January 29th, 2010 by John 
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Trying to decide the winners of my 2 year blogiversary non-contest- contest was no easy task! I received a total of 92 comments on 6 posts. There were so many thoughtful, intelligent comments, I wish I had 20000 ec’s to give out! I am increasing the total ec’s to 11000 so that I can give 500ec’s to the runners up. I took the number of comments and the totally subjective “quality comment” into consideration to choose the following winners. I decided to give everyone some link love in addition to the EC prizes. Also, I’m trying to get around to everyone’s blogs and make a comment or two…
And the winner is…
I’m giving special mention to Don E. Chute.
Don and I “met” about a month ago and in that short time he has become one of my all time favorite commenters. He always has something interesting to say. His comments make me laugh, as in LOL, think, scratch my head and sometimes make me wonder if he is “OK”!!! 
Don is the number one commenter for the month of January, with 12 comments and is the BIG WINNER of 5000 ec’s!!! Congratulations and thanks man!
Here are the 12 runners up (in no particular order):
Prize: 500 ec
- Marg’s Pets
- Fledgling Blogger
- Security For Idiots
- The Fitness Diva
- Man Over Board
- Healthy Living
- Stocks on Wall Street
- Stay At Home Mom
- Cute As A Buggy
- The Traveling Suitcase
- Karen & Gerard Zemek
- Get Out OF Credit Card Debt
A big “Thank You” to everyone who participated and for all the awesome comments. Thanks for visiting and I’ll see you tomorrow!
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Hi John,
Congrats to all the winners. I appreciate the link love and the 500 ec. You did a lot of drops to earn these credits and that was very kind of you to share them with us. Have a great weekend!
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John reply on January 29th, 2010 6:05 am:
You’re welcome Robin! Thanks for all your support. Have a great weekend!
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Wow! Congratulations to Don!
That’s great! I am a runner up. A big thanks John!
I wish you more success with your blog. As I mentioned before, I would always leave my comments if a post would interest me and I can relate to it.
One again, thank you for the love link and the ECs you will be giving out soon!
More power!
JuneZach´s last blog ..Paypal just sent me $9.00 USD!
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John reply on January 29th, 2010 6:09 am:
You’re welcome Junezach! Thanks for all the visits and drops! Have a great weekend!
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Thanks so much John for the 500 ECs. That is so exciting. I never win anything so this is really great. And thanks for the linky love too. And Congratulations to Don and everyone else. Good job everyone.
Marg´s last blog ..We won an award
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John reply on January 29th, 2010 6:31 am:
I know the feeling Marg, I never seem to win anything either!
I really appreciate all the drops and comments. Have a great weekend!
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Thanks so much John – made my day
I do love it when someone goes out of their way to firstly be grateful for something and secondly to show the gratitude.
Robyn @ Get Out of Credit Card Debt´s last blog ..Australia Day
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John reply on January 29th, 2010 7:09 am:
You’re welcome Robyn! I enjoy your input and appreciate all the support! Thanks and have a great weekend!
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Thanks bunches, appreciate the linky love and the ec’s. Look forward to your visit.
Congrats to all the winners.
I’ll not be able to visit as much over the next week or so, as I’ll be out of town; but…like Arnold, I’ll be back!
sandy´s last blog ..First Award!
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Woot! Woot! We won, we won. Congrats to all the winners.Thank you so very much John. I didn’t even know there was a contest! I truly appreciate the credits as I know how much work goes into dropping! I enjoy your blog and I thank you very much for the recognition.
Buggys´s last blog ..Wordless Wednesday – Dressing Up!
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Thanks for the EC credits and link love John, I appreciate all your drops & comments on my blog too.
Have a great weekend!
Sue´s last blog ..Post It Note Tuesday – 1001 Posts
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Too bad I didn’t get into the list as I am not a very disciplined dropper.
Paul Tech´s last blog ..Check Your Health Indicators With WIN Human Recorder
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First of all I would like to thank you, John. Thankyouthankyouthankyou! It’s only been a month, yet I think we may be, twin-sons-of-a-different-mother, or something. Although, I may be old enough, to be your Dad! Your mentoring, right off the bat, of me starting this, blogging thing, will never be lost on me. And, your continued mentoring, will be…priceless!
The Credits, OH, the credits! Bless ya’. You have afforded me the opportunity to place ads, in places, only dreamed of before. Like yours!
To all the runners up, I thank you! It’s interesting, most of you, I have dropped, commented, after READING, your content. After-all, it’s THE CONTENT, that makes people wonder, If I’m OK. The better the Content, the more bizarre, I have the ability to become. If I haven’t done, the DRC, drop, read, comment thing, on your blogs, I will effort to do so. When I started, Don E. Chute, I had no idea, that if you took this fagizzle, seriously, it would be so much work! DRC, Trying to think of your OWN, content on your blog, blog maintenance, trying to make a few shillings, It’s toughs***!
Lastly, I would like to thank my Children, for their encouragement, and sometimes…not so much, but that’s, ok. I am a Dad, I can handle it. To the Ex-Wife(you know she unfriended me on facebook! but that’s another story). Anywhooo, thank you Ex-Wife, for Divorcing me, and letting free, creativity, that was stifled, in a once GREAT, but finally, WTF!, marriage!
Peace.
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Awwwww, shucks! Thanks, John! It always feels great to win something! Glad you are out here blogging the great stuff that you do.
I will continue to drop on by!
And congrats to Don E. Chute! He seems very deserving and a better blogger couldn’t have won the big prize! Hey, we need a few “crazy” bloggers out here. Most of these blogs we read through in the system are so predictable and boooorrrrring, all saying what’s already been said and telling us all what we already know!
Kudos to the unique voices in the fray!
Congrats to all, and may you all have a great weekend!
The Fitness Diva´s last blog ..The Fitness Diva – Strong Mind, Strong Body E book
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John, how surprised I was this afternoon when I saw my email and such a nice gift from you. First you definitely picked the right winner in Don and second we kindly give you our thanks for such a great gift from you.
You have such a fantastic biog and one that I always enjoy stopping by to read, on whatever you decide to post on that day.You always write such good articles. I can only hope one day that we can be close to your wonderful way with words and your generosity, kindness regards, Glenn at MOB
Man Over Board´s last blog ..Help me: I’m not my Fucking Father
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Hi John,
Thank you so much. I honestly have always found you to be a great and knowledgeable person. I was told by another friend once that when one finds himself flying with crows that he must be a crow. Well, I fly with eagles, I know this because you are an eagle and I am proud to fly with you my friend. ;o)
Oh, I had a chance to “meet” Don also. Reading his posts was like sitting in the living room growing up and listening to my dad talk. I really enjoyed my time there. Take care my friend. ;o)
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