Please let me know if the dots irritate you. Perhaps I will refrain from using them so much. Or perhaps not.
Life With Dogs, blogspot of Nigel, Sola & Co., honoured me with a very special award. The Gold Hydrant Award.
As I am a great admirer of the weird and wonderful Life With Dogs blog, I am extremely proud to be one of the first awardees of a blogaward that has no strings attached. Although the reason for giving me this award left me feeling a bit blue:
' for proving that she has a firm pair of...legs! Holy crap look at those bruises, not a broken bone. Someone has been taking their calcium!'
So I left this comment:
'Gosh, I'm not sure if the reason why I'm chosen is the one I would like to be chosen for, but I ám proud of my calciumfilled legs ;-) Who would have thought those photos would lead to an award. Thanks!I will certainly and proudly display this award. Wonderful initiative!'
Which resulted in me receiving this email:
'Oh my I hope I did not offend, I just knew that would draw a lot of attention to your blog.'
To which I replied:
'Oh no, rest assured. I'm not that easily offended ;-)
It made me smile big time. I just hope that ONCE I will get an award for being utterly entertaining. One can have dreams.....*sigh*
Thanks again. I will post it tomorrow. Hope you all have a very nice weekend.
Hugs to you my friend ;-)'
This was the answer:
'Oh thank heavens - I love you and your blog and was spooked for a minute - but your legs are now the 8th wonder of the world - I don't know how you did not break them!! Have a great weekend and give your new baby a scratch from us, I have loved watching it grow from afar.'
Which gave me a brilliant idea, so I replied:
'Maybe my legs need a blog of their own?
Hubs just thought of the name: 'hot legs'. Must check if that's still free ;-)'
And finally I received:
'Even if it just sat there forever with the pic and the story you'd get a ton of hits. Mind blowing, and what a topic of discussion!'
So I checked if 'hotlegs.blogspot' is available. It isn't. And on second thoughts my legs will probably get very stuck-up and hard to handle if they get too much attention. Most probably the wrong attention. Because whoever is searching for 'hot legs' will probably be very disappointed to see my bruised but very strong legs. They were probably hoping for a totally different search result, don't you think?
So I will not give my legs their own blog (even bluelegs.blogspot isn't available). I have trouble enough keeping up with this blog and all my lovely blogfriends.
I enjoyed the little email conversation however. Have I told you that I loooooove all the wonderful warm and funny and creative people I have sort of met through blogging? Yes, you!
Hugs to you all, enjoy your weekend. I'm off to scratch Evie and perhaps make some photos of her poledancing. Fingers crossed she will perform this afternoon ;-)
Someone has already taken hold of hotlegs.blogspot.com? I know just who it will be: some 17-year old drooling adolescent who drools over every pair of legs that belong to some skinny weak-legged blonde (on the inside) woman.
ReplyDeleteThere's no justice in the world!
You are just the best, you never fail to entertain me and make me giggle.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a super weekend.
Cece
Mara,
ReplyDeletehotlegs is an empty blog (I just checked), and bluelegs hasn't been posting since august 2006. Such a shame. It could have been so wonderful ;-) But I had the same thought you had about the drooling adolescent, hehe.
Cece,
you're sweet ;-) I wish you a great weekend too.
There is a perfectly legitimate use of dots called an ellipsis. Three dots in the middle of a sentence, four dots at the end of a sentence, including the sentence-ending period.
ReplyDeleteThe trick is not to get carried away with either dots or exclamation points!...or exclamation points!!!!!!!! See what I mean?
You're welcome.
Well, I can't say I mind the dots myself....I use them a lot also!
ReplyDeleteI got a good chuckle out of this post and did find it very entertaining.
I don't always get here, but try to catch up when I do. So you must be fairly entertaining to keep me coming back.
Rhymeswithplague,
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that. Thank you ;-)
Rose,
You just made me feel so much better.
Thanks ;-)
Ellipsis my love...plural is ellipses...and as you can see? I use them...all...the...time...
ReplyDelete")
I just checked, and holycrapicannotbelieveididnotbreakmylegs.blogspot.com is still available, better hurry!!!!.....
ReplyDelete:)
Hello, Carolina.
ReplyDeleteConcatulations for your new award!
Purrs from Brazil
Luna
An excess of punctuation marks (with the exception of the full-stop) is a sign of bad breeding.
ReplyDeleteAs a horse breeder you should know that.
Mel,
ReplyDeleteYes Miss!
I will use ellipses from now on. Three dots or four including the end of sentence dot ;-)
Hehe, I'm always impressed with the knowledge other bloggers have. Learn something every day. Wonderful stuff.
Life With Dogs,
ROFL
Cezar and Léia,
muito obrigado ;-)
Chairman Bill,
I have not yet met a horse that uses too much punctuation marks. But of course I only have contact with the best in breed ;-)
You're hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI use the dots too, all the time, though I have absolutely no idea how they are actually, correctly, grammatically supposed to be used.
Pam,
ReplyDeletedid you not know that there is something called 'ellipis'???? (how many questionmarks is one supposed to use if one is highly surprised?)
And I thought I was the only totally ignorant one ;-)
Hi Carolina! I saw you were the first to congratulate me on my engagement to Truffles. Thank you very much and I'd like to congratulate you on your Gold Hydrant award, of which I was also an honoree, but mostly because of my fiancee's involvement. I love what I've seen of your site so far and will be back as often as I can-although time will be precious with all the wedding details. So if you go and change your site name, please don't forget to inform me of the name change.
ReplyDeleteChester Hoover
Pee. Ess. I really don't think you want me teaching your husband a thing or two. The last wife that told me that well, let's just say it wasn't pretty. Not pretty at all. ;0=)
I have a confession... I'm a punctuation hypocrite... and my hypocrasy knows no bounds! I LOVE ...'s. Mostly because that's how I talk in real life, and I don't know any other way to simulate a dramatic pause... or all of those pauses I have in my sentences because I generally have no idea what I'm talking about and am trying to think of something clever to say.
ReplyDeleteHow about
purplish-yellowish@blogspot.com
or
bigbadbruises
or
trampled-but-still-ticking
or
myLegsLookGoodEvenWhenTheyLookLikeThis@blogspot.com
Just some suggestions.
Chester,
ReplyDeletewelcome to my humble blog-abode.
Actually, I was only talking about your loveletter writing abilities. Soooo romantic! Hubs could certainly use some of that ;-) Good luck with all the wedding arrangements.
Oh, and I won't be changing my site name, although some lovely suggestions have been made by your future father in law and Jewels ;-)
Jewels,
ROFL
I might be tempted to use all those names and just post the picture there. Might!
And if you want to write a book about Tumtum, please do so. It will no doubt be hilarious and a bestseller. Tumtum and I only want a small percentage of the profit
;-)
Seriously!
That Mr. Neil, he is not only funny on his blog, but in his emails too! :) I do love his blog and his dogs.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are right, yes we have already met. On the topic of your legs, how are they doing? I would hope they are well now, no more bruises!
Evie is just adorable, I love all your photos of her. I will have to stop back to keep up with her progress. Thanks for popping by my blog again today!