My Blog is Loved!

Today DutchBitch has given me the I love your blog award!  Pretty cool!

I’ll be honest.  I’ve seen other people handing these awards out to each other and I’ve been a little jealous and unloved.

Not anymore, I’m one of the cool kids now, so to speak!

This is how it works, according to DutchBitch:

The “I Love Your Blog Award” rules:

The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.

Link the person you received your award from.

Nominate at least seven other blogs

Put links of those blogs on yours.

Leave a message on the blogs that you’ve nominated.

I’ve decided to choose the following people.

Gail at Large – I know Gail is totally not into this kind of thing but I have to give it to her anyway.  Her blog is great because she is great and she inspires me in so many ways.   She has overcome some truly difficult times that make my woes seem petty and selfish and she also takes some really kick ass photos.

Very Pink – I’m choosing Staci over at VeryPink.com because I just think she’s the shit.  I met her when she was living here in the Netherlands with He Who Shall Not Be Spoken Of and I got the pleasure of petsitting with her two beautiful Basenjis.   She takes REALLY cool photos for the 365 Days Flickr Project.   Plus, this girl can KNIT… and I’m kicking myself that I didn’t trade petsitting for free knitting lessons back when she was here! DOH!

XBox4NappyRash – I don’t know this guy very well but I do know he’s an expat in NL (like me), he and his partner are having problems with infertility (like me), and he finds the Dutch doctors to be little to no help at all in regards to such problems (LIKE ME!).  Project Baby has been put on the back burner for Hubby and I, but that doesn’t mean I can’t relate and empathize with the ‘XBox’ and his wife.  Infertility is a bitch.  Infertility in the Netherlands is a bitch on the rag who just found panties 3 times smaller than hers in her husband’s pants pocket.   I bitched a lot about my problems here not being able to get pregnant, but he does it a much better way.  He finds the humor in it.

KrazyIvan – I only recently found this guy but I really dig his blog.  Mostly because he talks about shit that I totally get but don’t talk to a lot of other people I know about cuz they’d just go ‘huh?’.   Like Rumor Willis’ Jaw (something that irritates me to no end) and Old 80’s Movies.   He reminds me that there actually are people out there who watch as many movies as I do, and are not ashamed!

Jason. For The Love of God – I love this blog because she’s very much a say it like it is kind of person.  I also love the dynamic in her family.  I have to admit sometimes when she posts conversations between her and her kids I find myself wondering if she made it up, I mean nobody’s kids can be THAT cute and clever, can they?!  I’m taking her word for it though!   She and her husband are a laugh as well and every time I read her blog I think I must start remembering some of the nutty conversations hubby and I have, but then I forget again.   It’s just an entertaining read :)

Penny in Holland – This is the blog of my good friend Penny.   I love it because it’s where I get my dose of Noah, and that little guy is too cool for school.  I love this blog because she actually MADE it.  I love when friends have blogs because I love reading them and seeing what kind of stuff they’ll put on there.   Especially when they are expats too.

Canadian in Clogs – My newest expat friend here in NL, and fellow blogger… AND Canadian (WOOT!).  We’ve not met in person yet, since we live quite a distance from each other… but we’ve gotten to know each other really well through each other’s blogs and by chatting online.   I love her blog because she’s snap happy like me and loves to take photos wherever she goes, she’s also crazy about her dog and has the redecoration bug.   Mostly because she’s an explorer and has gone to places in the Netherlands that I haven’t even been to yet!   So when I see her blogs I end up wanting to visit these places too.

Ok, that makes 7… eish it’s hard to choose!  There are a few people who’s blogs I probably would have put on the list but they haven’t posted in ages so I’m losing the love. If you are lurking and have a blog and haven’t posted in a while, get snappy!