The Gurgles

So I didn't win a Gurgle. I know, I was robbed. Luckily I was robbed by the very lovely and very funny Hot Cross Mum but the only reason she won was because the judges (Nifa and Tor and Myleene) all had alpha spaghetti for tea the night before they did the judging and so it was some form of subliminal messaging going on.*

I had a very nice time though, mainly due to these lovely people (that's Leanne from Second Time Mummy and her very lovely fiancé) who thought I was charming and funny and not at all stalkerish or nosey! Which is lucky because that is what I was aiming for (the charming and funny not the stalker and nosey) and I really hope that I get to meet them again. In fact I hope that everyone gets to meet them, so follow Leanne's blog and they might invite me round or name their baby after me. Either one is fine by me.

I also had a few Virgin Watermelon coolers, which are going to be requested at every bar I go to from now on. And of course I had the most fantastic time walking through Soho and seeing all the fantastic sights that the Gay Pride March had on display... no really they were you know on display.

I was kept amused by Jo from Single Slummy Mummy who I had managed to get a taxi with to Soho. Jo told me stories in the Taxi and gave her business card to a policeman and told him to read her blog. I was more reserved and only asked if he was single because Jo is single and I thought that she might like a man in Uniform. He had a partner though.

Apparently I don't have gaydar.

The giant wooden pussy cat in the lobby of the Hotel also amused me. I wanted to take my photo with it, but I thought that might just be pushing it a bit too far in a posh hotel.

So Thank you Gurgle for having me and feeding me Watermelon coolers and for thinking that I was vivacious and funny.

*This may not be true, but it makes me feel better so lets just pretend that it is.

A Gurgle Blog Award Nominee!

This evening when I logged into my email, I found that I had an email from Gurgle.com and have been nominated for a gurgle blog award in the best funny mummy blog category.

I was a little shocked as I didn't know that the lovely people at Gurgle read my blog, but I was also really pleased because someone other than me and Baby Boy thinks I am funny and I don't think they mean the way that Daddy thinks I am funny (straight jacket funny).

So what I would like to do is just say thank you to the lovely lovely people at Gurgle and offer Nifa McLaughlin, Tor Brierley, and Myleene Klass a special once in a lifetime offer of something really cool if they all vote for me... (cos they are the judges you see).

Seven traits of me Meme

So Rachel over at Really Rachel passed this Meme award on to me. I think she doesn't like me and is trying to punish me ;)

In a nutshell I have to list seven of my personality traits and then pass this meme onto seven other bloggers, whom I would like to torture learn more about.

I had decided that I would just do this for me, but because Daddy would complain if I didn't answer for Top Ender and Baby Boy I have done one word answers for them too!

In no particular order this is Me

1. Lazy. Honestly I am dead lazy. I would rather sit and do nothing than do something that needed to be done, but because I know that this isn't any way to live I get up and do the things that need to be done!

2. Motivated. I know how to motivate myself and those around me and constantly use it so people forget that trait number one is in my nature.

3. Crafty. I like making things, and I am cunning like a fox ("as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning") and this doesn't count as two traits because they are both the same thing...

4. Competitive. In a good way though. I like to beat things that I have done (change the sheets on the bed, a course on Mario Karts, read a book, drive to Nanny B's) and I have a healthy rivalry with Daddy on all of our Wii games!

5. Frugal. I try not to waste anything. Got some left over gravy? Freeze it for Baby Boys dinners. Rubber Chicken, I'll try and rubber anything in my house!

6. Funny. I think I am funny. I like to think I am funny. Other people tell me I am funny. Other people have mentioned to me in passing that I am funny. My children think I am funny. My children laugh at me.

7. Precise.

And again in no particular order this is Top Ender

1. Imaginative

2. Excitable

3. Creative

4. Whimsical

5. Loving

6. Authoritative

7. Adventurous

And you should know by now that this is Baby Boy

1. Funny

2. Observant

3. Curious

4. Flirtatious

5. Confident

6. Persistent

7. Loving

And I pass this on to the following;

1. Rainbow Jelly
2. Tish Tash Toys
3. Tawny
4. Perfectly Happy Mum
5. His Boys can swim
6. Half Mum Half Biscuit
7. Over 30 mommy

Be warned though this is harder than it looks!

Awards!

Top Ender, Baby Boy and I have been lucky enough to have two awards given to us recently. I have wondered about what to do about them, as I would like to pass them on but this is just a blog about the things Top Ender and Baby Boy say and or do. So I asked Top Ender.

"We have had an award on our blog about the funny things you do Top Ender" I said

"Is there a cash prize?" asked Top Ender

"No, you get a picture to put on the blog."

"Oh. No trophy either then?"

"No."

"Hmm. Better put them on the blog then hadn't you Mummy!"

So here they are!

Our first ever award came from OMG We're Pregnant!

The rules to this award are:
Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link.
Pass the award to 10 other blogs that you've newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.

State your 5 pet hates for everyone else to comment on.

So here are our newly discovered blogs

1 The Wife of bold

2 Are we nearly there yet Mummy?

3 Gemmak

4 Take care of the pennies

5 Sticky Fingers

6 The Potty Diaries

7 Not Wrong, Just different

8 Single Parent Dad

9 Maternal Tales from the South Coast

10 Part Mummy Part me

And here our mine, Top Enders and Baby Boys pet hates!

1 Adverts aimed at Adults on Childrens cartoon channels.

2 People who smoke, who claim they are not addicted and could give up at anytime. Yeah right!

3 Chain letters, come on what are we nine years old?

4 Overly competitive parents.

5 Running out of chocolate.

1 Having to go to bed when it is light outside.

2 When I spend ages on a drawing and then Mummy says What is it?

3 The man who parks his car on the yellow lines outside of my school.

4 Mummy making me practice my handwriting.

5 That Mummy doesn't make enough cakes for me to eat.

1 Mummy stopping me eating grass.

2 Mummy stopping me hitting the computer.

3 Daddy changing my nappy (Mummy does it better!)

4 Top Ender putting her toys up high so I can't reach them.

5 Cats that run away from me just when I get close enought to stroke them.

Thanks to The Wife of bold (here), we got the above award! The rules of this award are that we need to choose 7 blogs to pass this award onto, and list 10 facts about ourselves as well.

So here are the blogs and the facts about me, then Top Ender and then Baby Boy follow!

1 Finance for a freelance life

2 OMG We're Pregnant!

3 Working mum on the verge

4 Being a Mummy

5 Worlds Apart

6 Mighty Mother

7 Snowbabies

1 I don't drink alcohol and haven't since I was 17 and a bit.
2 I like watching children's cartoons. Even when the kids are in bed.
3 I love Chinese food and don't care what dish it is! I'll eat anything within reason!
4 I was in the Children's choir for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat when I was 13 (that was in 1992!)
5 I met my husband online.
6 We got engaged after three dates in as many days...
7 I like to knit and cross-stitch. I'm learning to crochet too. Yes I know.
8 I follow Flylady :) and thank Heavenly Father for her everyday!
9 I read anything and everything. Even shampoo bottles.
10 I don't like using the telephone. I once didn't answer it for three weeks. Our answer machine got really full.

1 I like to eat Strawberry's. I like to eat Strawberry's a lot.

2 I don't like the colour black.

3 My favourite game is pictureka!

4 I like taking photos on my camera. Actually on any camera.

5 I like making stories up about Sally, the chickens that live down the road and me.

6 The Argos catalogue is kept under my pillow.

7 I like watching Pop Girl and grown up programmes like Pushing Daisies.

8 I do not like fizzy pop.

9 I have an invisible husband.

10 I have my own blog here ... ( http://theworldaccordingtojessicamay.blogspot.com/ )

1 I was born in my sack, I don't know what this means but Mummy said it is lucky

2 My favourite thing in the world is Booby juice!

3 I like to follow Top Ender everywhere... even the toilet

4 I like the TV, it talks to me.

5 I like flirting with ladies in supermarkets, shops, library's anywhere actually!

6 I like to eat grass, it tastes of... grass

7 Feeding myself is more fun than Mummy feeding me.

8 I like having my photo taken as I like looking at pictures of me

9 I like to be naked!

10 I have my own blog here ... ( http://theworldaccordingtojoshua.blogspot.com/ )