seriously? a blog award?!

Last week, just before I went 'offline' for a few days with our house guests, Kerri over at The Pleasures of my Life! passed along this blog award to me as well as to a handful of other new blogs ... thanks so much, Kerri!

Like Kerri's own response, I find it a little crazy that I'm actually part of a little 'community' of bloggers at this point ... making blog friends has been a very unexpected part of this process! I started this blog to act as a journal of sorts, just a place to document the daily musings of my life ... and I can't believe that I actually have 'followers' after 6 months - it's nuts! I do love it, though ... thank you not just to Kerri but to all of my new blog friends, it's been a really fun!

So now onto the 'rules' of this award, cut right from Kerri's post ...

1. Thank the person who gave you the award (check...)

2. Share 7 things about yourself. (difficult, but I'll try ...)

3. Nominate 15 newly discovered blogs. (I don't even read 15 blogs, so I'll do what I can here ...)

4. Let your nominees know about their award. (will do ...)

Ok, so seven thing about myself ... let's see ...

1. I love to travel and have been to 40 states, most of which were visited in a single cross-country road trip I took when I was 24 years old.

2. I was a LOST-a-holic and now that the series is over I'm ready to resume my other all-out tv addiction: Mad Men ... honorable mentions go to Modern Family and 30 Rock.

3. I majored in French and lived in the South of France for a year in college.

4. As part of some sort of wacky early-70’s philosophy, I skipped Kindergarten and went straight to 1st grade after pre-school ... add to that the fact the I have an August birthday and it means I graduated from high school at 16 and started college just after my 17th birthday (and thus, college graduation at 20) ... that one goes under the category of "but it seemed like a good decision at the time" ... oy!

5. I have a really hard time with explosive noises … thunder, fireworks, guns, etc. … all too loud for me.

6. I have one of the most complicated family trees of any person I’ve ever met: marriage/kids, divorce, remarriage/more kids have been constant for 2 generations above me. Add to that the fact that my (briefly married) mother and father had a 24-year age difference and then even the generations become blurred. Double oy!

7. I have been at the front of every Madonna concert in Boston since 2001 – 8 shows in all and an unspeakable expense, but with my best friend (who flies up from North Carolina) as my accomplice I wouldn’t trade a single one.

Now for the nominations ... this will be tough not to duplicate anyone since Kerri and I travel in the same blog circle, but I'll try ...

five girls, the army, and me

Lists in my Pocket

... Loving Life's Little Things ...

Our Life on the Hill

What am I going to be when I grow up?

Yep, they are all mine

Thanks again, Kerri, this has been a fun one ...