You guys! Because I am the most negligent blogger I know, I’ve committed a terrible faux pas and let a bit of housework pile up: A few amazingly awesome bloggers have nominated me for those ubiquitous blog awards, and I been a TERRIBLE OAF and not given proper credit where credit is due! So, thanks to:
Elliott of Cheesehead Displacement Syndrome, whose movie quote Mondays are always way too hard for me to guess, but whose Fun Fact Fridays I always look forward to. Like this one about the G Spot, which had me giggling at work.
Thanks to Tara at Wife of a Newly Wife, who’s basically so adorable I want to hug her and whose monthly anniversary posts about her (five-month-ago!) wedding are too cute to miss.
Thanks also to Dating Is My Hobby, whose thoughtful and “omg so true!” posts are a must-read for any other single girls!
Thanks to Sada at 30 is the new 13, about whom I can only say: even when there are 500 unread entries in my Google Reader, I still scroll the sidebar specifically to check whether one of those unread entries is from her. If so? It totes jumps the queue.
Callie at The Secret to Success, on whose archives I’m very happily binging even now.
Ali at My Travel Rambling, whose gorgeous photography and lush descriptions give this happy Bostonian a big ol’ case of wanderlust!
Okay, guys, not going to lie: these blogging awards all come with stipulations to name ten things that make you happy or seven dwarfs that signify life fulfillment or your fifteen favorite consequences of the fall of the Ottoman Empire — whatever — as well as the requirement to re-tag a few bloggers. But since the format of my site makes reposting blog awards awkward (not that I don’t love receiving them! Hint?), I don’t want to bore you with a million lists.
A compromise: I’ve finally stopped being a total beast and updated my blogroll, on the bottom of my right sidebar. Go check out all those blogs (as well as the ones that awarded me!). Seriously. And you can go ahead and take that as a sign that I’ve tagged you, because obviously I adore you.
Okay, really can’t make up your mind? Blogs that I’ve discovered since the last time I awarded and are most on my mind right now: Nostomanic (Amber, I basically consider this post a let’s-be-besties proposal, dude); Restaurant Refugee (this post is the one that sealed the deal); Hyperbole and a Half (does everyone already read this? I’ll never think of “Apologize” the same way again).
Happy Sunday, dudes. Now I’m off to ride the T with no pants on.
[Edit: Oh my gosh, I am QUADRUPLE OAF WITH A DOUBLE SIDE OF BEASTLY! I completely forgot to thank Sadako at Dibbly Fresh for the Beautiful Blogger Award! This is doubly offensive as I spent much of Sunday going through her archives in honor of her one-year blogiversary! Click that link to see her own top ten posts, and might I add this one on iconoclastic chicks of ’90s pop culture!)
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Congrats!
For those about to blog, we salute you!
Congrats! I will definitely be checking out some of these blogs!
Congrats though I don’t know in what world you qualify as a negligent blogger. Enjoy the pants-free T! It’s times like this I miss living in a big city…
Congrats.
Every time I read your blog I wish that you were my next-door neighbor. Or that we lived in a duplex or some crap like that. Congrats and thanks for the mention.
z0mg! You and me! Duplex!
“Um, Amber, I’d like to have fifty words with you about NOT LEAVING YOUR SOCKS ON THE LIVING ROOM TABLE.”
“Dude, I wish you were The Kind Of Girl who rook out recycling more often than she shaved her armpits, which, ps, I am telling you only out of concern should probably be more often.”
…yes, I realize I just used duplex to totally incorrectly mean roommates but this is just one of the many arguments we could look forward to having! Oh man. HIJINX.
Thank you for the shout out, I hope you know that the affinity is more than mutual.
Thank you for linking to the feed, I can always use the attention. Likewise, any time I can get people to come read your writing I do so, since I’ve told you before it’s brilliant.
(oh, but could you, please, correct the spelling of my name? Hate to be a bother…)
oh my gosh, my apologies for being a spaz! What’s particularly silly is that I made a point of checking the spelling of your name and thought to myself: “Oh, so it’s not like TS Eliot,” then ran off to get lunch. By the time I came back, of course, only the wrong spelling had stuck!
And I always feel bad pointing it out, since mine isn’t the typical spelling. And I can completely forgive it since it was forgotten over lunch. I have to regroup every day when I get back from lunch, I treat it as such a blessed escape.
Oh babygurl! I am so honored that in your blogroll I am the VERY FIRST ONE. This is so awesome.
I’m going to drink a glass of wine now, toasting to you.
And you might think it’s hilarious that I typed this really quickly and while proofreading I noticed that instead of “toasting” I wrote “tasting”
Oh deer.
And also, I am going to pretend that I am first listed not because you did it alphabetically, but because you think I am the best.
haha, while it would be impolitic to publicly announce any favorites, I will point out that even were my blogroll not alphabetical, you would still be listed first because yours is the first Boston blog I put in my blogroll. I’d say the toast was definitely in order! ;-)
Thanks for the shout out :) Your blog is always top of my reading list each day! You just let me know if you are in the Washington DC area again soon for a caffeine jolt and wander around the gorgeous city.
Aw, shucks. I am honored. Congratulations!