The Lemonade Award

Appar­ently, I’ve come of age in the blog world!  I’ve won a Major Award™.  Okay, maybe not, but Apollo passed along The Lemon­ade Award to me this week.  (Sarah also won! She wants pic­tures of your Chuck Tay­lors, by the way.)

Assum­ing we’re all play­ing the Whis­per Game right, The Lemon­ade Award is “an award given to sites which the giver shows either great atti­tude and/or grat­i­tude.”  That’s kind of weird word­ing, but okay, I’ll take it!  Apollo has been read­ing and com­ment­ing on my blog reg­u­larly, and he’s cer­tainly shown me much more appre­ci­a­tion than I’ve expected so far.  As a part of my award, I get to share with you all six unim­por­tant things that make me happy.  Oh, this is very dif­fi­cult! If it makes me happy, how do I say it’s not impor­tant?  Alas, I’ll try to see what triv­i­al­i­ties I can dredge up.

1) Braids!  I most espe­cially love them in my own hair.  The first pic­ture is a five strand Dutch Crown Half Updo, and to get them, I had to hang my head upside down for about half an hour at ye olde Renais­sance Faire.  The sec­ond pic­ture is of my own hand­i­work, a pair of messy Dutch braids.

2) Footwear. I tried to nar­row this down, but to be hon­est, I really just love most things that go on feet.  I like funky toe rings, and have a crazy col­lec­tion of socks.  Shoes espe­cially can get me in trou­ble.  In my younger years, I worked in a shoe depart­ment, which was not really best for my finan­cial health.  Once my shoe wardrobe reached 74 pairs, I had to admit that I had a prob­lem.  I miss hav­ing all those shoes!

3) Fire­works!  I love to go watch them, or launch them myself.   From the small­est sparkler to grand July 4th cel­e­bra­tions on the water, they all thrill me.  The smell smoke, the pops and bangs and siz­zles, and the gor­geously blind­ing light show.

4) RuneScape.  I think I might have men­tioned it.  Here’s LadyG­lut­ter, decked out in her fancy church-going outfit.

5) Black­ber­ries that have ripened in the sun instead of a ware­house are just barely this side of heaven.

6) Light­ning bugs!  My brother would flush them down the toi­let.  I always played catch and release, and still do to this day.

Now, I’m sup­posed to share the love.  But the major­ity of the peo­ple who actu­ally read this blog don’t have blogs of their own.  How about this?  If you want a Lemon­ade Award from me, all you have to do is com­ment.  You’ll def­i­nitely get my grat­i­tude.  You can post your list in the com­ments sec­tion, or on your Face­Book page, or wher­ever you like.  Just send me a link.