Category: blogging

So thankful!

~ Meg ~ 8 Comments

Yesterday, I was nominated by the lovely Becky B for the Leibster Award!  Thank you so much!  The blogging community is full of wonderful people and this is such a great way to promote one another.  How awesome!  This helps us discover new blogs by sharing the love!

Here’s how it works:

  1. Make a post thanking and linking the person who nominated you.
    Include the Liebster Award sticker in the post too.
  2. Nominate 5 -10 other bloggers who you feel are worthy of this award. Let them know they have been nominated by commenting on one of their posts. You can also nominate the person who nominated you.
  3. Ensure all of these bloggers have less than 200 followers.
  4. Answer the eleven questions asked to you by the person who nominated you, and make eleven questions of your own for your nominees or you may use the same questions.
  5. Lastly, COPY these rules in your post.

Here are my answers to Becky’s questions:

  1. Are you a morning person or a night owl?  Night owl definitely 
  2. What’s your favorite book from childhood?  My Side Of the Mountain – by Jean Craighead George
  3. If I had a time machine, which period or place would you travel to right now?  This is tricky.  History has not been kind to women, therefore any period in the past is going to set me back in terms of equality.  So how about I travel forward to 2063 when Zefram Cochrane invents warp drive?!? (Star Trek reference) 
  4. What was the last film you watched and who did you watch it with?  The Imitation Game and I watched with my husband
  5. What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done?  Yikes!  I’m a chicken!  
  6. What’s the best thing about you?  I don’t take myself too seriously
  7. When you were little, what did you want to be?  I had a list: gymnast, rock star, astronaut, Queen of England.  Lofty goals…
  8. If we had to compete at something right now, what activity are you confident you can beat me at?  Self deprecating joke telling?
  9. Of the posts you have written, which is your favorite? The Fair Folk of Galway Bay, one of my fairy tales
  10. What has made you smile this week?  Gemma Halliday’s book Killer in High Heels (highly recommend, it’s hilarious!)
  11. If you could hug anyone right now, who would it be?  Former President Jimmy Carter

Now then, here are the folks who I would like to nominate:

Sometimes Stellar Story Teller Nicola Auckland because she is a stellar story teller!

Travel Much? Humor, creativity, travel, who could ask for anything more?

OPRF Life check out Whitney’s blog, chronicling the massive renovation of their old home!

RunTroyRun confessions of a lazy runner, which I don’t believe for a minute based on his photos

The H-files Scott blogs about a little bit of everything!

If you all choose to accept this award then here are your 11 questions:

  1. What is your dream vacation?
  2. What book are you currently reading?
  3. Which historical figure would you most like to have a beer with? (or a coffee, if you don’t drink beer!)
  4. If you could trade places with anyone, who would it be?
  5. If you had a superpower, which one would it be?
  6. PC or Mac?  Android or iPhone?
  7. What makes you want to get out of bed in the morning?
  8. What did you want to be when you grew up?
  9. Which of your posts so far, is your favorite?
  10. What kind of music do you listen to?
  11. What makes a friend?

Happy blogging, my friends!!

Wicked Word Wednesday

~ Meg ~ 14 Comments

Or:  How I Learned to Start Worrying and Be Afraid of Flying Monkeys

So yesterday on kelli blogs she proposed an idea for a weekly feature called Wicked Word Wednesday.  Kelli will post a word and we can all join in with a story, anecdote, poem, what have you, and play along.  What better word to launch the day than “Wicked”, right?  Kelli’s post was about the Wizard of Oz and it prompted a discussion among several of us as to how terrifying that movie was to all of us as children.  Which leads me to my follow up post:

What the hell were my parents thinking?!?!?

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That’s me far left, at age 20 with the old people!

I grew up as the only child of older parents.  In fact, my father being 20 years older than my mother, was 55 when I was born.  Surprise!  I’m not sure they knew what to do with me.  I found myself in grownup settings a lot.  By myself.  (See that old photo of the cocktail party?  That’s me in the corner with my Shirley Temple and a coloring book.)  That’s messed up, right?

Now I realize that some of the experiences I had growing up have made me what I am today and I wouldn’t change those things.  I’m content being alone, I don’t bore easily, I love to read and I appreciate art and history from being exposed to them at an early age.

However, and I hope this doesn’t sound whiny, my upbringing has left me with “issues”.  I mean, beyond an irrational fear of quicksand, hitting my head and getting amnesia and encountering flying monkeys in a forest full of evil trees!

Mom started perming my hair when I was in grade school and patting a little rouge on my pale cheeks.  What, not pretty enough? Mom played the piano and even taught music but wouldn’t give me lessons.  Not talented enough?  Aw, come on!  We’re going to the movies.  To see James Bond’s latest escapade.  That’s appropriate for a grade schooler, right?   I kept wondering why Bond was always going to bed in the middle of the day.  That guy needed a lot of naps.

Anyway, looking back on it now, I can laugh (sort of) but I really have to wonder what the hell they were thinking?

Day 8: playing catch up!

~ Meg ~ 2 Comments

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(Here’s my other workspace!)

I had a killer busy day today, thus I’m getting to this assignment later than I’d hoped!  That being said, I really enjoyed perusing the posts in my reader today and reaching out to some folks I hadn’t engaged with before.  Blogging 101 has opened up such a great new world, with fellow writers, people journaling their projects and travels, sharing their amazing photographs and their even more amazing stories.  Here are 4 of the blogs I visited today:

Kelli Blogs a writer with a great sense of humor and an interesting story to tell. No spoilers, I’ll let you discover for yourself!

Whitney at the OPRF Life who is renovating an old house, I mean SERIOUSLY down to the bare walls renovating!  Watching the progress is going to be awesome!

Travel Much? A hilarious account of Olive Ole and her family, from Norway and their adventures in Spain.

RunTroyRun Confessions of a lazy runner, plus pictures!

See you all tomorrow!  xo