I received a Versatile Blogger Award from several members of my WANA class: Julie Kenner, Cindy Bell, and Liv Rancourt. Thanks, gals! You’re sweet!
So, according to the rules, I need to post this cute little icon (happily grabs), link to the person(s) who nominated me (done! see above), tell people seven things about myself (see below) and pass on the award to 5/7/14 other people (er…how about three?).
Seven things about me:
1. I’m bilingual. I speak English and Urdu–the language of Pakistan, the country where I grew up. Hands up if you’d heard of the language before reading this post.
2. My husband and I got engaged in Hong Kong. We spent a month there and I loved it. Would love to go back there someday and take the kids.
3. Currently, I have a 2-liter bottle full of soil and grass seeds on the window sill, and steelwool rusting in a small bowl of water on the kitchen counter. These are otherwise known as the “What is a Biosphere?” and “Why is Mars Red?” experiments. Why yes, I am a homeschooling mom! Why do you ask?
4. Apparently, when I was a wee little tot, I had a pet lamb (Rabia had a little lamb, little lamb… no, it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, does it?). I used to ride it, and it would butt me affectionately in the tummy. It was scared of my mom’s high heels and would run and hide if it heard her coming. It would also eat clothes off the line. But the little lamb grew into a great big sheep and it was given away (or turned into dinner, I suppose).
Or so they say.
I have no recollection of such a pet, and I still wonder, to this day, if it is not a hoax perpetrated upon my gullible younger self.
5. Speaking of perpetrating hoaxes: When I was a preteen, I convinced my 5-years-younger brother that we were all a family of witches who’d been sent to earth to study humans. However, since he was born without magic, we’d have to leave him behind when we returned to Witch Land.
He was most upset.
Oh, I was a horrible sister. I’m better now.
6. I have this weird squicked-out can’t-look-away fascination with giant squids. And titanic battles between sperm whales and giant squids in the black depths of the ocean.
7. I take my tea the British way– black tea with two spoonfuls of sugar and a splash of milk. And biscuits to dunk into the tea are mandatory (I use Ritz crackers, since I can’t find any of the brands I grew up with here in the US, boo).
I pass along this award to:
- long-time reader Liana Mir
- long-time reader and fellow HTRYN-ite Prue at What’s it All About?
- another fellow HTRYN-ite Lisa at Writing, Dreams, and Drops of Ink
5. Bwahaha – you might have been a horrible sister, but you were obviously already a wonderful storyteller!
Hee. I was just passing the terrify-the-younger-sibling thing along. When *I* was a wee girl, my older sister had me convinced that if I stepped into the travel agency right next to my dad’s office, I’d get sucked straight into a picture of the Swiss Alps that we could see right through their glass doors! You can be sure I kept away from that place!
Clearly the award was well-deserved! And yes, I had heard of Urdu before reading this post. My day job is in a hospital, and over the years we’ve had to find interpreters for just about every language you can imagine. Thanks so much for the blog love…
Peace,
Liv
A virtual gold star to you for knowing about Urdu. Woohoo!
You had me cracking up with #5! Your poor little brother must have been terrified! I bet you love to rub it in that you were able to convince him you were all witches, don’t you? And squids…really? Hmmm..weird. 🙂
Well, I wouldn’t pick *boring* things to reveal about me, now would I? Aside from the fascination with giant squids, I’m really quite normal! Ummmmm. Perhaps. 😀
:::raises hand:::
I know what Urdu is! 😀
That’s an awesome trick you pulled on your brother. Sounds like something I would’ve done.
Another virtual gold star for you!
Hee, thanks. It was a pretty cool prank-and elaborate, too! I even wrote letter to the Head Witch petitioning her to allow my brother to live in Witch Land, despite his lack of magical abilities. 😀
Thanks for sharing that info about yourself. Your poor little brother 😀
Am fascinated by the whale/squid thing and your (possible) pet lamb. Yes, I’d heard of Urdu but know nothing about the language.
Thanks for the a Versatile Blogger award. Pass the award on to 5 people? I’ll try for that…but like you it might have to be 3 🙂
I’m intrigued. What is WANA?
*digs another star out of the bucket and dusts it off* Yay, you’ve heard of Urdu!
WANA–We Are Not Alone. It’s the title of Kristen Lamb’s book on social media for authors. I’m taking her Blogging to Build Brand class right now. 🙂
Love the lamb and the little brother stories! 😀
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