Irish Blog Awards Shortlists

Congratulations to Little Bird Eats and Irish Flirty Something for being shortlisted for the Irish Blog Awards, I love your work!

This blog didn't make it but I'm not surprised - the competition was fierce. Next year perhaps...

Blogging

I just found out that I was nominated for Best Blog and Best Personal Blog in the Irish Blog Awards! (Thanks Jen for the heads up.) Thank you so much!

I noticed that some of the nominations came from Luxembourg this year - wonder who that was? ;)

I know I've been a naughty non-blogger recently, I find it tough to blog everyday and have a job. In fact, I doubt I should be working at all based on my utter inability to do anything else but watch tv and sleep when I am gainfully employed.

Not blogging pains me, it nags away at me, but when I come home my mind is dull. The blogging part of my life is on hold. It's not like I'm unhappy when I'm working - the people are good craic, the work is stress free and I don't pine for my novel. Finding things to blog about is difficult nonetheless. My experiences don't feel unique. I feel uncomfortable sharing personal information too - the intense privacy I feel about so many parts of my life has taken me by surprise.

But when I'm writing, blogging is truly a godsend. Working on the novel doesn't come easy to me most days and blogging offers me respite from that. When I experience a breakthrough, discover a method that works for me or just have a good day, I want to share it. I read other blogs to find out how they are doing and learn from their experiences. And when I'm having a wobble I always post about it - there is no better cure in my opinion.

Writing full time is what I want to blog about - that's what I want to scream about from the roof tops.

I can't wait for the next few months.

Update: I've been nominated for Best Newcomer too. Again, thank you. I'm really touched.

Irish Blog Awards 2008

A weekend after two days of work. I hardly feel like I deserve one, but here it is anyway. It's a beautiful thang folks.

Inbetween reading about Obama's victory in Iowa and Britney Spears' meltdown yesterday I found out that the Irish Blog Awards are taking nominations for several categories, including Best Blog Post, Most Humerous Post, Best Designed Blog and of course Best Blog.

I've already nominated my favourites - have you?