A Time For Everything

Yes, it's true. I've been nominated for the Liebster Award.

My friend and chapter mate and fellow Blogger blogger Lara Lacombe nominated little ol' me. Thank you, Lara. That was really sweet.

However, there are some stipulations that come with this award...

The first being to thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog, which I have done above.

Second, answer the 11 questions from the nominator, list 11 random facts about yourself and create 11 questions for your nominees.

Third, present the Liebster Blog Award to 11 blogs of 200 followers or less who you feel deserve to be noticed and leave a comment on their blog letting them know they have been chosen. (No tag backs)

And fourth, copy and paste the blog award on your blog.

Without further ado, Lara's questions and my answers:

1. What's your favorite writing/reading snack? Most definitely hot mint tea and/or water to drink. For a snack...probably pretzel twists.

2. Where have you always wanted to visit? Washington, D.C. There's so much history there, I'd love to soak it in.

3. What's your favorite accent? Scottish. Definitely.

4. What movie do you always watch when you find it on TV? Well, I don't have live TV, so I don't really know what they play over and over any more. But my go-to films are Penelope, Star Trek or Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

5. What's your favorite hobby? Reading.

6. Say you can quit your day job and do whatever you want.  What would you do? Run a bookstore.

7. What made you want to start writing? Honestly, wanting to do it better than other people.

8. What is your favorite genre? Romance.

9. Where is your writing/reading nook? My bed or the loveseat.

10. What book do you wish you had written? Harry Potter, no question.

11. Early bird, night owl, or something in between? EARLY bird.

And now for eleven random facts.

1.I love birds.

2. I hate coffee. Love the smell, hate the taste.

3. I have seen Star Trek 2009 over 100 times.

4. I am an only child and the oldest of five.

5. I have lived in 4 different states in my life: CA, OR, NE, and TX.

6. I know how to sew.

7. I have lived in 2 countries outside the US: Denmark and England. In fact, I attended school in both countries as well.

8. I'll celebrate my 20-year wedding anniversary this year.

9. I have been seriously involved in two fandoms: JAG and the BBC's Robin Hood.

10. I have attended two NASCAR races. (Favorite driver: Sterling Marlin.)

11. I can write HTML code from scratch.

Here are the questions I've come up with...

1. Who is your favorite actor/actress?

2. Cabin in the woods or tropical island?

3. If you could travel back in time, when would you go?

4. Do you speak a language or languages other than English?

5. Cat person or a dog person?

6. Do you prefer books that make you laugh or make you cry (in a good way)?

7. Do you collect anything? If so, what?

8. What is your favorite holiday?

9. Favorite fast food restaurant?

10. Favorite current TV show?

11. Cowboy, guy in uniform, or athlete?

And the lucky recipients to be tagged...no one at the moment.

Unfortunately, of the few blogs I follow, I only know a handful of those folks well enough to spread the love. And one of them tagged me. Another was also tagged. And I haven't had time to reach out to anyone else. (If you're reading this and are interested, let me know.) So I'm afraid, this thread of the blog award/hop is going to die with me. :( Sorry Lara. I feel bad, but I appreciate the nomination and I enjoyed answering the questions.

So friends, pick a question - one of the ones I asked - and answer it.

See you on Friday for my second installment of Fort Worth Friday.

I got into work Friday and got involved in who knows what and completely forgot to swing by and post. I'm glad it wasn't a Fort Worth Friday.

The weekend was nice--drizzly on Saturday and bright and sunshiny on Sunday. There are six bags of leaves to show for my efforts, though I imagine I can fill probably twice as many more. At least. I even took a shovel to the leaves in the street gutter that had been parked on/run over for month and months. There's a pile left that's mostly mud and will need a shovel to clean up.

So it's a brand new week with a new set of tasks and challenges.

Also my chapter mate and friend Lara Lacombe nominated me for a blog award, however, I might have to disqualify myself. If not, you'll see the details on Wednesday.

How was your weekend?

It's been a long time since I've had to teach a new driver. So I'm thinking, hey, we'll get Sonshine behind the wheel on the way to school. It's not a long trip and just enough driving challenges for the newbie driver.

Yeah, no...

With a lot of jerky stops and starts, he made it to the end of the block and we traded seats.

It'll be a trip to the church parking lot on the corner this weekend to get a feel for the car and to practice acceleration and braking before we put those to the test in real time/real world situations. :)

Poor kid. He was very nervous. I can't blame him, but all things considered, he did okay.

Once the Stock Show and Rodeo has left town, there'll be a new driver on the road.

After Friday's post I had to take Sonshine to the local DPS office to take his written exam for his drivers license. Only we couldn't find his Social Security card, which meant a trip to the Social Security Admin office to get some form verifying his number. Then back to the DPS. Only to be told there was a two hour wait just to take the written exam.

But, believe it or not, we had a little luck. A while back I'd noticed them building a Drivers License Center near to our house. As luck would have it, it opened Thursday afternoon. We left one DPS and rushed over to this new facility and were in and out in less than two hours!

So my baby is now permitted to drive a car as long as he has a licensed adult driver over the age of 21 in the car with him. He didn't feel comfortable hopping in the truck and driving home though, despite it being back roads the whole way.

And no longer do you carry a paper permit for six months. He'll have an honest-to-goodness plastic card in the mail in a couple of weeks.

It's back folks, and I'm super excited. I should start off with some introduction to Fort Worth, but I did that once, and I'm sure we'll cover some more of Fort Worth's origins in later posts when I talk about historical landmarks or events.

Today, however, we're going to hit the ground running with the...



Celebrating it's 117th year this year, the Stock Show and Rodeo comes to town every January. The kids get a day off school and a free ticket to attend. At least in FWISD--my teacher friend said they gave out tickets in her district, but not a day off.

I didn't actually attend the rodeo Sunday morning, we just drove through that area before it got crowded and snapped a few pictures. But I suddenly have an urge to go. Whether or not I will, remains to be seen.

Surprisingly, the event takes place in what we refer to as the Cultural District rather than the Stockyards, which would seem the more likely place. On the other hand, what better place for a stock show and rodeo than the Will Rogers Memorial Center??