I have some news.
Thanks to your wonderful help and support, I have somehow found myself in the final round of the Best Personal Blog category of the Canadian Blog Awards.
This is making me feel all kinds of warm and mushy emotions for each and every one of you whether you voted or not, whether I know you in real life or you’re among the people I call friends despite having never met, whether you’ve been reading for two years (you poor things) or you just stopped by this week.
Just know that I’m having a crazy amount of fun with the entire blogging world and that you actually enjoy what I’m doing makes it all the better. It would truly not be the same if your comments were stuff like, You suck or Please stop talking or I hate your dogs. I don’t think I’d care for that very much at all.
Thanks to those who give me advice, who challenge what I believe in, who share little parts of their lives with me, who tell me I’m being stupid when I’m being stupid and those who read regularly but have never let themselves be known. I know you’re there!!
All that being said, it’s my duty as a shamelessly self-promoting blogger to let you know that all this week (until December 7), you will be able to cast a vote for No Ordinary Rollercoaster in the Best Personal Blog category. You don’t need to register or provide an email address or go through any other steps other than clicking on THIS LINK and casting your vote. It’ll take six seconds tops and it will absolutely, 100 per cent make my day. Besides, this is your chance to make my return to the top five of something Canadian a less soul-crushing experience than the last.
Also, please put up with me as I continue to spread the word on the blog and through twitter during the week. I’ll shut up about it eventually, I promise..
Regular blogging will return tomorrow with recaps of my weekend adventures, more blogger dream dates and even a guest post from my long-lost European correspondent, Union Jane filling this week at No Ordinary Rollercoaster.
Get excited.
If you can’t wait, read the post changed NOR into the blog you see here today reposted for old time’s sake over here.
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I can't say I've ever had a desire to go to Cuba… you'll have to let us know how it is. Then I may change my mind.
Cavy: I only give things up for vanity…not Jesus. Or Moses. Or whoever Lent is all about.
Mjenks: Fiiiiine. But the firemen? Will they be topless?
Kyla: Thanks love
Nicole: Sounds delish!
Kate: Fair enough.
Cal: ON IT.
Marie: People do. Dumb people. Scary people.
Matt: Sometimes.
Meghan: Right. I just can't help but think what I'd eat if you took cheese away.
Sarah: I'm all or nothing, baby. I hate your superfit boyfriend.
Hillary: Is that how it works?
LBluca: I did actually. I do often.
SMUK: YES!
Doniree: are you sure?
Krystal: Sit-ups are for suckers. Self-deprivation is for winners.
P: hahahahahaha
Amy: Awww…
Lindsay: I would never be able to stick with it. I'd be crying after hour one.
Sue: I have a stunt double.
Katelin: Maybe I'll try that!
Alexa: I feel you.
Cuddleslut: I earned this shit.
Candice: I'll break for you.
Andrea: Right. I think I'd only have lattés left.
SidKane: IT'S GLOBAL.
That Kind: Does that WORK?!?!?
Her: Oh jeez. I'd die.
Juliana: A six pack is what I want. A different kind though.
Tia: I need drastic measures.
Amy: On it.
Heather: LOTS OF THINGS.
Busty: Will you be my support partner? Can we do trust falls?
I'm giving up alcohol and cheese soon, but I have no plans to be lying around shirtless. Which is sad, really.
What'd cheese ever do to you?! Wait. OK. Let's not be hasty, though.
I hear that meth is pretty good at helping you lose weight. That way you can keep eating cheese and drinking booze annnnnnd your house will be super clean.
that is crazy talk.
are you out of your mind?!?!?
just skip the crackers. you'll be fine.
Cheese and alcohol are should pretty much be a food group. I am new to your blog, so you must stop this maddness and go get yourself a six pack and some nachos….or a bottle of vino and some fondue. I look forward to following your blog-I see we have some blogger friends in common. Please come follow back if you would like.
Everyone is focused on the cheese and wine thing.
I'm focused on the Cuba thing. SO jealous–I want to go there so badly!
Also, I was a vegan for a month. It's hard (see the one month part of that deal), but definitely doable!
Dude, don't do it! Just donate blood every week 'til you go. That'll take a few pounds off. (Or out, as it were.)
Is this cheese infatuation a Canadian thing???
If I gave up alcohol and cheese, I'd be left with coffee, and much as I love it, being constantly wired isn't too much fun.
uhhhhh, pretty sure beer and nachos are an essential part of my visit.
Not fair! Everyone has better vacations (read: in warm places) than me!!
i'm 69 days away from being in a wedding where the largest bridesmaid after me in a size 4…
and they are all blonde and look like barbies….
and you wonder why i'm on a psycho workout and diet kick…
i say do what you need to do to make you feel better.
i haven't had a carb in over three weeks. sad face.
yeah i gave up cheese for a week and that was hard enough.
If that sexyboy body that I've seen in the latest videos is the result of too much booze and cheese, I don't think you have much to worry about.
Man, if you can stick with that I'll give you a gold medal. A world without cheese and alcohol is one I want no part of.
1) BITE ME. I am 47 days away from more monotony! WHEE!
2) You're pretty much the cutest boy ever, so I don't think you need to worry.
3) What Doniree said.
Someone needs to talk me UP onto that ledge dude. It's all the booze and friggin' cheese that has made me put on all this extra damn weight. I'll swap places with you?
lol I don't know if you have to give it up completely maybe just do sit ups or something. Guys lose weight a helluva lot faster than women
DON'T DO IT! No amount of fitness is worth the absence of cheese and booze. NO AMOUNT.
Or!! OR!! OR!!!
ONLY eat cheese and alcohol!!
Brilliant.
Are you sure you didn't hit your head on something, cause that is just crazy talk.
But you've already got a man. You don't need to be skinny anymore. Trust me.
Well aren't we one for drastic measures. That would be excellent vacation prep for me if my goal was to be as cranky as possible by takeoff.
If you MUST do something, just eat the cheese on top of apple slices instead of crackers. My superfit boyfriend taught me that.
Don't. As a vegetarian, I can say the food isn't great in Cuba and you're going to be forced to live off mojitos and fruit. Eat the cheese as storage while you can. And take me with you to be your tour guide
Dude.
cheese? Why would you give up cheese? do you hate yourself?
WHAT??!! What the hell is wrong with you?!! No one gives up ALCOHOL AND CHEESE!! STOOOOPP!
Tomorrow is my birthday. You have to drink and eat cheese to celebrate because those are pretty much two of my favorite things in the entire world. MMMK?
One or the other. Not both. I gave up drinking, so I'm swimming in cheese for the rest of my everliving life and YOU CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME!
Some one needs to make you beer and cheese soup. STAT!
Don't do it!! You need to enjoy your holiday AND the time leading up to it. Love your new badges, by the way =)
I can't drink beer, because I developed a wicked allergy to hops.
Thusly, I have foregone any and all alcohol consumption.
Ben, I need you to pick up the slack I've left behind!
If you don't do it for me, do it for the firemen! Yeah! The firemen!!!
Dude, IT'S NOT LENT.
Not that that'd keep me away.