The First Rule Of Versatile Blogger Is: You Do Not Talk About Versatile Blogger. The second rule of Versatile Blogger is: you DO NOT talk about Versatile Blogger!
I discovered a couple of days ago that I’d been nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award by sandylikeabeach. I’m thrilled that anyone even reads me, so to be nominated is beyond flattering. My appreciation for the recognition is truly sincere.
In addition to thanking and linking back to the person who nominated me, I am supposed to nominate fifteen other bloggers and share seven things about myself. Having just moved to WordPress a couple of months ago from another site I haven’t had time to acquaint myself with as many blogs as I eventually hope to. So I’m sure that some of these blogs may have been nominated in the past, but since there doesn’t seem to be a rules prohibiting that and since I like them, I’m not going to worry too much about it.
I also know that some people are rather anti-award and write for the sake of writing and not because they want to compete with other writers. To them I have only this to say: Tough shit! There’s something about your blog, whether it’s what you say or how you say it, that got my attention. This nomination is strictly in recognition of your talent, not because I think you’re in it for the glory. Someone likes you. Deal with it.
Tantrum, Interrupted – Me, my cats, the garden, a banjo, and borderline personality disorder.
Den of Iniquity – One mans random shoutings against the world.
H.E. Ellis – A thirty-something mother of three living in a farmhouse in New Hampshire. She is not Jodi Picoult
A Woman’s Guide to Women: A Blog For Men – About chicks. By a chick.
itsallabitfrankspencer – Just another WordPress.com site
Ashley Jillian – Need a random pop-culture reference fix?
BrainRants – This site uses only free-range, organic electrons.
Debating Dykes – Special Lady Friends Who Like to Argue…A Lot
Trask Avenue – This, that and most definitely the other.
Bubbles. Deux – Starting of a brand new day.
Sherbert Bomb – A fantasy adventure about girls and the world. Sometimes true, more often made up, always unreal.
Ohmygawd, just do what I say! – Two chicks’ musings on life, family, & friendship
Does Writing Excuse Watching? – mostly posts about anything that takes less than ten or fifteen minutes to write
Your Pal Jason – The best (imaginary) friend you could ask for.
bestbathroombooks – because laughter is the best laxative
And finally, here are seven things about me that you may not know and probably aren’t interested in:
1. I have a buttload of power tools and am resigned to eventually losing a couple of fingers to my table-saw or chop-saw. It’s really only a matter of time.
2. I am obsessed with BBQ and had a smoker the size of a small refrigerator freighted in from Louisiana when I couldn’t find a big enough one in California.
3. I’ve collected knives since I was in grade school. I have over 100 and always carry one with me.
4. I have a fear of being sent to prison for a crime I didn’t commit.
5. I can’t dance … at all.
6. I have an encyclopedic knowledge of serial killers. They fascinate and terrify me.
7. I’ve broken five bones … all on my right side and all from doing something stupid.
Whew! sandylikeabeach was right: the linking is the hardest part!
I’ve got a knife collection too! You have no idea how happy I was when New Hampshire repealed the anti-switchblade law last summer. Now I don’t have to hide the dozen or so I already have!
YAY! Thank You Sister! So, my question for the tiny lesbian on the cake is this: How do I, in fact, link other blogs in my post AND do I have to notify the blogs that I am linking them? OH.my.WORD.,this is so stressful ;o)
Five bones on your right side? All at differen’t times? What do you do, seriously? What?
Thanks for the nom. I will try to figure out how to do this.
Les
Thank you… I think. You have an awesomely funny site.
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Lieutenant-Colonel Brainrant ordered me to visit this site. I will probably be back from time to time. I fell off a bicycle and drove a bony elbow into my right side and green-sticked a rib. Years later I toppled a motorcycle @ 0 MPH and landed on my left elbow. I was afraid I’d broken the elbow until I tried to lift the bike, then I found that I was to be the recipient of a new ball at the top of the humerus. Good thing I don’t fly, I’d set off those airport scanners from 5 feet away. I’ve got a scar and a doctor’s note, but TSA doesn’t have any flexibility or sense of humor.
You AND Ellis both collect knives? I have died and gone to heaven! I am also a knife nut. (Weapon nut actually, but subject to Canada’s ever-increasing bureaucratic disapproval of things that go bang.) A subject for your blog, how many total, how many commercial, how many hand made, folders vs straight, total collection value, most expensive knife, any art knives? Women collecting knives is somewhat of an anomaly. It’s mostly a guy thing. Do you attend any knife shows? I understand there’s a couple of beauts a year up in Solvang. Do you or any of your visitors have any idea how I might be able to obtain answers to the above questions regarding Angelina Jolie’s collection? Sorry! Your blog, not mine. Next time, much shorter.
Chuffed as mint balls you thought to nominate me, I wont be adding 15 people on a post though, mainly because I dont have that many people to nominate, and those that I do read a lot are linked to in my blog roll anyhow.
Wait does this come with a cash prize or an all you can drink voucher?
Peace
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Point me to the rum.