How exciting! After being nominated for a Liebster Award a while back, my blog has now been picked for a Sunshine Award! A big thank you to my new friend, Alex Raphael, for the nomination. If you haven’t checked out his entertainment, travel, and lifestyle blog, be sure to go have a look! He’s got some truly awesome stuff over there. 🙂
The requirements for this award are pretty simple: 1) I must share 10 facts about myself. 2) I must share the love by nominating 10 fantastic bloggers for the Sunshine Award as well.
On with the show!
#1: I grew up with golden retrievers. First, a big, happy boy named Jason, and then a sweet, smart gal named JJ. JJ was short for Jason Junior, but we don’t think she minded. We gave her cheeseburgers for her birthday, so it was cool.
#2: I can beatbox. Not well, but I can. I did it for an acappella group I was part of in college, and I still do it by myself sometimes when I’m bored.
#3: I have a sis who lives in NYC, and she is the coolest person I know. Sorry, everybody else, but it’s true.
#4: The first time I went to see a movie with my mom and my sister, I walked out. Apparently, 3-year-old me declared, “It dark. I no go in there.” And I didn’t. My dad had to come get me. Look how far I’ve come.
#5: I have five years of Spanish, two years of German, and one year of French under my belt. Not sure how much I’ve retained, but it’s cool to at least feel multilingual.
#6: I wrote a novella about zombies last year. It’s not perfect, but I’m actually pretty proud of it.
#7: I’m a painfully slow reader. I retain things really well, but it takes me forever to finish a book. I’m roughly a quarter into Dan Brown’s Inferno. It might take me another month. In my defense, it’s not a great book so far.
#8: I once had an internship in an allegedly haunted library. Sadly, I never saw the ghost.
#9: I was sorted into Hufflepuff on Pottermore. I’m still working out my feelings about that.
#10: I get sucked into Law & Order: SVU marathons like nobody’s business. I lose hours on that show.
And now it’s time for the nominees! Some of these folks have a pretty substantial following, but I tried to pick several wonderful newbies as well. So in alphabetical order…
#3: Cinema Axis
#5: Confessions of a Nerf Herder
#6: Drakulus
#7: JJames Reviews
#8: Movie Generation
#9: MovieRob
#10: A Seat On a Train
Nominees, whether you partake or not, please know that I think you’re doing awesome things. Keep up the fantastic work! And thank you again, Alex, for the nomination! This has been fun 🙂
Very nice! Drop a beat!!
Boots ‘n’ cats ‘n’ boots ‘n’ cats…
wubba wubba wubbba wubba scratch scratch!
Thanks for the cool description. Those are 10 very cool things. Apart from not seeing the ghost 😦 Could you not go back? And bonus points for the languages and novella 🙂
Thank YOU for the nomination! I could go back to the library–she just hasn’t been seen in probably more than a decade. 😦 But there are ghost cams online!
Did the ghost have a name?
The Grey Lady!
I like it. The Lady Vanishes would have been mine 😉 So glad your site is so highly regarded 🙂
The question is can you beat box in all four languages? 😉
And thanks for the nomination!
Hahaha now THAT would be a feat. I was literally JUST about to head over to your blog to inform you of your nomination! You beat me to it! 🙂
🙂
Feel free to stop by anyway, though. 🙂
#3 We both know this isn’t true.
#8 The Grey Lady?
If you met my sister, you would agree. And YES! You’re familiar with her?
I’m not too far from her, we’ll have a cool-off!
Yes, we dated for a time.
I will tell my sister to prep for a cool-off, which for some reason I imagine to be very much like the walk-off scene in Zoolander. No cheating though! If I learn that R.O.T.O.R. has attempted an assassination, we can’t be friends anymore. And I bet you and the Grey Lady were an adorable couple.
We have to thumb wrestle in a walk-in freezer.
She was a doll but very fake, I could see right through her.
Buh dum tss!
I would love to hear you do some beats :]. Thanks for the nomination I appreciate it :]
Haha. Well like I said, I’m not great, but I try. And of course! You earned it! 🙂
Big loves for the nomination…
And, how ’bout a video of the beatbox skills?
Oh gees. Maybe one day…after a lot of drinking. Hahaha.
Get yourself a whiskey and see what happens 🙂
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That is so awesome! Congratulations! If there is any voting, let me know. I would love to help in anyway I can.
Haha oh no there’s no voting! When someone nominates you, you’ve already won. It’s more of a “share the love” type of thing. It’s kind of just a way to share something about yourself and highlight blogs you like. 🙂
Two points – 1. I’d love to hear you beatbox, and 2. I’m the coolest person you know 🙂
Hahaha everyone is laying claim to the coolest person comment! I think I might have unintentionally started a war…
I love reading what people write about themselves for these. Beatboxing, eh? Excellent! Would love to hear that. 🙂 And a zombie novella? Cool! Oh I loooove a good zombie story!
Haha. Maybe someday I’ll see if I can dig up an old video where I’m beatboxing for my acappella group. As for the zombie novella, it definitely needs work, but I hope to spruce it up and try to get it published at some point. I’m always looking for helpful critiques if you (or anyone else) ever wanted to read it! 🙂
I’d happily read it (but know absolutely nothing about writing, unfortunately. Oh I wish!). And I’ll totally watch the beatboxing if you did it up – sounds like you were a part of Pitch Perfect or something. 😉
Hahaha. Well we weren’t exactly the Barden Bellas, but we had our moments. 😉
Congratulations Cara! This is such a fantastic blog and a much-deserved award!
And a sincere thank you for your kindness in thinking of me!
Hope you have a great Thanksgiving!
-Andrew
Thanks, Andrew! Same to you!
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