Versatile Blog Award
Tessa Quin has kindly passed on the versatile blogger award to me. Thanks so much Tessa.
The Rules for The Versatile Blogger Award:
- Thank and link back to the person that gave you the award.
- Share seven things about yourself.
- Pass the award to fifteen bloggers that you think deserve it.
- Lastly, contact all of the bloggers that you’ve picked for the award.
So thanks again Tessa and I have included your link.
Seven things about me:
1. I own at least seven different dictionaries (names, mythological characters, etc).
2. I don’t borrow books from the library because I have a hard time returning great stories.
3. I recently started playing netball again, for the first time in five years.
4. I don’t mind spiders unless they are crawling on me.
5. I am trying to learn to speak Japanese – in all that free time that I don’t have.
6. I still own a hula-hoop from when I was seven.
7. I don’t like eating toast.
Passing this on to:
Everyone who is hosting me in the blog tour: Eric, Geoffrey, Lua, Sonya, Alex Willging, Laura, Alex J Cavanaugh, Mason, Carol, Susan, Jemi, Nancy, Lee, Stephen, Barb, Steven, Rosemary, Little Scribbler, and Hart Johnson.
This is a great list of blogs from some of the most supportive bloggers I’ve met. Thanks all of you and congratulations on the award.
Just a reminder, tomorrow I am going to over on Sonya’s blog for my first interview of the tour.
Blooming Idea
I want to thank Elisa from Where’s My Pencil for passing on The Blooming of an Idea Award to me.
I’m not really sure what the rules are with this one so I thought I would just mention in passing the idea behind this blog and then pass the award on to some very interesting bloggers.
The idea of Cassandra Jade in the Realm is to share ideas about writing. Not just me sharing my ideas but to have the chance to hear from other writers and readers what they think about writing and to learn from that and to help pass those ideas on to others. I love being part of such a helpful online community and the blogs I visit regularly and the people who visit here regularly are always full of helpful and sometimes surprising information.
Thanks to everyone who contributes the excellent comments to this blog.
Okay, to pass the award along:
Alex Willging over on The Rhapsodist for his continuing look into sci-fi television and books. I always love hearing his thoughts on a range of interesting texts.
Lynn Rush for her positive and upbeat view on the world – and her great taste in movies and movie quotes.
And to Lua Fowles who always has something very interesting to say about words and writing.
And that’s all for today. Thanks again for the award.
An Award
Jemi Fraser has passed on the Sweet Blog Award to me. Thanks so much Jemi.
I have to agree with her that the teddy bear is adorable.
Passing this on to:
Thanks Jemi again for the award and I will catch up with everyone tomorrow.
Resolution and an award
Stop taking photos. I’ve been sorting through photos for days and still haven’t actually looked at all the photos I took on this holiday. The strange thing is that there are entire stretches where my batteries were flat, I left the camera at the hotel and all manner of reasons why I had half days all throughout the trip where I didn’t have a camera and I still managed to take far too many photos.
The thing that really gets me though is that I don’t actually look at my photos. I have a few up around the house from various trips and times and they are lovely but I don’t go through photo albums or look at any saved pictures. I didn’t when I went to Thailand and I haven’t from any of the holidays I’ve had in Australia, so why do I keep taking photos?
I think it comes down to freezing a moment. If you see something then you’ll remember it but the memory gets hazy quickly. If you see something, line up a photo, frame it and press click you have far more chance of remembering what you saw. Possibly.
I guess the other problem is that most things look better in reality than they ever will in the photo. There are so many other sensations of sound and smell and just the presence of the place that they photo just doesn’t capture. It can’t capture how you felt standing in that place at that time. That’s probably true of any medium. Words don’t capture everything, images don’t, film doesn’t, in the end it is up to us to hold on to the memories.
Okay…
I’ve also been given a lovely blogger award.
Thanks Susie for the award. Here are the rewards.
- Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award. Thanks again Susie!
- Share 7 things about yourself. See below.
- Pass the award along to 5* bloggers who you have recently discovered and who you think are fantastic for whatever reason! (*Changed from 15 to 5, but I’ll leave it up to you the amount you want to give.) Also see below.
- Contact the bloggers you’ve picked and let them know about the award. To do…
Seven things about me that you can’t read on my ABOUT page:
1. I am a collector of some really random things.
2. When working I listen to music but I don’t listen to entire songs.
3. I love watching movies over and over again and pulling apart the plots.
4. When I was in highschool I loved watching SeaQuest but when I bought the first season on DVD I realised I really can’t remember why I liked it.
5. I don’t like toast but I love the word toast.
6. I eat when I’m bored.
7. My favourite colour to write in is green.
As to passing this award along… By the way if you want to know why I’ve given them the award, click on the link and check out these very interesting blogs.
Congratulations and thanks for writing such amazing blogs.
I’m hopefully going to be resuming a more normal posting schedule and will be back tomorrow.
Over the Top Blog Award
Last week Carol Kilgore at Under the Tiki Hut passed on the Over the Top blog award to me.
This is a cool award. The rules are that I must mention Carol’s name and blog. Also I must answer a string of questions with one-word only answers and pass the award to five other bloggers here and by leaving a comment on their blogs.
So first I’ll answer the questions, then we’ll talk about passing it on.
Your cell phone? Paperweight
Your Hair? Unpredictable
Your Favorite Food? Chocolate
Your Dream Last Night? Freaky
What Room Are You In? Study
Your Hobby? Reading
Your Fear? Accidents
Where Do You See Yourself In Six Years? Somewhere
Where Were You Last Night? Bed
Something That You Aren’t? Forgettable (hopefully)
Wish List Item? Magic-wand
Where Did You Grow Up? South-East QLD
Last Thing You Did? read
What Are You Wearing? clothes
Your TV? Functional
Your Pets? Kitten
Friends? Possibly
Your Life? Manageable
Your Mood? Reflective
Your Favorite Color? Red
One Place You Go To Over And Over Again? Fridge
And the five bloggers I’m passing the Over the Top Blog Award to are:
Elizabeth Spann Craig at Mystery Writing is Murder
Alex J Cavenaugh at Alex J Cavanaugh
V.V. Denam at V.V. Denam
Corra McFeydon at From the desk of a writer
Please visit their blogs and you’ll see for yourself how Over the Top they are – and in such awesome ways.
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