Awards, lists, and plans

C from Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island gave me this cheery little award a few weeks ago, and it’s about time I got around to passing it on.  I’ll admit that I wonder if perhaps it mutated somewhere along the way, because it’s a Kreativ Blogger award, but it doesn’t ask you to choose creative people, or talk about 6 ways you enjoy being creative, or anything like that.  Hmmm.  But it’s a fun award, and the perfect way to start out the weekend, so I’ll bite.

The rules are that the recipient is to list six things that make him/her happy before subsequently passing forward the glee to others.

Six things that make me happy are:

1. Warm days and cool nights, ala Spring and Autumn.
2. Rainy days when there’s nowhere I need to be.
3. Spending time with my family.
4. A good meal with Ted and Maya, whether it’s at a restaurant or home cooked.
5. A good book.
6. Spending time with my friends.

Now it’s time to pass on the award to 6 bloggers.  Hmmm.  Whom shall I choose?

1. Bibliomom ~ I choose her because I’m hoping to motivate her to post, since it’s been awhile, and I enjoy her blog.
2. Nance ~ I choose Nance because she always makes me laugh, and she’s often snarky.  Fun to see the softer side of Nance, maybe.  Though she might just choose 6 snarky things that make her happy.
3. OmbudsBen ~ Because I suspect one of the things that makes him happy might be dogs, and dogs are good, right?
4. Jimmy over at Uncivil ~ Because I suspect he will make me laugh with his answers. No pressure Jimmy, ok?
5. Simon ~ I’m kind of hoping there will be some pictures of amazing dinners in his answer.  He eats in the most wonderful restaurants, and thankfully, takes pictures for the rest of us to drool over.
6. Auntie Kate ~ She hasn’t posted since NOVEMBER, so it’s high time she got back to it, don’t you think?  Though perhaps as she’s not posting, she may not be reading either, and thus will never know that she’s been tagged.  So be it.

Next, I was given the Premio Dardos award by Deb from Punctuality Rules.  This award is a bit more overwhelming, because it asks me to tag 15 other bloggers.  You read that right, 15.  That’s practically everyone on my blogroll over there, and crap, if I choose 15 bloggers and I don’t choose you, are your feelings going to be hurt?  And at the same time, if I do choose you, are you going to be pissed off at me because you now have to choose 15 people to pass it on to?  This dilemma has been hurting my head for awhile now, but nonetheless, it’s a very flattering award to receive.

To quote, “Premio Dardos means ‘prize darts’ in Italian. It is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing.”

The rules are to (1) accept the award by posting it on my blog with thanks to the person who gave it to me, and (2) pass it on to 15 other bloggers, along with a comment to let them know.

OK, so here’s my evil solution.  I’m cutting the number in half and rounding up. (And actually, I don’t feel too guilty about this, because I googled the award and peeked around, and on some blogs, the rules only call for 5…yay!) So, instead of tagging 15, I’m only tagging 8.  And two of them won’t be tagging anyone else, (very) sadly.  I’m sorry, but I just can’t pick 2/3 of my blogroll without feeling like crap.  So, without further ado, 8 bloggers awarded by me for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary, and personal values transmitted in the form of creative and original writing. If you wish you were tagged, tag yourself. You surely fit into this category, and you surely rock. I was probably afraid to tag you because of the ‘tag 15 others’ thing, and you’re far to busy with real life to take something like this on, or perhaps it’s the fact that you’re getting bored with blogging anyway. If you hate me for tagging you, because you hate trying to pick and choose amongst your bloggy loves, just ignore me. I won’t take offense. OK, I guess that wasn’t really without further ado, was it? Rather, it was probably with further ado. Apologitso (I know, what?). Here goes:

1. A posthumous award to my mom, Maya’s Granny. Her writing, her values, her curiosity and compassion leap out in her writing. If you’ve not read her things, go check out her blog. The last 6 months are mostly me worrying about her recovery, and her attempts at staying in touch with the blogging world, but before that, there’s some really good stuff.

I’m not going to go into so much detail about why I’m picking the rest of you, OK? I guess moms get preferential treatment.

2. Jill, from Brilliant at Breakfast
3. Shark-fu, from Angry Black Bitch
4. Amuirin, from Stop & Wander
5. Another posthumous award, to Dewey from The Hidden Side of a Leaf
6. Jess Riley, from Riley’s Ramblings
7. Suebob, from Red Stapler
8. C, from Random Thoughts and Musings from the Island

Whew, glad to be done with that. 15 was just too many, don’t you think? I’m clearly a slacker, though, because Deb did a wonderful job of tagging 15 people, and she made it look easy. I suck. C’est la vie.

So, what’s the plan, Stan? Today, my plans are:

1. Do no laundry.  Seems like I do laundry every dang day.  Today, it’s ‘just say no’.
2. Do not go to the grocery store.  Seems like I go to the store every dang day.  Again, ‘just say no’.
3. Eat no meat. (Maya insists that we not eat meat on this holy day, when we worship at the temple of Battlestar Gallactica. I know, we’re probably going to hell for that. Not the meat part, the worshiping.)
4. Finish my book. I’m totally hooked, and I’m over 500 pages in, with about 100 pages to go.
5. Take Maya to girl scouts tonight. The moms are going to go out for coffee or margaritas while the girls listen to a guest speaker. Votes?
6. Look for jobs here in my hometown. I’ve only had one interview so far, and door to door, it’s about an hour. That adds two hours to my day. If I get an offer, I’ll probably take the job, as it would be interesting and challenging and somewhat stable. But if I could find something interesting and challenging and somewhat stable closer to home, I’d be glad of that as well.

Tomorrow, it’s go to a Job Connections meeting, where you network with a bunch of other unemployed folks and hope for someone to know of something. Sunday is girl scout cookie booth day.

How about you? Plans? Lists?