… That is the sound that disturbed the slumber of many a Gutenberg student (and no doubt a few people in the southern hemisphere) last night when I, at approximately 10:30 pm, discovered that my blog was a finalist for Best Teen Weblog in the 2007 Bloggies.
A. FINALIST. FOR. BEST. TEEN. WEBLOG.
To the people who nominated Lylium.org, and the people who have already emailed me to let me know that they decided to vote for it: Thank you, friends. You have no idea how much joy it brings me to know that enough people have enjoyed this blog to get it nominated in the Bloggies. I appreciate your support more than you know.
To every single person who is reading this post: GO VOTE. And I don’t necessarily mean you have to vote for ME… I highly encourage you to check out all the other finalists, as there is apparently some serious teen talent on the net. 
But at the very least, vote for SOMEONE!
Good luck everyone… and thank you again for the honour.
January 26th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
So done. Congratulations!! That’s awesome!
We should hang out sometime. Now that I know a Nominee, hopefully soon to be celebrity!
January 26th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
oh my goodness!! Congratulations! I sure hope you win, you deserve it.
January 26th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
awww precious!! congratulations!! i went over and voted for you you you!
January 27th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
you deserve every little vote.
i already voted for you, but I know you already know that. thanks again for the camera lens tips. they were great!
January 27th, 2007 at 4:08 pm
huzzah!
i am very proud of you!!
now, for the win!
January 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
All the way from India, I have added my vote for you (I am sorry I cheated a bit; did not read the other blogs in fray!). Now you go on and add my name in that acceptance speech to be delivered from the podium on 12 March!!
January 27th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
First time stumbling onto your blog; congrats. Good to know that there are other people my age who blog as well.
January 28th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
That is awesome! Congrats!
January 29th, 2007 at 2:09 am
Thanks a bunch, everyone!
January 29th, 2007 at 9:17 am
On your way to glory!
January 29th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Wooow!!! congratulations Erin!! awesome!!… i hope you win… i will vote for you immediately!
January 29th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Excellent Blog, Erin! Congrats on your nomination!!!!
January 30th, 2007 at 9:16 am
i was admiring all of the nominees and i came across your brilliant blog.
you are very talented!
best of luck!
February 1st, 2007 at 5:29 am
Congratulations! As a fellow nominee (Food Category) I wish you the best of luck! Your site is really fantastic! Cheers!
June 18th, 2007 at 4:06 am
Dear Erin, for what it’s worth, I think you should have won. I didn’t see your blog until yesterday (June 17, 2007) so I couldn’t vote for it. But I went to http://2007.bloggies.com/ and checked out the other nominees. In my opinion yours is so far superior to the others both in content and design that it makes one wonder about the voters. Probably they were teenagers (speaking as somebody who has grandchildren older than you are). I’m not a blogger but I recognize good design and good writing. I was especially entertained by the entries on your MacBook. I just bought one for my wife and plan to get one for myself the next time I visit the US (I live in Tbilisi, Georgia — one of the “newly independent states” formerly part of the Soviet Union. I hope your Mac is being good to you now.
I happened on your blog as a result of doing a Google search on Gutenberg College, which I am interested in because I am founding a new Great Books liberal arts college in Georgia that may resemble Gutenberg College in some ways, so I was interested in learning more about Gutenberg. I will probably write you privately about that and maybe ask you to introduce me to your father.
Thanks again for sharing yourself.
Lance Fletcher
August 11th, 2007 at 2:57 am
I found your site by a fluke but really enjoyed it. Me and my fiancee say EEEEEEEE to each other all the time when we are smiling
or very happy. We know it’s corny but we do it just because. We got this from my 2 yr old nephew (Zane) because we would tell him to say cheese when we were taking a picture to get him to smile and he would always say EEEEEEEEEE…. Too cute. I did go to your site and it is very beautiful. Very nice pics taken.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I can’t be bothered with anything recently. I’ve just been sitting around doing nothing. Today was a loss. I just don’t have much to say. Nothing seems worth thinking about.