Happy Birthday MAMD: Only a few hours left to join the contest

Me and my Drum is one of my regular and favorite reads..... just so happens that MAMD recently turned a grand old one year old recently too!

To celebrate he has set up a compettion which could earn 1000 Entrecard points and a review on MAMD.

Good news for anyone who wins, me thinks.

So how do you enter......?

Go to the post here and the entries are gained by:

1. 5 entries for subscribing to my feed via email. (Comment on this post using the same address so that I can verify.) Subscribed already? Thank you! Just tell me in the comments.
2. 4 entries for making a post about the contest on your blog linking back to this post. If you have more than one blog, that’s cool — you’ll get 4 entries per post per blog (only one post on each blog will be counted; be sure to leave a comment here telling me so with the links).
3. If you like my blog, you can tell others by writing a recommendation on my profile at Entrecard. Doing so earns you 4 entries.
4. Commenting on this post earns you 1 entry (only one comment per contestant excluding the comments you make informing me of other posts you’ve made or for subscribing)

I have entered via all the ways so wish me luck! Oh and good luck to you too.

Awards! What for Me?

For some odd reason I have recently been awarded not 1 but 1 amazing awards by fellow bloggers!

It really feels great that other appreciate my blog and my participation in their blogs.

So who did what and what are they?

Brown Baron gave me the wondrous the Mariuca Superstar Award. This award was deservedly passed to him from Marzie. It was given as a token of appreciation for the friendship and support of other bloggers and he passed it onto me for the same reason. It is really really really really really really really really really really really appreciated. Does that get the point across? Thanks Mr B. Baron.

He also awarded it to Bush Mackel, Mark, Opal, AntiBarbie and Zath so I suggest you check these great blogs out.

The Be The Blog award is a very special new award created by Mark at Me and My Drum and is spreading around like wildfire. I feel amazingly priviledged to be awarded by the creator himself. I must say his blog has been a great place for me to visit and his commitment to helping other bloggers is only one very small reason as to why you should become a regular reader of his.

Thanks to everyone who reads my humble words. I also want to mention that Bush Mackel recently posted asking his readers how he was doing. I really think it important that we all ask this question and should all post about it at some point (I'll be doing just that soon), and if others ask us we answer honestly.

My Random Desktop Meme

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Me and My Drum, has tagged me with the “What’s on your desktop?” meme.

So I guess it's Meme time again for me :)

My desktop shows a view from my girlfriends house one evening in Vermont, USA. Isn't it beautiful!

As you can see i'm a little cluttered and could do with organising myself a bit better.... maybe we will find with this meme that desktops show a little of ones personality!

[TAG STARTS HERE]

My Desktop Free View Instruction:

A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.

You can do a screen capture by: [1] Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). [2] Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V). [3] If you wish, you can “edit” the image, before saving it.

For MAC users: Press [ Apple] [ Ctrl ] [ Shift ] and [ 3 ]

B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.

C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.

D. Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free View post to promote it to succeeding participants.

List of those who have participated: Francine of La Place de Cherie Chez Francine Bloggishi Unchained Melody LadyJava’s Lounge Mariuca Revellian Dot Com|Desktop iRonnie Rebecca Jon Rolando Speedcat Brown Baron Tish Mike Money Online NoDirectOn Max Elena’s Photos Comedy Plus MeAndMyDrum The Random Forest

add yours here after doing this tag.

[TAG ENDS HERE]

The following people are hereby tagged: Ugly Mailbox, Twisted Sister, Life in the Country, Samir, John Cow, and Bush Mackel. (Oops, I did 6!!)