Meet Me On Monday, etc.

Happy Valentine's Day!  Looking for a way to make today even more enjoyable?  Hop on over to Java's Meet Me On Monday at Never Growing Old and join in some Monday fun!  Following the questions I have a gift to pass on and an award!  Here we go!

Questions:

1.  Did you get any Valentine's Gifts?  Yep.  I am not a Valentine's Day enthusiast.  I don't like getting flowers because I hate that people grow them just to kill them.  I love chocolate but am trying not to eat it.  I don't agree with giving the greeting card companies money for occasions such as this.  Yes, I'm a smidgey bit cynical but it really boils down to the fact that I just have my own opinions about things.  Hubs knows this and does not have a problem with it.  He usually brings home a LIVING flowering plant (this year it's tulips) to either be planted outside or to stay inside (but NOT cut flowers) with a poem that he has written.  Sometimes he will write a song and play it for me on his Dobro.  I like these gifts much better anyway.  And I will have him his favorite supper, bottle of wine and candle light.

2.  What is your favorite topping on something toasted?  Butter and honey!

3.  Do you pick out your outfit the night before? Absolutely.  I am NOT a morning person and do not want to be bothered with such things when I get up.

4.  What food item do you absolutely despise?  Without question- LIVER.

 SO COMPLETELY DISGUSTING I WON'T EVEN PUT A PICTURE UP

5.  Righty or lefty?  Lefty and proud of it!  LOL  None of our daughters ended up being left-handed and Hubs isn't either.  Oh well everyone can't be perfect....LOL!

And now here's the gift I'm passing on via The Blogger Formerly Known As The enigmatic, masked blogger as a THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH  to everyone who reads my blog- so, if you are here, take this gift and pass it on to your lovely readers if you'd like (no flowers were murdered for this gift; no calories are involved; and the greeting card companies won't make any money from it...LOL):

The next thing I want y'all to pick up is the Stylish Blogger Award given to me by a blogger who has a piece of fiction going on at her blog that intrigued me from the beginning!  You can check it out at:  The Blogger Formerly Known As The enigmatic, masked blogger

Since I have already answered Java's questions, I won't try to come up with the seven things about me- but I do want anyone who passes by today who hasn't received this award before to take it!

The rules for accepting are:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave the award
2. State seven things about yourself
3. Pass the award on to 15 recently discovered great bloggers

Award!

Bella Michelle from Southern Somedays has sent the Stylish Blogger Award my way!  Receiving awards always makes the day so special!  Thank you so much for thinking of me!  Make sure y'all go check out Southern Somedays and share some love with Bella Michelle! 

Awards are so much fun to receive and even more fun to give.  But it's always difficult for me to pick and choose since I really enjoy all the blogs that I read.  So, here's the deal:  If you come by Empty Nest this week, while this post is up, please take the Stylish Blogger Award.  If you have already received this wonderful award, feel free to pass it on to another wonderful blogger of your choice. I want to see this award out there---it's for you---take it please! OH, and please follow the other rules! 

So the rules for keeping the Stylish Blogger love going are:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you this award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers. (This is where I made the change--feel free to keep this rule)
4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award.

Here's the award:

Here are 7 things about me (although y'all probably already know these things):

1.  I started a second blog called One Flew Over the Empty Nest that features my bird pictures (and some various other wildlife and nature shots). 

2.  I drink green tea (with lemon and sweetened with Splenda) from the minute I wake up until I go to bed.  Every single day.

3.  I've been quite successful at gaining back some of that 83 pounds I lost.  This is NOT good news. 

4.  I never notice the weather outside while taking pictures.  But, as soon as I'm finished, I notice that I am either sweating to death (in the summer) or freezing, like today. 

5.  I am left handed.  

6.  I'm not very good a veggie gardening but I can get flowers to grow from seeds.  Go figure.

7.  I am a sugar-holic.