Got meself some pink bling….. that phrase sounds much better in my head, set to music. Probably best I don’t break your eardrums by singing it to you though…. 
It had a kind of a swing feel to it…..you know…. with a bit of a sway and some finger clicking….
Thanks my beautiful Meg. 
This could almost say “your blog sucks” and I’d be excited that it was pink. 
Okay, maybe not. I’d be excited because it was pink but crying if someone said my blog sucks. 
Which they didn’t, so this is an unnecessary digression.
Here it is:
This award originated from Me and my Drum
To accommodate a variety of blog themes, I have created three different “flavors” of badges: Creamy Cabernet, Midnight Oil, and Pink Smoothie.
Earlier this year I was tagged with the blogging tip meme in which the tip I offered was “Be the Blog“. That phrase stuck with me because I think that really sums up what a successful blogger does. And what I mean by successful is that they make it their own, stay with it, are interactive with their readers, and just plain have fun.
Since then I’ve been thinking about creating an award of my own, but with so many out there, it’s hard to find a niche that remains untapped for recognition. So I said, “What the heck?”, and decided to shape the phrase into an award called (you guessed it): Be The Blog.
And now ladies and gentlemen (yes, some gentlemen read my blog, even if it is pink! Which is cool, cos pink doesn’t have to be JUST for girls does it!), I need to pass this award on to a few of my lovelies.
You know, I’m really tempted to give it to you all. But that doesn’t really do the link-love thing and it doesn’t leave more people for y’all to pass it on to quite the same does it? So I guess I’d better just bite the bullet and pick a few….
Gemisht - cos even though she’s new to blogging she’s a valued member of the blogging community through her regular commenting and interacting. And her new blog ROCKS!!! And she needs some bling to decorate it with.
Erin! - cos she’s back online and left me a few comment essays that made me smile when the power finally came back on this morning.
Fussy - cos she tells me how pretty I am and even though she has like a gazillion readers, I feel like she’s talking just to little ole me. There’s an art to having a large readership and still making each visitor feel like they’re important. And her caption contests sure do crack me up! Where does she find those photos????
Kin - cos she had the most gorgeous baby and is in need of some pink bling. So Kin, this bling is dedicated to Megwyn. 
(and that’s a kiss NOT hot lips thankyou Bettina! ) Did I get to give her her first ever bling???? Did I? Did I???? Although you might want to choose another colour to put it on your blog cos pink and orange…..ewwwww (just my personal opinion of course ). Pumpkin Patch seem to think they go alright together. Although maybe not this season since I went looking for an example and instead found this totally HOT jacket that matches my blog. Doesn’t come in my size but DD would look fabulous in it!!!! Anyone want to send me a pumpkin patch gift certificate? No? Okay, worth an ask. Perhaps if you all click on that link they’ll come looking to see where all the traffic is coming from and offer to give me one for FREE???? LOL. Okay, maybe not. 
Hey Meg, can I send a trackback to Pumpkin Patch??????
Yes, that was a long paragraph but it all needs to go together cos it just does. And it probably shouldn’t have any full-stops either cos my brain didn’t take a breath the whole time it was thinking here…..
And that will do for today cos I have a couple of other blings to fling and don’t want to wear out my bling flinging finger.
About The Power
We had none.
Sometime in the night it went out.
The kids woke up about a bazillion times and then I didn’t even have my lovely blogworld to visit over my morning cuppa. Actually, I didn’t even have my morning cuppa until farmboy felt sorry for me (or was it felt sorry for him having to deal with me when I haven’t had my morning cuppa???) and got the gas camping stove from the shed and made me a cuppa. But still no blogworld to share it with…. Cos blogging takes POWER yeah?
I really HATE power outtages. We have no water then too cos our water is all pumped via a pressure pump (cos it doesn’t come through a pipe with pressure like most normal other people’s does).
We get our fair share of them. Power outtages that is. BUT, they do sometimes gives us a little compensation for our inconvenience. The other day in the mail we got sent a cheque. Cos the power was out more often than it was on quite a bit during January.
DH took the cheque. Then I took it back again with a tiny little “I reckon that’s mine”. He kinda looked at me funny cos the electricity bills go through the farm books. But we still count them as partially personal income. It’s just an accounting thing that they go through the farm books.
And I was like “well the house was the one out of power wasn’t it?” Okay, the sheds and stuff were too but we were on holidays so it’s not like he NEEDED the power then. Me either, other than the tiny little problem of keeping stuff frozen. But we managed.
He still looked at me kinda funny. A bit shocked like I think. So I said “well, can you think of a good reason why YOU should get the money?”
He said “no”.
So I got a hundred and sixty dollars!!!!! 
(that was in a sing-song voice too if you didn’t catch it the first time round - a kind of neer-ner sing-song voice. Cos I am TOTALLY mature and all that! )
So I’ve decided I really need to deal with them straight away. I would hate for people to think I didn’t appreciate them. Which is far from the truth.
The time gap had nothing to do with how much I appreciated it I assure you!).
