I let two weeks go by and I can hardly remember what awards have come my way of late.
I do know the first thank you goes to Amanda Lyle, author of the endlessly interesting Inside the Life of Moi blog.
Give that link a click, and Amanda’s work is sure to amuse you.
And keep that applause going for Shelly of Momzhappyhour for nominating me for, yes indeed, the Versatile Bloggers Award.
Shelly writes about life and all of its ups and downs from the view of a busy mother. Humor and sarcasm are two wonderful tools in her writing toolbox.
Thank you, Amanda and Shelly, for allowing me to add this one to my collection for the third and fourth times. The badge has changed over the past year. The new version above is pretty sharp.
The rules of the game say that I must nominate 15 bloggers and then state seven interesting facts about myself as well as linking to Amanda’s blog and displaying the award badge.
Seven interesting facts about myself:
1. I am not the only person in my family with brown eyes.
2. My mother’s eyes were brown, and so are my sister Fran’s.
3. My father’s eyes were blue, and so are my sister Dory’s.
4. My eyesight has been better.
5. I’ve worn progressive lenses for more than a decade so I can read a menu without holding it at arm’s length.
6. My eyesight has been worse.
7. I used to wear glasses when I was a kid, and was stigmatized by what they called “a lazy eye.” Then I had an eye operation when I was a kid to fix the muscle and nobody called me cross-eyed anymore.
There. Now you know more about I. Er, me.
Here are 15 blogs worthy of a click-to-read, a new batch who’ve more recently caught my attention. No repeats from previous awards are on the list, and all have either commented on/liked a post of mine, follow this blog, or held a conversation with me after I commented on their blog. That’s a feat of which I am extremely proud.
http://goodtimestories.wordpress.com
http://kitchensmitten.wordpress.com
http://shedrivesavegetablecar.com
http://lemanshots.wordpress.com
http://digitalhegemon.wordpress.com
http://reneedeangelo.wordpress.com
http://etinkerbell.wordpress.com
OK, now it’s time for true confessions. One or two of you out there may have nominated me for a different award in the past two weeks. I seem to recall sending somebody else a thank you.
But I don’t know who and I don’t know what award.
So if you’ve been waiting for me to link back to your blog, say thanks, post a badge, and follow your rules, drop me a line, twist either one of my earlobes, and I’ll get to it.
Mark Bialczak 
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Congrats Mark on your award! Well deserved. And thanks for thinking of us all the way down here. Cheers!!
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Cheers, Conrad!
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Congrats on your awards and this Versatile award is nice.
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Thank you, Kim. Happy Easter weekend!
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Same to you.
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Congratulations on your award, Mark. My apologies for not following thru on the award you nominated me for. Procrastination is my sidekick, one that I must gently get rid of.
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You can wait some more to kick procrastination to the curb, Judy. It’s OK in my book.
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congrats Mark…. well deserved!! And thanks for sharing the sweetness 🙂
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Have fun with this whole darn thing, Ayesha, and thank you!
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Woo Hoo! Congratulations!
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I used to shout that out to start the weekend in the old days. Rachel. Woo Hoo indeed.
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Congratulations! I think your posts show that you are indeed, versatile! Thank you as well for the nomination! I am going to check out your other nominees now. 🙂
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Have fun with the whole award process, 3TG!
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Congratulations and you are certainly versatile 🙂
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As are you, Vic. You’re always surprising me with a new wrinkle! Thank you for your kind words.
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Hehe 🙂 Pleasure.
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I love your sense of community….even in weblands. 🙂
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Thank you, Colleen. I give you forever credit for coining the new and fantastic word for this community, weblands!
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YAY!!!!! You know technically I claimed copy right to every single word in the world. True story. It may or may not be legal, but I did it. And now you’ve expanded my rights. You are awesome! 🙂
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Can a borrow a thousand or so words every day, Colleen? Pretty please. I can’t tell you the exact ones I need ahead of time, though …
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I am very generous Mark. You may use all of the words you want! There’s plenty to go around. 🙂
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hard to keep up, and congrats, meryl, yet again )
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Meryl?
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streep )
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Sometimes you are just too darn smart for me, Beth. And you dropped that name on my last award post, too. Beddian moment for me. Yikes.
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hahahaha – no worries, i’ve had many beddian moments myself )
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Congrats again! Well deserved 🙂
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Sorry it took me so long to posting your gracious nomination of me, my friend. Thank you again.
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You’re very welcome. I forgot to say, I liked your facts 🙂
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Congrats Mark! you totally deserve it!
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Thank you, Jolene. Every time we get one of these, it gets harder to write “interesting” things about yourself and pick new bloggers to nominate. I know you know!
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The ten interesting things are so hard for me to write because I really don’t find myself interesting….hahaha….my kids could vouch for that!!
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Congrats Mark, you totally deserve it!
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