Well, well. It must be award season, and I’m not Seth McFarlane so I guess I can command the stage. Lame jokes abound here tonight. Okay, okay. Every night. Anyway, on with the award. Steph Rogers deemed me worthy of shining on, so I will answer her questions related to said award (or unrelated, or whatever).
Rules of the Shine On Award:
“This award is for the blogs that shine, make you feel good and are inspiring to the reader.”
- Link back to the blogger who nominated you. – CHECK!
- Nominate fifteen bloggers who shine a little light in your day and be sure to notify them. –
Only 15? - Share some facts about yourself or answer questions given to you. I’m answering questions, baby!
Oh yeah. I nominate:
1. ourmulticolouredlife
2. shrinksarentcheap
3. undeaddad
4. little dutch wife
5. The Rom Com Diaries
6. chrisman2college
7. Very Very
8. shareenayoub
9. My Present Self
Yeah, I don’t know who finds the time to read fifteen blogs on a regular basis, but not this guy. Here’s my nine and I’m sticking to ’em. All of these blogs and bloggers reach me on deep levels, even if some of them are really hilarious levels. Thank you, and shine on, you crazy diamonds! Now, on with the questions for my nominees!
A. If you were told there was something you do every day that you would no longer be able to do, and you got to choose, what would you choose and why?
B. There is a law on the books in Pennsylvania that you can be arrested for sleeping on top of a refrigerator outdoors. Come up with a reason for this law and possible consequences for breaking it.
C. Where is one place you’ve never lived that you would NEVER want to live. Why?
D. What would you say is your biggest hobby besides blogging? Why?
E. How many legitimate friends did you have in high school, and what were their names? If you have to ask what constitutes legitimate, they weren’t.
And here are my answers to the rather interesting questions asked of me by Steph Rogers:
1. As you are emptying the lint catcher in your vacuum cleaner it starts to move and then something comes leaping out of it towards you. You drop the lint filter and out of it comes this… A very dusty and cranky frog. What do you do now?
Well, first off I have no clue whatsoever why I would be emptying the lint catcher in my vacuum cleaner. I wasn’t even aware it had one until a few moments ago when I read your scenario. But my wife claims you’re right, and it does. So I’ll accept your premise of there being a lint catcher in the vacuum cleaner, but seriously, a frog? We don’t have frogs around here unless they’re the escapees from the high school down the road who don’t want to be placed in formaldehyde for strange kids to poke and prod at will. Well, but then they’d be dead, and it wouldn’t matter. So, this frog (who I seriously doubt was even there) plops out of the lint catcher into a corner, and sits there. I assume it smells because, well, it’s been in my vacuum probably a long time. So I would go far away from it, but my youngest daughter would approach. She’s not afraid of a good stench, plus she loves little animals. The cats would also converge on it, thinking they found a new play toy. I guess I would have to send away both groups converging on the poor, stinky frog, and let him outside where he’ll probably be eaten by this rabid raccoon that has been frequenting garbage cans and barns up and down these parts. But I wouldn’t really care what happened to him. I’m a turtle person.
2. What is something interesting about you that we may not know?
Well, it depends on how long you’ve been reading my blog. That sounds like what I would tell the officer who stops me on a long stretch of what used to be deserted road (until he showed up, that is). “Do you know what I stopped you for?” “Depends on how long you’ve been following me, officer.” I’m pretty chatty, and I love to talk about my life, so you could find most of your answers somewhere in my archives. Seriously, though, now I’m thinking about the question. Something interesting about me that readers don’t necessarily know… I have 14 half-siblings. Try that one on for size.
3. Book or audio tape?
Um, audio tapes suck, so that one was way too easy. Seriously, though, I can’t listen to audio tapes or CDs or whatever. My brain wasn’t wired that way. I tried to “read” Bridget Jones’s Diary that way and it was a huge disaster. I was five chapters in and I had no idea what was going on. I didn’t even know the heroine’s name. That’s how sad it was. Books all the way.
4. If you could have either as a pet, would you rather have a dragon or a Furby.
Well, Furbys aren’t real, so that ends the discussion.
5. You could go anywhere for the day (any place includes magical fantasy places like care bear land). Where would you go and why?
It honestly depends on if I’m by myself or if I’ve got people with me, and then if I have people with me, it depends on which people are with me. If I’m by myself I would want to go to Ireland (I don’t care much for care bear land, Mordor, or Hogwarts Castle) because to me the place is magical, even if it was just my fake ancestors who came from there (shhh. Don’t tell ancestry.com). I would go there because it is where everything all begins for me. My favorite band, U2, is from there. My favorite color is green. I had my honeymoon there. And the people have such quirky accents. Who wouldn’t love it? Well, besides Scots…
Thanks again, Steph Rogers. I never do these things and you got me to do it. So, kudos to you. I probably won’t do another one in a while. It’s a lot of work! Toodles.
Sam
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