Things can't get any better. I'm afraid it's gonna blow Captain! The pressure! It just keeps building with no where to go! We've got to do something! I know...
But first some announcements.
My art buddy
Nelda Ream gave me a new award. She is so sweet! I think I'm going to see her at Artfest next April so I have to follow the rules. I don't want her to stop speaking to me. (I am just kidding. - but I was wanting her to notice I am talking about her.) Here it is:
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Thank you Nelda!
The rules are that I have to pass the award on to 7 other people with links and notify them on their blogs.
But wait!
Then I got another one from
Pilar Pollock my new brilliant friend I met down near L.A. when I was there. I really have to follow the rules on this one because I am wanting to stay on her Christmas card list this year plus I want her to keep on speaking to me.
Here we go:
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The Arte y Pico Award is meant to be paid forward to five bloggers who you want to recognize for their creative talents, interesting material, and overall contribution to the blogger community...helping to make the world a better place, one blog post at a time!
If you have been selected for the award, please pay it forward, following the steps below:
1) Choose 5 blogs that you consider deserving of this award based on creativity, design, interesting material, and overall contribution to the blogger community, regardless of the language.
2) Post the name of the author and a link to his or her blog so everyone can view it.
3) Each award-winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award.
4) The award-winner and the presenter should post the link of the "Arte y pico" blog so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5) Please post these rules! - Be my guest to copy and paste from here.
The Arte y Pico blog is in Spanish. To read it in English, click here.
And now...the envelope please!
Not so fast!
Then my dearest Marie Otero who just wants to keep the ball in play tagged me for this: .
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here are 6 of my quirks:
1. I hide my personal laundry when I go out of town so my family doesn't do it while I am gone. My husband doesn't sort the colors and I have freaked out before when he washed my colds on HOT! Sorry Ralph! (that's his name, yes)
2. I have started answering the phone when it rings but I used to call everyone back after they left a message so I could formulate my response and not feel put on the spot.
3. I have been getting the same drink at Jamba Juice for over 4 years. I never get any other flavor because I love this one. Protein Berry Workout with soy and an energy boost.
4. I always take a book with me when I go out just in case I have to wait a bit and I can get in some reading.
5. Every week I have to re-write my to-do list because I keep adding things and crossing them off and after a few days I have all these little loose papers that I have added to the pile to remind me to do things. I even write on my to-do list to re-write my to-do list. No, I don't want a book. There are never enough pages.
6. I am experiencing hot flashes about 10 times a day and it is weird! I swear I feel like I look a lot older because of it but my husband says I look exactly the same.
SO,
I know... I just want to follow the rules, but it's just too many people. I feel I'd have to write a whole chapter in a book to fulfill these honors and yet maybe, just maybe I can pull a rabbit out of my hat. I have to. I'm sharing a room with Marie at Art and Soul and I want her to keep on speaking to me.
What do you think? Will this do? LISTEN!
I passed 50,000 yesterday. Here is the contest I promised:
Leave me a comment starting today September 11, 2008. So we can remember this as a good day for something. You know what I mean? Keep on commenting until I say "stop". One comment is enough to get you in, but if you want to comment every day it's fine with me.
Then exactly in a week on September 18th I will have a drawing with these 5 prizes. Yeah 5!
1st prize:
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2nd prize:
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3rd prize:
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4th prize:
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5th prize
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Then on that day after the winners are announced, be the first of the winners to comment again and you get first pick of the prIzes.
Everybody ready?
I'm ready!
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:o)
