Yesterday, I received a comment from Jennifer at Books & Barks telling me that I’d be very interested in the post she had just published. I was intrigued and not disappointed when I found out the reason for her enthusiasm. She has been generous to nominate me for the Liebster Blog Award. Thank you so much, Jennifer! I really appreciate your thoughtfulness! You made my day when I read your nomination!

The Liebster Blog Award is designed to bring additional recognition to those bloggers with less than 200 followers. If you receive the award, you should link back to the blogger that nominated you and nominate five more blogs. Also, don’t forget to let them know that you nominated them.

My Nominations

1. Jenny from Alternate Readality
2. Laura from The Shabby Rabbit
3. Ashley and Alysa from Everead
4. Sarah from Writer, Reader, Dreamer
5. Lari from Lari is Writing

Nina at Brush Up On Your Reading gave me the Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award.  Thank you, Nina! You’re the best! :D If you hadn’t given me this award, I would’ve given it to you!

This award has four requirements:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and list his/her blog (with a link).
2. List four of your guilty pleasures.
3. Pass on the award to six other bloggers you think are irresistibly sweet.
4. Notify the bloggers you choose for the award and hopefully they’ll join in.

I’m glad this award is more specific about the things I can write about myself.  I’m running out of things to say that I haven’t already said before. ;) Anyway, here are four of my guilty pleasures.

1. Games. Any type of game–video, computer, board, paper, head, made up, etc. I’m obsessed with games and I’ll use them to avoid responsibility, which has been a problem in the past.  Hence, the reason it’s a guilty pleasure.
2. Reading. I love to read. The reason it falls under guilty pleasure is that, just like games, I’ll use reading to avoid responsibility. But, I feel a little better about reading than playing games because when I was little and bored, my mom always told me to do something constructive, which reading fell under (according to her) and games didn’t. Also, I don’t always read to avoid responsibility.
3. Ice cream. Pink bubble gum ice cream from Baskin Robbins is my absolute favorite ice cream. I’ll eat it in any kind of weather, even if it’s 50 below zero.
4. Twinkies. I love Twinkies, even though they’re probably one of the worst things I can eat. I love their taste and their moist fluffiness.  I also love Tiger Tails, which are Twinkies with raspberry drizzle and coconut on top.

I pass the Irresistibly Sweet Blogger Award onto the following blogs (not all of them are book blogs):

1. Alison Can Read: She’s always so sweet to me on Twitter, my blog, and even her blog. I also love her posts! They’re always so thought provoking.
2. Book Purring: She’s sweet enough to comment in Spanish so I can hone my Spanish-speaking … writing … skills. Plus, she’s a cat lover!
3. The Campbells: I love these two! They have made working infinitely better and I love hanging out with them. I also love all of Courtney’s cute posts; they’re so much fun to read.
4. The Eager Readers: If you’ve ever met Violet in person, you’ll know she is one of the sweetest people you’ll ever meet!
5. Manga Maniac Cafe: She has the best posts on her blog! And, she’s always so sweet to reply to my comments.
6. Maw Books: She has to be as sweet as she is.  Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to do all the networking she does between authors, bloggers, and readers. She’s the first book blog I came in contact with and it’s thanks to her, I decided to make my blog more exclusive to books.

Kacie at Aussie Book Shack gave me the Stylish Blogger Award. Thank you, Kacie! That was very kind of you. :D

This award has four requirements:

1. Thank the person who gave you the award and list his/her blog (with a link).
2. List seven things about yourself.
3. Pass on the award to 15 recently discovered great blogs.
4. Notify the bloggers you choose for the award and hopefully they’ll join in.

I’m going to attempt to write seven things about me that I haven’t written on my blog before. 8O

1. When I’m not worrying about eating healthy, my all-time favorite sandwich is a grilled cheese with a lot of cheese and extra butter to make it extra crispy.  Zupa’s Ultimate Grilled Cheese sandwich is to die for, especially when it’s coupled with their tomato basil soup!
2. I love eggs, but I’ll only eat them when they’re prepared a certain way.  I like them scrambled, but I have to scramble them because I don’t add milk to them and I scramble them a with a very special technique that makes them extremely delicious.  I also love them deviled, as long as they’re made with Miracle Whip not mayonnaise.  And, I’ll eat them hard-boiled if they’re on salads.
3. I used to watch the Powerpuff Girls and Dexter’s Lab when they were on Cartoon Network.  Bubbles is my favorite powerpuff girl because she and I are one in the same (other than the superpowers thing).
4. When Voltron was syndicated on Cartoon Network, I watched every episode because it was my favorite cartoon as a child.  I was severely disappointed in how cheesy and stupid it was.  I don’t remember it being that bad and cartoons nowadays aren’t that cheesy or stupid.  Was my generation too naive and dumb to notice? Or, was that the phase for cartoons in the 80s?
5. I’d much rather text someone than talk on the phone.  I hate talking on the phone.  I didn’t always feel like that; it wasn’t until I spent three years as a support tech that talking on the phone became such a loathsome activity.
6. I want an ocelot. (To be honest, I want one of every animal in the world, except spiders or poisonous snakes or anything poisonous for that matter.)
7. I love making checklists.  It’s actually doing the things on the checklist that’s the problem. ;)

I pass the Stylish Blogger Award on to the following blogs:

1. Alison Can Read
2. Blkosiner’s Book Blog
3. Book Purring
4. Cafe of Dreams ~ Book Reviews
5. The Delusional Diaries
6. Fluidity of Time
7. Icey Books
8. Late Bloomer Online
9. Library Mosaic
10. Manga Maniac Cafe
11. Moonlight Gleam’s Bookshelf
12. My Bookish Ways
13. My Head is Full of Books
14. Preternatural Primer
15. Writer, Reader, Dreamer