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!
Well of course you deserve every award there is. That goes without saying. But this post??????
High-Larry-Us….you Mathair’s U…….2!
😉
😉 you rock Cindy & totally get our sick & twisted sense of humor!! We definitely got to get up with you and have a girls night out!!! 😉 ❤
That’s a wonderful example of how to graciously accept a gift that makes you a little uncomfortable. A lesson for us all.
Thank you Malcolm. Yeah, we’re always worried how we’re going to come across! For us, we’re happy when anyone even reads our posts! lol. Thanks for stopping by & for commenting!! 😉
Congrats to two of my favorite sexy bloggers on the award! You handled it with grace, aplomb, and humility!
Heck with that – you both rck and deserve it!
Also, tell Inion to get off that image and just stare at mine. 😉
No need to pass along a message handsome, I’m lookin’ lol 😉 Phil, you know better than to tell us blogging gals to look at your photo when you know we’re all staring atcha!!! 😉
Fun post, you lovely ladies! I have to confess, I’m with Mathair on the matter of Joe vs Alex… that guy just exudes sex appeal. Though I’m not a fan of his were-pack buddies 😉 Anyway, just wanted to come by and say thanks for all the love you spread around the blogosphere. You give us all multiple reasons to smile 🙂 xox
There’s our Aussie gal-pal!! Thanks Alarna for the blog ❤ . As for the Joe-vote, your a lady who knows a hotty when you see one!! Joe most definitely exudes sex appeal!! Our friends are such incredible people it feels effortless to promote & give shout outs to you & the others. We're just grateful to have met such an incredible lot of writers with such kind hearts & passion for the craft! 😉
Congrats — love the way you accepted the honors!
Thanks Sweety, we hated overlooking the award because we had one. This way we graciously accept the honor Victoria bestowed upon us while keeping it light & fun!! Thanks for stopping by & commenting! 😉
You two just crack me up! And I really appreciate how you take the time to respond so generously to comments. Though I’m not a vampire/horror fan, I’m always learning something from your words, and the way you share your enthusiasm for writers and writing. Hope you have a great week!
Thank you Darla, and we learn from you as well Sweety! We just visited a fav blog of ours & read an incredible poem that left us speechless. A hard feat to do! (here’s a hint YOU!) Thank you for coming by & for commenting Darla as we value your input always!! 😉
Congratulations with your award, well deserved !
There’s our mountaineer girl!! Hey Freya. Thank you for the lovely compliment & for showing up here on our blog. It always amazes us when we find your pic here in comments. And we debate back & forth. “Wonder what exotic location Freya’s writing us from!!” Told ya, we’re living vicariously through you my dear!!! lol 😉
Congratulations – this is the coolest acceptance speech I’ve ever seen! 😀
Our dearest lady who captures dragonflies!! Thanks for stopping by & commenting. Funny enough we had just been visiting your blog before popping on email & finding your comment! And thank you sweety, that is a compliment most gracious! Especially considering we we’re worried how we handled it! So relieved everyone likes it so much!! ❤
Such a fun acceptance!!! This is definitely the way to do it — Congrats Congrats (for the two nominations). I’m going to check out Victoria’s blog now. Keep up the fabulous work 🙂
Double congrats from a doubly great friend. ❤ it Arlene!!! You'll love Victoria's blog as she is an incredible writer & phenomenal lady! Thanks for coming by & for commenting. 😉
Congratulations and I love the way you presented your award. It’s obvious that you put in the time and effort to do more than just pass the award along. You provided us with a great read.
Thank you so much Sheri! We we’re worried about doing a double award & figured we should try to mix it up a bit! So glad you liked it & so happy to find your comment here as we’re always happy to see you!! 😉
Congratulations, missies! You two won’t have any false award claims filed against you- you two definitely deserve it!
Awe thanks so much Sweety you rock!! And thanks for coming by & commenting!! ❤
Congratulations and thank you for that kiss. It just arrived here in Massachusetts. 🙂
Most welcome Sweety, we sent it first class!! 😉
OK, Inion and Mathair, what is it about vampires and werewolves that women find fascinating? My wife, daughter and daughter-in-law were all hooked on the Twilight Series and I was required to watch the movies twice to be educated. Enlighten me… 🙂 –Curt
That’s the million dollar question my friend and your the first man we’ve heard ask!! And here goes as I pass the computer to my daughter Inion who loved your question: (Inion) I’ve been asking the same thing, Curt. This new-aged vamp/werewolf craze presents us with a much more docile version of the creatures that I’d grown up loving; fearsome monsters that caused people to scurry under their covers and arming themselves with silver and garlic. Mathair, who’s always been very open with me and my brother, handed me an Anne Rice novel at ten when I informed her that there were no intelligent monster stories for kids my age. I read Interview with the Vampire and fell in love with it’s side character: Lestat de Lioncourt. To this day, I credit Anne Rice with my love of the anti-hero and still consider Lestat to be the greatest fictional character of all time. I’m not much into the fan-friendly vamps and werewolves, but I give credit where credit’s due and say that Stephanie is brilliant for capitalizing on an age old sentiment of star-crossed lovers. She bridged the gap between what is PC for younger generations with a very adult-like topic… Monsters. I’d like to say that fads are all the same and soon they’ll die out for another crop to spring up, but it’s the reason why people related to the Phantom, Quasimodo, Frankenstein and that outsider mindset is very popular within the teenage demographic. Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf it all makes it okay to be different, special and to love someone that is as well.
Ann Rice, a very adult and mature author, Inion. I hand to your mom to turn you on to her books. And I agree about scariness… the movie monsters of my youth, such as The Thing and the Creature From the Black Lagoon, scared the hell out of me. I tended to find the early Japanese monsters more fun. But I was more of a reader than a movie fan. Too bad my mother didn’t turn me on to Ann Rice. I was left with the likes of Robin Hood and Tarzan. Not that I am complaining. Edgar Rice Burroughs wove some fascinating tales. As for star crossed lovers, they seem to be a requirement of the genre vampire werewolf genre. 🙂 Thanks for the enlightenment! –Curt
Congrats 🙂
Thanks girl & a little birdy told us you’ve got an award sitting on your blog this very minute! Headed over now to help you celebrate!! 😉
A very entertaining awards acceptance post! Eye candy never hurts, does it? 🙂
Thanks JM & yes, we know when words fail, eye-candy never does!! Although we’d received the award before, we love & respect Victoria so much that we didn’t want to let it go unanswered! Thanks for coming by & for appreciating the fine art! 😉
Oh I love Vampire vs Werewolf debate – always. Major and mucho deserved congratulations to you ladies. Oh thanks for the Zombie reminder – gotta go catch up on Walking from last Sunday that I still haven’t watched.
There’s our brother Blogger & the best pup eva!! And yes, Vampire vs. Werewolf is always a great topic to throw back & forth!! Thanks for coming by Mike & for commenting as we always love seeing our two friends 😉 By the way…hope Phoenix is on the mend & back to his old self!! Give him lots of hugs & kisses from his Irish Auntie’s xoxoxoxoxo
Congratulations. You ladies are one of the most gracious and awesome “Crazy Chicks” I know! Tweeting this and heading over to Victoria’s blog 🙂
YES!! Our Blog Guru is back!! And thank you Lafemme. But what makes us great are those that we call friends! And yours was the first hand of friendship in this great big blogosphere!! You’ll love Victoria as she is a great lady with a phenomenal mind! Thanks for the tweet love & see ya on your blog soon!!
You deserve to receive this award twice! Congratulations, you two. Your blog is awesome!
Thank you soooo much Miranda! We we’re completely surprised when Victoria told us she had nominated us. We also feel very blessed to have an array of amazing women & men that we call friends. Your friendship one!! Although we absolutely love writing. This blogging has added so much to our lives we can’t even imagine not having met all you wonderful writers who we absolutely adore!! Thanks for coming by & for commenting & see ya on your blog soon!!! ❤
Um, what was that again? I lost focus after the mention of Alexander Skarsgard and Joe Manganiello. 😉
Hell yeah, there’s our True-Blood Sista! Us too Carrie. One can’t help but loose train of thought with those two close!! Mathair was depressed the other day, brooding like a four year old. When I asked, “What’s wrong mom?” I waited to hear something awful when she responded with, “What are we going to do this summer? One more season of True Blood then…. It’s too much to bare!” lmao. We had a glass of wine & cried together!! 😉
Understandable!
But remember, don’t tell anyone I watch it. 😉
Mums the word! No worries…your secrets safe with us. Besides, who would find out? (they giggle)
congrats, ladies!!!! You definitely deserve a trunk-full of awards! I like the way you accepted. Very respectful and sweet. And thanks for the g-I-a-n-t pic of my love at the end. I lunged at my monitor and licked it. Cuz I’m classy and not at all desperate. And Joe Maggliano (or however it’s spelled, who cares, right?) YUUMMMMMMMM he’s all over my “special” pinterest board.
There’s my 98% Vegan-Sister!! Can totally agree as I haven’t put down my laptop since Mathair posted it! lmao. ‘Course word has it he’s been seen on the Net, much lighter with little to nothing but those delicious tats & an anonymous hand aiding in his pose. Must do some Googling as soon as possible!! Wait! What am I saying? I’m speaking loosely in front of his “almost-wifey” Please forgive Mrs. Levine & know I shall lust from afar! 😉
*runs to google*
Congratulations! Best award acceptance post I’ve read yet. And I will definitely check out Victoria’s blog.
Awe thank you soooooo much Anita!! That means a lot!! 😉 We value all our friends, (like you ❤ ) so much we just couldn't see ignoring it because we already received it. You'll love Victoria's blog as she is an unbelievable writer & phenomenal lady!! Thanks for stopping by Anita & for commenting.
Awesome, ladies – you deserve it more than twice!
There’s are gracious nominator. So happy you came by Victoria & once again, thank you for the honor. Coming from you it means the world!! 😉
Loved all of the images and I keep wanting to mention how much I like the top banner on your blog page. So pretty!
Thanks GM, we loved the banner as well! Our business manager (who just so happens to be my Nana) told us she loved it & that it looked elegant & inviting. Mathair & I laughed because we selected it on the basis that it looked haunting! Weird how it strikes people differently. You however are the first to comment on our banner so thank you for that!! 😉
LOL! Great way to handle the double award! Loved the images! LOLOL!
Hay there Paulilne. Thanks so much! One never knows if it will come out all right but it felt right so we went with it. And the images are always a fun thing to play with. Coarse anytime you can put a pic of a gorgeous actor it’s a hoot! 😉
Crap! You distracted me! Congratulations on your award(s) ladies. You’re entirely deserving of the nomination.
Oh Joe…
Yes!! Joe fan means Mathair’s choice & yes, JC…he has that effect on me as well!! Makes me go wolfy!! Thanks for stopping by & for commenting 😉
Hi i was wondering if you can tell me how to nominate another blogger for an award, any help is appreciated
There she is, our new friend!! We don’t mind a bit helping you Sweety. The blogosphere is a pretty amazing community of unbelievable writers who are always helpful in aiding fellow bloggers with tasks & blog maintenance. Most anything can be found in a search. To nominate someone, you feel is deserving of this award, you should try to match up the award with the bloggers (blogs) attributes. I think the very first award we ever received was the: One Lovely Blog Award” from a lady called Kat who was a photographer/working mom. And it was on our second blog we created.
On our sidebar to the left, you’ll see the awards we’ve been nominated for. Use each one to perform a search & see what they’re about. Other than that, you need nothing more to nominate someone except your kind heart & belief in them. There are rules that they must follow once you nominate them. A sort of pay it forward thing which you must post on your blog when you nominate them as guidelines. Below you will find three links we’re leaving you to follow & get an idea of what one does when nominating & receiving. Hope this helps Sweety, and any more questions you might have, please feel free to come back and we’ll help you with them!!! Good luck & thanks for stopping by!!! 😉
https://inionnmathair.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/the-sunshine-award/
http://futureexpat.com/2013/10/sunshine-blogger-award/
http://versatilebloggeraward.wordpress.com/about/
Thanks much my new friends
Clearly, these are well deserved honours. Congratulations, ladies. Two nicer recipients are not to be found.
Hey there handsome! Glad to have you back in our neighborhood as you we’re sorely missed our friend! Thank you for your kind words & we look forward to chatting you up, very soon when we haunt one of our fav places: The Mirror. Until then, xoxoxo
‘Tis always a glorious day when you grace The Mirror with your delightful presence, ladies. A pleasure to be visiting here, and until we meet again, adieu.
Congratulations on those awards.
Thanks so much Patsy, we’re always surprised when someone nominates us & taken aback with the honor!! 😉