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I’ve been a bit busy lately and have kinda neglected my blog. Now I have some extra free time and even though I’ve totally lost interest in everything and all I want to do is crawl into a cave and just disappear, I owe it to my friends to catch up on some awards and stuff. They thought enough of me to pass them on and for that I am grateful. I’m at a point in my life where I’m trying to hang on to every ounce of gratitude I can muster up so this helps.

First, from Dette at Mamma Dawg:

The Brillante Blog Award - I don’t know if that’s Spanish or Italian but I think it means I’m brilliant, or at least my blog is.

Brillante Blog Award

Once an award is received, the rules are as follows:

1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate at least seven other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

(I also received this one from “Mommy Ruby” at MoMeMo and from another friend who you can read about later in this post.)

I’m passing this one on to: Cindi, Willow, Daisy, Kim, Alyssa, Carrie, and Aurelia

Also from Dette, the award I briefly mentioned in another post:

• Choose 5 bloggers that you feel are “Kick Ass Bloggers”
• Let ‘em know in your post or via email, twitter or blog comments that they’ve received an award
• Share the love and link back to both the person who awarded you and back to www.mammadawg.com
• Hop on back to the Kick Ass Blogger Club HQ to sign Mr. Linky then pass it on!

This one’s going to “The Bloggess” Jenny, my son Bubba, Jason at Gorilla Sushi, Chelle the Offended Blogger, Lori the Cowboy’s Wife, and “Dad” at Dad or Bust who just welcome his first child into the world recently and is probably way too busy and sleep-deprived to see this.

And from my dear friend Cindi a/k/a Moomette’s Gram:

The Beary Best Award is given to those people who we want to know we care… just because.

The rules are simple. Click on the cute picture and it should take you to NYC Watchdog’s post and the creator of this sweet award.

I want to give this one to the same people I gave the Brillante Award to and to a few other people: Regina, my new friend Lydia at On The Verge, Tricia, Tishia Lee, and my friend Faye who doesn’t have a blog (yet!) but she reads and comments on mine and we chat on Twitter when she has a chance to get online.

(Cindi also passed the Kick Ass Blogger award to me even though she knew I had one already. So now I kick twice as much ass.)

And then from one of my new blogger friends, Lydia at On The Verge who I really want to give a special “shout out” to because she’s a new blogger and I’d like everyone to visit her site and welcome her to the blogosphere. She’s a SAHM to 4 beautiful girls and she’s just trying to stay sane too. She also passed the Brillante Award to me.

I also wanted to thank Regina and Cindi for voting for my Fall Fashion Trend to help me win the Flip video camera. Lori at A Cowboy’s Wife got way ahead on the first day so I decided not to crawl on my knees and beg spend time on soliciting more votes.

And I also wanted to thank a few people for their support recently during some conversations on Twitter.

Grant Griffiths, Carrie, Daisy, Gingerken, and Angela.

Thanks to everyone. You really have no idea how important it was to me to write this post and acknowledge the people who I consider friends.

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