One Lovely Blog Award

Back in October (yes, October *hangs head in shame*), the wonderful Lisa from Mrs Savage Angel nominated me for the One Lovely Blogger Award. I was very flattered and was all set to write a post about it and nominate a few more bloggers for the honour  – but it turns out that while I might be a “lovely” blogger, I’m not a very diligent one. That post kept getting pushed back and I felt awful for not getting around to writing it.

Then, I was nominated two more times by two more fab ladies: Gemma at Blog By Mummy Bio and Becky from Little O and Me. Those nominations both came in December and I’ve still not written it – until now.

I’m so very sorry ladies – if it helps, I actually had a pang of guilt in the middle of Christmas dinner about this. I mean, it didn’t last long and it didn’t stop me from stuffing my face with mashed potatoes and pie. But there was at least some level of inner turmoil about it, even in the middle of the holiday feast.

So, before I go any further, I’d like to send out a big thank you to these three truly lovely bloggers for a nomination that I’m obviously not worthy of. I promise to do better – and I highly recommend their blogs. Follow them on Bloglovin, find them on Twitter or give them some comment love – they definitely deserve it more than I do!

Now, on to the award. First, here’s the shiny badge:

Next, I’m supposed to tell you seven things about myself:

1. Daddy-man and I met online – on a website called OKCupid – back before online dating was really an accepted thing. I’d actually joined the website because a friend and I were bored and we wanted to see how compatible the site thought we were – not very, apparently. Luckily, I had a better score with hubby.

2. I have a tattoo on my lower back. The design is based on the Uffington White Horse and I got it on my 23rd birthday – after my first trip to England. My flatmate at the time, who I’d met in England, paid for half of it as my birthday present and she got a tattoo too. Oddly enough, I’ve never actually seen that white horse in person.

Photo from USGS

3. My most embarrassing moment was falling off a stage at a veterinary conference – I was there representing veterinary nurses in my region (I had a five-year stint as a vet nurse) and there were probably 500 veterinarians in attendance. Everyone assumed it was because I’d been drinking, but I was 100% sober. Just clumsy.

Me during my vet nurse days

4. I raced worms as a child. No, really, that’s a thing people do. I spent a couple of summers with my grandparents who lived near Clearlake California and the town has annual worm races. The squiggly beasts that I pulled out of the garden never won any events, but I did get a bright yellow hat for taking part one year.

5. Like most American teenagers, I got my driver’s licence shortly after my 16th birthday – primarily because my mum was tired of shuttling me around. My first car was a little truck – a 1984 Ford Ranger in root beer brown. I kept magnetic poetry on the interior roof and it had a surprisingly amazing sound system.

I can’t find a single picture of my little trucky. So this will have to do.

6. I’ve had a website in some form or another since around 1997. My first site was on Geocities and it was mainly a repository for bad teenage poetry, short stories and animated gifs.

I just found this cached version from early 2000 using the Wayback machine. Wow.

7. When I lived in California, I was really into Renaissance Faires. I miss the fun of dressing up and the friends that I made there – but I don’t miss wearing several layers of warm clothing in the 100+ degrees (F) of the California summer. Also there was the awful dust and resulting “faire boogers”.

All wenched up and nowhere to go

Okay. So, the last step of the One Lovely Blog award is to nominate 10 other bloggers.

The only problem is that it seems almost every blogger I follow has already taken part or been nominated. So, I’m just going to give a shout-out to some bloggers who I think are lovely!

• Amanda from Chocolate Pages
• Jenna from Tiny Footsteps
• Vickie from Pocketful of Dandelions
• Mel from Le Coin de Mel
• Kim from Northumberland Mam
• Louise from Little Hearts Big Love
• Em from  Brummy Mummy of 2
• Merlinda from PixieDusk
• Katy from What Katy Said
• Mrs Tin Box at Tin Box Traveller

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Thanks for being so lovely, everyone. You’ve made me feel welcome into the blogging world and I really enjoy reading your posts!

Thanks for stopping by!

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