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That’s what she said. Honest. She did.

It seems she was given this ‘Nice Matters” award that’s been making circles in the blog world.  It was created by Bella-Enchanted and managed to get to Diva via Tish. So Diva awarded it to the people who tickle her fancy, which kind of made me go, “Whew” because if nice was the sole criteria, I might never have been given this one. Well, not if my kids had anything to say about it. They think I’m mean, too strict and all that. Good thing being able to tickle peoples’ fancy is enough to get chosen, because that… I can do.

So in tracking back to find out who created the award, I learned that once you receive it, Bella-Enchanted would like you to pass it on to seven other people. I’ve decided to add to my nominations, a specific reason for naming them. This isn’t part of the required responsibility of receiving the award, so don’t feel you have to do it because I did. 

As always, I’ll try not include people I know have received it, or people who request no tags because an award is still a kind of a tag. Those of you on the blogroll are there because I find something great about you and your blog so really… everyone should get one!

1. bluepaintred - Because she’s doing something really awesome for someone, only I can’t say it out loud and spoil the secret for a little while yet. I’ll update later so as not to spoil her hard work.

2. Hazel8500 - Because she’s always endorsing some campaign that is always about benefitting the underdog or those not treated rightly in this world. She really does care about others.

3. Jayleen - She’s such a kind-hearted person, and she truly loves her animals. I could’ve chosen any number of reasons to name her, but thought she should know that other people see her love for her animals as a wonderful thing.

4. brahnamin - Stephen helped Joey with some graphics and ideas for her blog. I know he knows Joey appreciated that, but I wanted him to know others really thought that was nice of him too!

5. skywindows - For making the video of Jayleen’s art… how could I not include her here? There are lots of other reasons, but that one sticks out for me. Though no one would dispute it if her or Stephen disappeared from blogging or others for awhile, since Ambriel (and please would you keep giving her hugs up in the top of the right sidebar) has had surgery recently, she took time to create the video for Jayleen!

6. joebec - Recently, an online friend of hers passed away. Some people scoff at online friendships as if they don’t matter. She wrote about her friend, and made sure everyone knew how important an online friend can be. By making that effort, she also helps her friend’s family know a little more about how much others loved their loved one and for the family, I’m sure that’s priceless.

7. Vic - Not too long ago, Vic got in her car and drove 4 hours through the night to check on an online friend. Honestly… how many of us can say we’ve done that? How many of us can say we know someone who would do that? Vic rocks.

So there you have it. I promise not to be upset if anyone on that list decides not to pass it on. I also think it would be really nice (lol) if someone out there, who’s been given this award but is leery about tagging people they know, decided to pass it on to people they don’t know.

I know.. you’re thinking that I’ve flipped. If you don’t know them, how do you know that they’re nice?

Well… I really believe that save for the Ted Bundy’s of the world, everyone has the capacity to be nice, and everyone has the capacity to be a fraccing bitch. (Yes.. sometimes you men are downright bitchy too, we just don’t call it that for fear you’ll get even bitchier.)

So, to give the award to someone you don’t know, just to make their day…

Isn’t that just a NICE thing to do?

UPDATE:

I wrote this post earlier today and timestamped it for later to test how well that worked. See.. we’re going away for a few days and because I want to make sure all my wonderfully witty pre-prepared posts are going to post as planned, I thought I’d test it out today.  It so happens after writing this post, I learned that despite professing not to tag people having already been given this award, I failed and did exactly that. Please don’t name seven more people unless you want to. Consider my naming you as proof positive that you deserved the one you already got.