Inspired blogger Award

So

I got an award from JZ -- and as I posted in her comments

I'm not sure if I'm pleased -- or pissed - because I always feel as if I got a chain letter and I hate to break it

but I will

at the same time -- it's lovely to have someone think of me - -particularly since my readers are an exclusive bunch

I'm ungoogleable on purpose.
so you have to know someone to get in

like an exclusive club.

So - I guess there's some rules
which

well - I'll do some of them

hmm - being a bitch about this might be why I don't get nominated much

There are, of course, Official Rules.
   1. Display the award logo on your blog.
   2. Link back to the person who nominated you.
   
   3. State 7 things about yourself.
   
   4. Nominate 15 other bloggers and link to them.
   
   5. Notify those bloggers of the nomination and requirements.


I have displayed the lovely award -- (yay whoever for designing it - very pretty)




and let's see -- 7 things about myself.

1.  I can't properly paint my own toenails because my boobs get in the way.  Yeah -- seriously -- they're irritating.  I wish I could unscrew them from time to time and put them on the bedside table.  I mean - -men love them  and they balance out my fat ass and make me look all hourglassy (as I like to say - an hourglass with LOTS of sand) - but sometimes?  a girl just wants to paint her toes.

2.  I really really really like a quiet house.  I mean - QUIET.  right now - the only sound in my house is the clock ticking in my bathroom and the keys clicking on my keyboard.  I love that I can hear a dog from several houses over -- and little sounds outside.  Often - there's no TV.  No music - just silence.

3.  A number one pet peeve -- tapping.  Not keyboard tapping -- rhythmic tapping.  A foot - a pencil -- will drive me mental - until I shout at you -- "WOULD YOU FUCKING CUT THAT SHIT OUT!"  oh - and it only takes about 4 or 5 taps.  

4.  The oldest piece of clothing I have (and can still wear) is a college sweatshirt.  It was HUGE on me when I bought it -- and I love it -- although it's embarrassing to wear it now -- sometimes I just can't help it.

5.  I could be on hoarders.  Well - just my garage -- but I could.  

6.  I am terrified of electricity -- irrationally so.  When I was a girl my Mom told me a story about these 3 little girls who were killed taking a bath - the girls knocked a lamp into the tub and they all died.  I was seven when I heard this story - and now?  I can't blow dry my hair if the toilet seat is up.....Thanks Mom.

7.  When I can't sleep -- I tell myself stories I know very very well -- from the viewpoint of other characters in the book.  (I think I've told this one before - -but WTF - it's my blog) -- So I'll tell Pride and Prejudice to myself from the viewpoint of Caroline Bingley (Once upon a time my brother rented a dreadful house in the dreary countryside - where there was no society at all.  Thank goodness Darcy came with us -- we met the most common family with 5 horrible daughters -- and my dear brother Charles was just smitten with one of them - how horrible.....)

Nominate 15 bloggers

ok

so

I don't read 15 blogs.

so instead -- I'm going to thank my commenters that have kept me blogging and made me feel like I'm not talking to myself - Aisha, Nilla, H, Hedone, DV (mmmmmmm DV), Malcolm, Faithful, Sin, PP, Jz, Turiya, Fiona, Florida Dom, Nick, Lily (who wrote my first comment ever and let me know I'm not alone  -- she doesn't read me anymore - but I still remember her), Little Monkey, David, Alice, GG, mouse -- and the new readers who've commented here and there and shit -- all the people I forgot to list - crap.

You are all a bit part of why I write -- 

yes -- I do write for myself - but I write as well because there is someone to read
someone who will say

Yes - -that's how I am

or 

JEEZUS H CHRIST - are you fucking crazy?!??!

So thank you to each of you for being here when I needed you
and for continuing to be here.

and I hope

sometimes - something I write touches you
and makes you feel less alone too.