On Awards and this weekend

Hi all!!
It’s Saturday and my heart is so happy. I love the weekends. I’ve had a bit of a big week with this back/head thing. Yesterday when the head spins started, I made a frantic call to my GP who worked back late last night so that she could see me. We ruled out what wasn’t causing all my symptoms – head spins, ringing in my ears, fullness/pressure in my head etc. My blood pressure is perfect. My eyesight is good (not perfect. If  it were perfect I wouldn’t wear glasses) and I don’t have an ear infection.  After the spinal xrays the other day, my chiropractor has identified that the vertebrae in my neck are not aligned correctly. (He also found a fractured vertebrae in my lower back that is the cause of a lot of pain). I have had two chiro sessions so far and two more booked next week. My lower back is going great but my head issues still prevail. I have a referral to an ENT specialist if things don’t settle. My GP also mentioned the possibility of Meneire’s Disease. Let’s just take things one step at a time.

So this weekend, I have made a promise to myself to step away from the computer. I currently have 800 blog notifications in my in-box. I am trying to catch up but I don’t think I will make it. I am going to schedule some posts and I will be back to comment later this evening and possibly tomorrow morning HOWEVER this weekend is about me and my family. I am going to finish the quilt I started last week and start planning one for the Tween’s bed. I am going to take the Tween up on the offer for her to teach me how to play chess. Although I have no way of knowing if she is teaching me the correct way, I won’t really mind. I am going to read some of my books and magazines. We are going shopping for her school supplies (have I ever mentioned how much I love stationery stores? Okay, maybe once or twice 😳 ). I am also going to go to Spotlight to look into the Project Life stuff I blogged about yesterday. (I have a little Christmas cash I can put toward it). I might get some photos from last year printed out. I am going to spend time with my animals as well. Little Madiba is beginning to find his vocal chords and has begun little trills every so often. He loves when I stand beside him and whistle. 🙂 I am also going to pull out my short stories and work on them a little. So they are my weekend plans.

Now… awards!
I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I love receiving awards and I love passing them on however in my effort to step away from the computer a little, I need to re-think how I am going to do this. I currently have seven awards awaiting my acceptance. So what I am going to do is accept all of these awards right now, put them in my awards gallery and start afresh. I want to thank each and every one of you for these awards.

Blog of the Year Award

Awarded to me six times by Don Charisma and also by Eric (Hunt4Truth on WordPress), Mikee (pray.love.live.laugh) and Irene (irenedesgin2011). Thank you to you all. 🙂

Inventive Blogger

This award was invented by the wonderfully inventive Don Charisma and I am honoured to be one of the first ever recipients of this award. It has also been awarded to me by Mikee. Links to the blogs of both of these amazing people is above. 🙂

The LAZY Not Freshly Pressed Award

Invented by Laura Macky I was awarded this by her. Thank you Laura. 🙂 I trust I have not over-exerted myself in accepting this.

The Lighthouse Award

An award I am truly blessed to receive. The premise behind this award is just wonderful and many, many other fine and inspirational bloggers before me have received this award. My eternal gratitude and huge cyber hugs go to Julie (The Nocturnal Laundress) for this award. Please check out Julie’s blog. She is a wonderful writer and a beautiful soul.

The I’m Not Featured on Freshly Pressed Award

Every blog should have this award adorned with the mug of Don Charisma on it!! Because every blog is deserving in many different ways. In actual fact, I am awarding this award to every person who reads and likes this post. 🙂 All the details for this award can be found here: http://doncharisma.org/2014/01/01/the-im-not-featured-on-freshly-pressed-award/

The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award

I think this is the cutest award and I have been awarded it once again 🙂 This time by the lovely Nia at Nia Simone, Author. I  like this graphic as much as I like the other one. Thanks Nia. Please check out Nia’s blog as she not only writes, but dabbles in photography as well! And she’s good at both!

Last, but definitely not least is:

The Excellence Award

Awarded to me by the beautiful soul that is Irene at Irenedesigns 2011.

I want to thank each and every one of you for thinking of me. I am truly blessed to have you all in my blogging life. You make me smile. 🙂

See you at the other end of the weekend (apart from the Fellow Blogger posts, they will go ahead as usual).