Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awards. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2011

29 Ways to Stay Creative

How cool is that? Cool enough to inspire a month's worth of posts, that's how cool!

I've decided to live each day according to one of the Ways to Stay, and then post about it. Hopefully by working my way through this list, I'll manage to keep my creative juices flowing for a least another month XD

But as I type this, another idea is coming to me.

How are YOUR creative juices doing? Are you staying creative? Yes? No? Maybe not as much as you'd like?

How about we do this together? Let's make it a party while we're at it. Live each day doing one of the things on the list, and then post about it that night/the next day. Or maybe if you just want to do a few of the days, that's fine.

What do you think? Who's up for Staying Creative through the month of October? :) I'll keep the list of days going on the sidebar a week at a time if you just want to jump in for certain appealing-sounding days.

Take the button and let's get creative!

~Stephanie

Monday, September 12, 2011

My Blog Has Been Dug

So, Jay awarded me, like an embarrassingly long time ago >.< And I'm just now officially accepting it. *sigh* Sometimes I'm not that great. But anyway, Jay Digs My Blog.


So he gave me that ^

Now all I have to do to be officially Dug is thank Jay {...thanks, Jay XD} and tell you three random facts about myself, which shouldn't be hard because most facts I would share with you would be pretty random anyway.

1. I cannot stand spit.
2. I leave the blinds on my middle window open all the time. {Even when I'm changing, which is really bad discretion when I think about it.}
3. I used to be terrified of becoming autistic.

Now, I must pass on this award to three blogs that I Dig.

Beauty Like a Kaleidoscope
A Collection of Reflections
Almost by Not Quite

The end :D Thanks, Jay!

~Stephanie

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Kreativ!

So. Guess what, guys. Mackenzie awarded me.

:O

Like, a while ago. And I'm *cue sobbing* JUST SUCH A BAD BLOGGER THAT I HAVEN'T DONE IT UNTIL NOW.

*sniff*

I'm s0z, guys.

It's the Kreativ {did I spell that right?} Award. She thinks I'm kreativ :D YAY! So, I think all I've got to do is tell 10 Things About Myself and then pass it on to some of you guys.

10 Things About Myself
1. I write poetry. Apparently.
2. I like metal music.
3. I cannot handle watching people spit out their toothpaste.
4. I get words stuck in my head like most people get songs. {I had "disparagingly" stuck a couple of days ago for HOURS.}
5. I navigate really fast with a computer mouse.
6. I'm addicted to ChapStick.
7. Omitted or wrongly placed apostrophes really bother me. Like, really, really bother me.
8. I have elf ears {no, seriously}.
9. I don't like bobby pins.
10. I love songs in a minor key.

El fin.

And now, I award...

Natalie because...she's a great artist, and therefore OBVIOUSLY KREATIV.
Fiona because...read THIS post. You'll understand.
Charlotte because...I just found her blog and I really love it.

~Stephanie

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Butterflies and Giveaways

So, this post is going to be about...butterflies and giveaways.

The giveaway part is pretty straight-forward:

Elizabeth at Collection of Reflections makes beautiful jewelry, and for her 100th post {*cheering, fanfare!*}, she's giving away a pair of earrings! {Or $5 off and free shipping on a set.}

What do you have to do to win? It's easy.

First go HERE, to see all the beautiful earrings.

Then, go to her post HERE and comment telling her which pair is your favorite :)

Posting about the giveaway and being a follower will get you extra entries, so take that into consideration ;)

Now, for the butterfly part of the title...

Psycho Babbling Basher, a fascinating blogger and fellow hott-guy-lover, has been so kind as to award me :D {*YEEP* OHMYGOSHIGOTAWARDEDGUYS.}

The award is called the Butterfly Award.


And basically, you just give it to bloggers that you think are awesome {aw, shucks}, post something about yourself, and then pass it on to other worthy keyboarders.

I can do this.

SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF:
I hate double standards.

And yet, I have a double standard about that.

I know, right, how hypocritical and ironic can you get?

But it's true. I expect people to treat me the same way they treat everyone else. And I expect people to treat everyone the same. I think it's unfair when people bend the rules for only certain people.

But then, it's okay if I'm nicer to some people than others. It's okay if I make exceptions for people I really like. If I bend the rules for my best friend, the world should just back off and be okay with it.

I hate double standards. And yet I have them. It's stupid and wrong and I'm desperately working on it.

And now it's time to award some fellow awesome bloggers :D

Elizabeth because...she loves Bonanza.
Shruti because...her blog header is cool.
Kyrenius because...I know him XD
Jesayka because...her blog title sounds so foreboding, but it's not--PSYCH.
Tinuke because...her "follow" button is in a different language :O
Noodlecanoodle because...I like the blog title. Even though the blog kind of confuses me. I like it.

~Stephanie

Sunday, May 1, 2011

May Day

May 1st. May Day. The holiday when people hang flower baskets on their neighbors' doors. I've always wanted to do that, but I never really knew what May Day was about. Apparently it's about a lot of different things that all happen to fall on the same day {poor planning on someone's part}. Here are two of them:

Beltane

Beltane was a Celtic calendar feast ushering in the start of summer.

Bonfires were common features of Beltane celebrations. Related rituals included driving cattle between two fires, dancing around the fires, and burning witches in effigy. Another tradition was Beltane cakes, which would be broken into several pieces, one of which was blackened. They would be drawn by celebrants at random; the person getting the unlucky blackened piece would face a mock execution.

Bringing in the May

In medieval England, people would celebrate the start of spring by going out to the country or woods—"going a-maying"—and gathering greenery and flowers, or "bringing in the may."

Another English tradition is the maypole. Some towns had permanent maypoles that would stay up all year; others put up a new one each May. In any event, the pole would be hung with greenery and ribbons, brightly painted, and otherwise decorated, and served as a central point for the festivities.

May Day was also a time for morris dancing and other dances, often around the maypole. In the 19th century, people began to braid the maypole with ribbons by weaving in and out in the course of a dance. Other later traditions include making garlands for children and the crowning of the May Queen.

And that just gave me an idea. In honor of the neat holidays for May Day, let's crown a Blog May Queen/King. We all have our favorite blogs and bloggers, how about nominating some for the crown?

I'll take all the nominations and post about them, maybe even have some guest posts. At the end of May I'll put up a poll and let everyone vote. The winner will get a "May Queen/King" award :)

What do you think? Yea? Nay? Pass the word around and let your followers know. Maybe someone will nominate you! :)

~Stephanie

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

In Which I Give an Embarrassingly Long Rant About a Crush

I love that no one who reads this knows me in real life {with the exception of Sam, who I doubt is still reading XD}. It's tremendously freeing. Like, if I wanted to talk about a guy in my class that I might have a crush on, I could.

Oh, hey, now that I've mentioned it...

There's a guy in my class that I might have a crush on :3

>.< It makes me mad to think about it. Because part of me honestly despises him, but the other part of me does not. He's one of those people who have two sides: one of them is awesome, one of them sucks. Obviously, I like the awesome part. The sucky part makes me want to punch a kitten. Then I just want to punch myself for allowing myself to like the awesome part.

C'est l'amour -_-

So I know you're just dying to hear about this guy {or not. In which case, go away.}, and I don't have a problem sharing. What a win-win situation.

First things first: I'll just go ahead and appease the shallow in all of us by saying that's he's attractive. By a fairly large margin. Personally, I think he's one of the hottest real people I know. He channels Jeremy Sumpter, and we all know how I feel about HIM.

Moving on. His personality perfectly fits my ideal guy. He's smart, funny, stubborn, mischievous, and a great talker/debater.

General Personality:
I kind of already covered that. He's really funny, one of those people who can pull off stuff no one else can. He's stubborn, but gives in easily when he knows he's wrong. He's not too proud in that area, which is nice because I most definitely am.

He has a great streak of mischief in him that I don't think he'll ever completely outgrown :] It's not the stupid kind of mischief either, the kind that's immature and gets you in trouble. It's a clever, creative, funny kind of mischief.

He's a bit of a pyromaniac, which I completely understand, being one myself.

He can talk about almost anything and not sound stupid. He likes to talk, and he's good at it. If we were to go together, I wouldn't have to do all the talking, which I LOVE. I'm a talkative person, but I can't even tell you how much I love it when someone else likes to do the talking, too.

In School:
He struggles in math exactly the same way I do: he's basically lazy and looses concepts if he doesn't work on them every day. American history and philosophy are the subjects he gets into the most, and the same goes for me.

Most of the people in my class don't enjoy those two subjects. At all. They pretty much do the bare minimum and try not to think.

This guy and I love to explore the possibilities and let our minds race. The philosophy discussions mostly consist of one of us bringing up something we noticed, the other playing off of that, and the two of us going back and forth, faster and faster, deeper and deeper, until we hit upon some huge moral or logical breakthrough.

All the while the class kind of stares at us like they're watching a ping-pong match and the teacher watches us go with wide eyes.

American history goes about the same. We feel the same way about history and the government, so much so that I'm constantly shocked that anyone could mirror my opinions so exactly. We both see things in black and white, value justice over mercy, and believe that the government has taken too much control. We like the same presidents, and have the same thoughts on the economy.

Every once in a while, we have opinions that are different, and discuss them out in class. He explains things in ways I've never thought of, and I help him see the other side to the situations.

He's a champion debater when he tries, but lots of times he's too lazy to do the research. Even when he doesn't, he thinks on his feet better than anyone I know, and uses sound logic all the time. I'm a great debater myself {um, in all modesty, I mean...} and usually do the research, but I'm a planner. Either way, we both kick butt and neither wants to go against the other.

In Athletics:
If I had to pick one sport love, it would be dance.

If I had to pick one sport PLAYED WITH A BALL, it would be soccer. This guys is a pretty great soccer player. He specializes in goalie, and is really good at it. We were on the same rec league team two years in a row and I got to see his soccer skills in action.

Also his abs. Because he likes taking his shirt off in front of everyone to change into his goalie jersey. What an obnoxiously gorgeous show-off.

He beats himself up if he feels like he caused the game to be lost. He can also be something of a hot head and occasionally loses it. Maybe this should freak me out. It doesn't. I think it's hott.

The Bad Side:
All that, is him when he's at school or at soccer. When he's not, he's a total douche.

I'm talking two-faced, low standards, fallen morals, drug-dabbling, spaghetti-spined wannabe pimp.

So...damn.

On the one hand, he's great and we're basically perfect for each other.
And on the other, there's no way.

I know he can be an amazing person, but apparently that person isn't "cool" enough for him. He has to go off and be someone else, someone I despise. I wish he would realize his potential and stick to the awesome side of himself.

After that, it'd be good if he'd notice me as more than just the girl he likes to talk to in History. I mean, if we were friends outside of class maybe he'd come around...

Actually, no. Screw that last sentence a million times over. I have neither the time nor the desire to reform a guy. I'm also almost positive that it never works out.

*sigh* See how conflicted I am? I'm never going to get anywhere with this XD

If you made it this far, I will give you an award. No lie.

~Stephanie

Sunday, March 20, 2011

{Stylish}

Apparently I'm a stylish blogger. At least sweet pea thinks so, which kiiinda made my day.

It's my first award over here at Pandora, so that's extra exciting. I really love Pandora. It's so freeing. I swear, the second I feel myself starting to fall into a mold or care too much about what people think or care too much about how many followers I have, I'm gonna smash myself against the sides of stereotyping so freaking hard.

Anyway. The rules of this award are to tell 7 things about yourself, then pass the award on to 15 Stylish bloggers. Which may take me a while to come up with.

1. Laura Ingalls Wilder and Ashton Kutcher have the same birthday as me.
2. It's really important to me that I like my boyfriend's voice. I'm single, but when it happens, I have to love his voice. Voices are one of the first things I notice about people.
3. I am allergic to the Three Ps: pets, pollen and peanuts.
4. My knees are slightly double jointed. I think it's gross.
5. My favorite holiday is the Fourth of July.
6. I don't think there should be a law about wearing your seatbelt. If it's not endangering anyone but yourself, the government should butt out.
7. I love God a lot and we're getting tighter. Which is awesome.

Alrighty now, 15 people with stylish blogs... I may have to go hunting for this. So if you are reading this because I awarded you and you have no idea who I am, this would be why.

1. Jezebel because...she loves/has tattoos. Automatic WIN.
2. Shurt'ugal's Post/Mary because...we think alike. So if I'm stylish, so is she. So yeah.
3. Dandalily because...Does this even need an explanation? The second you come to her blog you know she's got style.
4. Psycho because...she picks fascinating topics.
5. Kristen because...somehow she figured out the complicated process of getting extra fonts on her blog...
6. Haze because...she talks about Jesus on her blog. Another automatic WIN. (Even though I'm pretttyy sure she already got awarded...)
7. Katie because...she introduced me to Charlieissocoollike. I think I'm in love.
8. Lily because...she likes Relient K.
9. Miss Raquel because...she loves eyes and has a Latin blog title. Awesome.
10. Follows Your Heart because...she blogs in Spanish, which I'm trying to learn.
11. Bea because...her blog just kind of scream "stylish," along with the Alpha-Omega tattoo. {Greek = my all-time faaavorite language.}
12. Alyssa because...I love her header.
13. Tegan because...she has pictures of footies on her blog.
14. Andie because...her profile description rhymes.
15. Shannon because...we did the same tag.

~Stephanie