what, another one?!

booknerd2611 over at the fantastic I’m a Book Lover and Proud! has nominated me for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award!  It hasn’t even been a month since I was nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award.  I’m flattered!

This award has the same rules as the Versatile Blogger Award: nominate fifteen other blogs and share seven things about myself.  While I think I can muster up another seven biographic tidbits, I’m kind of running out of blogs to nominate.  I only follow eleven blogs.  That’s probably really low, right?  The thing is, I know there are tons of great blogs and bloggers out there, but I just can’t commit to reading tons of blog posts every day.  I’m supposed to be reading books!  The few blogs I do follow, I read all of their posts.

So here’s what I’m going to do.  I’ll just list all of the blogs I follow.  If I ever get nominated for another award, I don’t know what I’ll do.  Hopefully I’ll be following some more blogs by then!  If you follow any really great blogs you think I’d like, feel free to link them in the comments.

These are the five I already nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award:

• I’m a Book Lover and Proud!
• 100 Books in 100 Weeks
• College Living
• The cat that walks by herself
• something is rotten in the city-state of thebes

And these are the other six blogs I follow!  You should check them out.

• Book Club For One
• Find A Girl Who Reads
• My Library of Life
• nofriendasloyalasabook
• She Reads Too Much
• The Quiet Bibliophile

And now my seven things:

1. For someone who loves to read, I’m really bad at answering “What’s your favorite book?” or even “What kind of books do you like to read?”  There’s the obvious reason of there are too many to pick one or even a few, but I’m also a little apprehensive about what people might think of me based on the books I like.  I don’t even know what to think of me based on the books I like.  That’s probably bad.
2. I’ve never broken a bone, or had any really painful injury.
3. I don’t have a Facebook account.
4. My favorite TV show is The Big Bang Theory.  I’ve been known to watch both of the daily reruns on many occasions, if I don’t have anything else to do.  I also like Suburgatory, Modern Family, The Simpsons, and Family Guy.  The only non-comedy I watch is The Mentalist.
5. I’m allergic to peanuts.
6. My favorite color is green.
7. My love of tea started with one of those sugary chai lattes from a coffee shop when I was… ten or eleven?  It’s now progressed to good English loose-leaf black tea with milk, no sugar.  (It was Orwell who got me to stop putting sugar in my tea.  And Lee from East of Eden who got me stop putting sugar in my green tea.)

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the versatile blogger award!

I’ve been nominated for the Versatile Blogger Award by shereadstoomuch.  Wow, thank you!  It really means a lot to have my blathering acknowledged like this.

According to the rules, I’m now supposed to nominate fifteen of my favorite blogs and share seven facts about myself.  I don’t follow that many blogs, so I’m going to choose five instead.

• I’m a Book Lover and Proud!
• 100 Books in 100 Weeks
• College Living
• The cat that walks by herself
• something is rotten in the city-state of thebes

And now a little something about me…

1. I hate shopping for clothes.  Or shoes.  The whole process just stresses me out and I never really like what I end up buying.  On the other hand, I love shopping for groceries.  And books, of course.
2. I started crocheting this fall and learned it quite easily from internet tutorials.  I’m working on an afghan right now.  Knitting, however, I just can’t seem to wrap my head around.
3. My favorite kind of music is… well, I don’t actually listen to music.  How weird is that?  And if there’s music playing in my vicinity, I like it, I guess, but I have no need to buy music to listen to on my own.
4. Maybe this has something to do with #3; I play the oboe.  I find a surprising number of people don’t know what an oboe is, so I’ll save you the Google-ing.  It’s an instrument.  It looks like a clarinet and sounds a bit like a duck.
5. I like cooking, and even baking sometimes.  I like it less when it doesn’t turn out, but what I make is usually at least edible.  Washing dishes is a pain though, especially because I don’t have a dishwasher.
6. I’m seventeen and I don’t have my driver’s license yet.  I have my permit but I don’t practice much because I find it absolutely terrifying.  I don’t foresee getting it very soon, which might be a bit of a problem since I don’t plan to live in a big city.
7. The number seven is my second-favorite number.  Twenty-seven is my favorite.  It just sounds nice, I think.

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