Blog Award

A big thank you to Mary at Being a Winner By Being a Loser and Sparkler at Sparkler's Story for bestowing upon me The Versatile Blogger Award.

Here are the rules for this award:

1.Thank the person giving the award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Nominate 15 newly discovered blogs.
4. Let your nominees know about the award.

7 Things about me:

1. I have spent a total of 14 days with my father in my entire life. I flew 8 hours to get there twice as a young teen. I wouldn't know him from Adam, but I do have a decent relationship with my half-sister (his other daughter). I am always surprised to find how jealous I can feel. It hit hard when I got her wedding pictures. Nobody paid for a wedding for me and I certainly wasn't escorted down an aisle.

2. This year I will have been married to my hero for 9 years. We have a 14 year old son. There is some discrepancy with those numbers, but I promise the missing years were for the best.

3. I am the oldest of five children. I can't remember a time when I wasn't in the role of parent.

4. I am a Gemini and I fit the description quite well. Sometimes I wonder if I have two people living in this brain because I am very interested in so many seemingly opposite things. Oddly enough, I don't read horoscopes.

5. The only sport I care to watch is Rugby. I tried my hand at playing mid-field back, but I'm not gifted in sports. I ended up with broken toes from getting cleated in a scrum.

6. I am adept at a broad spectrum of tasks, but I don't have an area of interest that I excel in. Might be why I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up...

7. I took Spanish, French, German and Russian in school. I can count to 10, say please and thank you. I can also say "For Christmas I'd like a hedgehog." in Russian. I wish I had stuck with one thing instead of ending up unable to converse in any language other than American English and pantomime.

Here are 15 Blogs I'm nominating:

1. Colleen @ This Time I Mean It

2. Blossom @ Blossom Banded

3. Camille @ Living Large in C.C.

4. Dawn @ What I Weighed in High School

5. Miss Vickie @ The Queen Bee's Lap Band Life

6. Ashli @ Skinny Tastes Better - (hopes she'll start posting again)

7. Sarah @ Simple, Sassy Sarah

8. Pie @ Pie in Progress

9. TJ @ Metamorphic Journey

10. Jen @ It IS All About Me

11. Terri @ I Can Do This

12. Jenny @ Embracing a New Path

13. Jacquie @ Can't Wait to Lose it With the Band

14. Mallen @ Banded for Life

15. YOU! That's right, I mean you! If you're reading this and don't already have this award take it and follow it's rules.

Welcomes and Thanks

So there I was at the end of a yuck-tastic day... I sat down to check in on my blog and what do I find? I have gone from 11 to 34 readers. WOW!!!

The most awesome and remarkable Drazil pimped me to her mass of readers. As a thank you I've created the:

Because let's face it... Pimpin' ain't easy. And what is a pimp with out her hat and pimp stick?

If you have someone who you think deserves this award, by all means, feel free to pass it along.

To all my new blog friends:

I will go through and follow all of you who's links I can find tomorrow. If your profile doesn't list a link to your blog will you post a link in the comments or email me at cheeseburgergirl AT ymail DOT com?

Thank you to those of you who commented on my last blog. I spend my days chauffeuring kids and rarely get to talk to adults. It's pretty lonely in my world while Husband is gone. Coming here and finding all your sweet and encouraging comments really made a crud-a-rific day a happy tears day.

G'night everybody,

My First Blog Award

A big Thank You to Drazil @ It's Just me, Drazil, and Sheniqua for my first ever Blog Award!

I'm passing it on to my very first commenters:

Grace @ Grace's Fat Chance

Carmen @ I'm With The Band

Stephanie @ Dreams of Skinny High Heels

Camille @ Living Large in C. C.

Thank all of you for being the first people to join me and offer words of wisdom!