My Very First Award!

Imagine my surprise when Chief aka Dad over at Unsound Reasoning gave me the "Stylish Blogger Award"!  It is extra-special coming from him because his blog gave me that last push I needed to begin blogging.  If you haven’t visited his blog, please do.  It is well-written and includes priceless advice on things like not flushing green peppers down the toilet.  Thank you, Chief!

From what I understand, there are some rules that go along with accepting this award:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave this award to you. ( done :-) )  
2. Share 5 things about yourself.

This was more difficult than I expected, but here we go:

1. I love all kinds of cheese, even the smelly kind.
2. I can change my tires in ~30 minutes. 
3. I started turning gray in my teens (SO not fair!).
4. I secretly want to be fashionable (i.e. have nice clothes and accessories).  My current style is “comfortable”.
5. I think I would be a good “Dear Abby”.

The person I will be awarding this to next will be J.Day over at The Ramblings of Charlie Brown.  I like that she blogs about all sorts of things and intermixes her posts with childhood stories.  She is open and honest, two traits I admire.

Being quite new to the world of blogging, I have much to learn about netiquette, formatting and such.  Hopefully there won’t be too many stumbles, but I’m sure there will be a few.  Although I have been at it for a very short period of time, it has given back much more than expected.  Besides being somewhat therapeutic, it has made me dig a little deeper.  I expected to write how I felt about various things, but have found that I am also writing why I feel them.  Rediscovering how my opinions have been formed (and continue to evolve) has been enlightening.  Best of all has been finding many kind, humorous people in the blogging community.  I had no idea, but have been enjoying the heck out of it.  Here’s to you, fellow bloggers!  Thank you for the warm welcome.