A shiny new button. Get it?
Normally I don’t post on Tuesday, because it is my least favorite day of the week, but I have added a page at the top of the screen next to my about button. The reason I did this is because I have been “nominated” for the internet blog awards that go around like Amway. They are nice, but are in my opinion, just a way to get to know other blogs. I didn’t want the nominations to go unthanked, so I decided to just do a page about them, and then put a link to those that gave them to me and a link to blogs I think you should follow. It is my bitter way of letting you know that I don’t deserve the awards, but the people that I am linking do. Does that make no sense at all? What I am trying to say is, you better follow, like or comment on these people’s legit awesome blogs or I will be bitter at you! Dig?
Arrrggghhh
Bitter Ben
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Ben's Bitter Blog 
Yeah… I feel like they are just chain letters for blogs… You be Bitter Ben, and I’ll be Cynical Queen.
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Welcome to the bitterness, Cynical Queen.
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I call them blabels. Blog labels. But buttons are good too I guess. Hey, and I hate Tuesdays as well. That means we have something in common. Which makes us friends. Right?
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Well welcome back to my blog Becca. Long time no see, well on this side anyways. Take a look around. You may remember of a few of the party rooms in the back. Just make sure to clean up before you leave.
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Can I just couch surf please? I’ll leave Jack outside.
It’s been a while since I have been on any of my favorite blogs. Unfortunately I am not a speed reader and have trouble keeping up with both sides of the blogging fun these days. But I will always be lurking around. Just know that. I like it too because it sounds pretty creepy.
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You can lurk around as long as you come around and join the party every once in a while. Couch surfing is cool too. And Jack can come as long as he doesn’t poop on the couch.
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I can’t in good faith make any promises about Jack’s pooping habits. Welcome to my life of sporatic cat poop locations.
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Not much in the world is more sour than an acrid thank you and acerbic promotion. No doubt these blogs begrudged their gratitude. 😉 (embittered winkicon)
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I know right? I’m pretty sure I’m not the first person that figured out that these awards are a sham. And what regular people call junk mail.
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I like your approach here…. 🙂
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I was just trying to get all the crap in one place so I didn’t have to deal with all he praise and awards. I need to remain bitter.
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Great concept, I like it. I blog for the fun of it. Seems like most blog awards are just a form of self-promotion. Not interested.
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I blog for the misery and bitterness of it. These awards just add to the bitterness.
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Tuesdays? There are DAYS? Hmmmm….being retired, it’s all just 168 hours of ass-time for me, or whatever I want…..fishing is a priority…mowing the lawn is not.
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Your being retired definitely makes me bitter.
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“Least favorite day of the week” has all kinds of possibilities. A contest, maybe?
On my street, Tuesday means rounding up the trash and recycling and hauling them out to curbside, and then retrieving the empty recycling bin before it blows away.
And then there were Saturdays, when I worked a double-shift (“hell day,” as we agreed). Or Mondays, when I’d be assigned to edit obits (always a heavy night, because funeral directors could finally get in touch with everything that had been closed for the weekend). Or Thursdays, back in management, when the exhaustion really kicked in. Oh, my, really adds up.
You may wind up with a long list of nominations, even with just seven days in a week. The least favorite? All depends.
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what I should do is come up with my own award. The bitterness award.
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To be followed by the sour grapes basket.
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That would be the picture on the award.
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Please do. I think it would be highly coveted.
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By myself mostly.
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Oh my goodness! Thank you for posting this! These blogger awards vaguely remind me of chain letters. I am waiting for the next blogger award to say, “You have been nominated for the Useless Blogger Award! (Note: This will not increase traffic to your site or earn you any money.) Post this symbol on your page and nominate 33 other bloggers. If you don’t – expect 33 years of bad luck.”
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They are definitely chain letters, but I don’t want to make the nominators feel bad for doing it because it is just about helping new bloggers and people that write good stuff to have. The only one I really want is the Freshly Pressed, but I doubt they would do that for a bitter blogger.
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“Just to get to know other blogs…” WT??? 🙂
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You know. Other less bitter blogs…
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LOL 😀 Oh well…congratulations anyway!
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Thanks for the congrats. I guess….
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This is a good idea. I’m bitter I didn’t come up with it. I’ve just been ignoring awards lately (oops).
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I was ignoring them always.
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I remember when I got the first one I was like, “HOLY SHIT, AN AWARD?” And then I realized they aren’t real.
I almost started my own bitter blog right then and there.
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Good thing you didn’t because copywrite and something, blah blah.
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Tuesdays are hard work. But the big green button makes me irrationally happy. Thanks Ben.
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Tuesdays are the worst. I wish I could just skip them.
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Agree. I also have a dislike for Mondays and Wednesdays. The rest of the week I can just about tolerate.
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Yeah, Thursdays and Fridays are pretty cool.
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Thank you! I just filled my reader with funny. Looks like it’s going to be another unproductive day around the house.
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I’m glad that I could contribute to your unproductive day. That is what bitterness is all about!
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I’m very bitter that you were nominated.
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It was a bunch of people that were temporarily insane. That defense would hold up in court.
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Oh well, then. Carry on.
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So I’m gulity until proven innocent?
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Ah no, fair sir. Just keep on being bitter.
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That is something I can do.
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Ah, no, fair Sir. Just keep on being bitter. A pox on those who nominated you.
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I will pox them myself.
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Good idea. The awards do get a bit much at times.
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To me it is about the way to help get the word out on other blogs.
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Indeed. I am busy checking some of them out. Good choices!
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