Lovely Blog Award

How this "One Lovely Blog Award" works:

1. Add the “One Lovely Blog Award” image to your post

2. Share seven things about you

3. Pass the award on to seven nominees

4. Thank the person who nominated you and add a short blurb about them.

5. Inform the nominees by posting on their blogs

I am very honored to have received this award from Kwizgiver over at 'What if this is as good as it gets'.  I have loved getting to know her through all of our challenges together.  I totally believe we could laugh together for hours on end.  She could try to teach me to knit and I will hope to not fail horribly.  The way she describes the relationship she has with her students is amazing to me.  She is definitely making a positive impact on youth of today.  I only wish I lived closer so my daughter could have her for a teacher.  I can't wait to continue to learn more about her.  


Seven things about me? 

1.  I cannot do the Vulcan salute.  I don't have a very good finger spread.  

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2.  I am in the process of enrolling to go back to school.  I am thinking professional student.  I love learning.  

3.  I desperately want to live in New York for a couple of years to experience all it has to offer.  I have already picked out my brownstone in Brooklyn (anyone have $15 million I could have).  

4.  I love watching documentaries about anything Disney.  Last challenge, I should have picked Walt Disney as the person I wanted to spend the day with.  Can I have a do-over!

5.  I have become more passionate about my photography lately.  I think it is because of all of the challenges.

6.  Hi, my name is Cristy.  I have become a movie theater junkie this summer.  I have seen more movies in the theater this summer, than I saw all last year.  I think it is because they are showing classic movies.  This summer I have seen Grease (love), Back to the Future (the whole family loved), Animal House (I could have done without this one, but glad I have finally seen it), American Graffiti (loved, I love the soundtrack too), and this week is Ghostbusters.  I am taking Elexis to see this too.  Next week is the final week and it is Dirty Dancing, the first movie I ever saw in a theater without my parents.  

7.  I love home improvement stores.  I love wandering the aisles of Lowe's and Home Depot and even the local lumber store.  So many possibilities and I love the smell of the lumber section.  

People I want to nominate are (yes, some of you have already been nominated, but I don't care I love your blogs):

Paula, April, Lizzy, Flora, Jasmine, Lisa, Trinity, Jen

I love you girls.  And a big thank you again to Allison for this award.  

In 10 years...

Day 2: Where would you'd like to be in 10 years.

After staring at this prompt for a good 5 minutes, going and doing some laundry, working on a few costumes and staring at it again for another 5 minutes; I think I am ready to answer.  For someone who likes routine and schedule, thinking that far in advance was hard for me.

In 10 years I hope to be traveling.  My daughter will have just finished college and hopefully starting a graduate program, so I would love to see where ever she is going to go to graduate school (maybe abroad??).  We will have both survived the "teenage years" (we are taking those one day at a time).  The gut wrenching hollowness of the empty nest syndrome will have passed and I will have 10 more animals living with me (I kid...maybe).  My house will finally be clean, but maybe not if I have 10 animals...hmmm.  I will hope to be established in the career I am contemplating (still thinking about it).

I plan on still being married and hopefully have him completely trained on where the dirty laundry goes (I will never give up hope).

I still will be taking pictures and I hope to have sold a few prints along the way.

Maybe I will own a zoo!  Random...

Wow!  I sound really boring and all over the place.  I really need to start reading ahead on the prompts so I can think of better things.  I have done so much in the past 10 years that I can't wait to see what I do in the next 10.

This is part of the June Blog Challenge found over at Paula's Place.

Day 2 Photo: A moment (You get a bonus...two pictures)  My daughter's award for doing so well on the ACT.