I am so far behind in accepting awards. Edward Hotspur gave me 2 awards in January & February & I am just now getting around to doing the acceptance post. So I’m doing them both together. First the Versatile Blogger Award.
These are the rules for the Versatile Blogger Award:
1. Display the Award Certificate on your website
2. Announce your win with a post and link to whoever presented your award
3. Present 15 awards to deserving bloggers
4. Drop them a comment to tip them off after you’ve linked them in the post
5. Post 7 interesting things about yourself
My Picks for the Awards:
The Artist Formerly Known as My Right to Bitch
I thoroughly encourage you to go & visit each & every one of these blogs, they are truly wonderful people with a variety of different blogs & a lot of interesting things to say.
And also, I’m going to grab the Beautiful Blogger Award from Edward Hotspur as well. He gave me the Very Inspiring Blogger Award, but I already have one, so I’m going to follow in Hotspur’s footsteps & do exactly what I want. Since purple is my favorite color, I want this award. These are the rules for this award: For this one, I am to give seven random facts about myself, and then give the award to seven other people.
Seven Random or Interesting Facts About Me
OK, what to tell you about me. I have received a number of awards as you can see by the widgets in the right hand column of my blog, so I’ve already told a bunch of things about me, but I’d like to say something different if possible. So here goes:
- When I first started working, almost nothing was done by computer. We used typewriters & calculators, old-fashioned ledger sheets, pens & pencils, erasers, carbon paper, etc.
- When I was 10 years old, I won a transistor radio from the local radio station in Winnipeg. This was a big deal to me because it was the first thing I ever won & it meant I could listen to the radio when I wanted to.
- My first car was a VW Bug. It was orange & black & I called it my Ladybug. I loved my car & drove it until it started “two-bitting me to death.”
- I am allergic to cats. I am definitely a dog person & have had dogs for as long as I can remember. I have not had a dog since I lost my beloved Bandit (see my gravatar to see what Bandit looked like) because we have moved into an apartment. So I now lavish all my doggy love on my four-legged “nieces” Chloe & Pepper who live in Calgary. I love them up whenever I can see them.
- I have always had long hair except for once. When I was 12 years old, my sister got very sick & the doctor insisted my mother cut off all her long hair. To make my sister feel better about her haircut, my mother also got my hair cut in a pixie cut. This was hugely embarrassing for me to have such short hair just as I was starting to develop breasts & dealing with all the teen hormones.
- I have bi-focal eyes. I can only see close up with my left eye (just past the end of my nose) & I can only see far away with my right eye. This is because of the different eye surgeries I had as a child. Different doctors have tried to “fix” this with glasses, but it throws my balance off so badly I’ve just learned to live with it.
- When I grow up I would like to be a writer.
Elyse
Mar 06, 2013 @ 05:58:28
Congratulations and thanks, Benze! Well done.
Your answers are great — I especially like knowing that you are not only a fellow dog person (although with a gravitar like that, I am not at all surprised), but someone else who remembers typewriters. How can folks nowadays eat an ear of corn? How do they know when to start the next row?
I’ve actually already received these awards, but thanks for thinking of me!
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 11:57:12
I should have attached the video of the guy who played the typewriter with a symphony! Ha, ha!
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Beth Ann
Mar 06, 2013 @ 06:47:19
Aren’t you just wonderful???? Loved learning more about you!!! Congrats to you and thanks for passing it on. I am super bad at doing these awards so if I do forget please forgive me for not acknowledging the sweetness!
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 11:58:07
I am also super bad at these (as you can tell it took me over a month to do one of them). Just do them in your own time if you are so inclined.
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pouringmyartout
Mar 06, 2013 @ 06:54:05
As a brand new follower, I sort of feel like I am learning too much too fast. Your hair was getting shorter while your breasts were getting bigger??? What kind of nightmare is this??? When will the madness end?
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 11:59:32
I know – it was madness! To top it all of this was the year I got braces on my teeth too! Talk about ugly duckling!!!!
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pouringmyartout
Mar 06, 2013 @ 12:19:24
Awwwwww…. well, I am still going through my awkward phase, so…
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Enchanted Seashells, Confessions of a Tugboat Captain's Wife
Mar 06, 2013 @ 07:42:55
Poor you to have had your hair cut when it wasn’t your decision! I can feel your pain, and so nice to learn many new things about you. Thank you for the nom. I’m very grateful!
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 11:15:00
Thanks for sympathizing with me. I was 12 – wearing glasses, just got those awful metal braces on & then on top of it my mother cuts off all my hair. Not a pretty sight!
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DiatribesAndOvations.com
Mar 06, 2013 @ 08:13:55
Congratulations!
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 12:00:36
Thanks, if only I could get them to stick into my widgets!
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Edward Hotspur
Mar 06, 2013 @ 09:29:42
Hooray! Congrats!
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 12:01:15
It took me so long to pass them along, you probably forgot you sent them to me in the first place!
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Edward Hotspur
Mar 06, 2013 @ 12:47:02
I didn’t forget. I just thought you were trying to hurt me. Again.
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 13:10:57
(sob) I would never hurt you intentionally Hotspur!
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Edward Hotspur
Mar 06, 2013 @ 13:22:39
Yes you would! There’s a whole group of you who would. Sure, you’d beat the shit out of anyone ELSE who tried to hurt me, but that’s more a point of pride.
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 21:38:30
You know me too well – I would torment someone else with a wet noodle if they tried to go after you!
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behindthemaskofabuse
Mar 06, 2013 @ 09:55:15
congrats and thank you xo
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 12:02:04
No pressure Zoe! I don’t want to add to your stress levels, just wanted to acknowledge you as a great blogger!
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Jen and Tonic
Mar 06, 2013 @ 09:56:29
Thanks for passing the award on to me! 🙂
Wow, the thing about your eyes is really interesting. I didn’t even know people could have two vastly different eyes like that. The fact that you’ve learned to manage it on your own is impressive.
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 12:05:06
I don’t know any other way to be. I didn’t even know I had a problem until my sight started changing as I got older. Then the doctor tried to fix it with glasses & I couldn’t even walk across the room because it threw my balance off.
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El Guapo
Mar 06, 2013 @ 13:41:13
Way to go, Benze!
I already think you’re a great writer.
But I refuse to call you a grown up.
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 21:41:32
Aww thanks, Guaps! I still feel like a kid at heart!
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sandee
Mar 06, 2013 @ 13:47:09
Congratulations! I always enjoy reading the ‘things about you’ part of the award thing. I relate to the early working days when there were no computers — hahaha! AND, we smoked at our desks.
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 21:42:47
Oh, I’d forgotten about smoking at our desks! Yes, we smoked wherever we wanted, but then non-smokers were in the minority then.
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John Erickson
Mar 06, 2013 @ 14:25:05
Oh crap – you just reminded me you gave me an award, just before I got hit with snow-pain poisoning. ( 😉 ) I’m gonna have to rectify that – but in the meantime, congratulations!
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benzeknees
Mar 06, 2013 @ 21:43:43
Thanks John, I hope you are back posting again soon. In the meantime it’s great to at least see you back commenting.
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Archon's Den
Mar 07, 2013 @ 00:43:45
I’m already way behind the curve with you and the rest of this crowd, but I’ll soldier bravely forward. Congratulations, and thanx for the reflected love.
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benzeknees
Mar 07, 2013 @ 01:10:40
You’re so welcome! I hope you find time to do it!
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rarasaur
Mar 07, 2013 @ 05:34:43
You already are a writer! 🙂 Congrats on your awards, and thank you for passing on the nominations!!
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benzeknees
Mar 07, 2013 @ 16:16:55
Aww thanks Rawr!
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The Laughing Housewife
Mar 07, 2013 @ 06:33:02
Number 1 took me back! I remember being sent on a computer course and the first thing they taught us was how to switch it on 🙂
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benzeknees
Mar 07, 2013 @ 16:17:57
And now they expect you to know a hundred different programs just to get an entry level position!
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Adam S
Mar 11, 2013 @ 04:52:29
Thanks for the nod, yo! I really appreciate you thinkin’ of me! I’d like to give you one of these as a token of my appreciation: \m/
Yeauh!
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benzeknees
Mar 11, 2013 @ 15:48:07
Thanks! \m/
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Apr 14, 2013 @ 16:27:54