So, no Oscar, but I have received a couple of awards lately:
Similar to Oscar, I have to give a type of acceptance speech with this award. I have to share 7 random facts about myself - here goes:
1. I caught the acting bug in junior high school - and continued in high school by taking Drama as a credit course and joining the Drama Club. In my first high school play, a farce based on Cinderella, I was cast as a secondary actor, but was the understudy to the lead. The lead pulled out and I went on to win Best Actress for my interpretation of the role!
2. I sleep with a pillow between my legs - helps with a recent night hip pain I seemed to have developed over the past couple of years.
3. I wear men's rubber boots (love my rubber boots), men's shirts (so comfortable) and have been known to shop in the men's department for my coats (where I know the sleeves will be long enough for my gangly arms).
4. I have a stuffed Muppet in my office - Beaker (the mad scientist, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's assistant) because Beaker was my nickname when I was going through adolescent hell.
5. Other nicknames included Stretch, Brain-iac, Jana Banana, and my mom called (and still calls) me Teeny (I was very small as a child).
6. I am eclectic in my musical tastes - from hard, head-banging rock like ACDC to classical Mozart - love it all.
7. I have been known to eat potato chip sandwiches (bread, butter, sliced cheese - the kind wrapped in plastic, and plain salty chips).
That was harder than I thought it would be! Now I need to pass the Irresistibly Sweet Blog Award onto 5 blogs I think are irresistibly sweet:
Journeys with Jana
Karyn Good
Aging Disgracefully
Figuring It Out
Dream Big
One last 'award'. I posted my scene for Weekend Words yesterday and gave a brief Tweet about it - it was picked up by an online writing blog, Write On!, as a feature for the Arts and Entertainment Section! Woo Hoo - definitely made my day.
So, People of Blogland, did anyone watch the Academy Awards last night? Any random bits you'd like to share with us? Is there anyone out there who would eat a potato chip sandwich?
Aw, thanks for the award Janet!
ReplyDeleteI stayed up last night and watched the Oscars in their entirety. That's the advantage of living in the west - it was all over by 10:30 pm! My daughters and I made our picks for winners on an online Oscar poll and compared notes throughout the program. Rachel and I only got 10 right out of 24 categories, but Dana (who did research rather than simply guessed) picked 17 out of 24 winners! It's a fun thing we like to do every year.
Jana
That sounds like a great tradition, Jana! And I think it makes for a fun evening of watching if you have a side game going on :)
DeleteThank you Janet. I humbly accept this award and would like to thank God, my parents, my kids and my blogging community who keep me motivated and inspired.
ReplyDeleteAnd potato chip/cheese slice sandwiches? Man! That's a first for me. (Love your list.)
Great acceptance speech, Sandy :) I must say the blogging community is amazing (and definitely inspirational).
DeleteAww, thanks so much, Janet. I don't know about drive and determination over here. I think it's more like stubbornness to me. ;o)
ReplyDeleteI didn't watch the awards. I haven't seen a new movie in years, so they're all kind of meh to me. By the time I've seen a movie enough to care if it wins awards, the awards are long over.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with potato chips in the middle. Yummers. I don't know why, but they're sooo good.
Stubborness is synonymous with drive and determination, B.E.!
DeleteI didn't see any of the movies, either - and it really does help with the watching if you know the movies or, like Jana, have a side game going on :)
See - I knew there was a reason we're friends! PB & J with chips - haven't tried it...yet!
Awww. You are too kind, Janet. And woot on getting picked up by write On! That's awesome blossom type recognition! And you deserved the recognition. That was a terrific snippet! I love learning random facts about folks. I knew some of yours but not all. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Silver :)
DeleteYou know, 7 random facts were hard to come by this morning!
I'm also musically eclectic. My ds recently introduced me to dubstep. I've been YouTubing it a lot since then.
ReplyDeleteHey, Alice - very interesting, my toes were tapping so that's usually the only criteria I have for liking a song/music :)
DeleteI didn't watch the Oscars last night but am happy to hear that The Help picked up at least one. I just read the winners and can't believe that's the only award it received. ROBBED! They were robbed.
ReplyDeleteI would totally eat a potato chip sandwich. When I was a kid I used to put my chips on my sandwich cuz I liked the crunch.
It is all about the crunch, Erika! And the salt - I am a salt-a-holic! So glad to meet another potato chip sandwich fan :)
DeleteThe Help, book, was so very good - I didn't go see the movie because I thought they might have Hollywood-ized it and I didn't want to be disappointed. I'll definitely look for it on DVD now.
Hey,
ReplyDeleteGood reward. Good choice in you. Now I gotta go and read write on regularly
The Oscars were on but the sound was turned off. I hate it when they thanks everybody and their dog - absolutely none of whom I have ever heard.
And speaking of that, I only recognized about 3 actors/actresses.
I haven't seen the movie Help but I have the book teetering on my potential avalanch stack of books to read.
cheers
Write On! is a fabulous online magazine - I had never heard of it before, but they are on my 'must read' list, too, Connie!
DeleteYou really need to pluck that book from the stack - The Help is so very, very good!
And the winners do go on rather at length with their thank yous, don't they? I love it when the band starts to play and the speakers start speaking faster to get all the speech in before they get pulled off stage! Ha!
First off, thank you so much for the award. I'll be sure to address it on Wednesday when I share 7 things about me and as well as my own Leibster Award from Jana!
ReplyDeleteApparently, I'm the only one who actually watched the awards. I'm and off again, on again type of watcher. I enjoy the glam and the glitz, but frankly don't take it too seriously. I mean, come on, who actually watches some of these movies. The highlight for me was Christopher Plummer's award speech. Witty, urban and irreverent at 82 winning his first Oscar. Loved it.
OMG, you're on Twitter?
Looking forward to your randomness on Wednesday, Karyn :)
DeleteJust chatted with my friend at work and we both agreed, the movies that come up for the awards are usually not movies we watch. Kind of like the high-brow literary books out there that always get the nod for the awards (Giller, Booker) - not the commercial fiction stuff that we pick up! And, BTW, I've read some of the award-winning books (or abandoned some) and sometimes I just don't get it!
Yes, I'm on Twitter. Made the very quiet plunge at the beginning of January and am spending time getting to know it. I believe I'm following you - you're the one who alerted me to Canada Writes Valentine Tweet Contest (entered twice, didn't win :(
meep meep!
ReplyDeleteExactly! Seems I had a bit of a pout on in my angst-y youth, so my lower lip reminded my brothers of Beaker! Meep, meep!
DeleteNice to 'see' you here, ADC!