I have a couple of awards that I need to give out.  Here is one of them – I received this award from 3 people – Debby, Kelly, and Nikki

Here be the strings:
1. Get really excited that you got the coolest award EVER! YAY!!!!!!!!!
2. Choose ONE of the following options of accepting the OMB award:
(a) Get really drunk and blog for 15 minutes straight, or for as long as you can focus. I think that was college…. not repeating…
(b) Write about your most embarrassing moment. We won’t talk about the time I walked around introducing myself as Vicky Vail after watching ‘Bat Man’ and having a date with too much alcohol (see #1)
(c) Write a “Soundtrack of your childhood” post. Try again.
(d) Make your next blog a ‘vlog’/video blog. Basically, you’re talking to the camera about whatever. I will do this later

(e) Take a picture of yourself first thing in the morning, before you do anything else (hair, make up, etc)and post it.
Okay – here it is!

As a courtesy, I also showed you the back via the mirror 😀

It’s not like I don’t have a million morning pictures of me here before (and after) working out looking less than stellar, but I thought you all might be interested in noting that I actually wear glasses!  I wear contacts during the day.  Glasses appear on my face for 2 brief periods of time each day – when I go from the bathroom to the bedroom at night, and when I go from the bedroom to the bathroom in the morning.

3. Pass the award on to at least three, but preferably more, awesome bloggers as yourself. Don’t forget to tell them.

I am going to make this the international version!

1.  Fran – She is going to be training for a 1/2 marathon!

2.  Kimberly – Her Weekly Cause Wednesday is very inspiring!

2.  Jo –  From the land down under, who grows her own veggies 😀

I received a Better Basket from MB at Why The Weight. Thank you!

Better Basket Blog Hop started as a charity blog meme, bloggers were able to raise $10 by writing a blog post of donating a virtual Easter Basket. HERSHEY’S promised to donate $10 per each post written for the Children’s Miracle Network, up to $5,000. Within the first week, over 200 bloggers participated, and soon it was 400 bloggers, and HERSHEY’S was so impressed by the kindness and caring of the hundreds of bloggers participating that they decided to donate $7,000 in honor of all the caring bloggers who are part of spreading the word of paying it forward this Easter season.

HERSHEY’S BETTER BASKET BLOG HOP RULES

• Copy and paste these rules to your blog post.
• Create a blog post giving a virtual Easter Basket to another blogger – you can give as many Virtual Baskets as you want.
• Link back to person who gave you an Easter Basket.
• Let each person you are giving a Virtual Easter Basket know you have given them a Basket.
• Leave your link at BetterBasket.info/BlogHop comment section. You can also find the official rules of this #betterbasket blog hop, and more information about Better Basket with Hershey’s there.
• This started as a meme of HERSHEY’S donating $10 per each blog participating to the Better Basket Blog Hop to Children’s Miracle Network up to $5,000 – but after so many bloggers participating, HERSHEY’S decided to donate a total of $7,000 honoring the kindness of blogger community .

The blog list is up to  481 posts at this point I wrote this post – let’s get them up to 700!!  Or heck – let’s go for 1,000!  I am bestowing a basket upon everyone who reads this post!

Another award this blog has received given by 266:

Rules for this are just to pass out to others that you feel have wonderful blogs!

Going to:

1.  Susan

2.  Debby

3.  Shelley

4.  Anne

5.  Jinx

6. PTG

7.  Eat,Run,Litigate

8.  Jen

9.  Pubsgal

10.  Lara

And my mom doesn’t have a blog, but I will award her the One Lovely Mom Award!  😀

And anyone else whose blog I have commented on and visited!  Feel free to to partake of this award and use it as you see fit.

I have gotten a few blog awards recently and have been remiss in getting them on here!  So, here is the first one awarded to me by Steven – who is on an amazing journey himself.

The Honest Scrap award is for people who tell it like it is.  I am actually scrapping some of the rules LOL!  I am sharing the award, but no one has to feel obligated to share.

1. “The Honest Scrap” award should be shared!
2. The recipient has to tell 10 true things about themselves that most people don’t know.
3. The recipient may pass along this prestigious award to any number of bloggers and let them know.

10 true things about me:

1.  I love, love, love coffee in all forms.   (Oh wait,  10 things people *dont’* know!)

2.  I was a member of the Lionel Ritchie fan club in high school in the 80s.  ( I cannot even believe I am putting this in print).

3.  I have a fear of going over bridges.

4.  I kept my last name when I got married (offline people know this).

5.  I actually was trying to decide between being a veterinarian or a psychologist for college before ending up in music.

6. Volleyball was my favorite thing in gym class.  Pretty much the only thing I liked.

7.  I weigh less now than I did in high school.

8.  I actually used to think cream cheese was gross (what was I thinking???)

9.  I have some electromagnetic field around me that makes technology go wonky (seriously).

10.  I love 80’s music

It’s hard to narrow down passing this out, and I know some of you have already gotten this.  Regardless – please check out these blogs for keeping it real!

1.  MizFit

2.  Diane

3.  Lyn

4.  Lynn

5.  Annabel

6.  Steve

Another award coming out tomorrow!