i’m happy for you, really, i am

Posted on April 25, 2007
Filed Under jealousy, praise, snark, suburban joys | 15 Comments

As far as blogging goes, the last few weeks have been kind to me. Amanda over at Tumble Dry and The Wink tossed me a Thinking Blogger award (see the pretty button over there at the right, it’s my first one and I’m inordinately proud of it) and One Plus Two included me in her Just Blogger round up after I nominated my own righteous posts. To my surprise she humored my shameless self promotion (tech support is working on sticking that button up right beneath the Thinking Blogger one so that I can start my very own wall of accolades). Ron Davison, my favorite blogger with a conscience tagged me, inspiring my rant on goals and the glaring lack thereof. And then there was Moshizzle who commented on last week’s To Share or Not to Share with the choicest kind of praise, including me in the same sentence as Dooce. I’m still basking in the light if that one because everyone knows that Heather is her own industry, a force of nature and a hard act to get within 1200 miles of, much less follow.

I’ve rolled over, had my tummy scratched and piddled on myself with joy (really, I’m like one of those Rottweilers that bares teeth and drools until someone pulls out a hamburger and then I’m all love.) But now I’m back to pacing and snarling at the fence because WTF, where’s my Blogger’s Choice Award nomination, people? I’m seeing these fancy ‘I’ve been nominated for The Best Parenting Blog, Hottest Mommy Blogger, The Best Blog About Stuff and The Best Blog of All Time award’ buttons all over the blogosphere and I’m feeling a little bit like I’m a high school senior coveting the ‘Most Likely to Live in a Roach Infested Hovel in Queens While Pursuing a Writing Career’ accolade in the year book. I’m realistic, I don’t harbor hope about The Blogitizer award as Dooce has it all tied up, lapping and re-lapping the competition. But Jack hasn’t even nominated me for The Worst Blog of All Time category. Please, get busy, blog troll. Make yourself useful.

And really, I’m embracing a new goal that I swear will not be ignored – I will be happy for all those nominated bloggers out there who I read daily if only to boost my own traffic by making witty comments. Because you deserve the recognition. What joy does a blogger have beyond praise from their jealous peers and perhaps a little ad revenue?

(Borrowed the Rottweiler movie poster which, according to this website was an actual horror movie released in ‘05. I’m thinking Stephen King may have shut down the production for it’s obvious similarities to another bad dog movie but who knows what really happened to Rottweiler the film?)

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