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This is a little round-up of award nominations I have recently received. I’m also using it as a shameless plug for a bunch of my posts, so let’s dive straight in!
First off, fun with the Blog of the Year Award 2013 (my original post on this along with all the rules, my nominations and all the rest is here). The lovely and talented gentlestitches awarded me a star! I’m pretty sure I got another one along the way as well (!) so that makes a total of 3 stars (if anyone apart from Mer and gentlestitches can remember giving me a star, let me know and I’ll grovel a lot and update this post)!
Three star blogger!
Then, can you believe this, doggy’s style awarded me the Black Hole award, and one of my stars fell in (boo)!
Clone Awards!
The lovely aliciabenton over at Imperfectly Perfect has nominated me for an award! Yay! And she was very flattering about DraliDoodles to boot!
It looks kinda familiar – the last time I saw it, it was going under the name “The 3-in-1 Award”, but this time it has a much more romantic name – “The Bouquet of Three Award”. How cool is that?
Here is a picture of the award.
As I’ve had one which looks like this before (and handed it around) I’m going to break the rules (again) just a bit. However, I will attempt to think up some more “interesting things” about myself.
Here are the rules anyway.
1. Proudly display the Award Certificate on your blog page!
2. Announce your win with a post. Be sure to link your post back to me as a “thank you” for the nomination.
3. Present up to 15 awards to fellow deserving bloggers.
4. Let them know you’ve nominated them for this awesome award.
5. Post 7 interesting things about yourself.
Okay, (1) done, (2) yup, (3) um, (4) see (3), (5) here goes:
1) It’s interesting to note that the last time I tried to think up interesting facts about myself I had real trouble.
2) I have no big toenails due to an unfortunate ingrowing toenail episode followed by a chiropodist with a big vial of acid.
3) Number (2) wan’t interesting, it was just gross.
4) I have a PhD in laser physics and I’ve worked in IT for the last 10 years.
5) Number (4) makes me a real hoot at parties. Not.
7) I have a problem with simple maths.
Sorted. So, “Clone Awards”? I reckoned that since this is three awards in one it would need three dralimans (dralimen?) to pick them up. Although it didn’t go so well last time I thought I’d try a bit of cloning again. Here’s the result!
“Clone Awards” by DraliDoodles
That’s me in the middle.
The clone on the left (“#77856-B2/Batch 7”) appears to be eating the trophy. And something’s gone wrong with his legs. Also, upon closer inspection, his head doesn’t appear to be attached to his body.
I don’t know what’s up with the clone on the right (“Frank”). He’s run off.
An Award for Me!
Yay! Lovely fellow blogger Nanuschka has included little old me in her award nominations!
(Pause for claps and cheers and whatnot.)
It actually appears to be a 3 for the price of 1 deal. How about that? It’s like buses. You wait for years and then three come along at once.
Make way for the logos:
Smashing. I hope it’s OK to stick them all together in one image like that. I don’t know how to make images sit next to one another.
So without further ado, I’d like to thank my parents, my family, my best friend’s cousin’s dog… actually, I’d like to thank all the people on WordPress who have been kind enough to read my humble postings and especially those who comment and click the “like” button. It’s a bit sad I know, but I’ve taken to keeping my email open at work so I can see if anyone “likes” me!
Here are the rules as posted for this multiple award:
- Display the Award Certificate on your website. Done.
- Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented you with the award. Done.
- Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers. Well, this is 3 in 1 and it says “15 awards”, not “awards to 15 bloggers”, so…
- Drop them a comment to tip them off after you have linked them in the post. Will do.
- Post 7 interesting things about yourself. Uh-oh.
So, 7 interesting things about me. Seven. Seven whole interesting things. Blimey.
- I’ve lived and worked in Germany and Ireland (and the UK as well obviously).
- I can speak semi-reasonable German but I can’t speak any Irish.
- I can’t speak any Cornish either despite being Cornish myself.
- The most frightening and proudest day of my life was the day of my PhD viva (I “passed subject to minor corrections” :-)).
- I’m not married and I don’t have kids. Otherwise I’m sure number 4 would be different :-(.
- The name “draliman” is made up of my title, the short form of my first name and “man”. Because I am one.
- I spent many years of my life attempting to drink myself to death. I haven’t touched alcohol since February 2003. Yay me!
And now for the moment you’ve been waiting for – my nominations! As previously noted, this is 3 in 1 and I need to present 15 awards, so that’s 5 people, right? Ooh, I’m such a little cheater.
I know some of you guys aren’t ones for awards, so this is more of a thank-you list of people who have particularly shaped and aided my blogging, and whose blogs I really enjoy and have followed for some time.
I shall now repair to a mirror to bask in my own award-filled glory ;-).
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