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Man in Black: I challenge you to a game of wits.

Vizinni: For the Princess?

Man in Black: [nods]

Vizinni: To the death?

Man in Black: [nods]

Vizinni: I accept!

...now I challenge you...click here if you accept...

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Two more awesome awards have been bestowed up me! 

YIPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

(imagine the little piggy in the GEICO commercial, that's me)

Thank you Huntress!

Thank you Cassie!

I'm supposed to share one thing I like about myself now...

I have an awesome name :) Definitely haven't always felt this way. I hated it as a kid because a lot of mean words rhyme with it and I just thought it was a dumb name regardless of teasing. My name annoyed me as I got older because people couldn't (and still can't) help themselves but say those genius phrases like, "I HOPE you have a good day!", usually men for some reason. I mastered the obligatory laugh thanks to them and their cleverness .  Now, I appreciate my name for all it's meaning and promise. When I'm having a bad day, I owe it to myself to have hope and get over whatever it is weighing me down. I even gave my name to my daughter for her middle name in HOPEs she'll pass it along :) See, I can be clever too!

Check out these stinkers

Tracy at Write On!

Donna Hole

Stina at Seeing Creative

Tara at Tara Tyler Talks

Lynn(e) at The Submission Process

Liebster Blog

Thanks so much Lillie!  And congratulations on passing 100 blog followers :)

Five things my daughter came up with about me:

I like to do gardening (I'm not very good at it).

I like to play soccer.

I love my family.

We have two dogs (Keyser and Mowgli) and two cats (Eywa and Oreo).

When I read my daughter her bedtime story, Oreo comes in and sits on me to hear it too.

Sharing the love with 10:

Leigh Covington

Kelley at Between the Bookends

Cassie at Reading Writing and Lovin' it!

Joshua at Vive le Nerd

Jenny at Jenny's imaginary World

Jade at Dream Write Publish

Amber at Unyielding

Angela at Live to Write

J A Bennett

Emily at Get Busy Writing

AND I JUST HIT 100 FOLLOWERS!!!  WOO HOO!!!!   THANK YOU!!!!!

I love an award :)

  

Thanks Kelley! 

And thank you Leigh! 


You ladies have awesome blogs and give wonderful comments, thank you, thank you, thank you!  Awards totally make me smile :)

And I think I'll go for fives here:

1. I have to plug my nose when jumping in a pool, a lake, the ocean, whatever.  No matter how much I've practiced, my nose is not built to withstand water.

2.  One of my favorite non-chocolate snacks is dry Cheerios.  I eat them in pairs.

3.  I'm a painfully slow reader, I read in my head the same speed I read aloud.  In school, when we had to read a section and then wait while the others finished, I cheated every time.  I'd read the topic sentences and bold typed stuff and hope I got the gist of what was going on.  There's no way I was gonna be last :)

4.  I hate being last.

5.  It snowed a foot here in the past twenty-four hours, not usual for this part of Washington. 

And the awards go to

Jess at Falling Leaflets

Joshua at Vive le Nerd

Lara at Motivation for Creation

Jenny at Jennys Imaginary World

Crystal at Reading, Writing and A Little Bit of Nonsense

and even though I know Cassie has these awards, she needs them again :)