Lets get the sour grapes out of the way first. Shall we?
The winners of The Bloggies were announced last week and the winner of the Best Australian Weblog was, Girl With a Satchel. Congratulations to the writers of GWAS but if this webmag is representative of an Australian blog then Australian blogging is in very bad shape. We may as well all give up now and go home and read out of date ‘New Ideas’ and drool over the celebrities of the moment.*sigh*
Girl With a Satchel is very slick and professionally put together but that is nothing less, than what I would expect from an ezine with this as its blurb.
A daily magblog (a daily blog with magazine-style content), written by a Sydney-based glossy magazine editor, providing industry insights, magazine reviews, internet shopping updates, beauty product reviews, thoughts on Christianity, pop-culture musings and girlie finds.If you want information on celebrities, or need help finding just the right shade of pretty pink lipstick, then Girl With a Satchel is the place to be.
But if you want to read stories written by real Australians. Stories that will make you cry, nod your head in recognition or laugh so much that you snort coffee out your nose. Then go and read these ladies, the other finalists in the best Australian categories..
Tiff from My Three Ring Circus
Veronica from Sleepless Nights.
Tokyo Girl Down Under was a finalist as well..
Ok now for the Chemotherapy. Mum had her second infusion of chemotherapy drugs yesterday. Mum’s cancer has decided that it doesnt want to be confined to her lungs. Oh no. This cancer has decided to go out and colonise the world and fuck things up, much like the British did in centuries past.
I just keep on getting images of a teenage skinhead in ‘bovva boots’ stomping about the place. *sigh* Except that it is a toxic cocktail of chemicals that is doing all the stomping. Laying waste to my Mother’s immune system, in the hope of shrinking the tumours so that we can have just a little bit more time.
Oh and the bad back, well that would be me. I have spent the past week or so hobbling and shuffling around like an old woman. But I am much better now and if anything it has made me empathise a bit more with how Mum must be feeling. Because there is nothing quite like a touch of serious pain now and then to make you apreciate the joys of walking about pain free..
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I’m so sorry you are hurting Kim, on so many levels.
I’m sorry your mum has to go through this.
I’m thinking of you.
I hear you with the winner of the bloggies.
Not that I expected to win but gees, Veronica or Kelley should have rocked it in.
tiffs last blog post..The light surrounding you.
I’m sorry about what you and your mom are going through.
And I’m very disappointed to hear that one of my favorite blogs didn’t win : ( I figured out of the two I loved, one of those would win. I never imagined otherwise.
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Walking about pain free? I can only dream…….
So sorry to hear about your Mum getting worse again. Sending Hugs.
Brave Mom .. and you have to keep strong for her. Special thoughts to you on the other side of the world! And extra special thoughts to your Mom.
I have nominated you on-the-other-side-of-the-world for a True Friendship Award – hope you don’t mind. You call a spade a spade – a down-to-earth person .. and I like to see the happy bits but also to share your sorrow with the sad bits and no that you are not alone.
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I can only dream about walking painfree to! But you do sort of get used to it. And very sorry to hear about your mum. My father also has cancer so my heart goes out to you both.
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The Bloggies? You are all bigger than that. The winner sounds like extremely boring shite, proving, yet again, that the popular girl at school will always win the prize, even if she is an airhead and has no heart.
Your mum? I don’t know what to say. A few swear words spring to mind, but are not overly helpful. Those are amazing photos, by the way.
A bad back is only going to make things worse. Much, much worse. I don’t get a lot of pain, for which I am eternally grateful, but when I do, I wonder how I would cope with REAL pain. My gut feeling is that I wouldn’t. Cope, that is.
Hugs, mate, that’s all I have. xo
Sorry to hear your mum is not well. I lost my dear mum to cancer, it was very quick, by the time we found out it was too late, there was nothing that could be done for her. I hope you get plenty more time with your mum and that any suffering she endures would be tolerable for her.
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I can only echo everything that Tiff said, so I won’t repeat it.
Much love to you Kim xxxx
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Am I allowed to say your Mum looks not sick? I’m sure she is, and you’re going through a lot… but she really looks good.
I hope she has a lot more time! Ick, going through that she’s gonna earn it. :]
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Fuck the clickylinky competitions, they mean nothing.
I love how you manged to drag the British into it, my kind of girl.
The rest, I just hope you all stay as happy and as healthy as you can, for as long as you can.
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The best three Aussie blogs are Frogponds, Sleepless and Three Ring. Anybody who reads Aussies knows who those bloggers are – at least through their blogs. Anyone else must take a distant second to all of them.
Just my anything but humble opinion.
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My heart and thoughts go out to your mum! And you! And your whole entire family. And the _real_ folks in Australia that blog– that I LOVE!
🙂
Sending you warmth, peace, calm, joy, and awe.
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That is a beautiful photo of your mum (((hugs)))
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Obviously The Bloggies has nothing to do with real blogs and is only about being glib. It’ll be hard to take The Bloggies seriously from now on, knowing they’re including professional websites run by glossy mags in their competitions. That’s truly unfortunate.
I’m so sorry about your Mum. I think of you all the time. I just deleted the 2 paragraphs I wrote here about how hard this must be. Just know that I’m sending you and your mum healing energy every time I think of you.
That picture of your Mum… totally worthy of framing! Can I ask your permission to upload it? I do solemnly swear I will never post or steal it, but I’d love to add it to my photo board where I keep my prized photos.
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Most of the time it’s not the best blog that wins awards like that. I think Tiff and Veronica write much more interesting stuff than pink coloured lipstick reviews!
Big big hug. Take courage my friend. xxx
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Thank you.
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big hugs
ahd positive and happy thoughts to you mum and you and family..
thinking of you
Superhugs to you and your mum and a big raspberry to ezine blogs – they’re not re4al blogs at all!
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Wish I could give you a big hug and transport us all back to when trivial things were all we could complain about.
Give your mum and extra squeeze from me.
Oh and tell Lceel I saw what he wrote. Bastard. I am not showing him my boobs any more.
@ Lceel. Hehe, thankyou!
And yeah, the bloggies was a bit hard to swallow. Out of all 5 nominees, SHE won? Odd. Very odd. (I was rooting for Tiff, but that’s another matter).
Veronicas last blog post..Free to good home
@Kelley Damn. I’m really gonna miss those puppies.
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huge hugs to you.
That pic of your mum is so lovely!
Who the hell is that girl with a satchel blogger? Ain’t never heard of them!
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I’m sorry I’m only just getting round to commenting on this. I kept reading it and not knowing what to say. Then I kept running out of time to comment. And now I don’t really know what to say and this post is over a week old anyway. *shlepps off hanging head in shame*
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