Blogging Liebster Award

https://jrvincente.wordpress.com/2020/04/05/liebster-award/

Thanks for this award, JR! You're awesome. Any adults following my blog should go read her erotica books (if you're cool with that genre). 

Rules

1. Thank the blogger(s) who nominated you.
2. Share 11 facts about yourself.
3. Answer the 11 questions the blogger(s) asked you.
4. Nominate 11 bloggers and make them happy!
5. Makeup to 11 questions and ask them to your nominees.
6. Notify your 11 nominees.

11 facts about me

1. I prefer to watch tv on my tv. "But you can watch it on your little phone or handheld tablet!" When did we decide smaller screens are better? Did we reach the maximum tv size and then went the other way? I don't get it.
2. I love books. I have a life goal of having my own library. My books are precious to me.
3. I have a K-mart Santa Bear from every year they were made. 
4. I greatly prefer to decorate with pictures instead of "art" or whatever.
5. I don't have a favorite cup of coffee. I like different flavors for different days.
6. Listening to the music of my choice while driving keeps me calm and focused. 
7. Sometimes I feel more like a cat than a person. Generally when I see how some people act. What's the opposite of "faith in humanity restored" memes? (There's a presidency I could reference here. If that person is an example of people, I'm a cat. Meow. 🐈)
8. I like to try new foods (as long as I'm not allergic to the ingredients). 
9. I'm allergic to latex. I didn't know that for years. I have horror stories.
10. My wedding colors were green and purple. But the dresses my girls found (on sale and available that day in their sizes!!!) were two shades of blue. So I had four colors for my wedding.
11. I ran a freeform online gaming group for many years. I've met a few of those people in real life. One of my regular players was in my wedding party. Another of my casual players, it turned out, is related to my husband. 

The 11 questions from JR Vincente:
(This might be P part two for the #atozchallenge. 😄)

1. What is your favorite color? Purple
2. What is one food you can’t live without? Pasta
3. Would you rather have someone cook or clean for you? Please cook, I want to live...
4. What is your favorite thing about blogging? It's one more place to express myself
5. What is one song you could listen to on repeat for a week? Any song I pick is going to drive me crazy after that many plays.
6. What is one movie you have watched over and over again? Point of No Return
7. What is your favorite cartoon? My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic or She-Ra
8. What is one story you tell everyone you meet? Protect yourself from latex. That subject comes up even at the grocery store (thanks to latex rubberbands around certain veggies). I don't tell everyone some of my special horror stories ("Give me back my 🍆!") (Yeah, that can be a p-word also...) But I do mention that I had many bad experiences over the years before someone realized I had an allergy. That just wasn't a "thing" back in the 80's. I was "imagining" it. Notions... uh-huh. 
9. What is one thing you look for when picking a novel to read? Previously written books. I started reading something and was like, "Why do I feel like I missed the entire character establishing chapters?" Yeah, it was like the seventh book in a series. There were no numbers, no way to know, unless you looked the author up. That pissed me off. The book was good, but I know I'd have liked it more if I knew the characters. It was like hanging out with people who had been friends for years and had inside jokes and you're on the outside like... "okay..." Yeah. 😕
10. What came first, the chicken or the egg? Pterodactyls laid eggs. There were eggs 300 million years ago. The chicken didn't come into existence until about 10,000 years ago. So it stands to reason that the first chicken hatched from an egg that was laid by a non-chicken.
11. What is your favorite vacation destination? Pick a city where it's cold enough for me to enjoy activities. I really love the ocean, but it's hard to find a place that's open and fun in the colder seasons. Atlantic City has a huge advantage in this for me.

My nominees are all blogs in the #atozchallenge!

1. Romi - https://romi005.blogspot.com/
2. Romila - https://medium.com/@romspeaks
3. Denise Costello - https://www.mdenisecostello.com/
4. Dyanne Dillon - http://iwantbacksies.blogspot.com/
5. Writer Zen Garden - https://writerzengarden.com/
6. Suzy - https://suzysomedaysomewhere.blogspot.com/
7. Prakash Hegade - https://itsphblog.wordpress.com/
8. Lynn Proctor - http://lynnproctor.blogspot.com/
9. Alana - https://ramblinwitham.blogspot.com/
10. Carol - https://buttercupcountsherblessings.blogspot.com/
11. Deborah Drucker - https://notestiedonthesagebrush.com/ 

The 11 questions for my nominees:

1. Where was the last place you went on vacation?
2. How do you feel about Florida?
3. What's your favorite flower?
4. How many phone numbers do you have memorized? NO LOOKING IN YOUR PHONE!
5. What are your feelings on sour cream?
6. Are you good at any sports?
7. Do you drink coffee, and if so, do you have a favorite?
8. What brand of toilet paper do you prefer? 🚽
9. How often do you use a thesaurus (or search for synonyms)?
10. Have you ever done any roleplaying (RPG, MMORPG, tabletop, etc)?
11. How much sleep do you like to have a night? (If you get it or not.)

Thanks for coming! 

Liebster Award

Thanks for thinking of me,  Nicki! ♥

http://offthebeatenplan.com/whatever/liebster-ed/

Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog in your post.
Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”.
Answer 11 questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.
Provide 11 random facts about yourself.
Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers.
Create a new list of 11 questions for the nominees to answer
List these rules in your post (copy and paste).
Once you have written and published it, you then have to:
Inform the people/blogs that you nominated that they have been nominated for the Liebster Award and provide a link for them to your post so that they can learn about it (they might not have ever heard of it!)

11 Questions Nicki asked:

1- Whatchya doin’? (Besides answering these questions.)

Watching Stargate. Hoping to go to sleep soon. I'd like to leave for Knoebels in 5 hours. (Which won't apply when you read this, because I'll finish this post later.)

2-Do you find these types of awards to be genuine, or just another “chain mail of the Internet” kind of thing?

In a world where "world's greatest (whatever)" is mass produced on mugs, shirts, etc... This award at least makes no such claim. It just says you're here, you blog, and someone recognized that effort. It isn't Writer's Digest top 100 or something, but not everyone blogs to such a purpose.

3- Why do you blog? (Or if you haven’t been for a while, why not?)

For fun, to vent, to express myself.

4- Over or under? (toilet paper)

Nope! Okay, it'd be over, but my apartment is set up in such a way that I wouldn't be able to reach the tp while on the toilet. So I set it on the towel rack. Thereby it is neither over or under.

5- Name one thing that other people do that drives you nuts (doesn’t have to be the worst thing).

There are those who believe they have the only right way. "Cups should go in that cabinet, not this one." You know what? It's my damn house. I'll put my cups wherever I damn well please. So when they try to change things that are, seriously, of no real consequence, that drives me nuts. Genuine improvement, okay. Minor nitpick crap, shut the hell up.

6- Which of the following would you prefer:
To be rich, but lonely and without friends.
To be poor, but to have lots of friends who love you.
Or to assign the person who thought you could only have one or the other to write “I will not live in absolutes” on the blackboard 1,000 times?

I already am the second one!  I'm still lonely some days, but not rich. I like the third choice because it adds to Nicki's word count, and that'll make her happy.

7- What’s your favorite quote?

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

8- Do you get your energy from solitude, by having other people around you, or a mix of both?

Solitude gives me no energy, it's just what I survive in because that's what there is. People... Seriously depends on the peoples. I ♡ Tuesday.

9- Have you ever learned to use chopsticks?

Yup. When I was in Canada. But I only use them once in a great while, when social situations that I care about for a logical reason dictate it appropriate.

10- Are you living your dream right now?

No. With the exception of a great husband, basically everything else has gone wrong. Every fix I work on makes it worse. I know it can be even more worse than it is, but that doesn't help because it actually does keep on declining. I've also tried reducing the dream, being more realistic, aiming lower. Didn't help. Now I can't even manage a tiny dream. I tried just reach little goals for 1 hour one day... The power went out and I couldn't breathe, I ran out of gas, and my credit card went over the limit trying to fix that. 1 HOUR. Raise your hand if you know what a curse is.

11- What is your preferred writing implement?

Pilot Easy Touch pen, especially fine size.

11 random facts about me:

1- I'm writing these facts 24 hours after I started the above stuff.
2- I drove past Centralia twice in that time period. It's been on fire since 1962. I think that's fascinating.
3- I hate rollercoasters. Most of my family loves them.
4- I love to ride the Ferris Wheel. Most of my family hates that ride.

 

5- I love toffee, but am frequently disappointed by toffee flavored items (especially coffee).
6- My mom HATES dinosaurs. Which wouldn't be about me, but I took this picture:

7- I love me some Starbucks.

 8- DrawSomething is my favorite Android App Game.

 9- I made a friend (Dori) playing app games on MySpace a dozen years ago. Still friends! <3
10- I started a mini journal on Tues, May 3rd. This is largely because of Nicki.
11- My husband and I have the same initials. (So does his uncle, grandfather RIP, some cousins, etc.)

I'm nominating these 11 (without regard to number of followers) :

1. http://thenovelorange.com/
2. http://brandysbustlings.blogspot.ca/
3. https://franklparker.com/
4. http://mommyrnblog.com/
5. http://stephaniesstuff84.blogspot.com/
6. http://pensivepenspost.blogspot.com/
7. https://nananettie1969.com/
8. http://n8ltg.blogspot.com/
9. https://mhsusannematthews.wordpress.com/
10. http://mjfifield.blogspot.com/
11. http://obliqview.blogspot.in/

Your 11 Questions:

1- What's your favorite book with a strong female protagonist? 

2- Have you ever been dead in this lifetime?

3- How many books do you own, approximately? 

4- Would you rather see (as recorded footage) 1500 years in the past or the future and why?

5- Have you ever genuinely tried to USE THE FORCE? (Telekinesis)

6- Would you want your face to be depicted on money?

7- What's the best drink recipe? 

8- Can you contribute answers to any of these: https://www.quora.com/profile/Jamie-Dorner/questions

9- What books, if any, have you read where the protagonist has a close relative in prison?

10- What color pen ink do you prefer?

11- Any exciting plans for the next few months?