This one's for Silv

Silv, I'm sorry I didn't include you in the When Life Hands You Lemons award post. The fact of the matter is, that I know darn good and well that you wouldn't pass it on to anyone!  BUT seeing as you posted this in John's blog, I just had to write a post special for you!  First though, I'll quote your comment to John.

"And what the hell is this I don't even get a mention on her crappy blog, there's something wrong there. 
I mean she gives out the crap about me being the love of her life an all, but do I get soo much as a mention , not a fucking chance. Seems that my friends were right when they told me that she was just using me for my culinary skills. yep it's all clear to me now, I'm just a kitchen slut, and that s all I'll ever be to Skye, just a kitchen slut, it's not fair I tell yuh it's just not fair at all, I have sooo much more to offer I really do.
I feel so used so cheap so taudry and when my memory fails and I can no longer prepare Beef Wellinton she will discard me like an old boot, the bitch."

Because of your crying and whining, I've got the worlds smallest violin for you, Silv.  I hope it plays you a really, really sad song!

You know perfectly well how much I love you.  You know perfectly well how much I appreciate you.  Hell, if I didn't love and appreciate you, do you think I'd put up with all your "kids"?  Especially Lucifer, what with his butt and tit nipping, the perv!  Takes after his old man, come to think of it ;) which is one of the reasons why I love ya soo much!  Dammit, now my bitching about you whining and bitching is getting all screwed over!  

Now, where was I?  Oh yes, I was bitching about your crying fest over at Paintings Art etc!  Do you really think that John wants to hear about your problems?  Do you really believe anyone cares but YOU?  Well, sorry Babes, but you're sadly mistaken!  Now go be a good slut and make me some of your wonderful soup.  I'm hungry and had a long day at work!

So Silv, I hope you accept this Worlds Smallest Violin award for crying the blues!

I've waited long enough!

Seeing as I have today off, I decided that I have the time to finally figure out to whom I should give the When Life Hands You Lemons award.  I follow quite a few blogs and have been having a difficult time deciding who my 10 should be.  Minka is the one who awarded this to me, and I would love to include her in my 10, but somehow that just doesn't seem right.  After all, is it really fair to give an award to someone who's already recieved it and who passed it on to you?  No, I didn't think so either, so we'll just consider Minka as the unofficial 11th reciever without actually passing it on.  I hope that's alright, Minka :)

The terms and conditions set out for this award :

1) Put the logo on your blog or post.

2) Nominate at least 10 blogs that show great attitude or gratitude.

3) Link to your nominees within your post.

4) Let the nominees know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.

5) Share the love and link to the person from whom you received your award.

I chose these people because they either make me laugh when I need to, or think when I've been rather lazy. Sometimes they make me see things in manners that I have never thought of before.  All in all, they're a bunch of great people!

Now, without further ado, I give you my 10 Awardees:

1) Sue, over at Farvel Cargo for always making me smile!

2) Penny, over at Penny for your thoughts for making me think about the world when today's news say's nothing about it!

3) Etta Rose, over at Sanity on Edge for her Sunday Silliness blog posts where she consistently uses nothing but bloggers and/or blog names to write her post for Sunday's.  There are always great links to bloggers I hadn't come across!

4) Jenn Thorson, over at Of Cabbages and Kings is good for a laugh as well!

5) John at Paintings Art etc always makes me see magical things with his photography.  There are times when I can imagine fairies and unicorns, his pictures are so good!

6) Ah, and Sass from Are You Sassified, she posts these wonderful Friday's Fabulous Finds which always give me a new blogger to check out.  Not only that, but she's outrageously funny!

7) And then there's Tracy over at Rambling Thoughts of the Neverending Mind.  She's not afraid to tell it like it is, she's brutaly honest, and incredibly sweet.  I can't help but love her posts!

8) Blunt over at Blunt Delivery has pointed out that we are kindred spririts.  It seems that we think alike in a lot of ways!

9) Oh, we can't forget Frog, now can we?  Frog comes to us from Frogs in my Formula, and you better make sure that you aren't eating or drinking when you read her blog!  She makes you laugh so much that you'd choke, or spew a huge mess all over your computer if you were eating and or drinking!

10) I don't want to leave anybody out, so I'm including Nobody in my award recievership.  He has this weekly posting blog, called Nobody 5-7-5, where all he posts is a picture.  The object is to look at the picture, disect it in your mind, and then create a haiku for it.  At the end of the week, when it's time to post a new pic, he goes through the postings that were made over the past week, picks one haiku from each blogger, and includes it in his post under said pic.  I hope that makes sense :).  Until I found that particular blog, I hadn't really enjoyed haiku's all that much, thanks to Nobody, I've started thinking in 5-7-5 parameters...lol.

Well, with that all said and done, I hope everyone accepts their prizes!

Until next time, Cheers and have a good weekend!

First Off....

....I'd like to say that as soon as I can figure out which 10 people I'd like to honor with the blogger award that I have in my sidebar, I'll be posting it.

Until then, please enjoy this post :)

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The good napkins, the joys of having Girls!

My mother taught me to read when I was four years old (her first mistake). One day, I was in the bathroom and noticed one of the cabinet doors was ajar. I read the box in the cabinet. I then asked my mother why she was keeping "napkins" in the bathroom. Didn't they belong in the kitchen? Not wanting to burden me with unnecessary facts, she told me that those were for "special occasions" (her second mistake). Now fast forward a few months....It's Thanksgiving Day, and my folks are leaving to pick up my uncle and his wife for dinner. Mom had assignments for all of us while they were gone. Mine was to set the table. When they returned, my uncle came in first and immediately burst into laughter. Next came his wife who gasped, then began giggling. Followed by my father, who roared with laughter. Then came Mom, who almost died of embarrassment when she saw each place setting on the table with a "special occasion" Kotex napkin at each plate, with the fork carefully arranged on top. I had even tucked the little tail in so they didn't hang off the edge!! My mother asked me why I used these and, of course, my response sent the other adults into further fits of laughter. "But, Mom, you said they were for special occasions!!!"