I see your plot Paige, but seriously, I think I now have a sore throat from licking who knows what germs off of my computer screen...and I didn't even taste a hint of strawberry!
If any of you are crazy enough to not know who Paige Kellerman is, then
With this award comes rules: Give 7 random facts about myself and pass the award on. Simple enough!
1. I have a new blog and it's officially launched as of yesterday! (ok so most of you probably already know this but I've got to get a plug in while I can!) If you haven't done so yet, go check out my first post in With a Meek Heart.
2. When I lived in my cute little 2 bedroom duplex in the States, I was so desperate for a cat (and couldn't have one since I was renting) that I would buy cat food and put it in a dish on the back deck. A few neighbor cats would come by regularly, and then a cooky black cat showed up. I never found out if anyone owned her, but I called her Pandora, and she had the biggest green eyes I had ever seen. Then a family of 5 nasty raccoons discovered my cat food dish and that ended that. Pandora still came by to visit though.
3. I had huge rosemary bushes around the front of that duplex, but the raccoons liked to have sex in them, so I am very much put off by rosemary and would never pick any.
4. I was allowed to get a guinea pig in the duplex. I found a family that was trying to find a home for theirs, and I knew she was for me when she peed on my lap as soon as I held her! I called her Lucy, and we had some good times before I gave her to another family with guinea pigs before we moved to Scotland.
5. My living room in that house was all Asian decorated. My first Christmas in the house, I actually created an Asian decorated Christmas tree. The topper was a trio of big fans, I had little Japanese lantern ornaments, fan ornaments, Asian coins, and I made a garland out of colored wooden beads with symbols on them that were originally bracelets. It was pretty cute!
6. I know I have mentioned this in the past, but for all the newer people since, I have a fear of goats. Little ones and babies are ok but the adults creep me out! Their eyes are so creepy and I just get the willies around them.
7. I never, ever, ever want to go to Australia. If a country is filled on land and in sea with creatures that are poisonous and/or want to kill you, then it's not a country I ever want to visit (HAVE YOU SEEN THE SIZE OF THEIR SPIDERS!?!). New Zealand on the other hand, would be fantastic!
There ya go, my 7 things. So now to pass this award on!
She has been a friend of mine since middle school, and I was ridiculously in love with her brother at that time (yes, he was younger than me too)...she even made me a paper mache figure of his foot as an inside joke! Anyway, she is one of the most irresistibly sweet, funny, and brilliant (she's almost a doctor!), and I would give almost anything to have another slumber party with her:
Alicia: A Journey of the Mind, Body, and Spirit
If this next lovely lady wasn't already sweet and wonderful, then I could have just given her the award simply on the adorableness of her daughter's Valentine's Day outfit! A bazillionaire fashion designer couldn't have created a cuter outfit! So this next award goes to the incredible wife, mommy, and career woman:
Minxy
This third award goes to a very special woman who I have learned a lot from these past few months of reading her blog. She now has a private blog, so you will need to email her for access, but she's so worth it! Her thought provoking Monday questions, series on what is love and intimacy, and learning from her own journeys through depression and anxiety have been a true gift to me. and I love her to bits! Her naughty side is Lola, but I've come to know her more as:
Janie Junebug: you can email her for permission to her blog dumpedfirstwife@gmail.com
So there you have it! Enjoy these blogs over the weekend and I'll see you all next week!
Well deserved, and excellent choices on honorees.
ReplyDeleteWhy thank you! :) Happy Friday!
DeleteOh wow! I got a shout-out! That NEVER happens to me! Thank you, dear heart. Your disclaimer about NOT licking the computer screen was heeded. And, I hope you have pictures of that Asian-inspired Christmas tree because I am just stumped trying to visualize that! :o)
ReplyDeleteYou are very welcome and very deserving my dear! I have photos of the tree somewhere in a storage box in my parents attic in the US so someday I may be able to share it. Everyone thought I was crazy for wanting to make it Asian but they loved how it turned out!
DeleteMy kids totally want a guinea pig! LOL! They sounds so fun ;)
ReplyDeleteThey are so sweet an so vocal! Lucy was quite the chatty girl so we made good house mates. She was long haired so she needed to be bathed quite frequently and cleaning her cage was a weekly chore. They can be surprisingly a bit of work but I loved her :)
DeleteI meant (sound) ;) Oops.
ReplyDeleteI am so sad to hear you would never go to Australia. You would really be missing out. Most of the dangerous things aren't in the city areas. You should re-consider. ;)
ReplyDeleteTrue, the city areas are 'safe'...until I go to the water and have to worry about deadly sea snakes, jelly fish, sharks, AND salt water crocodiles! ;) I would want to travel all the long distance just to stay in a city and go nowhere so there would be little point in my travels. I raise my hand and admit to being a massive pansy. :)
DeleteYou already have my "fishducky approved" button. If I could give you more awards, I would!
ReplyDeleteI love my "fishducky approved" button and I wear it with pride! That's all the award I need :)
DeleteDid the raccoons try and have sex with the Guinea pig? My wife doesn't like goats either, she thinks they are up to something.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness no! My poor Lucy was a sweet and innocent animal, unlike the morally questionable raccoons ;)
DeleteI like you wife; she sounds like a very smart woman! Goats are definitely up to something!
Raccoon sex? I am so turned on. Thank you for the award. I'm not worthy, Your Highness. I think evil thoughts about poor pregnant Paige because she's so funny I'm unbearable jealous. I want to explain birth control to her. You know, take two aspirin and hold them between your knees.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Whoa there Lola! Reign it in on the animal sex! ;)
DeleteYou are most definitely worthy of the award! I knew you would try and say otherwise but I'm not about to believe a word of it! We all think evil thoughts about the hilarity that is Paige Kellerman and also have fears that her kids will start up blogs funnier than ours as well, but that's ok! If that happens, I'm sure there are blog hit men for hire ;)
Congrats on the award!! I will never live in Florida again for those same reasons. Everything in that state is designed to KILL you! The snakes, the spiders, the alligators, the tourists. No thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the award my friend! I had almost forgotten about "The Foot".... HAHAHAHAHA!!!! So much laughter!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on your award! And well deserved! I'll be checking out your new blog shortly.
ReplyDeleteRosemary is an aphrodisiac for cats? Who knew?
ReplyDeleteBTW- Congrats on your award. As always, it's well deserved young one.
Mags you are such a card! Goats? Really? You can brave foreign lands but goats scare you? hahah I'm sorry you are to cute.
ReplyDeleteYou totally deserve it! I should've warned you about the whole screen-licking thing. My computer is STILL smudged because no one warned me...
ReplyDeleteYou've got more awards than I've got hair. Delete that. I love that Pandora story. I'm a cat person and I can't imagine living in a house where there are zero cats.
ReplyDeleteWhich brings me to goats. You're afraid of goats... is that a fact? But um... SHE doesn't think goats are scary... Well, I guess everyone is scared of something. I'm scared of WOLVES and once I did a bit of wrestling with a husky. Once is enough if you know what I mean. Oh, I'm also terrified of the IRS. ;)