Nanette recently rocked my world and honored me with an award of excellence. I didn’t get a trophy or anything, but I was thrilled nonetheless because Nanette is pretty much awesome and I’m happy she enjoys what I got goin’ on here. Now it’s my turn to bestow the honor on a few of my faves. I get to pick ten, per the rules, so I scoured through my feed reader and managed to narrow it down. It was made easier by the fact that some of my contenders were already recognized by others—no double dipping folks, that’s greedy—but it was still no easy task.

In no particular order, I present the following bloggers with this stamp of excellency.

Ordinary Art - I see a lot of me in the way she describes herself, and I hope if I ever have children, I’ll be the wonderful mother she is.

Quarter Life Crisis - You gotta love Jen, what with the mad cooking skills and the ever-changing hairdo!

Strongly Worded - Her upDATEs alone are reason enough to keep reading. The rest is pretty awesome too.

Ex-Everything - With a shiny new tagline!

Memoir - Okay so she talks about her dogs a lot, and I’m no dog person, but I’m hooked anyway because she takes great pictures and is crazy in love with her fiancé.

Babs in Blogland - This is one girl who’s not afraid to tell it how it is.

The Collective - This is a group of way cool chicas who, each week, write their own take on a topic. This week they wrote about the top five people they want to punch in the face. Why would you not want to read that?

Breathingfire -Maybe it’s cheating because he’s my boyfriend, and maybe the site isn’t looking its best these days (he’s busy and he’s sorry), but he’s been doing this blog thing since the beginning so I gotta give him props. Props? What the fuck?

Taste the World - She hasn’t exactly posted in over a month, but I miss her and hold out hope she’ll come back. I want to see how her wedding goes!

djkreutzer - There’s so much beauty in the world. Don’t believe me? Check out this blog-she proves it.