Murphblog's First Award

*Note: If you're looking for the "Say What" Contest, you can scroll down or click here. Submissions accepted through Sunday.

The accolades keep pouring in. First, there was my awesome contest win. Now, I have been awarded the Kreativ (notice how kreativly that's spelled?) Blogger Award. I'm sure there are more prestigious blogging awards (actually, I'm not sure of this at all), but I have never won any of them, so they can't be all that important. (On my Post-It: Create blog award. Spell it funny. Send to lots of bloggers. Increase readership!)

How does one go about winning a Kreativ Blogger Award? Well, it's a lot like winning the Newbery. A panel of adult geeks sits around a big conference table and discusses different blogs. They narrow the field and pick the one that's least deserving and least likely to be read by anyone with a sense of humor. It usually helps if you have blogged about your dog dying. The judges love that.

Unlike other awards, the Kreativ Blogger Award expects something of its recipient. No rambling, I'd-like-to-thank-a-bunch-of people-you've-never-heard-of-and-then-get-cut-off-by-the-orchestra-while-
vapid-celebrities-wear-phony-smiles-on-their-faces nonsense, but rather a simple list. I am supposed to tell you seven things I love. Then I'm supposed to tag seven other people and give them the award. As frequent readers of Murphblog well know, I don't know seven other bloggers. (On my Post-It: Create blog award. Spell it funny. Send to lots of bloggers. Increase readership!)

So here goes.

Murphblog's Kreativ Blogging Award Acceptance List (Seven Things I Love, in no particular order):

• Grape Kool-Aid (even if it does make my poo green)
• You know when you eat a Chips A'hoy cookie and you get that filmy clump of mushy cookie stuck up there against your gums? That stuff.
• Parentheses (duh.)
• Impressionists
  
• Sometimes I wake up before my alarm goes off and I think, "Drat (not really, I wouldn't even think such a stupid word), I'm going to have to get up pretty soon." But then I look at the huge red numbers of the clock on the nightstand and it says 4:15. That feeling. (Even better, waking up at 6:15 and remembering it's Saturday.)
  
• The Helmet Shuffle (oh wait, that goes on the other list. The "Things I Hate So Passionately I Cann Hrdly Typ" list.
  
• Getting awards I've never heard of

You're probably thinking something along these lines: What a jerk, he didn't mention his family at all. (You're really probably thinking that if you're my wife.) Simple explanation: People are not things, and so I excluded them from the list. No offense meant. Obviously, I like my wife better than grape Kool-Aid. (And to those of you thinking, "But you named a feeling. A feeling isn't a thing," I would kindly ask you to keep that sort of thing to yourself. I'm an award winning blogger, I know what I'm doing.)


Twilight Quote of the Day

"You sure can pick them, Bella. This movie really sucks."

--Jacob Black, New Moon, p. 211

Thanks to Kelly Polark for presenting me with the award.