{"id":4703,"date":"2010-12-01T10:11:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T15:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2010-12-01T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T17:58:19","slug":"you-think-im-funny-you-think-im-funny-squeee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/you-think-im-funny-you-think-im-funny-squeee\/","title":{"rendered":"You think I’m funny? You think I’m FUNNY! *squeee*"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/span>eloved will tell you, there is no living with me right now. Not since I found out that Postcards from the Mothership was shortlisted as one of the five finalists in the Humour category<\/a> of the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Did you catch that? The HUMOUR category.<\/p>\n

*swoon*<\/p>\n

Humour! I mean, I was so honoured to be nominated in the Best Written category. I love to write, and yes, I think I can string a few words together with occasional panache. And well, my raison d’\u00c3\u00aatre is pretty much Family and Parenting, so of course I was honoured to be nominated in that category. But to be nominated in, and then shortlisted <\/em>in, the Humour category? Funny is something I aspire to, something I am never quite sure I have managed. Something I am genuinely delighted to be acknowledged for. <\/p>\n

I’ve written before about how much I admire Schmutzie<\/a>‘s efforts in putting together the Canadian Weblog Awards. She’s done a fantastic job reinventing blog awards to make them relevant, and more than just a clicky popularity contest. (Did you get that clever play on words? Clicky, like the keyboard, but cliquey, like the social thing? Cuz apparently I’m FUNNY!)(See? No living with me. Poor Beloved.)<\/p>\n

If you haven’t had a chance, click on over and check out the finalist shortlist<\/a> in all the categories. It reads like a who’s who of the Canadian blogosphere, all the blogs you should be reading if you aren’t already. I’m so happy to see blogs and bloggers I adore like Kids in the Capital<\/a> and Julie <\/a>and Amy <\/a>and Andrea <\/a>and Tanya <\/a>and Annie <\/a>and Kimusan <\/a>and tonyphoto\/drool<\/a> and XUP<\/a> and Thordora <\/a>and Cheaty <\/a>and Kate <\/a>and Emma <\/a>and Laura <\/a>and … and ALL of them. Holy cats, there’s a lot of bloggy goodness representing here!<\/p>\n

But wait, there’s more!<\/p>\n

First of all, you’ll be delighted to hear that I am not about to recruit you into a clickfest of voting for me. Because there is no voting with the Canadian Weblog Awards. Isn’t that awesome? The whole thing is juried. I love that! There are so many contests I bypass on the Interwebs, because I truly hate the “vote for me” things. I know, I know, I’ve schmoozed you into doing it for me many times over the years, but I’ve always felt vaguely icky about it. So I’m doubly honoured to be shortlisted based on merit, however subjective and ethereal that might be, rather than by how many votes I can mobilize.<\/p>\n

So now there’s a second round of juried review, and the first, second and third place finalists will be revealed on January 1. Um, wait a minute. Does that mean I have to be funny for the entire month of December? The insane month of December, rife as it is with school concerts, holiday parties and mould remediation? Yikes. That may just be the stress that tips me over into the abyss. <\/p>\n

Then again, humour has always been my coping mechanism of choice. As long as the Universe keeps up with its antics, there should be plenty of “might as well laugh as weep” moments in the coming weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beloved will tell you, there is no living with me right now. Not since I found out that Postcards from the Mothership was shortlisted as one of the five finalists in the Humour category of the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards. Did you catch that? The HUMOUR category. *swoon* Humour! I mean, I was so honoured … Continue reading “You think I’m funny? You think I’m FUNNY! *squeee*”<\/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":[19,16,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs","category-meta-blogging","category-my-15-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","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=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4711,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}