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You voted Postcards from the Mothership<\/em> the third best new Canadian blog this year! We missed taking down Rick Mercer <\/a>by a vote or two (okay, so I was mathematically eliminated from the top spot by noon on Thursday), but I’m beaming proudly nonetheless. <\/p>\n (And if I’ve got you trained to drop by every 24 hours and vote, you can keep up the good work at the Weblog Awards <\/a>through December 15. I’ve already been mathematically eliminated from the top spot by She Who Blogs<\/a>, who has more readers in a day than I have had since day one, but I am still honoured by each and every vote!)<\/p>\n Special congratulations to my fellow finalists in both the Best New Blog and Best Personal Blog categories. I was honoured to be in your company!<\/p>\n Really, thank you. When I started blogging almost a year ago, I had no idea what I was getting into. I figured I’d write a bit, maybe a few friends would read it, and I’d have another hobby to add to my list of endless projects always cluttering up my brain – but at least this one didn’t also clutter up the basement! When I started blogging, I barely even read any blogs – and now I can’t remember what I did without them.<\/p>\n Blogging has also spread through my circles of friends like a virus – Nancy<\/a>, <\/a>Yvonne<\/a>, Sharon<\/a>, Anna<\/a>, Jen<\/a>, Jon <\/a>and my most darling UberGeek<\/a> were all friends of mine in real life before they were clever bloggers. And I could go on for about a week listing the wonderful people I’ve met through blogging, but if you need a short list I’m so lucky to have ‘met’ Dean Dad<\/a>, Marla<\/a>, Jen<\/a>, Suzanne<\/a>, Phantom<\/a>, and Renee<\/a>. And I’ve met (without the quotations) Ann, <\/a>Andrea<\/a> <\/a>and Andrea<\/a>, who are even more lovely in person than they are in their blogs.<\/p>\n Oh yikes, here comes the hook to drag me off stage. This is what happens when I blog late in the evening after a busy weekend, and am feeling emotionally warm and fuzzy and well appreciated. Better quit now before I get maudlin!<\/p>\n Succintly, for a change: thank you, my friends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My dearest bloggy friends, Thank you SO much for your votes. The results are in, the votes have been tabulated and I couldn’t be more proud. You voted Postcards from the Mothership the third best new Canadian blog this year! We missed taking down Rick Mercer by a vote or two (okay, so I was … Continue reading “Thank you!!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}