As I’ve said in a few other posts, I was attending meetings in the Phoenix area of Arizona last week. Although we were in solid meetings all day from 8am - 5pm (and sometimes later), I was still able to get out and about seeing old friends and shopping.
I have a huge amount of thoughts and observations on AZ, but I can’t be bothered to type them all, so I’m going to do something that Mum has been bugging me to do for ages, and throw together a podcast, it should be up later this week.
Talking of Mum, I called her when I landed back in Heathrow - with the 7-hour time difference and her having ‘thrown out’ her back last week, I just never got a chance to talk to her while I was away. Practically the first words out of her mouth were “I got two nominations, and you only got one!”. She was, of course, talking about the Irish Blog Awards, the shortlists for which had been announced while I was flying back over the Atlantic.
It seems that someone out there likes what I do, as I’ve been nominated in the Best Newcomer category, while Mum managed to rake in nominations for both Best Podcaster and best Podcast (for ‘The Favour‘ - her FIRST EVER podcast!). Voting is now on until Friday 16th Feb and then the top 5 (?) in each category go forward before the panel of judges.
So go forth and vote for ellybabes for Best Newcomer!
There’s a lot of strong competition in the category, but I’d love to even make it to the final five on the shortlist and have an excuse to go to the awards ceremony…
And while you’re there, you may as well pop in a vote for oldbones in the Best Podcast and Best Podcaster cetegories!
I seem to have not really suffered with Jetlag this time, which is unusual for me, but I’m very glad that I didn’t, as the next few weeks will be very busy - there’s only 17 weeks until ‘the wedding’ apparently and I still have to squeeze in work trips to Israel and Vietnam before then, nevermind planning the whole wedding thing!!!
