Linking Towards Labor Day

Today, in honor of The Worker, I have toiled away and given myself a sore finger through extensive linkage.

Let the links begin...

Cathy from Arkie Mama thinks I'm nice and so do Lori and Slouching Mom!!!!

My mom and Granny are rolling their eyes and saying,

"Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis"

[Because that is how my Granny and my mom talk.]

Both Arkie Mama and Slouching Mom gave me this award for niceness.

Ain't it purdy?!

As much as I like it, I was excited when Kyla from The Journey said I was nice for being The Nominatrix because she gave me this mo' sexy nice award made by Jana from Something Baby Blue.

[Jana is one of those Canadians and they are not only nice, they are HOT AND BOTHERED.]

You know what the best thing is about getting blog awards?

Passing them on, baby.

Because I got four niceness awards, I am going to pass them on with wild abandon.

Because I can.

And so... Nice? You want nice? Here's a whole bunch of nice people...

Alien in a Foreign Field; Because I must blog; Beta Mom; Biddy's World; BlondeMomBlog; Call Me Soccer Mom and Die; Cat's so called life; Chaos Control; Charlotta's got a lotta thoughts; Cheese Wiz and Mustard; claire and me; Come On Along; Corgi Feathers; Devilish Southern Belle; Don't Take the Repeats; Ellinetha; Fairly Odd Mother; Faking It; Fenicle; From The Frontlines; Fry Moments; Full Plate; Gaining Balance; Get In the Car; ImpostorMom; I'm No Belle; Jeanie in Paradise; Jenny Ha Ha; Magpie Musing; Mama en Fuego; Mama Milton; Mama's Moon; Mamma Loves... ; Marmite Breath Slept Here; McBlog; Michelle Smiles; Mom Wants A Diabetes Cure; momomax; Mrs. Incredible; My Life As An Officer's Wife; My Life | My Opinions | My Blog; My Tiny Kingdom; My Two Shews; Nothing Heavy; Omaha Mama; Outta The Coop; Painted Maypole; Playgroups are No Place For Childre; Poot and Cubby; PunditMom; Ranting Radish; Rimarama; Running in Wellies; Sayre Smiles; Serving the Queens; Southern Suds & Lather; Soy Is The New Black; Stepping Over the Junk; Stimeyland; Sugared Harpy; Sunny Daze; T.K.O.; Taste Like Crazy; Team Reddick; temporarily me; The Adventures of T & Super B; the house of h; The Kelson Krew; The Kids Are Alright; The Little Nut Tree; The Wonderwheel; The Z files; Third Times a Charm?; This is not a blog; tired mummy; Tulip Mom; Tumble Dry; urban-urchin; Using My Powers for Good; Wherever Ewe Go...; Who cries over spilled milk?; With Six You Get Eggroll; Wit's End; Woman with kids; YewNorkBabe; Yummy Sushi Pajamas; and Zone Family

Is that too many?

[Shaddup.]

Do you know how long it took me to do that? Have you seen my blogroll?

[I think I may have a linking problem.]

I can say as many people are nice as I want AND give them ALL a button. So there.

Besides...

They ARE all nice.

And now... [please imagine a nice, smooth seque here.]

Shannon from ZoKai tagged me for the Seven Songs I've Been Singing Meme.

In Shannon's comments I confessed to feeling old and feeble because I hadn't been listening to much music or singing anything lately.

Though I never stop singing this:

"I like to go swimming,
SWIMMING!
With bow-legged wimmin,
WIMMIN!
Who swim... between...my legs!
Yada da da da!"

I don't think that's what she had in mind and ensuing feelings of lame-i-tude prompted me to open my file folder entitled, "Songs to Check Out" and actually do the checking out.

I went through my list one by one on iTunes and now Shannon owes me fifty dollars.

BUT... I do have some new songs to sing.

Technically I can't sing the first one. I heard this acoustic piece on Melanie's site, a song called Drifting by Andy Mckee. [Melanie owes me ninety nine cents.]

Because of Mrs. Incredible and jen I had to buy Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez. [They can each give me fifty cents.]

I bought every, single track by Glen Hansard having just seen the film Once. (If you click on the Once link the official website plays a number of the film's tracks in full. So lovely.)

I am a huge sucker for the singer / songwriter genre of music and have been enjoying What Was That by John Gorka.

I bought "Pillows & Records," the title track from the album with the same name by Aidan Hawken and also Collide by Howie Day so that I can pretend I'm a pop superstar (who is really just loading the dishwasher).

[I sing... My body is electric... I'm gonna live forever...light up the sky like a flame.]

Thanks to my new music search you'll find me singing Rehab by Amy Winehouse or If This Ain't Love I Don't Know What Is by Nicole Willis and The Soul Investigators and feeling like a retro-soul, beehive hair-do wearin' sex-a-licious (every day from 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

At 8:01 p.m. every night I turn into a booty-shakin' wild thing singing Saturday Night by Ozomatli, and then I morph into a hot Latina sex goddess with wild, shaking hips and I sing Una Pagina Doblada or Represent by The Orishas.

And then I pass out from all the excitement because I am old.

And what songs are Alpha Dogma, QT, Not So Sage, Bon, Ruth, Wordgirl, Greeblemonkey, Mamatulip, Queen of the House of Kaos, No Pasa Nada, Crouton Boy, Queeny and Akumamakiki listening to, pray tell?

Does anyone else want a cigarette at this point? (I don't actually smoke, but...)

FANTASTIC SEGUE TO NEXT LINKY THING!!!

Lara asked me to tell her five things she should know about me.

Dear Lara,

Here are the things you should know about me.

1.) I need a National Park Ranger Uniform for my husband. Any help you could provide on that front would be greatly appreciated.

2.) My son has an unusual name for one of his body parts.

3.) I am exceedingly flatulant.

4.) I excel at horizontal parenting.

5.) I am a huge dork.



Finally... I really appreciated this post. Flutter is the bravest of them all. Though I think I may have already done so, I declare her to be The Official Poet Laureate of this here blog.

He dicho.


Finger sore. Linkage exhaused. I can't eat another bite.





Just one thin mint?