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Monday, February 18, 2013

gratitude interlude: the awards show edition


You guys are too kind. No, really, all of you (especially you there, LONE READER IN MONGOLIA). A little while back the wonderful JustMe at Bits and Pieces nominated me for this little jam called a Liebster Award. I still don’t totally understand the internet and I was shy and got distracted and I’m a jerk so I never did what I was supposed to do let it slip through the cracks. Then the lovely Sadie over at Invincible Spring sent some more love my way and I caved. I can no longer avoid your surely-misdirected-praise. 

So, here’s the deal: the idea of the Liebster Award is to attract more readership to small blogs that we think are super rad (that’s the technical language). It’s part chain letter, part paying it forward. You answer some questions, you pose some questions, you nominate some new blogs, and then you start counting page views from Firefox users in the Ukraine. You’re supposed to do eleven of each (11 questions, 11 nominees, 11 things about yourself), but because I’m a jerk a non-conformist and 11 is a bridge too far into double-digit-land, I may not have followed each of these rules exactly…

So. Here are my nominees:[1]
4. Invincible Spring (I can return the favor, right?)
5. Bits and Pieces (ditto)

And here are some questions for these witty ladies (no pressure to play along here):
1. What’s one thing you wish you had known before starting this, ahem, adventure?
2. What’s your vice/guilty pleasure?
3. What’s the best book you’ve read in the last year?
4. Chocolate or peanut butter?
5. Complete this sentence: When I grow up I want to be _______.
6. What non fertility-trying-to-conceive website should the rest of us be wasting time on right now?
7. What was your favorite childhood television show?
8. You are down to your last $20 - what do you buy?
9. And finally, because I have a tendency to succumb to peer pressure, please share a recipe?