Liebster Blog Award!



Hi everyone! Miss Melody Muffin over at The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls has awarded me with the Liebster Blog Award! Thank you so much, Melody!!  :-D

Here are the rules:

1. You must post eleven random facts about yourself.
2. You must also answer the eleven questions the awarder has given you and make up eleven questions for your awardees to answer in turn.
3. Tag eleven fellow bloggers.
4. Notify them that you've awarded them.
5. No tagging back.
6. The eleven blogs you tag must have less than 200 followers.

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Eleven Random Facts About Myself:

1. I love it when people ask me for random facts.

2. My favorite board games are Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit.

The Bob Newhart Show

3. My three favorite TV shows are Star Trek TOS, The Bob Newhart Show, and The Andy Griffith Show.

4. My favorite color is blue, in all its manifestations. Soft heathery gray-blues and bright pool-water blue are the best.

5. Unsurprisingly, my eyes are a soft heathery gray-blue.  :-)

6. My favorite kinds of cold cereal are Honey Bunches of Oats, Honey Nut Cheerios, Captain Crunch, and Frosted Flakes.

7. I normally don't eat breakfast until after 10:30AM. And it's usually weird, like chocolate bars or baby carrots or something.

8. I would rather play in an orchestra than a band, but I have played in four bands and only one orchestra.

9. Five randomly selected favorite actors: Robert Walker, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, William Holden, DeForest Kelley.

10. I have adapted to 21st-century American culture enough now that I like Pepsi, Coke, and some kinds of iced tea; but I still detest coffee, root beer, and hot tea.

11. If I choose one pet, it would be a little green parakeet whom I could train to sit on my shoulder and sing.

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Answers to Melody's Eleven Questions:

1. What is your favorite holiday tea (or drink)?
Hmm ... I would say eggnog, the non-alcoholic kind that you buy in jugs from the grocery store. It tastes like melted vanilla ice cream.  :-)

2. Would you rather visit the mountains or the ocean?
The ocean ... I have only seen it once, when I was very tiny; and I would love to go back now that I'm older, preferably to a shore that's rocky and gray and forbidding, with a red lighthouse nearby ... I'd go on a gray day, when I could walk alone up and down the rocky coast and dream about distant shores and futures.

3. What is your favorite soup?
You know, I really don't like soup very much ... if chili qualifies as a soup, then that is my favorite; if not, then it's my mom's vegetable soup with barley.

4. A mouse runs out from under a wall and across your bedroom. What do you do?
Gasp and squeal and leap to the top of the bunk bed, but secretly look down and think how adorable it is, and feel very sad when my dad comes to get rid of it ...

Read this. You won't regret it.

5. What was the last book you read?
*Tragic sob*  A Tale of Two Cities ... it was so beautiful ... but so painful to have just enough time to fall completely in love with Sydney Carton before he nobly and bravely sacrified himself to the guillotine ...  *Weeping again in anguish*

6. King Kamehameha (the Great), who was he?
King of Hawaii, before it became a state ... I know he was very brave and wise and highly respected by his people, but beyond that, I don't know much.

7. What is your favorite Christmas song?
"O Holy Night" - especially as sung by Josh Groban!

8. What is your favorite traditional Thanksgiving food?
Cranberry sauce!! I don't care what else we have for Thanksgiving as long as we've got the cranberry sauce - MMM!!!

9. Have you ever been in an airplane?
Not a flying one ... I've been to airplane museums and walked through some pretty huge ones, but I've never flown.

10. Housecleaning, do you hate it, not mind it, or actually like it?
*Glances furtively around to see if my future husband is anywhere nearby* Hate it ... hate it hate it hate it ... I would like to be the first to invent a self-cleaning house!

11. Ever played Ultimate Frisbee?
No, but it looks like fun!

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Eleven Questions for My Tag-ees:

1. What is your favorite kind of fruit or fruit juice?

2. Did you have a dream when you were a child of what you wanted to be when you grew up, and have you achieved or are you achieving that dream?

3. What is your favorite article of clothing?

4. A random stranger walks up to you and hands you three plane tickets to your dream destination - where is that destination, and whom do you take with you?

5. If you are in college, what is your major? If you are not in college, what is one subject that you are passionate about?

6. What is your favorite kind of weather?

7. If you could attend any one concert of your choosing, whom would you go see?

8. What country/countries do your ancestors come from?

9. Is there any one theological question about the Bible or something in it that has always puzzled you, and if it's not too private, could you share it?

10. How long is your hair?

11. What was the last book that made you cry?

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I Am Tagging the Following Eleven People (Who Have Less than 200 Followers):


- Angel of With Her Hands
- Frannie of Authentic Virtue
- Katherine Sophia of Seek Him First
- Jessica, the newly published author over at Safirewriter (WOO-HOO!!!)
- Alex of Alex's Corner
- Jennifer of Where the Green Grass Grows
- Rebecca of Singing In His Name
- Sarah of As Lilies
- Victoria of Decked Out in Ruffles
- Cheryl of Holcomb Happenings
- Marissa at Whispers of a Well-Lit Way

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Thank you again for the fun tag, Melody, and thanks to you very special eleven ladies for being my friends! I find great encouragement in each of your blogs and each of your sweet, godly spirits. Thank you for taking time to blog and share the Lord's love and how He works in your lives!

Have a wonderful weekend, my friends!

Love,
Vicki