Saturday Stuff: Features, Thank Yous, Info, and Questions

Happy Saturday, everyone!

There have been some happy things in the world of the internetz this past week and I haven't had a chance to post about them. I figured I would start a Saturday Stuff feature that I might do every so often just to talk about things like this, things that I don't get a chance to bring up during the week (or more likely, I forget!). 

So for this first edition, I wanted to let you all know about a website called Pocket Change. They have a style and fashion blog where they featured me as one of their Best of the Web blogs!  They run this feature on Fridays and I'm excited to be mentioned!

I also have some thank yous to extend to several bloggers who honored me with the Best Blog Award on Monday! 

Thank you so very much to Heather, Angelica, and Tiffany!

Here are the rules:

1. Link back to the person who gave you this award. Okay. :)

2. Share 7 random things about yourself. I feel like I've done this a lot lately so you may read some random things you already know about me.

- I'm a cat person, I LOVE cats, I've grown up with cats, and I've never NOT had a cat until this year when mine passed away on New Year's Eve. When I get my own place, I'm getting another cat.

- I've played soccer, taken dance lessons and was even in the dance company for a year or two, did baton twirling for a season, and have always loved singing and performing. My favorite is singing. If I could sing for a living, I would, but right now it's mostly just during the Christmas season that I sing professionally.

- I love to read and used to read ALL the time. Now that I have my daughter, and the blog, I haven't read a book in years!

- I cooked dinner for my parents last night to surprise my mom for her birthday! If you know me, that's a HUGE deal. You see, I can burn water. Yes. I'm worse than a beginner when it comes to cooking but I did it and they liked it! Who wants to teach me how to cook?

- I've had serious acne issues and swear by ProActiv. I will never again use anything different.

- I'm trying hard to make this blog a space where everyone feels welcome, relaxed, and uplifted. It's kind of difficult when I'm going through some stuff and I don't feel uplifted. After lots of talk within the blog world in the past about how some bloggers aren't authentic, I don't want to be un-authentic, but I also don't want to bring my personal issues into this space to bring everyone else down.

- Match.com and eHarmony scare me. Lots of people have recommended them, and I know lots of people who have met and even gotten married because of those sites, but they kind of make me very nervous. 

3. Award 15 blogs. (In no particular order)

So many of the people I would award this to have already received it, and I don't want to leave anyone out, so let's just say if you're on my blog roll, I award this to you! Honestly, I consider all of the blogs that I read to be the best blogs and deserve this award. I wouldn't read and follow them if I didn't think that. :) 

4. Answer the following questions:

a. Your favorite song
Oh, there are too many to pick just one!

b. Your favorite dessert
Anything chocolate, really. Except chocolate cake. For some strange reason, I'd much prefer white cake with white icing. Otherwise, anything chocolate.

c. What is ticking you off

The fact that I can't fit into my white pants again!

d. When you are upset, you:
Cry. Usually. And if I'm crying or depressed, I can't eat. If I'm angry, writing usually helps me get that out so I'll email a friend.

e. Your favorite pet
Probably my Figaro.

f. Black or White

Black and White cookies. Yum.

g. Biggest fear

Just one? I have too many. Flying, elevators, natural bodies of water. Then there's the usual one about anything bad happening to my daughter.

h. Best feature

Probably my hair. Even though I'm kind of bored with the style of it, it's still healthy and shiny and I like it.

i. Everyday Attitude

Just trying to stay positive!

j. What is perfection

God.

k. Guilty pleasure

Can I say chocolate again? No? Okay then wine. Or beer. Or both. But not together, that would be gross. 

 

Thanks again for the award, ladies! You made my day. :) 

 

For those of you who may be interested, I've decided to start posting on my other blog, Melosophy, again. I'm not sure how often I'll post because A Working Mom's Closet is my primary focus right now, but that was the first blog I started to help me on my weight loss journey, and it's just a place for me to write about life and my philosophy on anything else I feel like writing about. 

And last but not least, if you've made it all the way through that, not only do I commend you :) but I also want to ask your opinion:

 

What do you LIKE about A Working Mom's Closet? 

What don't you like? 

What would you like to see more of, or less of? 

What changes would you like to see here, if any? 

 

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Now it's time for me to go get my princess ready for soccer practice this morning. Afterward, my brother and his family will meet us for brunch, then my SIL (his wife) and I, and her mom, are going to see Harry Potter! Tonight we're all going to dinner to celebrate my mom's birthday. It's going to be a great day!

Hope you all have a fantastic day too!

Yay Melissa!

Yay Melissa! And I don't mean myself!

The ever-adorable, endearing and drop-dead-gorgeous Miss Melissa has bestowed upon me the "One Lovely Blog" Award! Thanks Melissa!

What I'm supposed to do is reveal seven facts about myself and then pass the award along to seven other bloggers.

Both of these things are difficult for me.  Mainly because I find myself to be rather boring and can't come up with any interesting facts.  And then also I have a really, really hard time limiting myself to only seven bloggers.  I love them all!

Okay so here goes nothin'. 

1.  When I was in elementary school, I was in a baton twirling group.  I have photographic evidence...just not with me where I am writing this post. Darn. *smirk*

2. I danced for ten years, started when I was 3 and stopped when I was 13 because I had a boyfriend who went to a different school and dancing was cutting into my after-school time visiting with him.  I had JUST gotten en pointe, too. What a MORON I was. I appreciate my mom letting me make my own mistakes, though.

3. My daughter is, hands down, the sweetest, smartest, kindest most gentle, thoughtful and beautiful little three-year-old girl EVER. Not sure if that qualifies as a fact about myself, but this is my blog and I do what I want.

4.  My husband and I met at a restaurant (Harmonious Monks, if you've ever heard of it, although our location was in Central Florida, not Jacksonville, and has since closed.) where the staff put on shows every night. I was a hostess; he was a chef.  Hence the reason I do not cook. Oooh! There's another fact!

5.  I don't cook.  See number 4.

6. I have issues with correct grammar.  I enjoy it.  I do not enjoy people using grammar incorrectly.  It makes me die a little inside. 

7.  I am a chicken.  I'm scared of lots of things; elevators (too closed in and what if the doors won't open?!), water (yes, I enjoy taking showers and maintaining cleanliness, but I'm not a huge fan of the beach or water parks and the like), and flying (I did fly to Thailand for a missions trip, had a panic attack on the first leg of our flight from home to Chicago, thought they were going to have to LEAVE ME IN CHICAGO because I WAS NOT getting on another plane...although I did, and went to Thailand, and came back, and there were no issues, but I still don't like flying). Just to name a few things.

And now for part two of my task: to present this award to seven other bloggers.  I'd love to give it right back to Melissa because she DOES have a lovely blog, but since she's the one who presented it to me, I have a feeling that would be a no-no in bloggy land. So Melissa, consider yourself virtually awarded again. Sort of.

Here are my seven:

Taylor (although she's on a blog hiatus and may not see this anytime soon)
Sadie's Momma
Megan
Lisa
Tricia
ShyGirl
Sarah

I can't wait to learn more about all of you fabulous girls!

My First Award!

Kimberly from Fab Finds Under $50 has bestowed upon me my very first ever Blog Award!

Holy Cow! I really am not even sure what to say.  She's so sweet and finds the BEST deals (hence the title of her blog!).  If you haven't checked her out yet, you should.  Now.  Or...after you're done reading this post.  Yes, immediately afterward.

So the award that Kimberly has presented me is the Stylish Blogger Award.  That means that I'm supposed to share five fun (do they have to be fun? I'm quite boring) facts about myself and then pass the award on to five other bloggers.  Only five?  This'll be tough.

Okay first, five {fun?} facts:

1. During the first year that I met my husband, we, along with his sister and two other friends, put together a 5-part a cappella group that ended up getting contracted to sing at Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party for about four years in a row.  My character was Candy Cayne.  Please don't try to picture the costume.  We still sing at Christmas time, mostly as the traditional Victorian carolers. 

2. I have a horrible, horrible fear of flying and elevators and water.  Not necessarily in that order.  I think I need to get hypnotized to get over them. 

3. I'm a vegetarian.  Not vegan, I'll eat dairy products (hello chocolate and cake and ice cream!), but I don't eat any meat, eggs or seafood.

4.  I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  Although I'd love to be a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom. 

5. I tend to speak primarily in the language of Sarcasm.  Is anyone else fluent in that?

And now, for my five bloggers on to which I shall pass this award (really, only five?!):

Taylor Wears Everything
California Dreams
byhillary
Modly Chic
The Joy of Fashion

If there are any of these that you haven't read yet, read them!  And read Kimberly's blog too!

That's all I've got for now! Oh, in case you're wondering, I did go to Plato's Closet and they were not having a sale.  Sad.  I did, however, end up getting two skirts, a dress and a belt.  Yay!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!