Queen of Awesome? Me? Aw…Shucks…

My lovely friend Mrsupole has tagged me with a Queen of Awesome award. Look at this nice award – there’s even a tiara included:

What a peach she is – go visit her; she has wonderful stories and I love her dearly.  But she’s making me work for this award and you all know how I hate to WORK at anything – so I’m going to try and have a little fun with this.

The rules for me to be a Queen are:

1. Write a list of 7 things that make you awesome. (oh gag)  For the record, I looked up awesome and it doesn’t necessarily mean “wonderful”; in fact it can also mean:  alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, beautiful, awful, breathtaking, dreadful, exalted, fearful, formidable, frightening, imposing, mind-blowing, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, terrible, terrifying, or wondrous – did I mention stupefying?  So there are many definitions to the word “awesome”.
2. Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that I love. (hmmm, who haven’t I tagged lately?)
3. Tag those bloggers to let them know that they have joined the Royal Queen’s land and link back to the Queen Bee who tagged you.  (I think I can handle this part okay.)

Here goes nothin’…

7 Things That Make Me Awesome – ahem…drumroll please…

1.  I am the biggest clutz in the world and I’m as consistent as Cream of Wheat with this. I have a true talent for running into every piece of furniture I own and tripping over the dog while never spilling the cup of coffee I’m carrying.  Now that’s awesome.

2.  I can take a grilled cheese sandwich, burn the ever-lovin’ crap outta it and just call it Cajun Blackened Panini and my guests will eat it and rave about it.   That is truly awesome.

3.  I can touch my nose with my tongue.   Looks stupid, but I don’t care – it’s not something everyone can do and that makes me awesome.  I rarely do it in public anymore; invites too  much weird attention.

4.  I was at Woodstock (well, part of it; you see I had to hitch hike from VA to NY at night with a friend and we were underage and stupid and damned lucky we lived through it).  I got there and crashed the gates with thousands of others who didn’t have tickets.  It was awesome and my being a part of it qualifies me as awesome.  Don’t ask me for details – while it’s awesome, it’s no longer a topic of discussion.  Hippie days and pot smoking are over.

5.  The last “typing” test I took I clocked in at 140 words a minute.  I actually enjoy banging the everlovin’ crap outta my keyboard and my fingers can truly fly.  Awesome baby.  My favorite “sentence” to build up speed was:  “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.”  I would type it over and over and over until I was just flying across the keyboard and my adrenaline was pumping and I actually thought this was fun.  I have no life.

6.  Here’s a somewhat sappy awesome – I’ve been married to Devoted Spouse  for just over 26 years now and I would marry him again in a heartbeat – 26 years is awesome!  (oh yeah, so is he!!!)

7.  Here’s my last “toot my own horn” awesome fact:  On just about any day I can make someone laugh outloud or at least smile widely.  I wasn’t known as the class clown for nothing.  My somewhat offbeat, sometimes self- deprecating and occasionally off the wall sense of humor classifies me as awesome.  I will do stupid things just to get a laugh because it makes me feel good and I think when you make someone happy and it makes you happy that’s awesome!

That’s my list and I’m sticking to it. Now here is who I also nominate for Queenship:

Twenty Four at Heart – she has a gorgeous Golden Retriever just like my precious Goldie – go visit her she deserves to be Queen of Awesome any day in my book.

Oz Girl – what an adorable lil cowgirl and what a cool new site she has – git on over to see her!  She’s definitely Queen of Awesome material.

Midwest Mom – this gal tells great stories and I think she is perfect as a Queen of Awesome

Doggonedmysteries - now here’s  a “celebrity” – a real-life mystery writer and a super lady – a Queen of Awesome without a doubt or maybe without a “who-done-it?”  (sorry)

Gladys Tells All - this lady offers up great stories and is always entertaining and I’m sure the fact I’m not on her blogroll is a simple oversight on her part – but she definitely qualifies as Queen of Awesome – go read her blog and you’ll agree with me.

Inside the Shell – this is Tut-Tut as she’s known to us Twitterites – and she’s special.  Her blog is always interesting and I think she’d make a super Queen of Awesome!

And last but not least is a sweet lil gal from Texas known as Confetti Dreams - I love her and her twin (but I believe I’ve tagged her twin before) – she’s doing a Christmas in July giveaway and that’s good enough for me to make her a Queen of Awesome coz as far as I’m concerned giveaways are alot of hard work.

So Mrsupole, there are my 7 nominations and I’ll have you know all these bloggers are being tagged by me for the first time – whew that’s hard work coming up with 7 new folks – but well worth it – go check them out; they are all deserving of this award.  And my dear friend Mrsupole, well, sweetie you know I love the stuffin’ outta you and I am honored you considered me for this lovely award and I thank you.

Is it Blogging Academy Award Time and I Missed It?

I  just was notified by my bud Smart Mouth Broad that I am the recipient of another award:

This lovely Bella award is most appreciated.  HOWEVER it is NOT for Crone and Bear It.  It has been awarded to my other blog, Crap on a Crutch .  The problem with this is that my IT Guru is in the process of moving Crap on a Crutch from WordPress to my own domain.  But for the time being the link above will take you to the old Crap On a Crutch blog – just don’t scream at me because it hasn’t been updated in a few days – scream at my IT guru who WON’T let me post ANYTHING until he finishes setting up the site.  I love him dearly and he has done some wonderful work for me in the past, but MIKE – get your a$$ over here to my house and let’s get this finished!  The sooner we finish the sooner I pay you.  And bring your truck because I’m out of cash (having bought today a new furnace and air conditioner) and you will just have to fill up the back of your truck with the family silver in payment — you may need to take the dog, too.  We’ll negotiate.

Smart Mouth Broad — I love the stuffin’ outta you.  I promise on my honor as a 10th Degree Mauve Belt Blogger (what the heck?) that I will acknowledge and follow the rules of this award for Crap on a Crutch (although I’m surprised you didn’t award this the weird-ass-what-kind-of-nonsense-blog is this instead of such a lovely blogger award. )  Never let it be said I am unappreciative – I honestly will post this award when I get the new site up and running but I have to tell you where I’m going to find 15 new bloggers is beyond me.  Do they have to be normal like us?  muahahahahaha.  You do this to torment me, don’t you?  Don’t you know I’m rapidly approaching middler middle age, and I’m on Valium for blogger back spasms and simply can’t be held accountable for anything?

I love Blogging Awards and I am so honored to receive them.  Thank you Smart Mouth Broad.  Love ya, mean it.

I’m A Bad, Bad, Girl…

Back around the 9th of April I was awarded a Kind Blogger award by my (hopefully still) blogging buddy over at Untidy Mind (formerly getoutfromundermyrock).  I wasn’t feeling well at the time and took a day or two off to rest and never acknowledged this lovely award.

So I take the time now (sorry I’m so late) to say thank you very much for this award – you are such a sweetie!

I shall be happy to accept all lashings with wet noodles as punishment for being a bad blogger.  I’d also like to blame my overlooking being grateful for this award to the awesome amounts of drugs I had been consuming while recovering from my injury but that’s a pretty lame (no pun intended) excuse.  So I shall simply say once more forgive me for not saying thank you sooner!    And I promise to be quicker to say thank you in future!

And on that note I will end with a little joke about forgiveness I found on the net:

The preacher’s, Sunday sermon was Forgive Your Enemies.
He asked, how many have forgiven their enemies?
About half held up their hands.
He then repeated his question.
Now about 80% held up their hands.
He then repeated his question again.
All responded, except one elderly lady.
“Mrs. Jones, are you not willing to forgive your enemies?” asked the preacher.
“I don’t have any.” she replied.
“Mrs. Jones, that is very unusual. How old are you?” asked the preacher.
“Ninety-three.” she replied.
“Mrs. Jones, please come down in front and tell the congregation how a person cannot have an enemy in   the world.” asked the preacher.
The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, and said, “It’s easy, I just outlived those bitches.”

Courtesy of   http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Forgiveness

Two Awards in Two Days?

I’m just so touched to receive this Kind Blogger award from my friend Sandy.  When I first read her blog The Last Post something in her writing touched my heart and I felt she needed to hear a friendly voice that day so I sent her a comment and welcomed her to the blogging world.  I’m so glad I did – she’s a joy to read and definitely a Kind Blogger in her own right.

Well, kids I’ll pass this one on to 3 more deserving Kind Bloggers:

My sweet friend at Bliss

My new friend at Mrsupole’s Place

and finally, another new friend at Doggonedmysteries

All of you deserve this Kind Blogger award – and Sandy, thank you from the bottom of my heart sweetie for this lovely gesture.  You know I just love ya tons!

What Would We Do Without Friends?

Once again I have been given a lovely award by our buddy Delaney and I’m just blown away by the friendship and kindness I have found while being a blogger. I started this blogging journey when I retired (okay truthfully I just quit that crappy job) and I was searching for an outlet for my love of writing silly stuff, my often bizarre take on the world and my sarcastic opinions in general.  I never imagined I would make so many wonderful friends and have such a blast doing this.  Now, if only I was paid for having this much fun  (hmmm, note to Linda:  work on that).

So today I’ll keep it brief and follow Delaney’s instructions to pass this along – I’m picking three of my buddies (thanks Delaney for leaving me a few) (isn’t it cool how so many of us are all on each others’ blogrolls?  I love it)  Then there’s Twitter, but I digress.

So I present this friendship award to:

Chris at Listen 2 Auntie who also has another blog Dog Girl which you also need to check out.

Janie at Midlife Slices

And last but not least Smart Mouth Broad – she plays a mean game of SmartA$$ on Twitter!

Congrats ladies – and thanks to all of you for being my friends.  And Delaney – thanks for the shoutout to my new blog Crap on a Crutch – it’s alot of fun.