{"id":5977,"date":"2011-09-24T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2011-09-23T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T21:15:29","slug":"couple-of-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/2011\/09\/24\/couple-of-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple of Awards &#038; The Fairy Hobmother!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am always so honored to receive awards, and today I&#8217;m sharing two of the latest awards I&#8217;ve received. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI LOVE surprises! Did I ever mention that? No matter how many times I&#8217;m surprised, I&#8217;m still surprised that I got surprised! <\/p>\n<p>If YOU love surprises, you&#8217;ll have to read the end of this post&#8230; &#8217;cause someone got me REAL GOOD with a terrific surprise, and they may be surprisin&#8217; one of YOU!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now to share a couple of awards&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Versatile Blogger Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/img\/blog\/June2011\/FathersDayAwardAndBigThing3.jpg\" alt=\"The Versatile Blogger Award\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I recently received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/about\/\"><em>The Versatile Blogger Award<\/em><\/a>, from my friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/lifewithdoxies.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Life with Doxies<\/a>. Thank you so much, Swift and Kool! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The receivers of this award are supposed to list 7 things about themselves. But I&#8217;m not one to follow rules, so as I&#8217;ve done before, I&#8217;m gonna direct you to a prior post I did called, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/2011\/04\/28\/the-furry-abcs-of-me\/\">The Furry ABC\u2019s of Me<\/a>.\u201d That post has lots of info about me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are an&#8230; Inspiration Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/img\/blog\/June2011\/BloggingAwards2.jpg\" alt=\"You are an... Inspiration Award\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also recently received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/about\/\"><em>You are an&#8230; Inspiration Award<\/em><\/a> from my kitty buddies over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianshomeblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian&#8217;s home<\/a>. Thank you so much, Brian, Sascha, Zoe, Precious, Gracie, and  Dolly! <em>(Please tell me I didn&#8217;t leave anyone out!)<\/em> I&#8217;m glad I have you all for my kitty friends!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m supposed to pass this award to 15 other sites, but today I don&#8217;t feel like choosing! So if you haven&#8217;t yet received this award, please do feel free to award yourself! I think you deserve it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, friends&#8230; for thinking me worthy enough of these awards. I treasure you as friends and thank you for passing on your wonderful award to a floppy-eared puppy like me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fairy Hobmother&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Did you ever get a visit from someone, but didn&#8217;t actually SEE them? Well, this happened to me!<\/p>\n<p>I got an email from <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em> yesterday (I know&#8230; how cool of a name is <em>this<\/em>?!)&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em> was visiting my friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianshomeblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian&#8217;s Home<\/a>, saw one of my comments, and decided to pay me a visit!<\/p>\n<p>Now, if you haven&#8217;t yet heard of <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em>, no worries&#8230; I hadn&#8217;t heard of The Fairy Hobmother either! But wowserz! I know who <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em> is <em>now<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more surprising, is that when I commented over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianshomeblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brian&#8217;s Home<\/a>, I must have skipped over the part where he mentioned that <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em> had just visited him! It must have been one of those times where my mommy was rushing me off the computer, and I had to quickly scan the post! I had NO idea how much joy would be spread from commenting on your site on that day, Brian! But I&#8217;m sure glad I did! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can imagine my surprise when I received an email from <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em> that said how much she had enjoyed reading my blog! She said she wanted to thank me by awarding me with a $50 Amazon.com gift card!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know much about <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em>, but what I <em>do<\/em> know, is that she spreads a lot of joy and happiness to bloggies everywhere! <\/p>\n<p>Oh <em>Fairy Hobmother<\/em>&#8230; if you only knew how shocked I still am by receiving your gift! I am so honored, and so, so glad that you decided to visit me and that you enjoy reading about my life. It truly means so much to me. <\/p>\n<p>Friends, <em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em> <em>does <\/em>exist! She wants me to tell you, that if you comment on today&#8217;s post and make a wish, you too may have a chance of receiving a visit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appliancesonline.co.uk\/fridge-freezers\/fridge-freezers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Fairy Hobmother<\/em><\/a>! Good luck friends! <\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/img\/blog\/Sept2011\/CoupleOfAwards1.jpg\" alt=\"Couple of Awards\"\/><br \/>\n<em>Again, a <strong>huge <\/strong>thank you to you again, Alex, <em>aka The Fairy Hobmother<\/em>. \ud83d\ude09<\/em><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Happy, happy Saturday, friends! Big woofs &#038; hugs!<\/p>\n<p>~Bailey (Yep, I&#8217;m a girl)<br \/>\n<em>P.S&#8230; If you&#8217;re a human who blogs about your furry, or a furry who blogs about your human&#8230; or even a furry who blogs about your life&#8230; I invite you to follow me via Google Friend Connect (see box in the right-hand column &#8211;>), and join me on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baileybegood\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. Please let me know you&#8217;ve visited &#8212; I love reading other blogs and making new friends. <3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/font><font color=\"#FF0000\" size=\"1\">*Extra Woofies*<\/font><\/strong><\/font><font size=\"1\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;m using Sweet Captcha for the comment verification plugin. If you experience any problems, please leave me a comment and let me know. If you cannot comment here, please post to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/baileybegood\">Facebook<\/a> page. 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