Monday, June 4: Last week, Nando of Cyan Skies nominated me for the Genuine Blogger Award! Of course I can’t help but be flattered and pleased that someone thought enough of my blog to nominate me for any recognition. Thank you so much, Nando, for your kind nomination!!
The rules for accepting the award are pretty simple:
- Post an article stating that you have been nominated and include the name and link to the blogger who nominated you.
- You should also include the logo of the award on your post, and in your sidebar (or on a permanent page) so that everyone who visits your site will know that you have won the award.
- Tell your readers seven random things about yourself.
- Pass the honor forward by nominating seven other bloggers that you feel deserve the award. Include links to their blogs in your post.
- Notify those seven bloggers that you have nominated them.
Here are seven random things about myself:
1. I am always fretting about my weight, especially my ever-expanding waistline, which I think is the horrible thing about middle-age. I weigh myself every morning, in the hopes that what I see will shock me so much that I won’t eat much that day! This rarely works.
2. I love the song and the music video of “I and Love and You” by the Avett Brothers, which I think is a song about nostalgia and growing up in America.
3. I fell in love with Egypt in 2007 and have been looking to repeat the experience I had there since then. Oman, where I live now, is much more modern and clean and sparsely populated than Egypt, but it doesn’t have the energy and character, or the fascination, that Egypt holds for me. I hope to return there someday.
4. The first road trip I ever took was a trip to my mother’s hometown of Pagosa Springs, Colorado when I was about 10 years old. On that trip, I rode horses, hiked in the Rocky Mountains, ate scrambled eggs with chili powder cooked by my grandfather in a cast-iron skillet over an open fire, and fell in love with road trips.
5. I am the oldest of 5 children, with my youngest brother, Rob, 9 years my junior. My second-to-youngest brother Brian died in 1988 and never got the chance to live his life. It was so sad to lose him, a creative and talented young man, at such a young age.
6. I’m a fallen-away Catholic, was an Episcopalian for a long time, and now just consider myself Christian with some Buddhist sprinklings.
7. I love the water, especially being on a sailboat or canoe, and bobbing along in glimmers of sunlight. I even used to work on a boat, at MSI (Management Systems International), which had its offices on 13 boats in a marina in Washington, D.C.
Though there are many bloggers I’d love to nominate, I will try to pick 7. I know many bloggers who have been nominated numerous times for various awards, so if they don’t feel like accepting, I certainly understand. Here are my 7 nominations, in no particular order:
1. Ailsa from Where’s my backpack?
2. Flickr Comments by FrizzText
3. Jo at restlessjo ~ Roaming, at home and abroad
4. Christina at Shanghaied Away
5. Christine at Heartfelt Images
6. Priya at Hellopalz
7. Elaine at i used to be indecisive…but now i’m not so sure
Congratulations on your award! I weigh myself every morning too, with the same result 🙂
Haha, how frustrating is that? I wish one day I’d get on the scale and it would miraculously be less, not more, than the day before!! 🙂
I have given up hopes of that ever happening 😦
Thank you so much for this nomination, i have a couple of awards n recognition like this lined up. I would be happy to accept it 🙂
You’re welcome! Great, I’m glad you’ll accept it!! Good job on your cool blog!!
Many thanks for the nomination and congrats on yours. Love the family photos. Do you get back to the States to see them now and again?
You’re welcome Jo, and thank you too! I hopefully will see my family when I return to the states in August. I know I’ll see my kids at the very least!
The first road trip I ever took was a trip to my mother’s hometown of Pagosa Springs, Colorado when I was about 10 years old. On that trip, I rode horses, hiked in the Rocky Mountains, ate scrambled eggs with chili powder cooked by my grandfather in a cast-iron skillet over an open fire, and fell in love with road trips.
P.S.:
your Colorado grandfather helped to develop the strong courage you are unfolding more and more …
Thank you, Frizz. That’s a very kind thing to say. Although lately, I’m feeling increasingly unsure of myself. Hope it’s just a phase… 🙂
Hi Cathy! Congrats on your nomination! You deserve to win! I love reading your blogs! I think it is a woman thing with the weight and the scales! I weigh everyday and hope the pounds have “fallen off” hehehe of course they are still there, sigh. Oh well everyone has to love me for who I am and not who I would love to be, hehe! Have a great day 🙂 and Congrats again ❤
Thank you Theresa for your encouragement and support! Yes, the weight thing is always an issue with women, isn’t it? Everytime I look in the mirror I get more and more discouraged. And then my clothes are tighter too, which is so uncomfortable. Why is it so easy to put it on, but so hard to take it off?
I used to be in such denial that I didn’t get on the scales for years with a disastrous result! getting on daily doesn’t work either! refusing to by a bigger size jeans helps because if they won’t do up I have to do something about it. 🙂
I think you’re right Gilly. I rarely give in to buying bigger jeans or pants, because then I fear the waist will keep expanding. Yet, I can’t stand being uncomfortable. So I must do something! 🙂
Love the random things about you. You have a lovely family. Here’s a little secret: men also fret about their mid-sections! Alas, those six packs are definitely buried in there somewhere…
Thank you, Nando!! I think once we reach a certain age, we are all fretting about our midsections. What I hate to accept is that every time I eat anything, it seems to increase my circumference, but when I try to get rid of it, it latches on like crazy!! I love your comment “Alas, those six packs are definitely buried in there somewhere…” Hilarious!! 🙂
Congrats on your nomination and thanks so much for nominating me! I loved reading all of the interesting and random seven facts about you 🙂
Thank you Christina. I’m still stymied by your latest Shanghaied adventure. Maybe I missed that someone guessed it already or maybe i missed the post where you revealed your destination. Are you in Morocco, or Spain or Portugal? That’s probably too simple….
Haha! Someone actually guessed right on my first post! Can you believe that?! Everyone else took a number of clues before they figured it out. I had assumed that most everyone knew at this point so I wasn’t being too sneaky with my posts anymore. You got it right with Portugal! If you haven’t been before I definitely recommend it. I have fallen in LOVE with this country!!
I at first thought it was somewhere in the Middle East because of the architecture. But the spiked building threw me off. Anyway, I’m sure it’s beautiful and amazing and I will certainly have to go there someday!!