An Award (times two)!

After only starting this blog about three weeks ago, I am incredibly honored to have received my first award, twice in the same day! Many thanks to Amanda at Our Fertility Journey and Christa at I Can't Control Everything. I started this blog not only for theraputic reasons, but because for a long time, I've felt a void of good female friendship. It seems I always find myself in situations where I'm just a little to young, a little to old, or just can't quite relate to the women around me. The best girlfriends I've had through the years all live far away, and all but one has at least one child by now. Which, as you all can imagine, can just adds another level of hardship to maintaining a relationship, which is already made difficult by busy lives and distance. So, anyway (one thing about me that I won't mention below, is that I have a tendency to babble!) it really means a lot to me to be joining this amazing and supportive community. 

So, here's how this one works:
1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award
2. Share 7 things about yourself
3. Award some recently discovered bloggers that are deserving
4. Contact those bloggers and let them know about the award


7 Things About Me
1. I love soap operas. I TiVo General Hospital every day (and have been recording it faithfully since 1996). I watch it while I get ready for work in the morning instead of the news, (which I find to depressing) or while I am on the elliptical. I also used to tape Days of Our Lives, which I essentially watched from the womb with my mom, until I got too busy to keep up with two soaps a day while in grad school. Over the years I have also watched Another World and Santa Barbara. 


2. My favorite candy is a Cadbury Creme Egg. They have just hit stores for the season. I wish they would wait until after Valentine's Day. It's not good for my waistline. I've already had two this year, and have three more waiting in my kitchen right now. 


3. I never thought I would marry a man who drove a pick-up truck, but I did. It's pretty handy to own a pick-up truck. And the guy who drives it is pretty awesome as well. 


4. I love to plan parties. In elementary school, I would start planning my April birthday party as soon as the christmas decorations were put away. The problem is, I have such high expectations of my parties, that I often have more fun planning them than I do at the actual party. 


5. I don't really enjoy coming up with random lists of things about me. First, my mind goes blank, and I think, goodness, I am really uninteresting. Then I think of something that just sounds too silly, or stupid. I'm a perfectionist. These things stress me out! : )


6. I really enjoy the sport of figure skating. I used to be truly obsessed. I've lost touch with it in the last few years, but I used to religiously tape every event I could find on TV, and catalogue what was on the tapes. Somewhere in my mother's basement, there's a box of 60 video tapes. For my Canadian followers out there, my all time favorite skater is Kurt Browning. 


7. I like to play dress up. I used to have theme birthday parties and Halloween parties every year. We had an 80s themed New Year's Eve party last year. Everyone dressed up. It was hysterical to see a bunch of 40-somethings in their 80s finest (see, Hubby is 42...so I'm just enough younger than our main group of friends...none of whom want to have children, but that's another topic, for another day....yes, I babble...). I love to make Halloween costumes. I'm really looking forward to making them for Violetta someday. 


The Deserving Bloggers
Since I'm only a month in to this whole blog thing, all the blogs I'm following are recently discovered to me. Here are some of my favorites that, as far as I can tell, have yet to receive this award. 


Do I Have to Be A Dink
Miss Conception
No I'm Not Pregnant, I'm Just Fat
The 2 Week Wait
Uncommon Nonsense
Womb for Improvement
Yolk...a blog about eggs and sperm
Ginger and Lime