A Friendly Award

Sheri from Happy Little Bento gifted Judy's Bento Box this lovely award. How kind! I've been sort running amuck lately. Pushing through when I could but not worrying about the lack of attention to detail.

Maybe you know the feeling?

It all starts with being ill and then you play catch up for a few weeks. Exhausting!

So this is a nice way to get back into that happy mood.

List 10 things that make me happy and 10 bloggers that make me happy, and all that required linking which is optional as far as I'm concerned.

What makes me HAP HAP HAPPY!

1. Waking up. Sounds kind of silly but I love the first moment of the day!

2. First sip of coffee. Usually Caribou. Somehow the second third or fourth never match the first.

3. All things Silas. Doing drums with Si in the morning is a hoot. He is scratching his tower and I'm beating the side. It's how we bring in the new day.

4. The sunset sky. When it's good, I'm transported to another world.

5. My Scion tC. Lordy! I'm in love with my car!

6. Playing with my food. New recipes. Bento. Deconstructing.

7. Pop culture. In all respects, television and movies, magazines and reality shows, I'm not sure why I care, but it's way too meaningless not to be fun.

8. Art. My own and everyone else's. Photography included.

9. Reading. I once had a sore neck. It hurt to read. I said to my Dad, "What should I do?" He said, "Well Judy, since you spend 70% of your life reading, you might want to fix it." I read a lot.

10. Researching. And when not reading, I am researching. Because that is what I am - a researcher.


Ten blogs I LOVE coming soon!

First I like to thank the academy and everyone who voted for me...

Awarded by gamene of the bento zen fame, I hereby succumb to a semi-random selection of seven things about me.

1. I sleep very well when I sleep. When I am stressed out, I sleep walk. I have woken up in the morning with garden soil underneath my nails more than a few times.

2. I used to find really neat things when I was a kid like skeleton keys and pocket knives, so I always thought I was lucky.

3. In adult retrospect, turns out I was lucky because I was finding those things, and not other "things" that would be less desirable, in abandon houses and isolated areas of parks that I was exploring all by myself.

4. On a long hike along a ridge in the rain, I spotted a giant maple tree in full autumn color. Its trunk was covered with moss that looked like green feathers. It was so beautiful that I gave it a hug.

5. I've never been bitten by a tick, but I've pulled a number of them off my neck. (That's what you get for hugging trees.)

6. I have conducted the Pacific Ocean waves crashing onto the cliffs like an orchestra only to turn around to a crowd of onlookers who exploded into applause. I bowed.

And 7. I dance in the kitchen.

Those of you who want this fine award consider yourself tagged. I expect seven random things about you too.