Sugar Doll Award

Sweet Ashley, next door to me in Mississippi, passed along an award while I was in Atlanta a few days back! Thank you for thinking of me.

Award Rules:

1. List 10 things about you.

2. Tag 10 bloggers that you've recently discovered

3. If you are one of the 10 bloggers awarded, link back to this blog, and pass it along.

Aight. I'll hit it.

1. Art history was my favorite subject in undergrad. Hands down. Next to tennis. Neither of which was my major.

Kandinsky. Because I'm one of those people that actually adores modern art and thinks there's meaning/reason to painting like this. And I love it when the title "doesn't make sense."

2. My grandfather gives me his week's worth of Wall Street Journals on Saturdays. Recent tradition as I try to decipher the stock market.

3. Speaking of, I should own stock in J. Crew.

Photo courtesy of J. Crew.

4. There is one movie I cannot get sick of. It's name is Walk the Line.

5. For my first pick-your-own-costume Halloween, I asked to be a gorilla. Like all normal 3-year-old little girls. I carried a banana.

6. Favorite days: Hair air-dried/wavy, ZERO make up, men's large t-shirt or polo over a bathing suit. Done. Extra points for wearing hats backwards which my family makes fun of and I. Don't. Care.

Sister Kristen and me this past weekend at the lake on one of those #6 days.

7. Can't swallow pills. As in, one time I went to the hospital for an endoscopy on my throat from when I swallowed a Dioxycycline and it got lodged in my throat. Hello, Flintstones chewables.

8. I harmonize not-on-purpose. I have this issue where I can't match the melody on a good bit of songs. Just ask my college roommate.

9. I think better/clearer/stronger (harder, better, faster, stronger. Wait, Kanye, what?) through the arts. Theaters, art musuems, ballet studios, words, lyrics just make more sense to me than more finite, black-and-white logic.

Hello, former life. My toes still have purplish scars.

10. I love Jesus. Because he is Love. And I love love. And loving people. Haven't done the "in love" thing yet, but I hear it's pretty wonderful. We'll see one day. But yup, I'm happily commanded to love.

Tagged:

Mary Kathryn . Lori . Lizzy . Ellen . Katie . Carrie . Marissa . Callie Nicole . Tara . Megan

Happy 101

Thanks, Elizabeth and Grace in Her Step for tagging me! So I think I now list 10 things that make me happy...

Award Rules:

1. List 10 things that make you happy.

2. Tag 10 bloggers that brighten your day.

3. If you are one of the 10 bloggers awarded, link back to this blog, and pass it along.

1 :: Moments every day when the Lord reminds me that when the world is falling out from underneath me, I'll be found in Him still standing.

2 :: The Pebbles {My 5 besties. How'd we get the name? The Wise Camilla said, "God is my rock, but y'all are my pepples. Aww, shucks.}

3 :: Alpha Delta Pi {Yeahyeahyeah, I know, sappy. But to me, this sorority is more than chanting Pi, Pi, ADPi during rush--they are the net to catch me here at Samford. "We live for each other and for Alpha Delta Pi."}

4 :: Toes in sand, Lilly bathing suit on, waves crashing, and skin warm. Then Bud & Alley's or The Red Bar. Done and done.

5 :: Live music. Correction: DANCING to live music. From Charleston bars to Destin digs, just give me a beat and I'm bouncin'.

6 :: Sundresses + cowgirl boots. Or Jack Rogers.

7 :: Tailgating on the rolling plains of Auburn.

8 :: These ballets - Giselle, Romeo & Juliet, Swan Lake, Serenade, Western Symphony. {True, I haven't been a company member since '06. But I proudly retain my slightly snobbish "ballet is the basis of all dance" mentaility proudly. Go ahead, try me. I'll even wiggle my scarred 10 toes to prove it.}

9 :: Sweet little Montgomery, Alabama. It's family.

10 :: New York City {First trip: an entire summer studying ballet at Joffrey at age 14. Last trip: showing God's love to the roughest parts of Brooklyn and Spanish Harlem. From the glitz to the grime, I ADORE this city and the people that inhabit it.}

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Living the Dream

Note to those tagged: The blog gods will probably throw lighting at me, but I have seen some writers not include the award picture when reposting this. I dunno. It may mess with your aesthetic. Plus, I tagged some guys and that gingham is super June Cleaver.

Well, clutch-my-pearls...

Thank you, sweet EKM's Epigrams for the award and kind words! As you know, I'm taking notes (with a Le Pen, of course) from you. Thanks for all the help and a friendship that has lasted since our debut as Bethlehem stars in the Trinity Kindergarten Nativity play. I "pi" love you, fellow sister!

Sharing the love? Easy enough: my beautiful bestie, fellow Samford JMC major, and stylish blogger Sloan! Read her blog--you've fall in love.