Proximidade
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Miss Cellania passed a Proximidade Award on to me; it is, it seems, to thank another blogger for being there as part of one’s circle of blogging buds. The rough translation of the description is “This blog invests and believes, the proximity. [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' -being close through proxy]. They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate?
“Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text.”
So…of course, I can’t give it to Miss C., because she gave it to me. I’ve known Miss C. online for…oh, lordy, at least (OMG can it really be?!) six years.
I found PAGent on one of my cruises through the “next blog” button on Blogger, waaaaay back when, about three years ago. But I can’t give it to PAGent, because she gave it to him, too. Bah. PAGent, consider yourself Proximidade’d squared, okay?
I’d give the award to Lizard, but even though she had a blog that she used to write on now and then (Grumpy Old Bitches), she hasn’t written there in an age. But I’ve known Lizard for at least six years, too.
Soooo. Moving on to folks who haven’t gotten the award, and who do have blogs:
GrannyJ. Of course. Hi, ma!
Johnny. He won’t do anything with it, ’cause it’s like a meme and he doesn’t “do” memes. But I want to give him props for just being himself, and always having an interesting perspective on things.
Lorrie at Clueless in Carolina. She’s had a lot of stuff going on lately, but she’s always entertaining to read. And she’s part of the Miss C./Lizard/Carol-Anne/etc. group that I’ve known for six or seven years.
Speaking of Carol-Anne…Yet another from that group…
Blog Antagonist, at Blogs Are Stupid. I’ve known BA online for seven or eight years; we started off at iVillage’s Current Debate board, moved to another board which blew up in a horrendous, awful mess, and then she started a blog to sneer at blogging. Much to her surprise, she enjoyed it. Much to her surprise, she got readers. Much to my pleasure, she’s less likely now to use $10 words when $2 words would do.
Kate, over at Escaping Suburbia. Kate hasn’t been posting a lot lately. Bad, bad Kate. She does awesome photos, one of which is finally framed and hanging on my office wall, a blast of color to help me combat the drear of winter. I’ve known Kate online for eight years; we started out on the iVillage Adoption Debate board, which, at the time, was awesome.
Julie, at Using My Words. Julie is another of the iVillage escapees. She is passionate and compassionate, and always strives for justice. I still remember the help drive she set up for the Katrina refugees who had ended up in her area.
Ms. Vinegar Martinis. VM is tart and funny. Yet another from iVillage. VM, you need to just ditch the PTA, girl!
PretZel, at Pretzel’s Place, is a crazy lady. I think it’s seven years for PretZel.
Jozet, at Halushki. OMG, you must, must, must read Halushki. What, you don’t?! Well, do. She just did this thing on eggs. With a video, no less! It’s great. She’s great. She needs to post more, but I think she’s not feeling funny too much these days. Another iVillager.
One more! One more! (Oh, yeah, it’s supposed to be eight and this is number ten. But hell, I just have to do another.) YouKnowWhereYouAreWith is a poet. With a daughter from China. Who happened to live in Arizona, while I was living there. We hung out together a few times, and I was looking forward to more, but then she moved away from Arizona. :-( Oh, well, I know she had very good reasons for the move.
Oh, blast. Let’s make it eleven, why don’t we, ’cause I’ve got to mention Kate over at High Altitude Gardening. I found Kate, too, while doing a “next blog” sweep of Blogger. Her philosophy is that her blog is her “happy spot”, so it’s always cheering to read one of her posts and admire her flowers. And now I’ve got yellow hollyhock seeds to help brighten up my summers here, thanks to her.
