Stylish?!....Who?!....Me?!

       I have had a most wonderful thing happen to me...I was awarded the Stylish Blogger Award by...not one person, but two!!! By Nat of Nat's Natterings...and my blogger pal T.Rusk4u. I was very surprised, and very honored that they thought I deserves such a nice notice. So, thanks to both of them!!!
   I feel sorta like 'Miss America', but only in the fact that there are duties bestowed upon the winner of this award. {I got that pretty thing down though!...^_^....but I'm not as smart as the real 'Miss America', and I don't know how to do the special hand wave! LOL}

        There are 4 duties to perform to receive this award though:

1. Thank, and link back to, the person who awarded you this award
2. Share 7 things about yourself
3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award! 

    Since number one is done, I'm going to tackle my 2nd duty...sharing 7 things about myself. I'm not going to do the obvious ones...like I love to crochet, and I write poetry like a nut! ^_^ I'll try to tell you some things you may not know about me:

(1.) Shortly out of High School, I had the opportunity to be the lead singer in a band. I decided not to because at the same time that this offer came up, my siblings were having some problems and needed to be relocated to live with me. I wouldn't have been able to leave them for nights out singing in a band.

(2.) I was a "Regular Pioneer" of Jehovah's Witnesses for 12 years (meaning that I went door-to-door and taught the Bible full-time for that period of time). I am a minister still. I just can't spend the same amount of time in the work as I used to. Health issues...But I miss it!

(3.) My husband has twins in his family, and this was a factor in our deciding not to have children! (Certainly not the only factor though) We were afraid we'd get more than one at a time. What chickens we were back then! LOL If we had it to do over again, we'd go for it!

(4.) I had chronic shyness from my early childhood, up to my 2nd year of High School! I don't think I saw anything but my feet the first year of High School!! ^_^

(5.) I sleep with a foot out from under the covers every night...no matter how hot or how cold it is. I feel like I can't breathe with it under the cover!!...I know! I need Therapy!!!! LOL

(6.) You'd have to have seen "The Mirror Has Two Faces", with Jeff Bridges and Barbara Streisand,  to understand this one, but no matter what I'm eating, the fork has to be loaded in such a way that everything is proportioned exactly correctly before it heads to my mouth!...I don't just eat...I ENJOY my food! :-)

(7.) My favorite music is Country! Me and my hubby used to go line-dancing regularly, and LOVED it!! That was before the hips went! LOL And considering that  I grew up surrounded by Motown music, it's a wonder that I fell in love with Country! {Not so surprising when you consider that I write poetry though. Every Country song is like a poetic story set to music!}...But, as a side point, there's very little kinds of music that I don't like!! I can appreciate Barry Manilow, Opera, and a good banjo too!!!

                 Charlotte Strumming her Banjo... by heatherfuture

     Now...on to duty number 3. I have to award 15 recently discovered bloggers this prestigious award. This one is going to be a little bit harder. Not because I don't have enough blogs that I follow, but because I don't have very many RECENTLY discovered bloggers to award it to. 

    I'm not the kind of person that racks up blogs JUST BECAUSE. I'm particular about who I follow, and I stay pretty loyal. If I follow you...I follow you!! :-) I don't like to accumulate so many bloggers that I can't keep track of what you're doing. So, I don't have but a few NEW people that I follow...But I'll do my best. Look out some of you OLDIES!! LOL But I can say...These blogs DESERVE this award!!

(1.) A little Piece of Me

(2.) A Scattering

(3.) And Baby Makes Three

(4.) Art Life

(5.) Artistikat Scratching Post

(6.) jansjems

(7.) Croatia

(8.) Duda Daze

(9.) Ezra Pound Cake

(10.) Facing 50 With Humour

(11.) Flight of the Pook

(12.) Framed

(13.) A Cup of Jo

(14.) Katherine's Corner

(15.) Mill Girl

     Being very honest with you, none of these bloggers need ME to give them an award to tell them how stylishly fabulous their blogs are! Some of them have a B-I-G following already! But they are so fabulous that I thought they should know how I feel about them, and you should get a chance to experience them yourselves!...I'm talking fun, art, good food, funny, and downright pleasant to visit. They are a part of the crew that make blogging such a delight to me!

   Okay, I'm off to fulfill obligation number 4!! I hope they left a light on! I don't want to be rambling around in the dark and hurt my crocheting arm again!!! ^_^

Logging All My Blogging

What will I talk about?
My camera's ready all the time!
Seems that everything's a subject,
whether ridiculous or sublime.

I upload all my pictures;
Head my post with one I like.
Put the title in the spot
that makes my story come to life.

Then I start the easy part,
talking til my face turns blue!
A little humorous bit of 'ME'!
(Is this what other bloggers do?)

After all my work is done,
and all my photos fit right in,
Then I hit to "Publish Post",
Well, first a "Preview", and a grin.

All that's left is constant checking.
Does anybody even care
that I'm nervous what they think,
and that my heart's all just 'Out There'?!

In the end, I have to like it!
Because it's done, won't hit "Undo"!
It's all fun and being me!
I leave the comments now to "YOU"!