The Versatile Blogger X 2 = One Great Friend!

A little over a month ago, we received a message from a dear friend of ours, that she nominated us for the VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD!

This brilliant & beautiful writer is none other than….

Victoria Dougherty of (Blog) Cold: The way revenge is best served; the way a war was fought; the way a story should be told.

A phenomenal blog that we’ve been following for quite some time. If you haven’t been to Victoria’s blog, then stop what your doing & pop on over to read some of her brilliant posts.   http://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/

Of course when we received this lovely award, we we’re a little twisted about accepting it.

After all…we had already been nominated for THE VERSATILE BLOGGER AWARD by another friend and didn’t want to overkill the award, bring shame to the title or have false award claims filed against us!

We also didn’t want to ignore the honor bestowed upon us by a fellow writer we respect so much.  So, we gave the idea some serious thought with days of sweating bullets & nights of restless sleep.

With nothing to do but think of the award! Well, that’ not exactly true. We did allow our mind to wonder a bit….

(as they start on their eighteenth hour of killing Zombies in Call of Duty)

Tuned in for the next round of: The Voice

Then got into a philosophical debate on the theory of the Alpha Male as taken from an intelligent website:

http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f6/alpha-male-theory-206115/

The idea being: “One of the tenets of evolutionary psychology is that women are programmed to test men for strength and leadership. Constantly.” Now where were we? Hm…..Oh yes, Alpha Males! Which ended up in an age old debate of Vampires vs. Werewolves (True Blood for those who aren’t fans) Inion loving Alexander Skarsgard & myself being a Joe Manganiello fan.

Then when we’d had enough of the mental torture. What we figured it all boiled down to was this. When a friend gives you a gift…you don’t turn it down or say, “Thanks but my other friend gave me one already!” No, you feel utterly honored and completely humbled because they took the time to say, your blog means something to them as does your friendship!

And so, we’d like to thank Victoria Dougherty for this unbelievable award she’s given to us. And we’d like to ask all of you, who didn’t follow the link up above

to go ahead & visit Victoria’s blog right now & check her out.

Well…not that kind of checking her out!!

We won’t follow the rules to the Award as we’ve already done this before, so we are merely going to accept graciously and leave it at that.

But we will tell you all, that it’s been an unbelievable journey we’ve had so far & the best part of the journey was meeting all of you, our blogging buddies who have become close & beloved friends, sisters/brothers & who are held close to our hearts! Now catch this great, big, giant, kiss from Inion N. Mathair Mwa (they make smoocy sounds XXXXXX)

Now we shall head back to the writing room & editing once I get Inion off this image!

I’m Just An Old Chunk of Coal

Well we’ve headed back to our writing room, put up the sign & warned all our networking friends & family that we’ll be out of commission for a while.

Although we’ve had a few disturbances…mainly Nana’s dog Peppy whose disguised himself and infiltrating our workroom.

That one didn’t work, Peppy!

That one either!

What can we say. The dog has issues! 😉

We we’re finally able to clear the room and begin working on our book. We we’re doing pretty good too. Although Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & our blog we’re calling to us. And even though our email was piling up. We we’re good girls and stayed off line concentrating on our novel.

We had a good pace and we’re hopeful that we could get through this process with little to no bickering…disagreements…& mud slinging!

Coarse, it got rough there for a while!

We we’re at the end of our ropes!

Then our Bus.Manager/Nana came in to lend a hand.

First she recommended that we visit a few blogs we love to read to unwind & get our mind off the story. That’s easy enough!

We had some hysterical laughs at: Writer B Is Me, thanks to our Bethie! Thx

We had some phenomenal advice from another friend who gave us some incredible ideas for…..guess what? Of all things, how to fill the time between editing so you don’t go crazy. Thanks Coleen!!

 

 

We looked at some beautiful pictures, thanks to the incredible photography of: Cindy Knoke.

I Blog Therefore I Am

Then we held a Facebook “Hemsworth Contest” asking all our Facebook friends to vote on which Hemsworth brother was their favorite.

We even made up fake prizes promising  a hot date with Chris or Liam for the 2 randomly chosen winners. (We did this to get votes for our favs, (Mathair’s) being a Liam fan & (Inion) being a Chris fan! Sorry for the fake date guys! In order to make restitution we’ve set up a real one with our neighbor/brothers- Enos & Lawtry Humplefrumpf!

But now we’re back on track & ready to work. We will be taking a break from posting for a while. Well…kind of! We’ll have a phenomenal interview with Author J.C. McKenzie about her book due to launch March 27th. SHIFT HAPPENS. So excited for that one!!

But other than that & a few silly’s we will be quiet and will have long times between those. Imagine that! I’m sure when we’re done, we’ll be dead tired & ready to throw our laptops out!

But with a little luck & lotta hard work we’ll have finished New Salem Chronicles: The 13 Reapers & will have turned an old chunk of cole into a diamond. 😉

We love all of you our Blogging Buddies who have been there from the start and offered a hand in friendship, listening to our rants, giving advice when needed & making us laugh & cry! And so we’ll leave you with the man in black to finish this blog post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo77IeKBRs4