2 Awards and a Meme

I am the recipient of much generosity this week!

Firstly, Ron kindly offered me the Arte Y Pico award.



I will plagiarize Ron's description verbatim: This award was created to be given to bloggers who inspire others with their creativity, and for contributing to the blogging world in whatever medium.

(Don't you love how I announce an award for creativity by plagiarizing? That in itself could be considered creative...)

Of course there are some rules to be respected:

1. You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award through creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogger community, no matter of language.
2. Each award should have the name of the author with a link to their blog.
3. Award winners have to post the award with the name and link to the blog of the person who gave them the award.
4. Please include a link to the Arte Y Pico blog so that everyone will know where the award came from.

I would like to pass this award along to the following worthy bloggers, in alphabetical order:

1. Nicole at Nicole B Photography

2. Syb at No Moron Left Behind

3. Tink at Pickled Beef

4. Saviabella at her blog of the same name

5. Whatigotsofar at Whatigotsofar version 2.0

There is also a meme component of this award, which requires me to list 5 little-known facts about myself, so here goes.

1. I was born 6 weeks early, breech (i.e. ass-backwards) and weighed 4 pounds, 4 ounces at birth. Anyone who remembers me as a newborn can't tell me enough about how small I was, even now, whenever the subject comes up. I kind of wish I'd waited until my full term to be born, because then I might have my birthday on Hallowe'en, which would be so cool!

2. For reasons unknown, I never developed baby teeth (i.e. molars) on the left side of my mouth. The pediatric dentist my mom took me to told her that it meant I was dying of some horrible bone disease. My poor mom. I was fine, and in fact there was that much less teething for her to deal with. My adult teeth came in just fine, and I didn't even need braces.

3. Ever since I started sleeping on a pillow-top mattress, I no longer sleep with a pillow under my head. It seems redundant, and my neck is happier that way.

4. I almost never eat a whole chocolate bar at once. Half is enough. I wrap up the other half for another day. I don't find this odd, but everyone else seems to think it's like, some kind of superpower or something.

5. I had a nose ring for less than a year. I took it out when I got hired to a corporate job. Sometimes I miss it, but I wouldn't re-pierce my nose because the healing process was a pain in the rear.

And now... Another award!

San at A Life With A View has been so kind as to award me the Just Plain Fun To Read award.



This award was developed by Daryl at Out and About in New York City. I would like to pass it along to the following worthy bloggers (in alphabetical order):

1. Dianne at Forks Off the Moment

2. Karen at Smiling Through It All

3. Leighann at Pessimists Need Love Too

4. Jenski at Where To Start?