Friday 10 June 2011

Acceptance Speech

I was checking out my blogroll yesterday and discovered that I have been awarded the Stylish Blogger Award by Tink at Master Of A Thousand Things *grins*


I know that some people don't like these awards (and there are some disingenuous ones out there) but I was very excited to be linked, and have the opportunity to discover other blogs I may not have read.

In her post, Tink mentioned that she's been blogging since December, same as me, and has just reached her 100th post... I looked at my stats and realised that I've just passed the 100th post mark. How bizarre!

Part of the award is to share 7 facts about myself... 
  1. I have the most terrible sweet tooth. Part of being a grown up is eating vegetables, I know, but I would happily live on cake, chocolate, rhubarb & custard sweets, penny chews... You get the idea ;) My favourite breakfast is actually chocolate cake ;)
  2. I spent nearly 3 months travelling around Australia by myself (I was supposed to be meeting a friend, who came home a week before I flew out!) - I did things I never thought I'd do, like white water rafting, and came back so much more confident
  3. I have a BSc in Psychology 
  4. I read extremely fast - to the extent that my mum used to quiz me on the plot of books I'd just read because she couldn't believe I'd actually taken any of it in. 
  5. I have an appalling memory when it comes to things I need to remember. If I don't write something down, I forget it.
  6. I have a fantastic memory for random trivia - nothing that may ever be useful, but things I find interesting. 
  7. I'm fascinated by Ancient Egypt. I've been to the pyramids, Valley of the Kings, the Cairo museum, the Red Sea, Abu Simbel... Mum and I had a hot air balloon ride at sunrise over the Nile, which is one of the most beautiful memories I have.
So, that's 7 facts about me. Now I'm supposed to nominate 7 other bloggers for this stylish award. The problem is that I have a massive blog roll, and there are so many blogs out there that I really enjoy, so whittling it down to a handful is tough. I really don't want to leave anyone out! Some of the blogs I'd pick are on Tink's list, which helps, but this is still only a small list of bloggers I'd consider stylish...

Happy Elastic
Peppermint Mocha Mama
{a 1/4 to}
Ohdessa Knits
The Wooly Adventures of a Knitting Kitty
Good Enough
Knottyville




4 comments:

  1. Your breakfast idea sounds good too me. And am most jealous of your Egypt trip, it is on my to do list for after uni

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  2. hehe the similarities keep piling up! I'm with you on the chocolate cake for breakfast - I used to get those Sara Lee double chocolate gateaux and eat them straight from the plastic tray with a spoon :)

    I too am jealous of your Egypt trip, it's fairly high up on my list of places I want to visit.

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  3. Aww, thank you for tagging me :-) I'm feeling anything but stylish sitting here covered in bits of cake mix! I also have a very sweet tooth, read fast and have a bad memory. Evernote is my new saviour. I can sync all my notes from my laptop onto my phone which also means no more scribbly recipes in the kitchen that I can't understand after the second sentence.

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  4. Aren't you the sweetest thing! Thanks so much for the false advertising of stylishness about me. I'll do my best to live up to it for you.

    I love that you have a head full of useless trivia too - let's me know that I'm not a complete freak. We could kick some serious tail on a game show though... lol.

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