Jon of El Gigante Verdoso presented me with the "You Rock My Socks Award", and Ann of A Nice Place In The Sun invited me over to pick a Christmas Tree Gift from her page. From Ann's selection, I have chosen "Mr. Present", as he seems to be crammed with lots of nice little gift-wrapped items, and can be used all year through, not just for Christmas.
I am passing on these two awards (and I think they make a great combination), to all bloggers in the scroll box below.
The "rules" for passing on the Laurel&Hardy - You Rock My Socks Award are simple: all I am asking is a link back or a comment to this post..
Please see Ann's post for instructions for passing on Mr. Present. Incidentally, Mr. Present comes with two other friends, and they come with easy instructions, not like many other Christmas presents that are often hard to assemble, so if you receive Mr. Present or one of these other gifts, read the following instructions on Ann's post: "If it's your turn to choose one, two, or all three of these gifts to adopt, and decide to pass them on, please pass them to the most magical and imaginative blogs on the internet. Blogs that encourage, year round, the same energetic and imaginative sense of wonder that is apparent throughout the Christmas season." (Mr. Present idea from Ann of A Nice Place in the Sun).
I am awarding Mr. Present, the gift that keeps on giving, and Laurel&Hardy (rocking their socks off), to all those blogs in the scroll box, each and everyone for the same reason:
In the past year I have come across, and have started to enjoy, your blogs. I have met most of you also in blogging communities, or at occasions were awards were passed on, or were some serious LinkLOve was shared. Thank you all for sharing what you did, on your blogs, in comments, in community messages. Your blogs do encourage, year round, the same energetic and imaginative sense of wonder that is apparent throughout the Christmas season.
Make Blogs - Not War! Thank you all! You Rock My Socks!
Adria of InCinq
Adrian of First Time Dad
Andrea of A Circle of Women
Andrew Tan of Hotel Booking Pro
Ann Clemmons of A Nice Place In The Sun
Anndi of Anndi’s Luggage
Annelisa of Words That Flow
April of I Could Write a Book, April Decheine 2006 and April Decheine Wife and Mother
Arahman7 of My Journey to Recovery
Barb of Skittle's Place
Barry of Inn of the Last Home
Beth Allen of Writing 5 to 9
Bill of Bill's Everyday Life
Bill of Hey it's Spanklin and ManningtonDeal
Blog Elf of The Blog Elf
Blue Ribbon Bloggers of Blue Ribbon Bloggers
Bob of Bobbarama Dot Com
Bobbie & Jerry of The Right Blue
Bobbie Revell of Revellian Dot Com
Bond of Big Leather Couch
Brillig of ’Twas Brillig
Brown Baron of Brown Thoughts
Bucky of The West Virginia Blogger
Bud Weiser of WTIT Tape Radio: The Blog
Bush of Bush Mackel
Carol of My View of “It”
Catherine of A Week in the Life of a Redhead
Chesca of Skindiving
Christina of Paris Romance
Christine of The Sapheyerblu Review
Christy Zutautas of Christy's Coffee Break and Writer's Reviews
Colin Richards of Life
Colin Sullivan of Chronic Pain Lifestyle
David of DavidBDale
Dawn of Twisted Sister
Debbie Dolphin of New England Lighthouse Treasures
Deborah of Climate of our Future
Deborah of Life in the Fast Lane
Derek Wong of Going The Wong Way
Diane of Much of a Muchness
Dixie of Dixie’s Heart and Soul
Drew of The BenSpark
Ed of The Pisstakers
Ejiro of Love Angle
Elaine of Girly Up The Web
Ellen Janssens of Positive Communication
Emila of Emila's Illustrated Blog
EmmyRose of Dancing With Butterflies
Empress Bee of Muffin53
Eric of Speedcat Hollydale Page
Ev Nucci of My Life is Murphy's Law
Frank Sirianni of Foxxfyrre’s Honk’n’Holl’r
Frogster of The Frog Blog
Gale Martin of Gem-osophy
Georganna Hancock of A Writer’s Edge
Gracie, Lyn, Deborah, Linda and Michelle of She Walks In Beauty
Graciel of Evenstar Art
Graham of Grahams Random Ramblings
Huub Koch of Zichtbare Zaken
Ilker Yoldas of The Thinking Blog
Insane Writer of The Insane Writer
Jace of Internet Safety Advisor
Jacky of The Painted Veil
JaniceNG of This is a Miracle
JaniceNW of Twist and Skewer
Jeane Michelle of Binding Ink
Jennifer of Goodness Graciousness
Jessica of Oh, the Joys
Joel of My Journal
Joey of Hearts a Fire
John C. of Homeless Family's Blog
John of Where do we go from where we were
Jolene of Life with Heathens
Jon of El Gigante Verdoso
Jos of NoDirectOn (not: NoDirection), Marketing•Review, OgenDicht/EyesClosed and Additional BlogLOve
Judy of Sugar Queens Dream
Karen of A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Kathleen Maher of Diary of a Heretic
Kathy of Photography by KML
Kelly B of Spiral Journal
Kim Barker of Laketrees and PoeARTica
Kimberly of PurpleFrogCat (Myspace) and PurpleFrogCat (Blogspot)
Kitty of Kitty's Bloggy Bits
Kuanyin of Blog-Blond
Lady Rose of The Diet Pulpit
Leo Vietor of Leo Vietor Observes
Lili of Feel Happy
Lillie Ammann of A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye
Linda of Are We There Yet??
Lisa Mils of Work at Home Mom Revolution
Little Aussie Cynic of The Little Aussie Cynic
Lizz Strauss of Successful Blog
Lyman Reed of Creating a Better Life
Lynda of Lynda's Loft
Lynn Chua of Recipes
Maartje of Behind The Page
Margot Potter of The Impatient Blogger
Mark of MeAndMyDrum
MaryT of Work Of The Poet
Marzie of Mariuca
Meghan of Pyreflies over Zanarkand
Michelle Dyer of Florida Weather Watch
Mike of Things By Mike
Mimi Lenox of Mimi Writes
Mo of It's A Blog Eat Blog World
Ms. Q of QMusings
Nafasg Team of NAFASG
Nick Phillips of Anything Goes
Nihal of Nihal’s Anything n Everything
Nina of The Alien Next Door
OS9USER of OS9USER News Room
Paula of Six4Paula
Pearl of Interesting Observations
Pendullum of Dribblingwitt????
Ray of Mr. Besilly
Robin Lee Sardini of The Spirit Knows Best
Rose DesRochers of World Outside My Window
Sam Chan of Acquire Wisdom And Live With Passion
Sandee of Comedy Plus
Sandy G. of At Your Service
Sanni of Coffee 2 Go
Santa of Every Day should be Christmas, Santa's Magical Golden Cat and Santa's Community Blog
Sophie Chow of We We Wet Wet
Surjit of Gurushabad
Thomas of Photo's from Northern Norway
Tiny Bellows of Doing it the Tiny Bellows Way
Tish of The Kat House
Tom Ledree of Tom Ledree
Winston Fong of Eat Your Maths!
58 Comments:
Thank you for including my blog. Really appreciate it.
Merry Christmas! May God bless you!
Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget. With this thought, I wish you a very Merry Christmas, all the Happiest Holidays and all the luck the New Year could possibly bring!
Greetings and lotta loves from Malaysia.
~ ArahMan7
That's adorable Jos. Thank you for the rock my socks Award and for posting and adopting Mr. Present. Gifts need to keep giving. I hope what was an exciting Christmas Day, will be followed by a peaceful Christmas night. :))
Ann
Thanks so much for the Rock my Socks award, Jos.
That is so cool! How did you get that blogroll to load like that? Must tell me your secret HTML know how!!
Thank you Jos, for this nice award. It's always good to find a present under the tree these days, especially coming from you!
Peace to you,
Ellen
Thank you so much for the awards Jos - very much appreciated. Also appreciated is the friendly and supportive way you have helped me into the blogging community. Thank you. :-) x
Thank you so much - how sweet to find a present under the tree! :)
Thank you for my very cool awards!
Happy Holidaze!
xoxo
Margot
Arahman7, Thank you for you kind wishes and your wise thoughts. Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous new year!
Ann, I am glad you like it.
Mr Present told me he will keep giving, and Laurel and Hardy will keep dancing their animated steps for all virtual eternity. Wishing you a happy remainder of this holiday season and a peaceful new year.
-Jos
Beth, you are very welcome to it! Thank you for stopping by.
-Jos:)
Jessica, L&H 'Rock', don't they?
I left a comment on Oh, the Joys with these instructions on how to set up pre-defined scroll boxes.
Ellen, I am glad you found it ;)
If you want to display L&H dancing (e.g. on B.'s or N.'s blogs), you must upload it to some place (e.g. your web-log image space) and call it from there, using the "img src" html otherwise they won't move (it's an animated gif - that doesn't work directly on Blogger).
Peace back-at-ya,
Jos
Kitty, that is so nice of you. You are doing great Bloggy Bits. I am glad you like the awards, enjoy!
-Jos:))
Okay.. How did you guess that?
I just, at this moment, received a request to post the pic on one of their blogs..
Your advice still sounds a bit like abacadabra (isn't English probably ;-)) to me, but I'll give it a try...
thanks!!
Wishing you a warm and loving new year,
Ellen
Lady Rose, you're welcome :)
Thank you, Margot! Same to you :))
Ellen, how can this be abacadabra to you? Anyway, here's how: upload the gif into your web-log image directory (or, if you have one, into your web-log photobook). Then click on it to see the url of that image. In B or S's blog, enter the following html (I am replacing the largerthan and lessthan brackets by '(' and ')' here): (center)(img src="url of the gif" alt="laurel and hardy")(/center)
That should do the trick..
Thanks! May 2008 be a great year for you!
You're welcome, Karen! Wishing you the same, -Jos
Hey Jos, thanks very much for the Rock My Socks award. You Rock my World! I'm linking back to you from my blog too.
thanks for this award Jos..
and I think I said this before ...but I'll say it again anyway....
those scroll boxes are very cool and L & H are the best !!!
thanks for this award Jos..
and I think I said this before ...but I'll say it again anyway....
those scroll boxes are very cool and L & H are the best !!!
Congrats on your awards, Jos, and thanks for passing them on to me! I hope you had a merry Christmas!
RRS FishBurner, III, You Rock My Socks!
Thank you for your thoughtful award present!
P.S. I just dropped off Scene 90, Take 91 about Technorati Tunagate at Kim's place.
Debbie
Many thanks, Jos for these awards! I also enjoy your blog - hope you had a great Christmas!
Very cool! Thank you and congratulations!
Hi teach,
Glad you like 'em
:)
Hi kim@laketrees :)
I think you're saying that again, lol!
And - hey! someone below your comment is saying that again, too!
Sorry to hear about your shoulder, you must now count your Technorati links on one arm :))
Take Care, see you at H. Mackerell, Sr.'s dancing party later. (OMG, don't let Andre Rieu be there, or Britney)
Hey Tish, hope you'll keep them dancing! Rocks off!
Debbie, me glad you like.
L&H would make a great couple, wouldn't they?
Hello Kathy, thanks for stopping by. You are most welcome to receive these 'awards', for what I think is a great accomplishment!
-Jos:)
Hi ad tracker, thanks. & you're welcome! Enjoy!
-Jos:)
Hi Fishy Talent Scout Guy,
L&H were a great comedy couple! Wouldn't it be great to see L&H do live comedy about CrumbleUpon, Present Ration, Technorati Tunagate, and The digital Black Hole?
Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is:
Debbie
haha Jos
counting my Technorati authority on one arm is getting easier every day....
the official number is 312 now...
still working on your cool scroll box....
but my template is being very
unco-operative
Hi Jos,
I'm still playing catch-up lol.
Thank you so much for the 'You Rock My Socks Award'...I just have to decide whether I am Laurel or Hardy....decisions, decisions hahaha.
Cheers buddy catch you later,
Colin
Hi Colin,
Catchin'-up is about all we can do, these days, isn't it? I just wish one of the services would be reliable enough to help doing that. Technorati, google alert, etc., they all seem to have gone bananas over Christmas...
Anyway, will get there, won't we?
Glad you found these Awards. You Rock! As for the L or H dilemma: just be both -- you'll fit in :)
Take care, talk to you later...
Well thank you my friend! I had no idea...bless you!
I love it and love laurel and hardy! It's soooooo perfect for me!
You're very, very welcome, Ev! Bless you too. Glad you like L&H - just keep'em rockin' :)
Hi Jos!! Everyone is loving these scroll boxes... I LIKE THEM BECAUSE YOU HAVE ME IN ONE!! Thanks my friend :-)
Lot's of great people commenting here. Hello!
Speedcat
Hi Debbie,
That would be awesome! So we may want to change Stalone for L&H, I think that would be a major improvement. I second a Comical Entrance Option for the golden duo (and a Sad Exit for Sly)
L&H would - I am sure - also have their problems with Technorati Tuna Tags. And it would be priceless to see Stan scratching his head when he looks at his dropping TA :))
Hellooo Speedy!
- "How did you find yourself this morning?"
- "Well I opened a scroll box and there I was.."
I am happy to have you in some of the boxes, Eric! Who else can say that? "I've got Speedy in a box!"
You are most welcome, my friend :)
Hi Jos,
No tears from me over the departing dead fish of Sly!
I hope Your Majesty at laketress reads about Stan scratching his head when he looks at his dropping TA :)))
Speaking of L&H, I wonder if Mrs. H.M. dances with meerkats has decrypted the R-rated version of H.M. yet?
Thanks to OpenID issues, my true virtual signature link is:
Debbie
Lol! Debbie,
Thx! Now I have a Lingering Image wandering through my brain, depicting H.M. Laketrees scratching her head with one arm and a sad grin, like Stanley's, -- and then finally decrypting... More fysio may be required...
What a cute and lively award. I've never seen one like it. Thanks for passing it to me.
I hope you find love and laughter in 2008. Happy New Year!
Hey Jos!
VETO!
El Gigante it has put 200 link!!!
E' allora??
You have reduced to 135!
then, where it is my blog?!
Or You remedies or I remove yer blog from the list too!
saluti
Hanna, this is a different list!!
This is my own Personal Favorites list, lol!! I am awarding them with the Mr Present Award and with the Rock My Socks award.
I have published Colin's link love list on a few other occasions already, with you on it! Don't worry!
See here, and here and here and here.
This here list is for a different reason.
-Jos:))
Hi Mimi! I am glad you like it. You are most welcome!
Thank you for your wishing me love and laughter. That is about all people really need. I am wishing you the very same:)
Have Fun!
-Jos:)
p.s.: I am looking forward to seeing your next posts on BRB! ;)
Touchè!
;D*
Hanna, wait and see... ;)
I will publish the list, with some additions, again later today :))
-Jos
hey Jos... thank you so much for the most beautiful awards.. I love them! I've been away from blogging for some days now hence the delay in responding! thanks for making my day :) I needed it today!
Thank you so much for the recognition and the award, Jos! Much appreciated. I like your quote about Christmas and the New Year...It IS all about giving, isn't it... :)
Thanks for the shout out, Jos. I have been busy making merry during the season and haven't been online much. But I'm back and I'm thankful. Happy 2008!
Hi Pearl,
I guess we all have some catching up to do after the holidays ;)
I am glad these awards contributed to making your day :)
Happy 2008!
Hello Nina,
You are most welcome. Your blog is one of the great blogs I 'discovered' in the past year, and it deserves my appreciation, Happy 2008!
Hi Karl,
I am sure you enjoyed 'making merry'!
Thanks for dropping by, and a happy 2008 to you too!
Thank you for the award.
Hi Rose, you're most welcome!
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