I’m happy – and surprised! – to have won three smiling beavers in the 2008 Canadian Blog Awards last night.
Check it out: Best Personal Blog! Third Best Activities Blog! Best Local Blog!
Many, many thanks to the people who nominated me* and to every single one of you who took the time to vote. Big hugs to those of you who have been reading for awhile, and a warm welcome to those who just stumbled in. Special thanks to the Yarn Harlot. Hats off to the CBA organizers.
The results came in quite late last evening, so GC suggested we go out for donuts to celebrate.
A little known fact about me is that I have an official position on donuts. As far as I’m concerned, the only donut worth its calories is the Tim Horton’s Boston Creme donut.
As it turns out, finding a Tim Horton’s Boston Creme donut in Ottawa at 10:00 at night is not as easy as it sounds. We went to one drive-thru window after another, and were repeatedly informed that they were sold out of Boston Cremes.
But did we give up? No. GC insisted that winning a first prize beaver was so worthy of a Boston Creme donut that we would travel to the four corners of the world if necessary to procure one.
One Tim Horton’s didn’t have a drive-thru, so I waited in the car while GC went in. He returned with a bag. In it were two donuts that the clerk told him were identical to Boston Cremes but with maple instead of chocolate.
“No good,” I said.
“Okay,” he said.
We kept going. At the fifth Tim Horton’s I said I’d settle for a chocolate dip donut instead, so we got one of those.
But GC wasn’t ready to give up yet.
And it’s a good thing, because we hit the jackpot at the sixth Timmy’s!
We took all our bags of donuts, went back to my place, made some coffee, and curled up on the couch to drink coffee and eat donuts before bed.
Just so you know, we only ate three of them. Honest.
*(I’m pretty sure Roro at Creampuff Revolution was one of the nominators, but I don’t know who the others were – if you nominated me, please let me know!)
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Well deserved. Congratulations !!! Now I am doubly proud of you
Tim’s at Woodroffe and Richmond has never failed. Ask me how I know . . .
I don’t eat sweets, don’t bake, don’t like doughnuts. What do you suppose is in those things?
So happy for you, one of your biggest fans. Well likely one of the littlest but you know what I mean.
Glad a local won, you deserve it!!
Congratulations! You absolutely deserve the win.
That doughnut photo gives me heartburn. My philosophy: If ya don’t buy ’em, ya won’t eat ’em. Right? Ditto for ice cream. As for coffee before bed, how’d you ever fall asleep. (Or perhaps that was the point.)
Smiling beavers are another story. I could use one of them.
Congratulations on three well-deserved awards! And three well-deserved donuts…
Absolute congrats! You are such a super writer and entertainer and philosopher!
Congratulations, congratulations and congratulations on all three.
Congratulations. I find you Canadians just fascinating. Both you and XUP make be want to move north. Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on your well-deserved wins!
I don’t go to Tim Horton’s often but those maple donuts are awesome. Mmmm maple…
Congratulations. I haven’t seen so much beaver since… sorry. I had so many great beaver double entendres ready for my own award, but now I can’t use them. I think that’s more depressing than not winning.
A great way to continue the celebration might be going out for Beavertails in the Market with some hot chocolate…
It’s funny… I had one Tim-bit and half a blueberry fritter tonight. I have not had Tim Horton donuts in over a year. I was seeing the Erratic Genius off to Europe and they had a Tim Horton at the airport. His sweet girlfriend got the one and only Boston Cream donut. Did you know that the E-Genius makes the best Boston Creme cake from scratch?
OOOps – I meant to say CONGRATULATIONS!
congratulations to you!
donuts…
Well done!
That GC is really worth his weight in gold (and lard). But then again, it must be pretty heady stuff for him to be sleeping with a triple-beaver woman. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations.(that last one was for finding the donuts)
Fantastic ! Good on you ! I’m such a fan of your great way of looking at the world and your sense of humour and quirky irony. Oh and your intrepid persistance as a donut tracker.
Congrats on the winning and on sticking to your cream principle.
Congrats!
Congratulations! I read your blog more regularly than anything else and enjoy everything about it – your angle on my community, sensitivity, superb language, soft edges, the list goes on…
The maple counterpart of your favourite is called “Canadian Maple.”
Congratulations zoom!
Thanks so much, all of you. Blogging wouldn’t be anywhere near as much fun without you.
I sure know how to pick a winner! Thanks for the shout-out, zoom – I did nominate you in the Best Personal Blog category. I love your blog and am so pleased (yet not surprised) that you took home the ultimate Beaver Bling!! Congratulations!!
Those donuts give me a dirty, delicious thrill. Why does Vancouver not believe in donuts? So deprived…
Just popping in to say welcome to the Blogawa feed! Now I’ll never miss a post!
/recovering donutaholic
– RG>