The Liebster Blog Awards #2

I’ve been really out of the loop, but I am catching up slowly. I have a few things going on right now that I’ll be addressing in another post, but for now, something happy:

I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Blog Award! Twice! First with Amy from The Breezy Mama and again with Erika from Chimerikal, two very lovely ladies with good taste.

The Liebster Blog Award is to be given to five other blogs with fewer than 200 followers. There are no tag backs. I love this award, not only because it’s an honor to be chosen and promoted, but because you can see who else you’ve been grouped it and find new blogs that way. It’s also a great way to introduce your readers to some of your favorite blogs as of late.

Amy’s Questions:

1. Think about a secret you might have. How long have you kept that secret, and why? About 14 hours.

2. What has been the most adventurous thing you’ve done? Traveled to Europe on my own, hands down. Best experience of my life!

3. Rainy day: how do you spend your time? Curled up on the couch watching Netflix or reading comics on my laptop.

4. Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Have you always been this way? I’m mostly an introvert, and I’ve been like that most of my life. I can be social when the time calls for it and enjoy it, but I’m definitely an introvert at heart.

5. What is your highest level of school completed? Working on my Bachelor’s at the moment.

6. Who is one person who has passed on who you’d like to see again, even if for only a few seconds? My Dad.

7. What is the oldest age you would ever consider having kids? Probably 35.

8. What is your current ringtone on your cell phone? Figure 8 by Ellie Goulding!

9. If you could only eat one thing for the rest if your life, what would it be? Oh man. For the rest of my life? How depressing. Probably potato, because I can do a few things with it (fry it, mash it, bake it, etc).

10. What do you fear most about getting old? Looking back with regret. 

11. Do you consider yourself healthy? Why or why not? Yes, I do consider myself healthy. There’s always room for improvement though!

Erika’s Questions:

1. Why did you start blogging? I learned HTML in high school and my best friend started her own website. I thought it was really cool so I did as well. That was back in 2001 I believe.

2. If a genie granted you three wishes that you could only use on yourself, what would they be and why? I’d ask for: money so that I could travel the world with no worries, a high metabolism, and the ability to become invisible.

3. What’s your favorite go-to snack? Sunflower seeds!

4. Where’s one place you never want to visit and why?  Antarctica. It’s cold there, man.

5. Did you enjoy high school? Why or why not?  I enjoyed it for the most part. I love to learn. But senior year sucked.

6. What do you believe your “calling” in life is? Do you believe in a “calling?” I honestly don’t know. I do believe it’s a thing, I just wish I knew mine.

7. Favorite guilty pleasure song and/or TV show? Guilty pleasure song of the moment: Selena Gomez’s “Come and Get It.” Guilty pleasure TV show of EVER (because I don’t have a current one): The Bachelor.

8. Besides blogging, what’s your favorite social media outlet and why? Facebook. It’s the easiest way I keep in touch with family and friends.

9. What’s one of your proudest moments or accomplishments? Purchasing my own home last year.

10. What are three qualities that are mandatory that your friends have? They have to be genuine, open minded, and honest.

11. You can take a 12-day, all-inclusive vacation somewhere with three other people. Who do you pick and where do you go? My best friend, my sister, and one other friend. We would totally hit up Italy and Greece!

My Nominees:

I received this award last year and nominated five other bloggers. This time I have to nominate eleven. I have no idea how to check how many followers a blogger has, so I’m going by number of RSS feed subscribers as a reference. I’m 100% sure none of these will surprise you.

1. Excelsior Lady
2. More Adventurous
3. Ginger Mandy
4. Maria Celina
5. Break the Sky
6. In Pursuit of Expression
7. Existation
8. Being Fran{k}
9. Witty Title Here
10. Awash with Wonder
11. Of Trees and Hues

My Questions for the Nominees

1. What’s your #1 go-to recipe? 
2. Who’s your best friend?
3. What’s something you’ve always been too scared to do?
4. Do you have a favorite poem? What is it?
5. What’s the last memorable conversation you had? What did you talk about?
6. Favorite useless fact?
7. What was the last thing you read? What did you think of it?
8. You have the chance to create your own magazine. What’s it about?
9. What’s one website you use to kill time?
10. Favorite blog post you’ve written? Why?
11. What’s a skill you’d love to learn?

Paris, France – Day 6

Paris was by far the most ambitious stop I made. Ambitious because I only had two full days in the city and I wanted to see a million things. However, day 6 wasn’t as eventful as day 7 and 8 because I got there in the afternoon and only had a few hours of daylight to explore. Still, I did manage to see a few things because I am very, very stubborn.

I woke up that Wednesday in a really good mood. I already understood how to navigate the tube so I knew I would have no problems getting to the train station on time. I had a quick breakfast and made my way to Paris Nord. I ended up being super early, so I walked around the neighborhood, grabbed a cup of coffee at Cafe Nero, a place recommended to me by Jenny, and waited at the station.

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Confessions of a Geek

I was browsing my archives the other day and I realized I’ve never really talked about my love for all things geeky/nerdy. I touched on it a bit here and I’ve talked about my love for The Hobbit and I’ve posted book reviews in the past, but what I’d like to do is have one big blog post where I just geek the fuck out shamelessly, and now is the perfect time to do so because I’m in a meh mood and this should cheer me right up.

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London, England – Day 5

Read about the previous days in London!

My second day in London consisted of museums, meeting an online friend, and shamelessly taking advantage of London’s awesome tube system. I woke up a bit early, had some breakfast courtesy of the hostel, and headed to the tube station. I didn’t really have much of a plan, other than getting some warmer clothes and meeting Jenny at the British Museum later in the day, so my first stop was Oxford Street.

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London, England – Day 4

Read about the previous days in Dublin!

I am finally recovering from the Cold From Hell (worst. weekend. ever.) so I wanted to cheer myself up and I couldn’t think of anything better than talking about my London trip.

Hello beautiful.

I woke up bright and early in Dublin in order to catch my flight for London. I booked it with Ryanair and made sure to read up on as much as I could because I had heard some horror stories. My preparation paid off because everything went smoothly and I made it to London on time. After customs I purchased a bus ticket from the Stansted Airport to Swiss Cottage where I was staying, about an hour’s drive. I was paranoid about stopping at the right stop so I sat at the very front of the bus and just looked out of the window and dozed.

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