Ms. Blogdramedy has kindly nominated me for The Versatile Blogger award. You may remember, Blogdramedy sponsored the trend-setting Blogfestivus this past Christmas season, where a number of gluttons for punishment ambitious, aspiring bloggers signed on to write a 243-word story about each of Santa’s reindeer, one per day, for a nine-day period.
Ms. Blogdramedy, who wisely keeps her true identity hidden, is a house-fixer-upper, a martini-drinker (or so she says) and a wise, yet sarcastic, writer of amusing and insightful bloggery.
So, now I too, can be known as an official The Versatile Blogger, and for such an honor I am probably unworthy. I have been nominated because I “embrace my Boomer babedom in all its glory”.
Is it really that, Ms. Blogdramedy, or is it more like you were desperate to find someone else to offload this award onto? Did you feel that you couldn’t, in good conscience, accept it without duly nominating other under-appreciated bloggers, those who might be just a teensy bit sub-par, the straight man to your comic genius, the Jerry Lewis to your Dean Martin, the Tonto to your Lone Ranger?
Hah! Ms. Blogdramedy probably doesn’t even know who those last two duos are!
But seriously, I am humbly grateful for The Versatile Blogger award, and to earn it I need to pass it on. In order to do that, I have nominated a few bloggers in the BLFBE (Boomer Lit Friday Blogging Extravaganza), who take part to be awarded this auspicious accolade.
Here are the rules. (I just knew there had to be a downside to this.)
- Thank the person who gave you this award. (Okay, that’s easy enough.) Thank you, thank you, thank you! to Ms. Blogdramedy.
- Include a link to their blog. (I did that. Seven times.)
- Select 15 blogs/bloggers whom you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly. (I have selected a few Boomer Lit authors taking part in Boomer Lit Friday. To qualify for this award, one must have a blog upon which the Holy Seal of Versatility can be proudly displayed, and also, it must not have been aforeto affixed.)
- Nominate those bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award. (Nominated bloggers have the option to ignore this propitious award. Voluntary cooperation is appreciated, but not mandatory.)
- Share seven things about yourself. (Seven things? I am not sure I can find that many items even remotely interesting. You nominees, however, feel free to share as much as you like.)
The list of nine nominees are:
Shelley Lieber (Elyse Grant) — Author of the Prince Charming Hoax
Checking Off the Bucket List (Sarah Gordon Weathersby) — Author of Tell Them I Died
Claude Nougat The Blog — Author of A Hook in the Sky
Mutinousboomer (Marsha Roberts) — Author of Confessions of an Instinctively Mutinous Baby Boomer
Incomplete Passes (Linda Lange) — Author of Incomplete Passes
Goodbye Emily (Michael Murphy) — Author of Goodbye Emily
I.O.U. Sex A Novel (Sandra Nachlinger and Sandra Allen) — Authors of I.O.U. Sex
Baby Boomer Novels (Lillian Wade) — Author of Girlfriends
The Crone Club (S. V. Peddle) — Author of The Crone Club
I only nominated nine. .
Please, nominees, feel free to ignore this invitation!
Please. Just leave me alone, already.
Seven things about me that 1) you might already know, and 2) even if you don’t already know, you probably don’t care about:
- I don’t like sweets. I never eat desserts, except I do like one Dove Dark Chocolate piece after dinner. (See, I told you, you won’t care about this stuff.)
- I used to be a pretty good dancer, but alas, I am no longer. (Now I can barely make it through one round of I’m a Wanderer before calling 911.)
- I am really good at cleaning out clogged up drains, which I am including here because I just did it. (Blech.)
- I like to stay indoors for days at a time. (Especially in winter.)
- I avoid left turns, unless at a traffic light with a green arrow. (There is almost always another way to go.)
- I like to knit. (The bigger, and more boring the project, the better.)
- I am going to write another book. And it might take me a long time. And I’m taking another class first. (And the title might be No Left Turn, but I’m not sure about that.)
Lynn Schneider Books 
Again, Lynn, you make me laugh out loud! I can’t accept today… too, too, too ridiculously busy! But, I WILL accept in the near future, when I feel I can carry out my duties in the high-class and totally serious nature in which this honor was besotted on me, oops, I meant bestowed – that’s right – bestowed. Excuse me now, it is 5:01 and past my cocktail time!
I understand, Marsha. Sometimes there are other things in life that keep us from doing the really important stuff like accepting meaningless awards! And that cocktail time should not be delayed for any reason, especially not this!
Thank you so much for understanding, Lynn. Oh, excuse me, I need a refill…
You mentioned me seven times…which happens to be my lucky number! See? Seven REALLY is my lucky number. *grin*
Your post today shows you can handle yourself quite well when it comes to accepting awards. I’m all about the blog love so delete your reference to sub-par…you are sub to nobody’s par. (There may be a golf reference in there somewhere, buried inside a sand trap.)
And, yes, I know who Jerry and Tonto are…Justin Bieber’s new opening act. Too easy.
Seven is your lucky number? I guess you did mention that. Thanks for telling me I’m not a “sub”, that’s nice to hear. Glad you caught that reference to Jerry and Tonto. Why didn’t I use Batman and Robin? That would have been much better.
Or Marvin the Martian and Bugs Bunny. Or Ethel and Lucy. Or Butt and Cheeks.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do about the nomination (gee, thanks), but I thought you’d like to know that I hate left turns, too.
Whatever you choose to do — no pressure. It’s all kind of a circular complimentary blogging phenomenon with the awards anyway. Good to know I’m not the only one who avoids left turns. Sometimes it seems like I am alone in my strange aversions….
Thank you for the nomination. I don’t know what I’ll do about such an honor. Especially with hubby breathing down my neck to finish packing for our next cruise. My HP mini (I haven’t drunk the Apple Koolaid) is packed already, so I can work on it in the coming days. This should be just as fun as a blog hop.
Great. Whenever you get to it, or don’t feel you need to at all. I am all about not putting pressure on people to do things they wouldn’t necessarily want to do! So enjoy your cruise and if you happen to decide to go along with it, there are other Boomer Lit authors you can tag.
You don’t like sweets, huh? Oh, how I wish some of that would rub off on me…
Congrats on the award!
Nope, not into sweets. Other stuff that is bad for you, yes, sweets, no. Oh, yes, the award, they are so rare aren’t they? I am so humbled and honored. Just be glad I didn’t come after you, although I know 1) you probably already have it and 2) you would say “no thanks!”
I do have it, and I do play the award ‘game,’ but I’m terribly behind in accepting some. I plan to do so on my post next week. But I always manage to break the rules…
The rules are easily broken and no one will come to your door demanding you relinguish your Versatile Blogger Award just because you didn’t nominate 15 people or some other arbitrary number.
Haha. Yeah, I think we’re safe.
Thank you for bestowing the Versatile Blogger Award upon my humble blog. My co-author and I are honored by the recognition. However, after much consideration, we’ve declared our blog an award-free zone.
I hope you aren’t offended that we’re declining this award. It means a lot to be recognized by a fellow blogger, and your thoughtfulness and support are sincerely appreciated.
I enjoyed learning seven things about you. Would you share your secrets for unclogging drains?
Yes, upon your humble blog I bestowed the honor which you decided to ignore! (sniff) No really, I understand your desire to keep your blog unbesmirched by such trivia. I think this may be my last blog award too. It took me a long time to get that post together, with all the links, and figuring out who to nominate. I think I will pass next time too. If there is a next time.
Hi Shelley
Many, many thanks for the honour. We’re packing to go to England tomorrow, but I promise I will get on to it next week.
Thanks again
Sandra Peddle ( The Crone Club )