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Blogger Awards

Posted March 5, 2010 by Tracy in Reviews | 16 Comments

Christine of The Happily Ever After… blog awarded me this wonderful award recently and I’m just thrilled to have it. Thank you, Christine.
Before passing on the award, there is a fun survey I am supposed to do using single word answers only. I tried my best, but couldn’t answer them all with single words.
Your cell phone? Lotus
Your hair? Red
Your mother? Wonderful
Your father? Amazing
Your favorite food? grandma’s spaghetti
Your dream last night? can’t remember
Your favorite drink? coffee
Your dream/goal? to live in happiness the rest of my life with my wonderful family 
What room are you in? office
Your hobby? reading
Your fear? driving off of an overpass
Where do you want to be in 6 years? I have no idea.  Just with my family.
Where were you last night? home
Something that you aren’t? even tempered
Muffins? pumpkin
Wish list item? new wardrobe
Where did you grow up? everywhere
Last thing you did? played with the layout on my blog
What are you wearing? clothes
Your TV? is there
Your pets? none
Friends?crazy in a good way
Your life? normal
Your mood? happy
Missing someone? not at the moment
Vehicle? sedan
Something you’re not wearing? my glasses
Your favorite store? any bookstore
Your favorite color? lavender
When was the last time you laughed? today
Last time you cried? a few weeks ago
Your best friend? funny
One place that you go to over and over? work
Facebook? rarely
Favorite place to eat? local Mexican restaurant
I’m passing the Over the Top Award to the following bloggers whom I think have blogs that are over the top in an extraordinary way:
Kris at Kris ‘n’ Good Books Just a plethora of wonderful stuff and beautiful cookies as well.
Jenre at Well Read Jenre puts up review after review and they’re all so well thought out. I’m amazed how she does it day after day
Renee at Renee’s Book Addiction Renee’s reading tastes are so diverse – I love going there and seeing what she’s been reading.
Wendy the Super Librarian Where else can I go and read about wonderful Harlequin’s, Librarian info and Sports all on the same blog? And she’s just had her 7th blogiversary. 7th!
This next award is for recognition of all those great bloggers out there who blog despite all of the day to day distractions. They take time from their busy schedules to plan and post content and still find time to comment on eveyone else’s blogs. This was awarded to me from Sayuri at Damn Heart…  Thank you Sayuri!!!
THE UBER-BLOGGER 2010
and I am awarding this to:
Ana and Thea over at The Book Smugglers They have such a diverse blog – I just love it and there’s always something new and wonderful to look at.
Chris over at Stumbling Over Chaos  If you haven’t checked out her linkity posts you’re totally missing out.  I really wish she’d work harder on those things. 😉
Mandi over at Smexy Books  She has something for everyone and posts almost daily.  How she does it I don’t have a clue, but I like it.
Next is the Sugar Doll Award, given to me by Janna from Erotic Romance Reader. A fairly new blog to me but I’m loving it.  Thanks for the award Janna!
I am supposed to list 10 things about myself, then pass the award on to some other bloggers!  Okay, here it goes:
1. I love coffee and would drink it all day if I could.  But I know my limits and am down to a mere 24 oz a day now.  Aren’t I good?
2. I used to own a pot-bellied pig named Hamilton. He wasn’t an inbred pbp so he got quite large – short but large.  He came to just about mid thigh on me (I’m 5’5″) and weighed about 125.
3. A long time ago in a land far, far away I dated a guy named Tracy.  Yes, it was weird.
4. Everyone in my family plays an instrument except me. My oldest sister plays the piccolo, flute & piano, my brother the trumpet, my other sister the clarinet and piano, my mom the piano and organ, my dad the piano.  I play the radio.  Well, I play the kazoo but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count. 
5. I rarely watch tv.  Maybe 1 show a month if I just happen to be passing the tv and my hubby is watching a show that catches my eye.  I read – who’s got time for tv?
6. I’ve lived in Illinois, Idaho, Michigan, Oklahoma and California.  I’ve moved 21 times in my 44 years.  That’s just wrong.
7. I love my family and friends endlessly (Janna had this one on her list and it’s so great I had to keep it)
8. I hate to cook.  I’m not good at it, never learned properly and it drives me nuts that I have to do it to feed my family each night. *sigh* but I do it cuz I love them and I need to keep Child Protective Services away.  Anyone want to come over and cook at my house…daily…for no pay? 
9. My husband has had one Harley or another for the past 5 years and I’ve never ridden on any of them.  Not that I don’t want to but we couldn’t exactly pack up and ride whenever we wanted to with 2 small children so he’s had to go by himself.  Now that they’re getting older it will be easier.  Someday.
10. I love my blogging friends.  I love talking books with them and getting to know them – even if it’s virtually.
Because I would love to learn a little bit more about them, I am passing this award along to the following bloggers.  I visit some of these blogs on a semi-regular basis (when I get a chance) and I know about them but I don’t know them – others are brand new to me so I want to get to know them. 🙂
Congrats to everyone – enjoy!

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Rated E For Excellent

Posted August 7, 2009 by Tracy in Reviews | 13 Comments

Excellence is subjective. Let’s face it. What I think is excellent may not be what the next person thinks. But that’s what makes life so interesting, true?

But I think in this case I’m going to have a whole host of agreement when I hand out the Excellent Blog Award (given to me by Renee – thank you). This is to let you know that I find all your blogs excellent in your own unique and wonderful way.

(In no particular order)

Amy from Shaymless Aymless

Ciara from Ciaralira

Kati from Katidom

Rowena, Casee and Holly from The Book Binge

Sarai at Thoughts of an aspiring writer

Bridget Locke at Good Books, Bad Books and Every Book Inbetween

Kris from The Reading Spot

Monroe from Monroe With A Twist (even though my IE never lets me comment there so I hope she sees this! lol)

Tam from Tams Reads

Lily at I Love Books

I always enjoy going to your Excellent blogs – keep up the good work!

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You too can be on the DIK and other misc. stuff

Posted June 19, 2009 by Tracy in Discussions | 5 Comments

DIK BLOG APPLICATIONS NOW BEING TAKEN!

Listen up ladies…The DIK blog is opening itself up for new members! That’s right, you too can join in the fun and frolicking that is the DIK blog. You can go here to find out what you need to do to be stranded on that island with some of the nicest ladies in bloglandia, the books, the men and the drinks. Believe me – it’s damn fun.

Also – if you’re an author who would like to join us for a 3 day stint of guest blogging please email me at redneyrae AT ca DOT rr DOT com and we can get that set up!

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Yesterday I handed out a blog award that was given to me by Nath and Randi. Thank you ladies. But then later that day I discovered that Lori had given me one as well. Thank you so much Lori!

I have several awards to give out that were given to me, well, a while ago (ok, right after the earth cooled) and I have yet to pay them forward. I will work on that in the next several weeks. 🙂

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Weekly Weigh In

I didn’t weigh myself last week (the 8th) as Aunt Flow was visiting and personally I think no woman should weigh herself at that time of the month. Seriously – just wrong if they do. Who needs the depression? lol

But I did weigh myself this past Monday and I went down 2 ounces! lol Hey! Every ounce counts. I kind of feel like the tortoise from the tortoise and the hare. I’ll get there eventually it will just take me a while. It probably would have been more but that pizza was calling to me on Sunday night. I know, no willpower.


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My guest review for Cowboys Dream Too by Morgan Q. O’Reilly is up at The Book Binge. You can go here to read it.

Even a cowboy can dream of a Celtic goddess…But is it just a dream?

From the first time he dreamed of his perfect woman, Gray Dunbar was no longer satisfied by his pre-ordained future on the family dude ranch. She’s leading him on, away from Colorado and around the world, until he can’t stay away from home any longer.

Reed O’Brien needs a vacation. Her boss’s company is falling apart. When a proposed trip to a dude ranch retreat comes along, she jumps at the chance. A stop in Vegas gets the ball rolling — especially when she meets the one man her boss would love to put out of business.

Is this destined to be war…or love?

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The Let’s Be Friends Award

Posted April 23, 2009 by Tracy in Reviews | 11 Comments

How lucky am I that I have a wonderful friend like Christine to give me this fabulous award? Christine in one of the first people that I met on a book forum when I first started doing “book stuff” (as my hubby calls it) on the internet. She was kind and extremely patient with me and all of my questions about abbreviations, etc. Book lovers have their own lingo you know and if you’re new you’re kind of sitting back going what the hell does that mean? Christine turned me on to the Black Dagger Brotherhood and Brook’s Guardian series (just to name a couple) which I love. We had many, many phone conversations about both series.

Anyway, Christine you are such an incredible person and I’m honored to call you my friend. Muah!

Ok – on to the award giving!

“The Let’s be Friends Awards stands for this: These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers.”

So here are my choices:

Of course I will give it right back to Christine…how could I not???

Barbara at The Happily Forever After

Amy C. at Romance Book Wyrm

Anna at Anna’s Book Blog

Renee at Renee’s Book Addiction

Kris at Kris ‘n’ Good Books

Stacy at Stacy’s Place on Earth

Carolyn Jean at The Thrillionth Page

Jill at Romance Rookie

I visit all of these places when I can and I love their blogs. Of course I love all the blogs I go to or else I wouldn’t go there! lol

(So my oldest daughter was in the office when I was doing this post and she wanted to know what self-aggrandization was. I explained it to her and then she said she wanted to see what the dictionary said. So I googled the word and got this from wordreference.com: boastful, braggart, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing. I can honestly say that I’ve never heard of a cock-a-hoop before! Was this a word from the Beverly Hillbillies? Did I miss something in English class when they were teaching me words? Apparently not since Merriam-Webster online hasn’t heard of it? Who has heard of it? Is this another Premio Dardas thing? Someone help a girl out.)

I also noticed that I have been given a couple of awards that I have not paid forward (oops, bad Tracy!) so I will be remedying that soon!

Happy Thursday!

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