LIEBSTER ( Have no idea who Liebster is or was, but here's an award named for him/her)

I posted this on my other site on Thursday and wanted to give my AR friends an opportunity to participate. Some interesting answers there from commenters you might enjoy.  It's an opportunity to meet new friends and learns facts about old ones.  Come on participate, you know you want to.  

Thank you  Celeste Jones for nominating me for this award.

  

1. Thank the person who nominated you, and post a link to their blog on your blog.
2. Display the award on your blog — by including it in your post and/or displaying it using a “widget” or a “gadget”. (Note that the best way to do this is to save the image to your own computer and then upload it to your blog post.)
3. Answer 11 questions about yourself, which will be provided to you by the person who nominated you.
4. Provide 11 random facts about yourself.
5. Nominate 5 – 11 blogs that you feel deserve the award, who have a less than 1000 followers. (Note that you can always ask the blog owner this since not all blogs display a widget that lets the readers know this information!)
6. Create a new list of questions for the blogger to answer.
7. List these rules in your post. Once you have written and published it, you then have to:
8. 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!)

Here are the answers to Celeste's questions to me.

1. What is your fantasy vacation? A cruise to somewhere warm but not leaving the ship.

2. Cats or Dogs? Both

3. What's your favorite breakfast? Bagel with lox, cream cheese and capers

4. What's your guilty pleasure? Lobster

5. What's your favorite thing about blogging? Getting to meet new friends

6. What's your least favorite thing about blogging? Trying to come up with interesting things to post.

7. If you could go back in time to your 18 year old self, what message would you give yourself?Enjoy every single day, one day at a time. 

8. If you had a day to do whatever you wanted, what would you do?I'm retired, so that's my life.

9. What advice do you have for someone who is new to blogging?  Don't believe everything you read and remember everyone has an opinion and it's probably different than yours and that's okay.

10. What is one of your pet peeves? Waiter/Waitress that comes by to take my order when I am sitting there with the menu still open.  (hello)

11. What are some of the challenges of keeping your life as a spanking blogger/writer a secret? Trying to remember who knows what.

Okay, here are eleven facts about myself.

I'm the oldest in a family of four.

I can name all fifty states and their capitols.

I don't watch much television

I'm an American History nut

I have never been nominated as one of the most beautiful people alive

I can float straight up and down 

I'm addicted to Words with Friends and Candy Crush

I hate being called Ma'am

      Am I up to 11 yet?

My maiden name is the same as my pen name

I hate having too many choices

I hate coming up with things people don't know - have to keep some secrets you know.

NOW FOR MY ELEVEN QUESTIONS TO ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND.  

1 .   In what time zone do you live?

2.    What's your favorite snack food?

3.    Are you religious or spiritual or both?

4.    Do you think we are the only people in the universe?

5.    What's your favorite element:  earth, fire, water, wind?

6.    Do you have a favorite movie?

7.    Who is your favorite author in a genre other than ours?

8.    How many other bloggers have you met in person?

9.    Name your favorite alcoholic drink?

10.  Do you wear your hair long or short?

11.  What's your favorite

See you later for more Aimless Ramblings.