What goes around, comes around

Kelly from Unplanned Trip To Holland has just given me the Liebster Blog award. So of course, I had to go look up the rules so I could break them. Except she didn't post them. She did, however post her answers to a list of questions that I assume were part of the award process. They were the exact same questions that were part of the Sunshine Award. Which I just got last week. In fact, she tagged me for this award in the comments on that post. Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

Tracing it further back, I did find one rule about limiting the award to bloggers with fewer than a certain number of followers, but there was some disagreement about whether that number was 20 or 200. Wait a minute! I can't even keep up with reading all my blogs, and now I have to keep track of how many followers they have?

Hmm, I do kinda like the idea of an award for the little guy. Especially since some  new bloggers come along, follow my blog, post comments, and within a year have WAY MORE FOLLOWERS than I do! But I really do like her blog. It's like, one of my favorite favorites. And she probably didn't know that I had just answered these questions because I was a smartass and just posted my answers without the questions.

Italia what Ima do. I'll post my answers again, this time, first the answers, then the questions. I usually just say, "Read the blogs in my sidebar." I started a long post saying something nice about each of the blogs in my sidebar, but it was getting so long no one would read it all, assuming I ever finished writing it. Instead, I'm starting a new feature where I choose a "Featured Blog" from time to time, (basically, whenever I feel like it) and post nice things about the blogger, along with this random logo I stole off the internet.

(I typed "random logo i stole off the internet" in Google Images, and this is the first thing that came up.) They can come claim the award, copy and paste the logo, and do whatever they want with it. Or if they don't want to post it on their blogs, they can just leave a comment here, so I know they read my post. K? If they don't see it, serves them right for not reading my blog!

The answer is:
Cyan.
The question is:
What is your favorite color?

Mama Bear.
What is your favorite animal?

I agree with Dee's answer.
What is your favorite number?

Coffee.
What is your favorite drink?

I've never Twittered. I was about to quit FB when Social Fixer came along and made FB tolerable. Now I can keep up with all my friends if I want to, but I hardly ever check FB. I have 491 FB friends, and it's just the same people posting the same kind of stuff over and over.
FB or Twitter?

Reading.
What is your passion?

Giving presents. To myself.
(Do you prefer) Giving or receiving presents?

July 4, 1776.
What is your Favorite day?

Freshly ground whole wheat.
What is your Favorite Flower?

Coming Soon: Featured Blogs

Sanka, Are You Dead? Yah, Mon!

I haven't had time to read blogs in a while, much less post. Even when I check my email, I only scan my inbox for items that require my immediate attention. Yesterday was the last day of what GL's school calls Winter Break in order to avoid offending hundreds of imaginary people. So I thought today would be the day we could begin getting back to our routine. I'm glad Christmas Vacation was only eight days; disruption to routine is bad enough, but GL always thinks everything is permanent. He asks about school many times a day, but he keeps insisting that he was expelled from school and can never go back.

Yesterday we all woke up with sore throats. Last night, GL started throwing up. I think I'll be sitting on the couch a lot today; the laundry can wait. Enough spreading the sunshine!

Which brings me to the award I got this morning. Rules are here.

1. Thanks, Dee.
2. http://www.snippetsnstuff.com/2012/01/how-lucky-am-i.html
3. Cyan. Mama Bear. I agree with Dee's answer. Coffee. Neither. (I didn't log in to Facebook for two weeks and didn't miss it. Logged in to see what I'd missed. Nothing. And I'm not a Twit.)  Reading. Giving presents. To myself. July 4, 1776. Freshly ground whole wheat.

Read the blogs in my sidebar. They each deserve an award.

It's been a hectic week in Lake Wobegon

Dee at http://www.snippetsnstuff.com/ sent me an award, but I'm just now getting time to acknowledge it. If she hadn't notified me in my comments, I still wouldn't even know about it because I'm so far behind on reading blogs. Apparently I'm supposed to tell you 7 things you didn't know about me and pass this award on to an unspecified number of bloggers.

Seven things you didn't know about me? I guess that depends on how long you've been reading this blog. You should go back and read Dee's list; it is much more interesting. Here are seven things I'm pretty sure I haven't mentioned here:

1. I never walked around Las Vegas with an icepack on my boob.
2. You're not any more likely to see me in a gown, tiara, necklace and earrings than Dee in the same get-up. Considerably less likely, in fact.
3. I don't have a time capsule.
4. I am only vaguely aware of who Stevie Nicks is.
5. I love thunderstorms. They are like the Best Fireworks Show Ever. Tornadoes, not so much.
6. I am completely unable to smell most roses. Maybe it's one of those weird genetic things. The leaves smell like a freshly mowed lawn. The flowers have no scent that I can detect. The few roses I can smell smell like old lady perfume, but very faint.
7. I love going to potlucks and sampling different foods. I cook most meals at home, but my wife usually does the cooking for potlucks. Does that make me a freeloader?

I'm going to wimp out and say read the blogs listed on my sidebar. If any of them want to come claim the award or pass it on, fine. We now return to our irregular schedule.

Wow! Another Award!

Kathleen at Autismherd just gave me an award. Here are the rules:


"1. You must proudly display the absolutely disgusting graphic that I have created for these purposes. It's so bad that not only did I use COMIC SANS, but there's even a little jumping, celebrating kitten down there at the bottom. It's horrifying! But its presence in your award celebration is crucial to the memetastic process we're creating here.

2. You must list 5 things about yourself, and 4 of them must be bold-faced lies. Just make stuff up, we'll never know; one of them has to be true, though. Of course, nobody will ever know the difference, so we're just on the honor system here. I trust you.

3. You must pass this award on to 5 bloggers that you either like or don't like or don't really have much of an opinion about. I don't care who you pick, and nobody needs to know why. I mean, you can give a reason if you want, but I don't really care.

4. If you fail to follow any of the above rules, I will harass you incessantly until you either block me on Twitter or ban my IP address from visiting your blog. I don't know if you can actually do that last thing, but I will become so annoying to you that you will actually go out and hire an IT professional to train you on how to ban IP addresses just so that I'll leave you alone. I'm serious. I'm going to do these things."

Okaaayy... since the picture was so nauseatingly cute:

1. I once lit a firecracker to see if I could cut the fuse with scissors before it exploded the way they do in cartoons. That's how I learned the difference between slow match and quick match fuses.
2. Once, when I turned on a lamp and it didn't light, I put my hand in the socket to see if the bulb was there. It wasn't.
3. I built an electric motor for a science fair project that was supposed to run on 12 volts d.c. It didn't work, so my dad suggested hooking it up to 120 volts a.c. It exploded.
4. I used to ride on the trunk of my dad's car while he did doughnuts in the church parking lot.
5. I scored over 150 on an I.Q. test.

I'll pass this on to Basic Instructions, Great White Snark, What Sweeter Music, Snippets 'N Stuff, and Nobody Wants to See Your Booty.