Award

An award! Just what I needed today to forget about my impending AF and get ready for my busy day and weekend. DH is getting confirmed tonight in our church and I am teaching all this weekend, so I won't have much time to blog.

Anxious Mummy is so sweet to give me the Beautiful Blogger award. And a little funny to get it today since I'm messing with how things look around here. But I think it is me, and not just the blog layout, that is getting the award, so I'll take it.



The instructions that go along with this award are as follows:* Thank the person who nominated you for this award.* Copy the award and place it in your blog.* Link the person who nominated you for this award.* Tell us 7 interesting things about you.* Nominate 7 bloggers.* Post the links to the 7 bloggers you nominate.

My 7 interesting things:
1. I have a Ph.D. I might have told some of you a while ago. So the class I am teaching this weekend is a graduate class for working professionals. Which means they probably know more about what I'm teaching than I do.
2. I used to be obsessed with New Kids on the Block. Seriously obsessed. I even put posters on the back wall of my closet b/c everywhere else in my room was covered.
3. I am getting new furniture today! Very excited that my new dresser will finally arrive. I love Pott.ery B.arn.
4. I make my own cards. I like doing crafty things like that.
5. I am published (and not just on this blog). Kinda goes along with having the Ph.D. But I suspect more people have read what I wrote on this blog than what was published in an academic journal.
6. I always thought if my academic career didn't work out, I would open a store called "My Favorite Things" and it would feature cupcakes, coffee, and crochet. I saw a hair dresser/yarn store combo once and figure my ideas are a better mesh than that. It could work.
7. I am involved in local politics. I find it quite amusing how I can meet someone once and the next time I see them, they act like we are best friends.

Seven Bloggers:
1. Tireegal
2. Hillary
3. Secret D
4. Leslie
5. Such a Good Egg
6. Ruth
7. A

Awards and contests

Hubby and I went to a local festival this weekend dedicated to tomatoes. To honor all things red, they had a redhead contest. Of course, I had to enter. I thought I might need to give myself an edge, so I put my hair up in braids a la Pippi Longstocking. I think it turned out pretty well.

See the original:

Here is my version:





Turns out my Pippi impression was not enough to win the contest. Who knew there were so many redheads in my city? There were about 15 of us in the women age 16 and over category.

They had other categories in the contest, both male and female and kids of various ages. Hubby has dark hair, as does most of his family. So I never thought our chances of having an adorable little redhead was very high (let alone two, as my sister and I always made quite an impression in public). But my wistful feelings watching the little kids in the contest were more about wanting any children without worrying about any particular hair color.

(Oh, yeah, they also had a "not a real redhead" category. The guy with the literally red head on the very left edge of my picture was robbed in that category. He even died his goatee green to represent the tomato stem. That category was won by a pretty-but-not-as-creative woman with nice fake red hair).

I did however get some awards! Thanks to Clare and Katie for giving me the One Lovely Blog award.

The rules of the award are:

Accept the award; post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award, and his or her blog link. Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered.

Well, I don't quite have 15 newly discovered blogs that haven't already received the award (and Katie is one I newly discovered). But here are a few blogs that I've just found recently and have enjoyed. I look forward to following their journey.

Awful, Beautiful Life
The Privileged Infertile
Keeping my head out the stove while waiting for a bun in the oven
Learning through the IF journey