A Liebster Award!

Liebster Award

What a delightful surprise 

to open my blog this morning 

and find that Paul Forster 

from Seasons Full Circle 

had awarded me a Liebster Award!

  

Thank you, Paul!  

I find Paul's blog inspirational 

because he is so open and vulnerable 

as he shares his life, his struggles, 

and his songwriting and music.

  

"Huh? You got a Lobster Award?"

said my Ever-Patient hubby this morning

when I distracted him from his iPad

to tell him the news.

No appreciation on the home front ~

but then, he was reading the news.

Olaus Magnus's Carta marina

With Big Lobsters!

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%BCnster_Thier_2.jpg

I'm new at this, 

so I have used 

what Paul posted on his blog
as a guide.

Actually Noushka nominated me 

for an award once before, 

but I had just started blogging 

and couldn't number 

the blogs I was following 

on one hand!

So I had to decline regretfully.

Now I have found so many more blogs ~ 

and they are wonderful!  

No easy nominating decisions here, 
let me tell you!  
And Paul has already nominated 

some of my favorite blogs!

But there are plenty more worthy blogs!

Here is how it works:

The rules:

1. Thank the person who awarded you the award and link back to their blog.
2. Post 11 facts about yourself, answer the 11 questions you were asked, and create 11 questions for your nominees.
3. Nominate 11 blogs who you feel deserve to be noticed and leave a comment on their blog letting them know they have been chosen.
4. Display the Liebster Award logo
5. No tag backs

11 Facts about me:

1. I live life in exclamation marks!!!
2. I was born a Canadian in Nova Scotia, and I became an American citizen in 1999.
3. I love land-locked Colorado, but I also long for Nova Scotia ~ hence my blog name Fundy Blue.  I have spent a lot of time on the shores of my beloved Bay of Fundy.
4. Like Paul Forster, I love to travel!  I grew up reading the books of Richard Halliburton who was a famous travel writer and adventurer in the 1920s and 1930s.    He inspired me to go visit the headhunters of Borneo ~ which I have done ~ and many other places which I am slowly crossing off my Bucket List!  I want to visit all seven continents.
5. I love photography and writing.  So when I was given an encouraging push into the blogosphere by Ron of .from sophie's view, I found the perfect retirement avocation.
6. My first name is Myrtle, after my grandmother Myrtle Jane (Pratt) MacBeath ~ a fact my brother never lets me forget.  I have always been called Louise, but my family usually calls me Weesie.  Not Roy ~ he still calls me Weasel!
7. I won the husband lottery!  In spite of the fact that Terry is often distracted, he is the best husband one could have.  I call him the Ever-Patient or the E-P in my blog because he has to put up with me!  He is so level-headed and calm, while I'm like a roller coaster.
8. I come from an extended and loving family.  My three sisters and one brother mean the world to me.  We are very close!  My parents are both deceased, but I think of them everyday.  Of course, I also love my extended family very, very much.
9. When people describe me, they usually use the descriptors passionate and energetic.  People are often surprised when I say I am quite shy.  They mistake me  for and extrovert, but I am an introvert.  I scored a solid INFJ on the Myers-Briggs personality test.  I barely registered on the Sensing end of the Sensing-Intuition continuum.  I scored zero on the thinking end of thinking-feeling continuum ~ I was all feeling!
10. I 'm probably the only geologist who came through Acadia University with enough credits for a solid minor in theatre ~ but I have the science credits too!  I later went on to do an Honors Degree in English and an MAEd. in the Diverse Learner.
11. I'm a binger ~ When I'm doing something I'm passionate about I don't want to stop for anything else ~ except an occasional piece of chocolate to keep my energy up. This is very disconcerting to my husband!  And because I am a square peg and can't be forced into a round hole, I'm going to sneak into my last answer that my all time, favorite book (and movie) is Lord of the Rings.  And that's saying something, because I have a hard time picking favorites!

Questions asked:

1.   What is the last dream you remember?  

The night before last I dreamed that I was a hawk flying in Monument Valley, and when it occurred to me that I wasn't a hawk and couldn't fly, I started to plummet and woke up with my heart pounding!

2.  What is your favourite relaxation activity?

Sleeping!  Otherwise, it's hard for me to relax!

3.  What style of music do you prefer?

Blues!

4.  If you and I spent the day together what would we be doing?

Talking in the middle of the night when we insomniacs are both wide-awake because our minds are working overtime!  Followed in the daylight hours with a hike some place beautiful in New Zealand ~ maybe somewhere where LOTR was filmed.

5.  Do you prefer hot or cold drinks?  

It depends:  Cold in hot places.  Hot in cold places.  I definitely prefer my cold drinks without ice.

6.  What is your favourite indulgence?

Chocolate!!

7.  If you could achieve one thing this year, what would it be? 

Complete a draft of a manuscript I'm working on ~ given a year starting right now!

8.  Are you patient or impatient?  

Impatient!  I like to think of myself as patient, but everyone says NOT!

9.  If you could spend 24 hours with someone famous who would it be and why?  

J.R.R. Tolkien ~ I'd like to have a discussion with him about developing his female characters more and why he didn't/couldn't!

10.  When are you at your happiest?

When I'm curled up with Terry just being.

11.  Lastly, looking at yourself in the mirror which part of you are you most proud of and why?

My sparkly brown eyes ~ because I was given the gift of finding great delight in the ordinary as well as the extraordinary, and that gift makes my eyes sparkle.  When my first marriage ended, my mother was so distraught because my eyes were flat, and she was worried that the sparkle would never come back.  After a very few desperate months it did!  So my mom didn't have to go strangle my first husband and spend the rest of her days in jail for murder!  Seriously!

Here are my questions to the people I will be tagging:

1.  What is your most favorite book? 

2.  Where do you live, and why do you like or dislike it?

3.  What is the unfulfilled dream you most want to accomplish during the rest of your life?

4.  What is your life's passion?

5.  What is your earliest memory?

6.  What is the most favorite place you have traveled to and why?

7.  Have you ever had an out of body experience?

8.  How do you prepare your favorite vegetable?

9.  Have you ever felt like you lived before?

10.  What is your most favorite music recording?

11.  Lastly, what scares you the most?

I now tag (and I know this involves your time ~ just know I appreciate it and you!):

Sophie at .from sophie's view (http://fromsophiesview.blogspot.com)

Jim at Ocean Breezes (http://jabacue.blogspot.com)

Noushka at 1000 Pattes {http://1000-pattes.blogspot.com}

B&R at Bikbik and Roro [http://bikbikroro.blogspot.com]

Francie at a North End Journal (http://7thdecadegirl.blogspot.com)

Pat at It's Rhyme Time (http://rhymetime24.blogspot.com)

Audrey at Life's Simple Pleasures (http://audreygoeslocal.blogspot.com)

Dreaming at Living a Dream (http://livingadream2.blogspot.com)

Greenthumb at Made With Love (http://suzzie43.blogspot.com)

Nantucket Daffodil at A Nantucket State of Mind (http://nantucketdaffodil.blogspot.com)

Optimistic Existentialist at Musings of an Unapologetic Dreamer (http://keithawynn2011.blogspot.com)

Thank you again for the honor, Paul!

Now to let my nominees know!