Today's post is for the She Said What?! blog hop hosted by Elise Fallson and Michelle Wallace to celebrate their blogiversaries. Happy, happy, Elise and Michelle! Click here or there to check out the other participants' entries.
What we gots ta do: The gals came up with some comic strips which we participants are supposed to caption. Michelle threw in a list of bonus words we're to incorporate into the captions: twist; cheek; buzz; honor; grey; champagne; tango; vomit. (I'm especially excited about that last one.)
So, like, here I go...
Panel 1
Elise: Wait, Michelle, don't go to the mall without me! I wanna pick up that Lancôme gift with purchase too!
Michelle: Well, twist my tail around your wrist and haul yourself up, woman! Beauty sales wait for no one!
Panel 2
M: I said your wrist, not your ankle. Now your skirt's gonna flap down, showing the world a set of cheeks it never expected to see...
E: How about you put the Fallson in the basket before I'm wearing vomit in my hair? Green is sure to clash with the makeup I plan to buy...
Panel 3
Hero Type Guy: Oooh, did somebody say makeup? Can I come with???
Panel 4
*BOOM*
Hero Type Guy: At my funeral, let the people sing many choruses of Bonnie Tyler's "I Need A Hero" in my honor!
Panel 5
M: Buzz off, Hero Type Guy! Now we're gonna be late for the sale!
Panel 6
E: Well, the balloon's trashed. How'm I gonna get that bottle of "Grey Decay" nail polish I luuurve so much?
M: And how will I pick up that "Champagne Tango" face powder?
Panel 7
Dragon Type Thing: Hey, I haven't been to the mall in ages! How about I give you gals a ride?
M: Fine. If you're a good little dragon-type-thing and get us there before the mall closes, I'll even buy you some lipstick. (Looks around.) Hey, what happened to my tail?!
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When I announced the finalists for my Resurrection Blogfest, I mentioned I'd be posting "Honorable Mentions," of entries that caught my attention and I wanted to bring to yours, Dear Reader. For the next week or so, I'll be doing just that. If you haven't yet read these entries, please give them a lookie-look!
In the order in which folks signed up, my eighth Resurrection Blogfest Honorable Mention goes to Elise Fallson. Elise resurrected a post from Friday, 10 February 2012, entitled Flamenco Dancing is to a Man's Buns as Water is to a Cup of Tea – HOT*. I don't think this requires any further explanation, as the title alone makes it a worthy read. Trust me; you'll thank me.
Go on, now; check it out! And Elise, please feel free to take the above badge for your blog and link it back to this post, if you like. Thanks again for participating in my first annual blogfest!
Over the past coupla weeks three groovy gals tossed awards in my general direction and I'm only now getting to working on them. *Tsk*
The "One Lovely Blog Award" comes to me from Elise Fallson. Merci bien, Elise!
The Rules for this award:
1. Name, thank, and link back to the blogger
2. List seven facts about yourself
3. Pass the award to 15 other bloggers and leave them comments on their blogs to alert them (I'll do this at the end of this post.)
Here are 7 facts about me:
1. Though I was born and raised in NY, because my parents spoke their native Portuguese at home, I had to take ESL during the first few years of elementary school.
2. No matter how much hot coffee I drink, I never quite wake up till I've taken a steamy shower.
3. I read tarot cards from the age of 16 till I was about 32.
4. I also started smoking at the age of 16 but haven't managed to want to quit those just yet.
5. I break for vampires. (Woof!)
6. For some bizarre reason, I count steps as I climb them. This may have started when my Kid was young, but I can't be sure it's not 'cause I'm just insane.
7. Speaking of vampires and counting, I just adore the song Eight Beautiful Notes,
as sung by Count von Count from Sesame Street. It's a hell of a lot of
fun to sing, and an excellent example of an ascending and descending harmonic minor scale (my FAVE!).
Here are the rules:
1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Name five of your most fabulous moments, either in real life or in the blogosphere.
3. Name five things you love.
4. Name five things you hate.
5. Pass the Ribbon on to five other bloggers. (Leave them a comment to notify them of this.)
Five of my most fabulous moments:
1. Winning a poetry contest in fifth grade.
2. Learning that my English teacher (from both 9th & 12th grades) has used my work as an example of good writing in her classes (I heard this from two of my cousins who attended the same high school, maybe five or more years apart from one another). That blew me away.
3. Winning the role of the Narrator in my first college's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
4. Seeing this blog go live and folks stopping by to read it.
5. Every time I buy a drink and get asked for ID. :-D
Five Things I Love:
1. My family
2. The talents God gave me
3. Reading
4. The Atlantic Ocean
5. Mojitos
Five Things I Hate:
1. When people crack jokes at others' expenses.
2. When folks condemn, rather than critique intelligently. (For example, "That sucked." -vs- "I thought the plot weak and I couldn't connect with the main character's motivation.")
3. Waxing. (Sorry, fellas; it's a fact, Jack, and I ain't takin' it back.)
4. Cleaning.
5. Most reality TV.
1. Thank your Liebster Blog Award presenter on your blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who presented the award to you.
3. Copy and paste the blog award on your blog.
4. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 5 blogs of 200 followers or fewer.
5. Let them know they have been chosen by leaving a comment at their blog.
So, here are all of my nominees, who fulfill the criteria for all three awards above and are welcome to claim them all, if they choose:
