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So without much further ado Laura presents the 2012 Mommy Blogger Awards.


How it will work

You, as the reader, nominate a Mom Blogger by sending an email to Laura on why you feel I deserves to win. She doesn't really want an essay – just a few lines on why you enjoy my blog, what makes me unique or special to you etc.  Laura will then narrow it down to 5 finalists – her decision will not be based on who got the most nominations but rather what was said about them.   Once she has 5 finalists we will then put it to a vote and a winner will be chosen.  We will take nominations until the 10 August.

The finalists will be announced on the 13 August when voting opens and it will stay open until Friday the 17th August.

There will be a winner plus 2 “runners up”

Loads of Prizes for the winner

Rules
The nominated blogger must be a mom.
She must blog at least twice a week.
She must be South African.
The blog must be a personal blog.

You can send all your nominations to laurakallmayer@gmail.com.

Go Do it!

The Glamourus Day of a Blogger

• You use your precious holidays and savings to go to BlogWorld instead of going on a beach holiday.
• You check your Google Analytics everyday.
• You cry when you lose an RSS subscriber.
• You get pissed off when someone unfollows you on Twitter.
• You go into depression when your article gets rejected from a Carnival.
• You tweet about how much you hate your hosting company.
• You threaten in your tweets how you will cut off your hosting company.
• You change your hosting company and then months later start tweeting how much you hate your new hosting company.
• You have registered more than 5 URL domains and dream that one day someone will pay you big bucks for them.
• You tweet about how many subscribers you have and ask your audience to help get more, more, more!
• You've seen the move Social Network at least five times.
• You throw yourself a party when you hit 100 subscribers.
• You tell your parents and friends to comment regularly because you’re concerned about nobody saying anything.
• You spend more time blogging than kissing your husband.
• You constantly use the term “A-listers” when describing your experiences with other bloggers.
• You blog about blogging so you can comment on Blogger more about blogging with your blogging buddies.
• You are a Social Media Consultant, slash Expert.
• You started a blogging network.
• Your blog is a part of a blogging network.
• You change your Gravitar every quarter and of course you like the movie Avatar.
• You constantly tweak your blog with this and that design while nobody notices any changes.
• You need to buy new underwear because you're too busy blogging.
• You fantasise about meeting up with other bloggers more than anybody else.
• You’d rather have 1000 more subscribers than a six pack abs and a hot boyfriend.
• You’d rather have 10 000 Twitter followers than a big fat salary.
• You’ve paid hundreds and maybe thousands of dollars on on-line products on how to make money on-line and build a better blog.
• You have a man/woman cave with high-speed internet connection.
• You take your laptop to the loo to have a number two.
• You kick arse at finger wrestling competitions because you type so much.
• You print out eBooks from work so you can read them at the pool, on the beach, or on the bus to and from work.
• Your favorite book is “How To Make Money Blogging.”
• You'd give up your job to blog full time.
• You have chronic back pain or headaches because you're forever hunched over your computer.
• You refer to yourself in the third person on your blog and write that you are the VP of Marketing in your bio.
• You print blogging business cards with button logo and call yourself a ridiculously long pathetic title like, “Founder, Editor in Chief and Head Features Writer.”
• You can’t stop thinking about the strategic scheduling of posts.
• You have a backlog of over 50 draft posts with little to nothing written.
• You Tweet while in meetings at work.
• You moderate comments while in meetings at work.
• You ask your wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend to proof read your posts and type up some ideas during long road trips while you are driving.
• You listen to podcasts on blogging and earning money on-line instead of latest chart hits.
• You can crush peanuts with your butt cheeks because they’ve become rock hard and calloused due to sitting too much.
• You can start your own mini-bookstore thanks to all the books that are sent your way by PR folks who want you to highlight their authors.
• You join the minimalist movement because that’s what’s trending at the moment… also because you have too many books.
• You then start the maximalist movement because you realise it’s no longer cool to be a minimalist since everybody is doing it.
• You can’t get a mortgage because of the unpredictability of your blogging income, so you buy an RV instead and meet your followers.
• You tweet your whereabouts on FourSquare and hoping other blogging addicts are around so you can do a tweet-up at Comic Con.
• You go to your optometrist and she pulls out the biggest “E, D, F, G” vision card and all you see are hopefully post comments.
• You have a Tweet Meme button and a Share Everything plug-in just in case people can’t see the Tweet Meme button.
• You sometimes have nightmares of accidentally hitting the publish button instead of the save button.
• Your dreams all full of your blogpost going viral.
• You refer to yourself as your Blog name rather than your real name.

Are you a Bloggoholic?

When I started this wee blog almost two years ago, I never thought that I would get this hooked. 

Look at me now....a total Blog Addict. 

I think and talk about my blog constantly to my family and friends.   I say things like "thats one for the blog" and I even talk about posts I've read and topics discussed to people who don't even know what a blog is?!   I need serious help, don't I?

My Blog has become my third child - my clumsy toddler in stinky training pants that I embrace in my arms and help it grow and develop.  Blogging feeds my mind and my soul. Its a never-ending source of information, thoughts, feelings, opinions and bloggers communicating with one another.

I love prowling other people's followers lists and finding interesting and original blogs to read and explore.  Picture this :  a humongous book with millions of pages and thousands of chapters that you will never complete in one life time.  How awesome is that?  A book that never fucking ends! 

You know that feeling you get when you are reading the last chapter of an engrossing, brilliant novel - a novel that you haven't been able to put down from the very beginning.  You can't wait to get to the last page.  You read the last chapter like lightening.  You scan over the words on the page faster and faster to find out how it will all end.  Then when you get to the final sentence and all is revealed, its like a such an anti-climax....it has all ended. 

Its a bitter-sweet moment.  I always wish I could re-read the book without knowing what is going to happen. 

With blogging you don't have that feeling...its NEVER ends...(unless the information super-highway that we call the interwebs crashes and is no more) Like THAT is ever gonna happen?!?!

I love learning more and more about a person by following their blog and reading old posts. I love going back to their archives and seeing how they're blog has come about and how its has evolved. 

If you think about your own Blog and what you say in each post - its quite a personal thing.  Its like my blog's name - its  A Peek Into Our Lives...Perhaps is a secret voyeristic fettish I have.  Hmmmm will have to look into that one..

Blogging is my way of expressing myself and I'm sure most bloggers feel the same.... Its my very own wee Soap Box.  My platform to share my shit and swear if I wanna!  People's opinions facinate me - how they express themselves facinates me, what words they choose facinate me and social networking and communication in general facinate me.

Well Hi there, I'm A Daft Scots Lass and I'm a Blogohoic...