It is said that the Liebster Blog Award started in Germany (probably) and is used to highlight smaller, lesser known blogs. The Liebster is an award you accept with the intention of paying it forward. When accepting, you choose other blogs that you feel are deserving of more subscribers and pass the award on to them. You are not obligated to accept the award or to even pay it forward. This is just a way to get the word out about new blogs that your followers may not know.
There are four steps to receiving this award:
List eleven things about yourself
Answer your nominator’s eleven questions.
Choose up to eleven bloggers and ask them your own questions.
Inform your nominees of their award nomination
Although I have already received this award, I still qualify for it because I have a small readership which is quite nice because all my readers feel like my friends. So I thought I would take the opportunity to answer the questions posed by Diatribes & Ovations who was my nominator this time. Eleven things about me …
- I am a Sagittarius.
- I hate to shop. I hate food shopping, clothes shopping, even shoe shopping!
- I like being alone.
- I am extremely claustrophobic.
- I was born left-handed but was forced to write with my right hand, so I have great difficulty playing sports because my mind cannot pick which hand to catch a baseball with, etc. This has led to sprained fingers almost every time I play baseball.
- I have normal vertigo as well as Benign Positional Vertigo which makes stairs of any kind a nightmare.
- Hubby is my second husband. We have been together since 1996.
- I have always hated housework. No matter how often you do it, it always needs to be done again!
- I am allergic to cats, rabbits & birds.
- At 5’5″ I am the shortest person in my birth family.
- I was a model at my first job.
Here are my responses to Diatribes & Ovation’s questions & the questions I would like answered by any of my nominees if they choose to participate:
- Where was the destination of your favorite vacation? Cuba, we won the all expenses paid vacation.
- What are you afraid of if anything? Snakes & spiders
- How do you find inspiration to write? From things happening around me, from prompts, from dreams
- Boxers or briefs? Neither, I wear panties
- Name the “earworm” that annoys you the most. Nancy Grace or Jane Velez-Mitchell
- What is your all-time-favorite television show, and why? Bewitched, I thought it would be great to be able to help yourself with a little magic
- Have you met the love of your life? Yes, nuff said
- Do you know any LGBT people? Yes, I have a good friend who is gay
- If you could travel back in time, where would you go? I’d like to go back to Henry VIII’s time, when the Church of England was first formed & see what that looked like
- Who was the biggest influence in your childhood? My cousin Ross who showed me childhood didn’t have to be all rules
- What would you order for your “last meal”? Turkey with all the trimmings, pumpkin pie with whipped cream & an excellent cup of capuccino
I also received an award from tchistorygal which is totally new for me & I am thrilled to get it. Thank you so much!
Here are the rules for this award:
1. Provide a link and thank the blogger who nominated you for this award.
2. Answer 10 questions.
3. Nominate 10-12 blogs that you find a joy to read.
4. Provide links to these nominated blogs and kindly let the recipients know that they have been nominated.
5. Include the award logo within your blog post.
Since I answered a lot of questions at the top of this post, they can serve as the answers for the rest of the awards too.
I got this award from Edward Hotspur who is one of the most insanely talented bloggers I know of (although I still don’t like free form poetry) & who just had a birthday!
- Display the award logo on your blog.
- Link back to the person/s who nominated you.
- State 7 things about yourself.
- Nominate other bloggers for this award and link to them
I would like to nominate the following blogs for these awards, they may choose to take them all if they like or any one, I think they are all terrific bloggers & deserve any & all awards:
Cheeky Diva
Hasty Words
Tilly Bud
Elyse
Margarita
John Erickson (Sorry John you can’t grab the Sisterhood Award, but go ahead for the others, just could not leave you out of awards)
Buckwheat (she has a new site, so this link is for the new one)
There are a lot of absolutely terrific bloggers on WordPress. If I have missed anyone, I am truly sorry, but I was trying for mainly women in this post so they could have the freedom to accept all the awards if they chose.
I look forward to reading all the responses!
Elyse
Jan 12, 2013 @ 21:00:28
Thanks, Benze! Holy cow!
But a bigger congratulations to you because you not only got them, but passed them on. I am a bit behind…
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 00:30:09
I’m just so bad! I’m looking forward to seeing your replies whenever you have time.
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behindthemaskofabuse
Jan 12, 2013 @ 21:24:09
Congrats and thank you very much 🙂
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 00:18:12
No problem! When did you change your Blog name? I was wondering why I wasn’t seeing anything from you anymore.
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behindthemaskofabuse
Jan 13, 2013 @ 09:48:07
My website has had so many complications, the biggest one being people would sign in but not be getting the email updates. So I set up this one, to make it easier on people and me. My last post on the other site explained that but many didn’t get it because they weren’t getting the email updates. 😦
I’m so sorry about that, I tried to find as many as I could and let them know. I even did a couple guest posts on other people’s blogs.
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tchistorygal
Jan 12, 2013 @ 22:00:29
You have a whole passel of awards here. I enjoyed reading your answers. What fun! Congratulations of receiving all these wonderful awards, and for the fun job of passing them on. Have a great year of blogging!!!
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 00:19:06
I hope you’ll take some of them besides the one you bestowed on me in case you’re missing any! Thanks again!
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tchistorygal
Jan 13, 2013 @ 16:08:37
AWWWWW you are too sweet! I’ll have to look again, and see! 🙂
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El Guapo
Jan 12, 2013 @ 22:53:24
Way to go, Benze!
And an excellent acceptance of all the awards. I love reading your stuff, whatever/whenever you post, and whenever I bump into you on other blogs.
Off to check the blogs you nominated!
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 00:19:33
Thanks Guap – they are very fun to read!
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jotsfromasmallapt
Jan 13, 2013 @ 08:57:54
Just a quickie…no not that kind…replied to your comment on JOTS but it didn’t go directly to you…so not sure you got my reply to your reply…I hate it when that happens…..I’m done.
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jotsfromasmallapt
Jan 13, 2013 @ 08:59:39
Now….my reply to Ms. Benze….well done! Enjoy your reads…..
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 11:26:59
Thank you so much! Enjoy your posts a lot!
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jotsfromasmallapt
Jan 13, 2013 @ 11:33:13
Mutual X Mutual…
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Pink Ninjabi
Jan 13, 2013 @ 11:57:18
Congrats! And its inspiring to read from someone who is remarried. How inspiring! Loved learning more about you! Especially the part where you like to be alone. ah-hem. That’s me too. Hence my self-marriage? 😀
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 15:56:18
There is such a big difference between alone & lonely (a state of mind). Thanks Pink!
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Margarita
Jan 13, 2013 @ 18:30:39
Congratulations! And THANK YOU! I’m honored to be included in your terrific reading list! xoxoM
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benzeknees
Jan 13, 2013 @ 22:08:34
Believe me, WELL deserved!
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The Fringe Of Deformity Blog Award Has Uncertain Future | sandylikebeach
Jan 13, 2013 @ 19:24:09
John Erickson
Jan 15, 2013 @ 11:23:49
Hmm. While I’m honoured for two out of three, I’m not sure if I should feel glad you pointed out I couldn’t qualify for the Sisterhood Award, or offended that you had to point OUT that I didn’t qualify. (Then again, you’ve never seen the shots of me in a lovely skirt parading down the streets of Macon, Georgia back in … jeez, 1986, I think it was. And unless somebody else got prints made without my knowledge, you never WILL! :p 😀 )
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benzeknees
Jan 15, 2013 @ 12:24:48
Well, I’m glad you’re honored for 2 out of 3! As for pics from the past – you will never know! Hehehehehehe
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aFrankAngle
Jan 21, 2013 @ 14:26:48
Love reading posts like this and visiting the links.
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benzeknees
Jan 21, 2013 @ 14:28:54
Thanks for stopping by!
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