Recognition, Rules and Random Facts

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Lately I’ve been pretty amazed to watch this little blog, that I never actually expected anyone to read, grow!  With it’s growth, I’ve been amazed to receive recognition from fellow bloggers; saying that they like what I’m doing and want to encourage me to keep doing it!

In the past two weeks I’ve been nominated by two fellow bloggers, Darla at Mom’s World and Ginger at The Wild and Wonderful World of Gingerssnaps, for two different awards!  The first, from Darla, my second Liebster Award.  And the second, from Ginger, the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.  Since the rules for both sort of overlap, I’m going to address both in one post!

Darla and Ginger, thank you so much for your encouragement, support and recognition!

ules

    

andom Facts About Me

According to the rules of the two awards, I owe you 18 random facts about myself.

1. When I was a kid, eating green apples would sometimes give me a rash that ran across my cheeks from my mouth to my ears; I ate green apples anyway!
2. I taught myself to knit by watching a YouTube video and buying a beginners knitting book.  I’ve made scarves and a hat for Little Man.
   
3. While at a PTA meeting at Baby Girl and Monkey Man’s elementary school, I accidentally volunteered to become PTA President; I remained PTA president until they were both out of elementary school – 5 years later!
4. DH and I went to New York City in September 1999 for two friends’ wedding.  While we were there we visited the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty.  I still have our ticket stubs for the WTC and the receipt for the Statue of Liberty.
   
5. I accidentally ran over the first live armadillo I had ever seen (just after remarking how all the armadillos I had seen were dead).
6. For a really long time I thought purple was my favorite color.  Turns out, while I like purple OK, my favorite color is actually blue.
7. When I was a kid I really wanted to have long, beautiful hair (I had a short Dorothy Hamill-style haircut).
   
8. My best friend as a kid was also named Crystal; she lived next door.
9. I have one tattoo near my right hip.
10. There aren’t many foods I refuse to eat, but boiled okra is an absolute no-go!
11. When I was a kid we were visiting my step-grandparents and went out to eat.  My hamburger came out with a bite taken out of it – right through both buns and the meat!  We sent it back and they put the same meat on a different bun and brought it back out.  My step-grandmother said I had complained enough and to just be quiet and eat it!  I swore I would never go to that restaurant chain again and I haven’t!

    

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12. When I was a young teen, my parents would leave my brother and I home alone while they traveled.  During one of their trips my brother and I taught our dog to answer to a new name.
13. For a few years as a teenager, I was a “cutter”; my parents never noticed.  Not once.
14. When I was a teenager I wanted a third ear piercing but my mom wouldn’t let me.  I pierced my own ear with a safety pin and my mom didn’t notice until a week later.
15. On January 28, 1986 I was at home sick by myself, watching TV, when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.  It was the first shuttle launch I had ever watched.

    

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16. When I was really little my parents let me get a cat.  I really wanted a girl cat, but for some reason I got a tomcat.  I named him Lucy and called him a “her” his entire life.  I loved that damn cat!
    
17. After I was 10 years old, whenever I was sick, I stayed at home alone while my parents went to work.  I figured out that I could stay home two days before my mom took me to the doctor.  I felt “good enough to go to school” after two days home A LOT.
18. When Baby Girl was born, I decided that we had to have a “real” Christmas tree every year for as long as there were kids in the house.  We haven’t had a “fake” tree in the 21 years since!

 
Darla’s  Liebster Questions:

1. Favorite ice cream? Plain old vanilla soft serve ice cream
2. Favorite song from the 90s? Music in the 90s was AWESOME and it’s really hard to pick just one.  I’ll go with Alanis Morissette’s "You Oughta Know" with the disclaimer that asking me tomorrow will yield a different answer.
3. Favorite cartoon? The Simpsons
4. Favorite actor/actress? Emma Stone
5. Favorite restaurant? Yamatos Hibachi Restaurant
6. Favorite sock color? plain ol’ white
7. Favorite shampoo? Suave Professionals Rosemary & Mint
8. Favorite car? Jeep Wrangler
9. Favorite color? Blue
10. Favorite animal? Cat
11. Favorite season? Fall

 

Nominations

Each award calls for nominating other bloggers.  Here are the blogs I would like to pass these awards forward to:

The Owl’s Skull My Crazy Family Circus Losing My Gut While Gaining my INSANITY!! The Occasional Adventures of a Hermit Live the Moment Plentiful Sufficiency Random Musings from the KristenHead Little Moments The Ruralhood It’s a Joy! In My Own Words	Adventure Into Domesticland A Fly on our (Chicken Coop) Wall Home, Home on Deranged Pretty Little Dahlia Haley’s Comic

My Liebster Nominee Questions

1. What do you have on your feet right now?
2. What color are your toenails?
3. What’s your secret talent?
4. What is your favorite food?
5. If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?
6. If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?
7. What do you want to be when you grow up?
8. If you could own any vehicle in the world, what would you own?
9. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?
10. Do you have a nickname?  What is it?
11. Would you rather be rich or good looking?  Why?

You should take the time to check out all of my nominees!  They're great blogs that deserve encouragement and recognition!