Let me start by saying, I think Mallory is rad. I love seeing what hairy things she’s thinking up. I am impressed by her self-deprecating “What Was I Thinking?” posts. (Please, please, please check out her Dallas cowboys getup.) And so I am flattered that she nominated me for a Versatile Blogger Award.
Mallory, you rock.
Honestly, I don’t know what to say about this. And I’m hesitant (like Mallory) to participate in a blogging meme. There are rules for posting and accepting the award, but like the chain mail letter I got in 4th grade, I’m gonna break ranks. I know, I’m such a killjoy. Let’s call a spade a spade – this is something made up to drive traffic to your blog. At best, it’s a warm fuzzy.
So in the spirit of making things up, I have some awards of my own. I like superlatives.
Most Likely to Tell you About the Booger in your Nose: Team Turner
Best Hair and Best Eyelashes: Love & Robots
Most Likely to Give you a Secret Sci-Fi name: Writing in Berlin
Most Likely to Respond to this Post: Design Mom
Best Person to Invite to the Potluck: My Life in Food
Most Likely to have been MacGyver in a Past Life: Waits4thebus
Most Likely to Force you to Interpret her Weird Dream: my mom
Most Likely to Celebrate Michael Jackson’s Birthday: Waits Family Annals
Most Likely to Tell me I’m Full of Crap: McChristmas
Most Likely to Throw a Theme Party: Casa Camisas
Most Likely to Leave a Nice Comment I don’t Deserve: Selwyn’s Sanity
Most Likely to Join a Nudist Colony in the Mountains: Rosie the Riveter.
Most Likely to buy Something in Bulk: Brooklyn Girl
Most Likely to Post When she’s Drunk: Black Bikini
Most Likely to Hate your Book Recommendation: Not Those Monsons
Mostly Likely not to Tell you about her Mother of the Year Award: Muse and Vent
Most Likely to Wish she didn’t Nominate a Smarta**: Split Ends & New Beginnings
If you’re not on this list, it’s cause you’re too nice and I don’t want to offend you with my flippancy. Oh, and curse all of you private bloggers.
THE RULES:
If you choose to accept your award, you must bake up your favorite goodie and take a picture of yourself eating it. The calorie content must be super high, and there must be at least 8 grams of fat in your serving. You have to post the picture of yourself on your blog with the caption “I am awesome.” If you don’t have a blog, you must send the picture to me.
If you choose not to accept your award, you must take a nap in my honor and post a comment here, with the location and duration of said nap.
I will be taking a nap and calling you to interpret the dream.
As long as there are no more dead people.
This is awesome. So funny! I still haven’t done my award from Mallory yet, but how can I follow this? Hilarious.
I award you with Most Likely to “Forget” to Post her Versatile Blogger award. Now go bake something. OR sleep. I like my awards to be valued.
Best award ever. I accept, and will now be hemming and hawing over what form chocolate will take for my photo.
I am so on top of it that I have already been eating my high-calorie treat all day (at least every time I pass the refrigerator)– oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough (I prefer it unbaked). i’ll have to take a picture before it’s all gone.
Do I have to bake it? I mean, let’s be honest, I’m known for my hair and eyelashes, certainly not for my baking skills. I might just have to go out and buy some delicious, fattening dessert!
I am honored. And you’re absolutely right . . . Mal IS awesome!
You are too, AB! Very funny post!
You have to pretend to bake it. Be convincing.
I can’t wait to read CC’s comment to this!! Hilarious!!! And very fitting since today IS Michael Jacksons Birthday! Happy Birthday MJ!
Ahem. I have been back over the book lists for the past 2.5 years and guess what? The number of books I liked outnumbers the books I didn’t like (strangely, in making the list I had a “neutral” column too but it didn’t wind up with any check marks). However, since you, personally, are 1 for 3, I’ll accept my award and busy myself with some gooey chocolate chunk brownies. Smothered with whipped cream, naturally.
And hey, I always love your food recommendations.
You have to keep in mind that I don’t read the books before I recommend them to book group. I always pick something I haven’t read. To be fair and all.
Yeah, I know, but it’s more fun to give you a hard time. Actually to be scrupulously fair (to me, because what else matters?) several of the books I didn’t like are ones many people didn’t like. So the real issue is not that I’m picky…it’s that I’m a loudmouth. Better go stuff some brownies in there to shut myself up.
I accept! Brownies it’ll be. Just give me a few days…
And, y’know, . . . the whole Mother of the Year thing? I was the only nominee! Seriously. In all of Illinois, I was the only one who filled out the packet, and I only filled out the packet because the person who nominated me called twice to ask me to. So I did it for her. Ask my kids who deserves to be named Mother of the Year and they’ll tell you their father does. He’s the nurturer around here. I’m the one who tells them to open a box of Cheerios for dinner.
Regardless, you are still the only person I know with an actual mothering award not made in a kindergarten class. And you deserve it, no matter how many nominees there were.
What if I tell you that you are full of sh**? Will I get dis-awarded for my use of swears?
I might be the Most bi-polar also. I’ve been known to tell people that they are full of crap while hugging them.
You always know how to win me over. You get ANOTHER award for swearing. Just how many things are you going to bake, McChristmas?
Wow. I have some coconut chocolate pie I could pose with, but Katie’s been teething at night, and I really, really need the nap today.
This post made my day! It is the best response to the awkward chain letter thing ever. I can’t bake, but I did take a nap today… Ok maybe two naps today. I won’t send you a picture since there isn’t one.
I think you also should win for best rule breaker. Seriously love this response.
I’m glad you approve, but I’m more glad you are on a 2 naps a day schedule.
Okay, so I couldn’t decide. Here are the results. Enjoy.
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Thank you for this opportunity to break more rules! Love ya for it.
I hate napping and so I will bake and eat and stuff my face and photograph and post hmmm, well one day in September bcos for some stuuuuupid reason I took on a challenge to blog everyday in September which of course meant that I stopped blogging immediately to save my strength
Thanks also for handing me blog post material! now only 29 more to think of, gah!
p.s. drunk blogging is both fun and risky, I recommend it. Although I think you get the same effect with sugar and butter??
I am at my most dangerous when armed with butter and sugar.
Wow, an amazing shout-out about my blog the other week (total thanks for that btw, totally undeserved but IT THRILLED ME AND MADE ME DO A BUTT-SHIMMY-DANCE WHILE SPILLING MY CEREAL!!!! *cough* I mean, yeah, like, whatev.) and now an award as well?
I’m totally capable of being a contender for “Leaving a Nasty Comment You Don’t Deserve” as well. I might try that next time
I’ll be posting my dessert on the weekend!
http://cecilotta.blogspot.com/2011/09/blogging-awards.html
*takes a bow*