And The Winners Were…

Photo by Ryan of Rymus.net: Colm Bracken (In Fact, Ah); Me; Matt; Ryan.

I’m just now emerging from a dozy haze…no I didn’t overindulge at the Blog Awards on Saturday night, rather I was over at my parent’s house last night and complained that I seemed to be suffering some kind of allergic reaction. My nose was itching like crazy and I was being driven mad. My father offered me one of his anti-histamine tablets and I was so distracted by the itching that I gladly accepted. He assured me as I popped the little white pill that they didn’t make him drowzy, but I might find it hard to get out of bed in the morning. “No change there” I thought and happily swallowed the thing. What I didn’t take into account was, because of the breastfeeding which I’ve only just stopped and the pregnancy before that, I’ve not taken anything stronger than Panadol in about two and a half years. So I got home yesterday evening planning to write an account of the Awards but instead fell fast asleep at about 8:30. I slept the sleep of the deeply drugged until 6am when Eve woke with her usual ear-piercing screech. I positioned her in front of “Ice Age” and fell back into my stupor waking only long enough to press replay on the DVD when it finished. The credits were rolling for the second time when Matt rescued me and I crawled back into bed where I lay unconscious until 2pm. I don’t know what my Dad is made of but it’s of far sterner stuff than I am! Either that or he’s planning a little boost to the pension when the time comes and that first pill was free.

Soooo, since I’m way behind on posting about this I will direct you to the main site for the list of winners. Gingerpixel was not one of the glittering plaque-holders on the night but the Best Photoblog prize went to a very deserving Donncha. I had thought Ryan was going to be a shoo-in for it and he was the firm favourite but there was tough competition in our category. I got to meet so many of my favourite Irish Bloggers and I think I said hi to everyone I had wanted to say hi to. The only two I missed were Damien himself (but he was a very busy man on the night and I would have had to have stuck my ankle out and tripped him up to get to talk to him which I thought might have been rude) and JL Pagano who was standing behind me at one stage and I meant to turn and introduce myself but got distracted and missed him. Ah well, hopefully some other time JL. I’m also hoping that Paige will be coming along to some blog get-togethers in the future only telling us she wasn’t coming at the last minute. I was sorry not to have met you Paige.

It was a great night and Damien deserves all the cyber-love he’s been getting over the past few days and Rick O’Shea was the perfect MC. I will be adding quite a few blogs to me daily reading list now that I know the people behind them. Or in the case of TCAL, the large crowd behind them. Congratulations to That Girl and Sinéad, hard luck to In Fact, Ah and Redmum (at least as a “non-winner” I’m in good company). So many blogs have great round-ups of the evening Irish Blogs is a good place to go to find them all. However, I will direct you to Letter To America, the blog of the hilarious Jett. He has a podcast up and I’m off to listen to that myself. His blog, funny as it is, only does marginal justice to how funny he is in real life so I’m betting his podcast is well worth a listen.