New Underdog Shout Out Award: Perfect Attendance

A longtime friend to Underdogs Unite (you know - for all five weeks that we've been in existance) has claimed another Underdog Award!

Anastasia from The Gift, promised to write every day for a year when she started her blog last June. While she hasn't reached the finish line just yet, we'll give her the benefit of the doubt. We know she can do it!

So congratulations Anastasia! You are the 2009 winner of the:

Some of her daily best:

Outsleeping Your Spouse

The Right Thing

Don't Touch

Welcome to Underdogs Unite, Anastasia! You will hold this award until 2010 when it will be up for grabs again. All you blogging teacher's pets will just have to wait until the next semester of awards...for now The Gift claims this honor.

New Underdog Shout Out Award: Most Likely to Hope You're Laughing WITH Me

We got another shout out request - this time NOT from an Eskimo though... It's a DC area mommy blogger (hope she's okay with that term): Not-Ever-Still Life with Girls. "Not-Ever-Still" writes about life as a working mom with two girls born between January 2006 and December 2007 (another baby buncher!).

Since she mainly writes about her girls, Not-Ever-Still felt that she would be the best candidate for the "Most Likely to Write an Innocent Post that Draws Twice as Many Pervs as Regular Readers" (apparently "girls" is a popular search item...) But that wouldn't fit well on a button. So we compromised with:

Some examples of why she's laughing:

The Call of the Wild

That Shower Fresh Feeling

Ravages

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice, That's What Little Girls Are Made Of

Welcome to Underdogs Unite, Not-Ever-Still! You are the 2009 Recipient of the Most Likely to Hope You're Laughing WITH Me award - and will hold this honor until 2010 when it will become up for grabs again.

That's right - I just made up a new rule. All awards (including self claimed ones) will be open to public voting the following year. So that means we'll also be opening up The Blog with the Eskimosist up for public competition... So get ready for a fight Eskimo Bob!

2009 Underdog Awards Announced

And now the moment that you've all been waiting for! The official 2009 Underdog Awards are open for nominations.

And they are:

1. Most Prolific Poster

2. Most Enthusiastic Commenter

3. Most Likely to Become a "Famous" Blogger (whatever that means)

4. Most Likely to Gain 500 Followers After Threatening to Stop Blogging OR After a Major Blog Scandal (whatever that means)

5. Most Likely to Get Drunk and/or Cry within the First Five Minutes of BlogHer (or at home during the week of BlogHer)

6. Most Confusing Aliases for Family Members

7. Most Likely to Overuse the Term "Hubby," "Hubs," or Something Even Cuter

8. Most TMI

9. Most Mommy TMI

10. Worst Potty Mouth

11. Best Accent

12. Most Likly to Make Spellings Errors in Coments

13. Most Blatantly Asking for an Award

14. Most Pathalogical Stalker

And we're stopping there. Because quite honestly - who knows if anyone will even nominate themselves for any of them. Will the stalkers really out themselves? Only time will tell...

SO - how to enter and vote...

The process is incredibly simple. No need to create an account, no passwords, no red tape of any kind!

To nominate a site for one of these awards (and YES you can nominate yourself), just send an e-mail to underdogsunite@gmail.com.

A daily* post will include all of the nominees.

To vote for one of the nominees, just send an e-mail to underdogsunite@gmail.com.

All votes will be placed and tallied in a highly sophisticated Excel spreadsheet. Yes - that's right, the Underdogs are nothing if we're not on the cutting edge of technology. All I have to say is that my fourteen years as an office drone are FINALLY paying off.

So let the voting begin! We'll keep this open through the summer. Or until it gets really tedious and everyone is sick of it. You know - whichever comes first.

So send in those nominations and votes! Otherwise this will be an embarrassing waste of time - which would technically be in keeping with the whole underdog theme... But we can change that! Right here. Right now. One vote at a time.

*"Daily" can be loosely interpreted as every day. Or every other day. Or maybe once in a week if things are really busy at the office. So don't have any unrealistic expectations for my use of the word "daily." Seriously - I'm an Underdog - not Wonder Woman.

The 2009 Underdog Awards

A couple of weeks ago, I started talking about adding some Underdog-specific Awards to this site. A League of Our Own, so to speak...

So I've been trying to come up with award ideas.

Pearl gave me some suggestions when she signed on as an Underdog last week: "Most Likely to Re-Offend, Mostly Likely to Stalk, Best Use of Spell Check, Most Obviously in Violation..." and "don't forget Most Likely to Post Nekkid." I think she's a genius.

Here are the ones I made up:

Most Prolific Poster

Most Likely to Tag Dooce for a Meme

Most Self-Congratulatory Parenting Advice

Most Enthusiastic Commenter

Most Likely to Become a "Famous" Blogger (whatever that means)

Most Likely to Gain 500 Followers After Threatening to Stop Blogging OR After a Major Blog Scandal (whatever that means)

Most Likely to Get Drunk and/or Cry within the First Five Minutes of BlogHer (or at home during the week of BlogHer)

Most Confusing Aliases for Family Members

Most Likely to Overuse the Term "Hubby," "Hubs," or Something Even Cuter

Most TMI

Worst Potty Mouth

Best Accent

Best Hair

Best Dancer

Best Dressed

Too snarky? (That's a question - not an award.)

Am I forgetting anything? Suggestions are welcome. Just comment or e-mail me at underdogsunite@gmail.com.

I'll get this organized by next week, so stay tuned for more details. In the meantime - don't forget to VOTE for each other (you know - for the real awards) and send more Underdogs this way.

Anything goes here - so if you want to promote anything (including yourself), just let me know!