk as a skunk at a tattoo party in East LA.
- I’ve danced on the rooftop of Café du Monde in New Orleans under a full moon.
…Raining some very wonderful awards from the WordPress community, that is..! I’m not complaining though…quite the opposite..! I am thrilled, honored, elated, grateful and very, very blessed to be part of such a wonderful world of blogging people. Thank you ALL so much!
Now, to spare everyone multiple award posts, I have bundled them up in one happy little winter package and hope it is okay that I share them all together. I like posting them this way because I get to create a longer list of blogs to check out all in one place. I wish it were possible to just nominate ALL of the bloggers I interact with here but time and space make that impossible!
Without further ado…I accept and in turn, pass along, the following awards –
Thanks so very much to Fictional Machines for bestowing the Reality Blog Award on me! I am grateful & honored.
The award requires me to answer the following questions:
1. If you could change something what would you change?
The damage humankind has done to this planet.
2. If you could repeat an age, what age would it be?
No time travel for me, thanks. I’m not into repetition or taking my lessons all over again!
3. What one thing really scares you?
The seemingly unconquerable division that exists among people.
4. What one dream have you not completed yet and do you think you will be able to complete it?
To move out of this godforsaken dust-patch to somewhere that feels more like home. And yes!
5. If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be?
Hrm…being Amelia Earhart for a day might’ve been a real kick!
Nominating others is always the hard part since I follow so many excellent blogs…there is no way to choose just a few favorites. So, in no particular order, I’d like to pass this award along to…
As if one award wasn’t enough (one rocked my world; multiple awards have sent me over-the-moon with joy! I am SO very grateful for the recognition!!) …A little Angel floated by and dropped another award on me!
Thanks a million to The Other Side of Ugly for passing along the Illuminating Blogger Award to me. If you aren’t already a follower, go soak in some of the peace and beauty that radiates from her page!
The rules of this award are:
1. Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you
2. Say a few words of gratitude on your blog and follow the link
3. Share a few words about yourself and pass on the Award to at minimum 5 other bloggers…
A few words about me:
As a kid/teen I swore I was never going to have any kids at all…so of course, life made sure that I ended up with 2 kids of my own and 3 step-kids to boot…never say never, folks…
I proposed to my husband instead of waiting for a proposal from him.
I am fluent in the language of Pig Latin thanks to my grandpa who not only taught me the language…but did so while teaching me to playing dominos. End result is that I can count and add in Pig Latin, too!
My thanks and appreciate go out to BeesATC for the Family of Bloggers Award. Please make time to fix yourself a cup of tea, drop by her site & browse though her very lovely & interesting artwork!
The attributes I bring to the family of bloggers are:
F = Funkiness
A = Attitude
M = MisBehaved
I = Inked
L = Ladylike (mwahahhaha ok or not, but I was stuck on an “L” word)
Y = Youthful Yammerer (2 y’s I know; I’m a cheater!)
What a wonderful and rewarding week it has been for me here. I have the double-honor of receiving the Shine On Award from not one, but two of my new favorite bloggers…I’ll be walking on air from now ‘til Spring!
Please take the time to check out both of these blogs and treat yourself to some of the wonderful inspiration offered by The Other Side of Ugly and then hop over for some super-wit and humor by visiting The Ranting Papzilla.
Thanks so much to both of you!
As always there are rules to these awards. Here are the ones for the Shine On Award.
1.) Show appreciation of the blogger who nominated you and link back to them in your post.
2.) Add the award logo to your blog.
3.) Share 7 things about yourself.
4.) Pass the award on to 5-10 other bloggers you admire.
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7 things, eh? Okay, I’ll give it a whirl…
1. I knew from the time I was 5 years old that I would get tattooed when I grew up.
2. My ‘realworld’ nickname is “Ducki”…my given name is Rebecca, so you can just ponder how Ducki came to be!
3. I spent the better part of 5 years working as a prison reform advocate; a journey that started with The Black Panthers and ended with me tangled up and horrified in the middle of Neo-Nazi movement. If life is a lesson to be learned, that trip taught me enough to carry me 10 lifetimes.
4. I’m terrified of camping in flatlands places like plains or open desert. If I have to run from…*IT*….there will be no place to hide!
5. Dia de los Muertas is my favorite holiday of the year.
6. My husband & I built my father’s casket by hand without using any screws or metals. Seeing as how Dad is still alive, the coffin is doubling as a set of bookshelves in his den until needed.
7. I once had a cat that I named, “Mouse”…which was cute until I had to step outside and yell, “Here kitty-kitty, Mouse…here kitty Mousey…” DoH!
Now to pass the award along to 5-10 other bloggers that I admire…this is the easy part! (I could just copy and paste my whole blog roll because they are all to be admired but I won’t cheat like that!)
So please, go enjoy these wonderful blogs! And thanks again to EVERYONE here on WordPress for making this blog so much fun to run and for all of the incredible posts that have become my daily source of information, inspiration and pleasure!
With the craziness of family HolliDaze activities, I am behind and not keeping up with my blog very well. I get notifications in, think to myself, okay…I’ll respond/reply/update things when I have a few extra minutes…bwahahahaha as if there is any such thing as “Extra” time!
At any rate, I hope my dis-organization can be forgiven in light of all the links to outstanding blogs and reading material listed here!
Check out the rules for the award Here and if you have received a nomination for the Blog of The Year Award and are on Facebook, please join the Award Group there…aside from getting connected to really cool blogs, you’ll meet plenty of cool people and get to read and share even more blogs.
With a huge shout out of thanks for the AWESOME holiday goody package she was kind enough to send us! We are still stuffing ourselves on a bag of this jerky…and lemme tell ya…it is GOOOOOD stuff! And we haven’t even opened the sausages yet…we’ll be stuffed until next year so thanks again for the awesome treats!
The “Blog of the Year” award is a little different from some other awards, because you accumulate stars.
Here are the ‘rules’ for this award:
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.
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 … and start collecting stars…
Yes – that’s right – there are stars to collect!
Unlike other awards which you can only add to your blog once – this award is different!
When you begin you will receive the ‘1 star’ award – and every time you are given the award by another blog – you can add another star!
There are a total of 6 stars to collect.
Which means that you can check out your favourite blogs, and even if they have already been given the award by someone else, then you can still bestow it on them again and help them to reach the maximum 6 stars!
