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03 Mar 2008 | Filed Under: Interpipes + Ireland
The universe works in mysterious ways. After having won the Best Designed Blog award, I now cannot get Windows to boot on my workstation upstairs. I am instead trapped on my laptop, where my full compliment of graphics programs consists of the less than helpful Microsoft Paint. This is what happens when you win a design award and don’t thank PhotoShop: It cuts you off at the knees and leaves you with no design headers.
I have no idea what I said when I went up to accept my award, but as Annie pointed out, it’s a slightly odd award in that technically, it isn’t about your topic, your content, your readers or your comments. “I’d sincerely like to thank Adobe PhotoShop for being a pig of a program” isn’t much of a speech though.
What I hope I conveyed in my stutterings is that it means a lot to me to have been so accepted by the Irish blogging community. I’m a transplant, I have a hideous American accent, and I barely made it into eligibility for this year’s awards since I only started blogging here in November. I was delighted to win, sincerely. Thank you!
And now on to the gossip. People who were not what I expected:
- In addition to being a trifecta winner, having a new book out and being unbearably nice in person, Twenty is not remotely scary. Who’d of thought?
- Bock the Robber? All front. The sweetest, friendliest, nicest crumpet of a bloke ever. He was just lovely to me, although I see he’s gone back to being grumpy this morning. And my God, he smells divine.
- Una, who does indeed rock, is about twelve years old. Seriously, I was concerned her mammy let her out of the house without an adult to accompany her at street crossings.
- Paul Walsh is disarmingly doe-eyed in person. I, however, was armed with vodka. Wow, did that not end well. Oops.
As I said before, if I mentioned everyone I met on Saturday, we’d be here until next year. So instead, I’ve decided to hand out awards to people who were simply outstanding in a number of unofficial Blog Awards categories:
- Best Stickers: Elly Parker, for the hilarious What Would Mulley Do? stickers that kept turning up in the strangest places.
- Best Dressed Blogger: MaryRose. Second time I’ve met her and each time, she looks totally put together and stunning. She has promised to hook me up with her stylist because I have got to learn what to wear when pyjamas are not an option.
- Best Eyebrows: Sinead Gleeson. Eyebrows that artful require a dedication to grooming to which I can only aspire.
- Best Hat: Ken McGuire. You go, sk8ter boi.
- Best
StalkerFan: Darragh Doyle. Oh my God, I just want to bring him home and pet him and love him and call him George. So fabulous. - Biggest Bar Tab: Deb Hadley. A girl who apparently cannot say to no to buying everyone a drink. I was standing next to her when she checked out, and Jesus wept (literally) over her bar tab.
- Best Constitution: Suzy, who was somehow able to make it to brunch the next day while everyone else slacked off with sore heads. She and Mrs Suzy also did a champion job holding down registrations.
- Most Interesting Conversationalist Who’s Blog I’d Never Read: Jo Murphy. Seriously, if we had more time, we could absolutely chivvy the world into being the liberal bastion of our dreams. Alas.
- Most Angelic: Aisling from Beaut.ie turned up wearing a stunning dress and looking completely ethereal from head to hem. Cow!
- Most Argued Over: Aoife McIndieHour. The husband and I are disputing who called dibs…
- Worst Aftermath: Elana. All the hangovers in the world don’t beat this for pants.
A special award goes to Ross Costigan - not for Best Hair, but for Weirdest Conversation:
Me: Jesus, I hate Americans.
Ross: Ha ha ha, right on! Me too! Where are you from?
Me: Oh, umm, New York.
Ross: [Implodes with does not compute.]
And yeah, there’s a story there; no, it doesn’t involve a Blog Awards attendee; and yes, I will post that rant later this week.
Finally, and this is very important: I have lost the card (and therefore the name) of the tall, charming US-admitted Irish un-lawyer selling his soul to BigTelco. Please, please drop me a line if you read this.
Bock the Robber says:
Feck it, Sabrina, if I ever commit a murder they’ll use you to track me down.
Hummpphh! Women’s olfactory faculties never cease to bamboozle me.
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 11:54 amKen McGuire says:
Woohoo, best hat!
I’d like to thank the Padmore & Barnes ski-wear section…
Great to meet you on the night, Sabrina!
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 11:56 amDeborah says:
Heh! Great to meet you and thanks for everything! ;-)
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 12:08 pmStewart Curry says:
Hi sabrina - great to finally meet you and ramble drunkenly to you! I did happen to bring a lawyer who sold out - was it this guy? http://pix.ie/marcus/471435/in/tag/irishblogawards
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 12:33 pmif so it’s chrismehigan (that’s his name and twitter handle)
Sabrina Dent says:
Woo hoo! That’s yer man! Thanks a lot, Stewart! And it was also great to meet you - you would have won for Best Beard but I think Grandad pipped you at the post there. Give it a few more years :)
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 12:39 pmMaryrose Lyons says:
Why thank you Sabrina for the Best Dressed Nomination! [flicks vintage pucci silk scarf] I’m really thrilled. [glances down at black and red christian laboutin shoes]. Why I…. [just woke up - and staring at tracksuit-bedecked body with unwashed post weekend hair]. Thankfully I have no client meetings today. Thankfully this whole video conferencing thing never took off!
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 12:52 pmaoife mc says:
Oooh most argued over! How fab.
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 1:06 pmGreat to meet you, sorry I didn’t get to meet the husband. Or did I? The end of the night has unfortunately been lost in a Guinness infused blackout :(
Elana says:
Aftermath is lessening…once the kids were in bed last night, hubs and I hit icanhazcheezburger.com with a bottle of cheap merlot. Solves many issues.
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 1:33 pmGeorge - previously known as Darragh says:
I don’t know what to say! Erm, thanks! Looking forward to meeting you again too!
(Lovely top you’re wearing today SD!) :-P
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 2:15 pmEolaí gan Fhéile says:
Damn, best beard too! I’m even losing hypothethical awards.
I’ll try a sober hello next time.
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 4:44 pmRoss says:
Awh dammit!
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 5:44 pmWho the hell won Best Hair!?
Sinéad says:
Why thank you, but I must confess to being scared out of my wits by five or six women all shouting at me about my eyebrows before I’d even taken off my coat.
I will covet this virtual award for ever and it makes up for not winning one of Fustar’s Manky Toys.
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 6:17 pmNewman says:
Hi Sabrina - Why do you dislike Americans? Ugly accent? I know you were born here… Did you give up your citizenship?
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 9:25 pmSabrina Dent says:
If I gave up my citizenship, I’d give up my right to bitch, so no. I will be a dual Irish citizen next year, however.
You’ll just have to wait until later this week for the story, I guess!
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 9:52 pmaphrodite says:
OMG thank you so much Sabrina - you absolute sweetheart!
Monday, 3 March, 2008, 10:29 pmHope you heard the cheers from us when you went up to accept your award - well done!
nouns says:
Does dual citizenship entitle one to dream of subjecting two whole sets of politicians to extraordinarily painful and unnatural deaths? I’d like to see Roy Keane beat Bertie to death in public using George Bush, or vice versa. You can make this happen, yes?
Congrats on the award. Black is obviously the new, umm …
Tuesday, 4 March, 2008, 10:27 amChris Mehigan says:
Yep, I’m the sell-out lawyer, seems you found my twitter already :)
Tuesday, 4 March, 2008, 2:08 pm