It’s Awards Season.. Liebster

I have to tell you that today I am struggling. I have no energy, drained and exhausted; my pain is spiking. This is what happens after I have been out. A kick back I can avoid if I stay in my burrow and do nothing. It is worth the costs to spend a day in the sunlight,  not something I can do too often; I need those rest days in between and today is most definitely a rest day. Please forgive my tardiness in getting to your comments. I will be briefer and more concise than I would have liked and most likely with a lot of mistakes but I don’t want to keep this waiting any longer.

A couple of days ago I was nominated for The Liebster award by the lovely Julie from..

http://youllsoonbeflying.com/

http://youllsoonbeflying.com/2014/01/14/id-like-to-thank-the-academy/comment-page-1/#comment-35

She thought my blog, with only a couple of posts, worthy of pointing out and sharing with her readers. Thank you Julie! It is a fantastic feeling to be noticed; especially when you are so new the paint of the door hasn’t dried yet! It is a lovely award aimed at encouraging new bloggers. With its peer nomination system it gives each awardee a chance of being seen by more readers.

Here are the answers to her 10 questions….

1. What is the hardest word for you to write. Why? Not from a spelling or grammatical angle, I am talking about your feeeeeeelings.

The hardest word to write would be mummy or mum. The endearing terms for mother always hurt me. I find it slightly easier to write mother but I still have an uneasy feeling sweep over me. Seeing as my blog is about sharing much of the relationship between myself and my mother I an going to have that feeling often!

2. What time of day do you most often write? Why is that?

I write mostly at night, I have an awful sleep pattern. I take my meds before bedtime and get a couple of hours before pain starts to creep into my awareness. Sometimes it is the pain building to an intolerable height that wakes me, sometimes my subconscious tries to reason with the pain and give it a meaning in dreams, I have horrid dreams. I think I prefer to wake in pain, than in terror. Sometimes I am completely unable to get back to sleep for the rest of that night, other times I may be awake an hour or so before I can get back to sleep, after time attached to a tens machine, heat pad or the next round of meds can calm the pain down. Distraction is so helpful and so when I feel able I will write during these wakeful periods.

3. Do you check your stats as much as I do to see if anyone actually reads your posts, or are you writing and then tuning out entirely until you have something else to say?

Since coming to WordPress I have barely spent much time away from it! i adore finding new blogs to follow. There is always something that interests me. I stumble around the explore tags sections and check the links out that bloggers recommend on their own blogs.  I love that little flashing icon in the top right corner that lets me know my blog is being seen. The stats are incredible, I am really shocked to have visitors at all but to get likes, followers and comments feels very good indeed! I can see how this will become addictive for me!

4. What was the last book you read?

Unfettered  a Fantasy Anthology edited by Shawn Speakman

All the stories in this book were donated to it. Shawn had no medical insurance because he had previously been treated for cancer he was not able to get any. So when he got cancer again the bills mounted up to a lot of money. This book was produced to help pay those bills off.

5. What was the last blog you read?

Me, My Magnificent Self

http://memymagnificentself.wordpress.com/2013/12/13/awakening-to-who-you-truly-are/#more-916

Barbara has invited me to join in with her January challenge. To write an awakening piece, which I am quite nervous about, so I was reading her own piece for inspiration.

6. What is your favorite word to write and why? Remember guys, feeeeeeelings.

Oh this has to be family. That word gives me the warm fuzzies! Because of family I am who I am and I like who I am. I have brain washed my kids into the mantra “family first”. With your family behind you, you can accomplish anything. Family, family, family.. there I am basking in a warm glow now!

7. What would make you delete a post after you’ve composed/published it?

I’m not sure this is something I would do unless I felt I had totally messed it up and it was simply the worst thing I had ever seen on the internet. I’m not a great writer or even the most proficient but I write what I mean and I mean what I write and so I guess I’d  not be likely to delete anything.

8. What are your thoughts on identity theft in the land of blogging? What have you done to protect yourself, your words? Will you do anything?

It does worry me but I think simple steps like not using your real surname don’t give out specifics like your address or phone number. I also keep things a little vague.. I don’t use the names of the places I have lived, schools I have attended, places I have worked. I use titles like Husband, Son, Daughter, Aunt, Uncle, Brother, etc rather than names. The less specifics are available the harder identity theft is.

I found this website helpful

http://www.getsafeonline.org/social-networking/blogging/#.UtgDl7S3DIx

9. Why did you decide to accept this award?

It would have been rude not to! It also makes me feel even more a part of this community and it gives me the chance to carry it onwards with 10 more nominations.

10. Why did you start your blog?

My husband made me do it.. sort off! I had wanted to bring writing back into my life somehow. I had considered writing a book but the scope of it was too big for me to grasp, too much for me to manage and I was just too rusty to dive into something that enormous. Sitting in the living room I was nagging my husband about things I had asked him to do but he hadn’t, I brought up the fact the loft clearout was still to be finished 7 years after taking on the project. He countered with “and how long have you been saying you’re going to start writing?”. So you see it was simply started so I could nag with a clear conscience!

If you choose to accept my nomination of your blog and continue with the Liebster award process here are the rules..

Thank the person who nominated you and link to their blog. 2. You must answer the 10 questions given to you by the nominee before you. 3. You must nominate 10 of your favourite blogs with fewer than 200 followers and notify them of their nomination. 4. You must come up with 10 questions for your nominees to answer.

One more thing – if you link back to this post, your response will appear as a “pingback” in the discussion section at the end of this post, which allows me to share your words with your fellow nominees. (Like this!)

http://philipsphotography.wordpress.com/

http://julineplanthaber.wordpress.com/

http://jennieabat.com/

http://ne2nd.com/

http://anuncomfortableconnection.wordpress.com/

http://conqueryouremotions.wordpress.com/

http://danielleboes.wordpress.com/

http://curvingtowardjoy.wordpress.com/

http://willowscottling.wordpress.com/

http://gabyxannshadows.wordpress.com/

So dear bloggers, now you can answer these questions of mine and nominate the 10 blogs that you like, just remember to stick to blogs with under 200 followers.

1. What is your happiest moment?

2. What is your ultimate goal for this year?

3. What is the laziest thing you love to do?

4. What is your favourite film?

5. What are your favourite musical genres?

6. Do you believe that global warming ia a natural occurrence the world goes through between ice ages that humans are speeding up or something new entirely?

7. Name 5 things that are closest to you physically right now?

8. Now name the 5 things that are closest to you non-physically right now?

9. What are the things you like to avoid?

10. Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt or Sorbet?

If you don’t wish to participate please let me know so I can give the chance to someone else. thank you

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