Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: awards

  • Thank you! Thank you! You like me, you really like me!

    Thank you! Thank you! You like me, you really like me!

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    The wonderful Francine In Retirement  nominated me for 2012 Blog of The Year Award!  I am moved and honored!  Really I’ve not been blogging in earnest a full year and to receive such recognition is flattering.  Thank you, thank you.  Now I know how Sally Field felt receiving her Oscar.

    In receiving this nomination I’d like to nominate a few blogs that I enjoy.  They can go here to pick up badges and here for FAQs.

    I’d like to give a nod to Diatribes and Ovations  I enjoy the blog very much.  It’s fun.  It’s honest.  It makes you think.  For me that’s a lot of bang for your buck in a blog!

    I’d also give a nod to Sunshine Factor.  She always gives me a smile with her posts.  They are heartfelt and down to earth stories or ruminations.  I can relate to what Debb writes.  It’s an enjoyable blog with a positive outlook.

    Bo Lumpkin’s I’ve Been Thinkin’  blog takes me back home every time I read it.  It’s good ole thinkin’ an’ drawin’ too.  The humor is right with the Blue Collar Tour type and so true it’s even funnier.  I can relate to his geezerhood comics more now as a geezer than as grandchild of one.  LOL!

    Also a nod to  How The Cookie Crumbles and her wonderful posts.  I enjoy her flash in the pan fiction.  She’s excellent at setting scenes in just a few words.   She completed NaNoWriMo this year!  Also I love her admitted irreverent look at life!

    Finally I nominate the lovely lady who blessed me with a nomination – Francine!  Her photos are always moving.  She’s always up beat!  Be sure to check out her blog and enjoy the eye of an excellent photographer with a love of life.

    My nominations can pick up their badges and share the love!  Until next time!

  • I’m A Nominee!

    I’m A Nominee!

    The lovely Debb at Sunshine Factor has nominated me for the Reality Blog Award. Isn’t that sweet? She’s always supportive of my efforts and like all good things I like to pay it forward by nominating a few blogs I read regularly (listed in no particular order). If my nominees want to participate and pay it forward by all means join in!

    Apronhead

    Pearls and Prose

    Francine in Retirement

    Alec Nevala-Lee

    From These Hills

    Diatribes And Ovations

    Gatorhead

    How The Cookie Crumbles

    There are many other blogs I read regularly.  Some are comic review centered only.  These are the ones that inspire, make me laugh, and share their lives with us readers.

    You can decide what you would like to do and please take in consideration that  there are no rules so you can follow this pattern or you can create another.

    Debb passed on five questions and here are my answers :

    1) If you could change something what would you change?

    Generally I’m about accepting things are they are and moving toward what you want given that.  But if I could change one thing I’d feel like I did in my 20s now so I can do all this stuff I want to do, have more experience to do, time to do, and money to do.  Ahh youth is wasted on the young… so say we older folk.

    2) If you could repeat an age, what age would it be?

    None.  Really I’m in the best place now even with the aging thing.  I’ve worked hard to be where I am in all aspects of life.  I wouldn’t go back,  the only way is forward!

    3) What one thing really scares you?

    The ones I love being hurt or coming to harm that I could prevent.  I love and adore those in my life and want it all to be sunshine, rainbows, and glitter for them.  I know I can’t control what the universe dishes out so the best I hope for it that I never cause them pain.

    4) What one dream have you not completed yet and do you think you will be able to complete it.

    Wow.  I’d like to have a blockbuster novel.  I don’t know if I’ll get there but I’m working toward that.  In meantime I’m enjoying being creative and life along the way.

    5) If you could be someone else for the day, who would you be?

    Uh, nobody.  One of the biggest jobs in life for me is being comfortable in my own skin.  I want to own what I do be it successful or a failure.  I don’t want to take on another’s issues even for a day.  I’m still working on me and being the best me I can be.

    I’d just like to add that if you can’t laugh in life then just fill in the following blank and be thankful that’s not you.

    “It could be worse, it could be ____________!”

    I’ve never not been able to fill in the blank and then be thankful for where I am!

    Until next time! (WHEW! Made it through this week!)