Awards For The Basement

Mom's Cafe Home Cooking was kind enough to give us three awards. We enjoy her website a lot and we're honored that she chose us as one of the blogs to give the awards to. We're not going to pass it along because we have too many favorites but you can accept the award anyway because you're all great.

Love, Margie and Edna

The Friendship Blog Award

Many thanks to our good friends, Silly Willy and Fluffy, for presenting us with the Friendship Blog Award!

As always, we're touched and honored when our fellow bloggers choose to give us an award, especially one that represents friendship as this one does. Thank you so much!

Love, Margie and Edna

The Kitchen Sink Post

Edna: Margie, take a look at these messages from some of our fellow bloggers. We've been tagged to do a book tag, and we've won a few more awards. Let's blog about that today!

Margie: That's wonderful, Edna. I love all our fellow bloggers. They are such thoughtful folks.

Edna: Aren't they? We got tagged by Cactus Jack Splash and his owner to do the book tag. My goodness Margie, he surely is a handsome horse! Well-spoken, too.

These are the rules of the book tag:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open the book to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the next two to five sentences.
• Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book or the intellectual one. Pick the Closest.
• Tag five people to do the same. (We opted not to do this.)

Edna: Now, here's the book I have closest to hand: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). I know that must seem like heavy reading for such a sweet old lady, but let me tell you folks: something is wrong with that doggone sister of mine, and I aim to find out what!

Here's the fifth through seventh sentences on page 56: "The most common associated feature of Expressive Language Disorder in younger children is Phonological Disorder. There may also be a disturbance in fluency and language formulation involving an abnormally rapid rate and erratic rhythm of speech and disturbances in language structure ("cluttering"). When Expressive Language Disorder is acquired, additional speech difficulties are also common and may include motor articulation problems, phonological errors, slow speech, syllable repetitions, and monotonous intonation and stress patterns."

Well shoot, that won't help me find out what's wrong with Margie. I'd best keep reading, there's got to be something in here about "Pain-in-the-tushie disorder."

What book are you reading, Margie?

Margie: I'm reading Jack Knife, Edna. It's all about time travelers trying to stop Jack the Ripper. I must say, though, that page 56 is a short page and the only sentence doesn't have much to do with the book.

Edna: That surely sounds interesting, and that's not something I often say when I'm talking about you. Why don't you still share what's on page 56 with our readers? You've got me curious, too.

Margie: "He tipped the corner of the certificate into the candle's flame. The paper caught, and he let it burn to within an inch of his fingers before he dropped it into the empty chamber pot."

Edna: Now I'm intrigued; you take good care of that book, I want to read it next.

We also got a whole heap of awards recently. I am so happy that people love us so much, but we just can't choose anyone to pass this along to. It seems unfair since there are so many bloggers that we love.

Maitri from Magic and Moments at Dragonfly Cottage and Lidian from Kitchen Retro each gave us the "I heart your blog" award.

Sweet Maitri also gave us the Butterfly Award and the My Favorite Blog award.

Angie from In Pursuit of Fulfillment gave us the Uber-Amazing Blog award.

Thank you very much, ladies!

The M&E Awards

After getting into the TV award spirit this week, we decided to list some awards that we think are more accurate than anything the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences could come up with. And so, we present to you the M&E Awards!


Best Fictional Town That Should Be a Real Town: Jericho, Kansas

Coolest Car: Two-way tie between Dean Winchester's 1967 Chevy Impala (aka The Metallicar; Supernatural, the CW) and Jake Green's 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner (Jericho, CBS)

The Metallicar (Supernatural)

Jake's Roadrunner (Jericho)

The Miss Fix-It award: Heather Lisinski (Jericho, CBS)

Sweetest Voice: Jensen Ackles (Supernatural, the CW)

Best Dimples: Josh Holloway (LOST, ABC)

Hubba hubba!

Most Over-Rated Hero: Dr. Jack Shephard (LOST, ABC)

"He walks among us but he is not one of us..."
Uh, okay.

Most Insanity-Inducing Hiatus Span Between Seasons: 24 (Fox); runner-up, LOST (ABC)

Cutest Couple: Pam and Jim (The Office, NBC)

See how cute they are?

Cutest Non-Couple That Should Have Been a Couple: Jake Green and Heather Lisinski (Jericho, CBS)

Awwww!

Best Married Couple: Claudia (Kim Delaney) and Michael (Brian McNamara)- Army Wives (Lifetime)

Best Portrayal of a Psychologist: Roland (Sterling K. Brown)- Army Wives [Formerly seen on Supernatural]

Most Unjustly-Hated New Character (2007 season): Bela Talbot (Supernatural, the CW)

Best New Show (2008 season): Sons of Anarchy (FX)

Best Spy-in-Geek's-Clothing: Chuck Bartowski (Chuck, NBC)

Most Deserving of his Own Home Improvement Show: Cousin T

We'd watch it!