i genuinely suck at this whole blog award thing. it's not that i don't appreciate them, i mean, who doesn't appreciate being recognized and adored and appreciated? it's just that there are always all of those rules attached to them and i'm not that big on rules. seriously, does anyone really want one more list of random things from me after the big 29 secrets and one lie in 30 days thing? and frankly, after that, i've not got that much left. but, what's cool about blog awards is that they are an excellent way to share the blogs YOU love with your readers. so, i'm going to try to catch up on the blog award love right here, right now.

the sweet and lovely joei of the blog my days and night, who lives in one of my favorite places in the whole world (no, not cape town this time) - the philippines - has recently given me not one but two awards. our old friend "honest scrap" and that "kreativ blogger" award that must have originally been started by a dane because that's how you spell creative in danish.

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on the same day (which is actually today, believe it or not, i'm on the ball this time), i got the "one lovely blog" award from kristine * who blogs at mostly berlin and no penny for them (don't you LOVE people with multiple blogs?) and who we are all hoping comes to blog camp 2.0 at the beginning of september (hint, hint, kristine).
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and while i'm at it, an embarrassingly long time ago, clear back on her old blog, my friend borneochica who now refers to herself as cheekyketek and blogs at not really, gave me one of those lemonade stand awards and wrote something really super sweet and nice and flattering and stuff which is now inaccessible because she closed down that blog (tho' i could still see it in my reader, neah, neah). but anyway, i don't think i ever passed it along.

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however, today is the day. i've discovered lots of fun new blogs of late because in this transitional season, it seems like i have lots of new visitors and commenters (yes, that's a word) here on MPC. and when you leave a comment, i click into your profile and check out your blog (that's a tip for you lurkers) and i often feel really grateful because you guys have some good blogs and frankly, i probably wouldn't have found them otherwise, what with the fact that those lame boeing people stopped that fabulous internet that used to be available on long-haul flights and so there's no way to get online when i'm flying. (am i the only one beginning to think some of that blonde bleach seeped into my brain today while i was waiting for the hairdresser to finish her very important and dramatic phone conversation and come back and finish my hair?)

anyhoo, without further ado, i hereby pass all three of the above awards on to the following bloggers....i am aware there were probably rules attached to them originally about how many to pass onto and what sort of tricks they should perform on their blogs when they receive them, but we shall dispense with tricks and just give the awards. and to celebrate the awards, this ice cream:

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i hereby bestow the quadruple crown on:

maria-thérèse of afiorishe makes pretty books and takes cool picturesand lives somewhere in northern sweden where they don't pronounce 777 that cool way that i like best
ju of blog maia & lararecording the hilarious things her children saythey'll no doubt be mad at her someday and possibly require therapybut for now, it's hilarious.plus, we're friends on twitter too (@chachatwist).and i think she's a fellow julie/julia. :-)
kristine of where is kristine now?because she cracks me up.and cheers me up.and may travel even more than i do.and because she doesn't have dengue fever.tho' i do wish she had a normal email address and not one of those no-reply blogger thingies.
lea bolvigeven tho' kristine * already gave her one of these,because she's also in denmark.her pictures are beautiful.and i was thinking she'd make a great addition to blog camp 2.0.
georgie k. buttons of the author's deskbecause i love her blog header.and i am utterly charmed at the notionthat a 17-year-old in utah regularly reads and comments on my blog.
tiffany of the water bottlebecause no 18-year-old shouldhave such an articulate video rantabout the potential publisher of her novel.
and last, but not least,an open heart of recovery from a life not livedbecause she's going to blog camp 2.1 in reno(tho' she should be coming to DK),she's got a very big and generous heart,and she recently asked me what these blog award thingies were all about.and no, i did not accidentally hit publishbefore i was done with this...
and please don't forget to check out joei, kristine* (both blogs) and cheekyketek, who started this whole thing in the first place (and a big thank you to you dahlings. MWAH, as spudballoo would say). i'm gonna go see if i can get some of those blonde fumes cleared out of my head now...for all of our sakes...