My Oscar Speech

“You like me! You really, really like me!” Sally Field uttered those famous words when she won her Oscar in 1979. Like many people that day, I wasn’t watching the Oscars because I had better things to do. But unlike most people, I have spent many hours since then writing my own Oscar speech in case I was ever lucky enough to be nominated. Of course, since I no longer act, that isn’t likely to happen any time soon.

But this morning I had cause to think that my time had finally come! I wasn’t winning a wimpy, naked golden man – I had won something far, far better. Connie of Whale Ear and Other Wonderings presented me with a Proximidade Award.

“This blog invests and believes, in ‘proximity’ meaning, that blogging makes us 'close'. They are all charming blogs, and the majority of them aim to show the marvels of friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize, and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut, or that they propagate? Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to eight bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this text.”

So in honour of the occasion I thought I would share the first few lines of that Oscar speech I wrote so many years ago. “I’d like to thank all the little people. Leprechauns, faeries – this is for you! I’d also like to thank all the people who said this would never happen. Mum, Dad, Hubby – thank you!!”

Since I will never have the opportunity to share the rest of the speech with you, I have decided to move on (temporarily) and thank Connie for bestowing this award upon me. I cannot tell you how wonderful I felt this morning when I found out about your award. **hugs** “Warm and fuzzies” doesn’t even begin to describe the honour I feel at the moment. Thank you.

My duty, as I understand it, is to now pass the adoration along to other bloggers, so that they too can feel the love. My daily reading list is almost fifty blogs long so this was a very difficult list compile. In my opinion I have fifty winners of this award but since the rules state I can only nominate eight people. With that in mind, I have decided to nominate and present the Proximidade Award to a few of the wonderful bloggers I love to read each day.

• DRL of Daily Life in Rio
• Jennifer of The Fugate Family in Cairo, Egypt
• Kaddee and Jack of The Cairo Chronicles (sorry guys, you'll have to share)
• Miss Four of We Four in Egypt
• Traveler One of Stepping Stones
• Africa Expat Wife of Africa Expat Wives Club
• Maryanne Stroud Gabbani of Da Moose is Loose
• The Noles Family of Our Day-to-Day Life Living in Egypt

Congratulations everyone! Don’t forget to pass the love along!