Thanks to you dudes and dudettes, I am a WINNA! Yip, I won Best Personal Blog for 2008. I won a bottle of wine and a tree. It was the year of the Green Awards. Thanks to the wonderful organizers, the Very Cool Jon Cherry, the Absolutely Gorgeous and If-Only-I-Was-17-Years-Younger, Rafiq Phillips and the rest of the crew.
Speaking of having one foot in the grave, the event was held at my alma mater, the University of Cape Town, and driving through there, looking at the Oh So Very young students, I felt really old. I can't believe that I was there TWENTY YEARS ago. Twenty years!! How the hell did that happen.
So, I was about a hundred years older than the average blogger at the Blog Awards ceremony. Which was particularly unceremonious. Very low key, making my choice of high heels and cleavage not exactly ideal. Dinner was pizza and the wine was decanted from a box which may or may not have been there since I was last at University. Pizza and cheap wine..... flashbacks to my Varsity days.
It was a great evening and very nice to put faces to names. Thanks dear Fartbags for voting for me. You are all invited to my house to share the wine with me.
I am on my way over to congratulate you - we will need more wine!!
Congratulations Tertia!
Posted by: Coral | 03 April 2008 at 04:09 PM
well done, bebe! you're delish.
and...you must be very smart...you went to uni when you were nine years old?
Posted by: tess | 03 April 2008 at 04:28 PM
I am so pleased for you! Well deserved, Tertia!
Posted by: Hanlie | 03 April 2008 at 05:54 PM
Tess is rude ;-) I was thinking you must have only 5. Congrats!
Posted by: Sue at eLuckypacket | 03 April 2008 at 06:04 PM
Fartbags...such a sweet term of endearment. I know what to call my husband when I see him later tonight.
Congrats, Tertia. Couldn't have happened to a nicer girl.
Posted by: Molly | 03 April 2008 at 06:11 PM
Congrats!
Posted by: Andria | 03 April 2008 at 06:22 PM
Congrats!
What was I doing 20 years ago.. hmm.. oh, that's right, gestating. Hehe. Okay, sorry, done teasing you now.
Posted by: Meg | 03 April 2008 at 07:27 PM
Good work, sister.
Posted by: Wyliekat | 03 April 2008 at 08:01 PM
Congrats; well deserved! And thanks much for your blog. I enjoy it immensely!
Posted by: Janet | 03 April 2008 at 08:13 PM
Congrats, asshole! :)
Posted by: Dani | 03 April 2008 at 09:28 PM
You are just so g and d! Of course she was just 9 when she graduated! That explains why Kate and Adam are just 3. She had to wait until Marco was old enough to legally marry as he is a trophy husband so is a bit younger than her. ( Enough silliness on my part, huge congrats on your award it is just hugely deserved.) And congrats for taking those fur babies to puppy kindergarden, I know it is not your thing, but it is good for you and very good for the puppies.
Posted by: Melissia | 03 April 2008 at 09:38 PM
Gosh, does that make me partly responsible? :o) Sounds like you had a deep crust evening, well done!
Posted by: Karl | 03 April 2008 at 10:40 PM
Congratulations from one of your dear Fartbag readers who voted for you.
Posted by: Chicago | 03 April 2008 at 10:49 PM
Congrats, you old bag... should we get you a walker to take with you next year?
Just kidding!
Congrats!
Posted by: D | 04 April 2008 at 02:09 AM
Congratulations fellow WINNA!
Posted by: Christopher Mills | 04 April 2008 at 02:12 AM
You rock.
Posted by: kristylynne | 04 April 2008 at 02:32 AM
VERY proud of u! Well done Michael, love Latoya-Germaine.
Posted by: Sister Mel | 04 April 2008 at 08:29 AM
Well done Tertia, big congrats. Thanks for a great blog. It's the first thing I read when I get to work. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Linus | 04 April 2008 at 08:49 AM
Congrats on your win! I just started reading your blog and you are hiLArious! Look forward to more posts.
Posted by: Brandie | 04 April 2008 at 11:06 AM
Hey there, well done T. but what's this I read here...unceremonious????? the fact that you beat those little whipper snappers is most ceremonious indeed!!
Posted by: Normal? | 04 April 2008 at 01:16 PM
well done girlfriend! well deserved!
love
Posted by: robyn | 04 April 2008 at 01:46 PM
Congrats!
If you hadn't have done the high heels and cleavage thing, well it just wouldn't have been the Tersh that we know and love through this blog, dahlink :)
Posted by: Kez | 04 April 2008 at 01:51 PM
...plus you had to do the cleavage thing with the brand new boobs, for god's sake! ;-)
(and i might have some questions about that... talking 'boob safari' ;-)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Posted by: Dido | 04 April 2008 at 02:30 PM
Congrats you majesty :)
Posted by: rafiq if-only-i-was-17-years-older phillips | 04 April 2008 at 05:05 PM
Congrats!
Posted by: JuliaKB | 04 April 2008 at 06:08 PM
Ah Tertia - shall I tell everyone how delightful you looked? And the fact that that there were a few other 'snapped whips' there too?
Congrats on your award, you remain at the forefront! But remember, it takes years to get style, and we're all following you!
Posted by: Rouvanne | 04 April 2008 at 06:26 PM