Liebster Award

Okay not sure I did this correctly we can hope!

A huge thanks to Anja who nominated me! Her blog is amazing so visit it!

http://abstractorganizedchaos.wordpress.com/

The Liebster Award is very unique in the fact it brings recognition to the smaller blogs of the ‘verse. With that in mind, all of the nominated blogs will have less than 200 followers.

The rules:

1. Thank the Liebster Blog presenter who nominated you and link back to their blog.
2. Post 11 facts about yourself, answer the 11 questions you were asked and create 11 questions for your nominees.
3. Nominate 11 blogs who you feel deserve to be noticed and leave a comment on their blog letting them know they have been chosen.
4. Display the Liebster Award logo.
5. No tag back thingys.

Eleven Facts About Me

1. I stayed at University for 10 years and left with only a bachelors in Nutrition because I started several other majors first (Special Education, Recreational Therapy etc.) in the same time my husband got two Bachelors, a Masters, and no joke had even been given a key to the computer science building! After graduating he became a professor there. He is a genius I am so jealous lol
2. I got married when I was 19, 6 months after meeting my husband in a wedding my mom planned in less than 1 week (she was just as excited!)
3. Like my mom I have dreams about people dying that come true. In dreams I help spirits cross over and have seen the after life.
4. I have an abnormally good sense of smell. When I went to visit the Washington Monument as a child I detected smoke, they look into it and there was an electric fire that had started in the walls we were all evacuated. I can smell a jar of unopened molasses rooms away. I can also identify by scent various infections, my eye sight and hearing aren’t that good I think I got jipped on the senses lol
5. According to an acupuncturist I am something of a succubus, I can absorb chi from other people in large volumes
6. When I was a kid my dad had this creepy alarm clock radio that even when unplugged and without batteries it continued to play. Around my dad there is always paranormal malevolent activity and I suspect its because he is evil.
7. The first dream I remember was going to the beach with my parents and the drive was incredibly long, it was raining, and we were driving across this massive bridge over the ocean and the water was black. The dream was almost black and white. When we arrived I decided to go swimming but I was a little scared so I took my doll with me (the one I slept with). A shark came and the doll sacrificed itself for me and when I woke my real doll was gone. As an adult in another country in my in-laws country house for the first time in 26 years I saw the same doll which was rather an usual doll to begin with.
8. I went to Duke University to participate in a study on ADD (before I knew I had Epilepsy) and they told me I had the worst case of ADD they had ever seen! My ADD was so severe I was told by Vocational Rehab not to bother with college or a job, just to go on disability, basically they said I would never really be a functional member of society. I actually did well in college all 10 years of it lol
9. I have never broken a bone, despite falling down countless flights of stairs, off roofs, being dragged by an ATV downhill along gravel with my arms trapped in the grating, not even during a post seizure stupor where I jumped out of moving car.
10. I have small kidneys which I guess makes it harder for my body to detox. I started taking fish oils hoping to improve my brain function and they caused me to release such an enormous amount of endorphins that I actually maintained an intense high for a solid week. Also because of my succubus qualities I can literally absorb other people’s endorphin rushes just by being near them.
11. My husband is the first and only person I have ever kissed

Eleven Questions I have been asked

1. If you could be a any flavor ice cream, what color would you be? Well I am a red head which makes you think strawberry but I am not that sweet, maybe mint chocolate chip because I am rather an acquired taste and while I am innocent/naive (mint is clean-tasting) there is also this indulgent darkness spread throughout
2. What authors, photographers or artists inspire you?Arthur Rimbaud, Jim Carroll, Charles Baudelaire, Sylvia Plath just to name a few! Photographers I don’t have names but I love those books where they take candid nudes of real people and share bits of their lives, I love black and white photography, and my husband takes the most amazing nature photos. Artists Da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Francisco De Goya, etc.
3. Do you have any regrets in life?I have many regrets, my greatest regrets involve burning bridges, pushing people away but I also regret that I didn’t plan better for the future and how often I have let fear swallow my footsteps
4. Why do you blog?Its hard to find people with shared interests and online I can talk to other writers and people can voluntarily chose to read my poetry, I don’t want to feel like I am forcing my poems on anyone but I do like to share.
5. Are you an introvert or extrovert? Combo?I am unmistakeably, unquestionable an introvert. I am like a wet cat in social situations.
6. Who is your hero?Perhaps Isadora Duncan while I wouldn’t model my life after hers and while I don’t profess an identical set of beliefs I admire were vivaciousness, her independent and rebellious spirit. I would love to write as well as Jim Carroll !
7. What animal are you most like?My husband insists I am a squirrel something about the way I covet my food lol
8. What do you think the color red tastes like?Sweet/Spicy
9. If you could pick your own theme song…what would it be?“Unholy, Dirty, and Beautiful” by David Usher
10. What hobbies do you have NOT blog related?When I don’t have words I like to do aura paintings, just color impressions. I also exercise A LOT 2 hours most days and that includes all sorts of activities (yoga, weights, dance, martial arts, running, aerobics, Pilates). I have also been known to role play (write stories with other writers, assuming various characters in my case usually originals).
11. What is your favorite number?9

Eleven Questions for My Nominees

1. When did you start writing? Was there any specific person, event, or inspiration?
2. Aside from writing do you have other talents?
3. What was one of the scariest things you have ever done?
4. What do you think happens when we die? Had any near death experiences?
5. Describe yourself in one sentence
6. If you had a pen name what would it be?
7. What draws you to other writers? (what sort of poems do you like)
8. What is the last dream you remember?
9. What is your favorite scent?
10. Are you an optimist/pessimist/realist?
11. What is your favorite game? (board game, video game, sport whatever)

My Eleven Nominees

http://purplesplatitudes.wordpress.com/

http://bodhirose.wordpress.com/

http://jamiespencer.wordpress.com/

http://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/

http://www.unknowngnome.com/

http://tino11.wordpress.com/category/poems/

http://motherwifestudentworker.wordpress.com/

http://www.waystationone.com/

http://nankablogs.blogspot.se/search/label/Haiku

http://unshakenthoughts.com/

http://loveamongotherthings.wordpress.com/