Liebster Award

 I was randomly given something called a Liebster award for blogging, so for today’s post you will find out some fun facts about the girl behind the blog (me!..well duh, you are saying 🙂 ) While this post is a bit long, I hope you will find getting to know me better interesting.  

Have you heard about the Liebster Award? I had heard it in passing, but thought it was a   weird name and didn’t know what on earth it was.  It turns out it’s an award bloggers give to one another to help spread word of newer or little known blogs. To get one means the person who gave it to you appreciates the work you do.  So, I especially want to thank Tonya at Nearly Missed It for nominating me.  It means a lot when anyone appreciates the stuff I do, because I put a lot of work, heart and soul in to my website!

What is a Liebster?  The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome. Each award comes with instructions that vary somewhat. My instructions are as follows:

1. List 5 facts about yourself
2. Answer 5 questions given to you from your nominator
3. Create 5 new questions for the bloggers you nominate for the award
4. Choose 5 bloggers with 200 or less followers to nominate
5. Go to each bloggers page and let them know about the award
6. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to their blog

So here goes!  First 5 facts about me:

1. My birthday is Feb. 27, and before I got this Liebster thingy, I was planning on writing a post for that day to tell my readers a little bit more about myself.  So if you end up reading two posts this month about the girl behind “We Live Inspired”, you will know why 😉
2. I haven’t had caffeine (other than what’s in chocolate) for like 15 years! I used to love coffee and cappuccino in high school, but my heart tends to naturally beat fast and have little arrhythmias , so I just decided to cut it out years ago.  Instead I am an avid herbal tea drinker! (oh & I love hot cocoa in winter)
3. I modeled Christmas Dresses for JC Penny’s as a child.  This was when I lived in a larger area where they had a live event at the mall.  My payment was that I got to keep the dress I picked to model (It was made with black velvet and a red satin sash).  I even had to come out on a stage and do some dorky dancing routine with the other girls , as we modeled the dresses and I STILL have the funny tape.  I didn’t seek the gig out.  Some “scout” or whatever you call them, came in to my ballet class and they chose some girls to model.  I was in the third grade, and yes I did have fun doing it 🙂 
4. After doing the dress show, that same ballet instructor (whose name was Connie from Connie’s school of dance) had modeling classes in the summer that I took.  I also have a dorky (but cute) tape of me walking with books on my head, striking poses to songs from the Top Gun Soundtrack (80’s child here lol), and practicing tv commercials.  There is a funny blooper of me choking on some Dole pineapple juice on said tape.  What is funny is the context in which I “choked”.  So I had to do several takes, and I would start out by saying “Dole pineapple juice is here..pouring 100% pure, blah blah..  So then at the end I am supposed to pour some pineapple juice in to a glass , take a sip, and then say my last line.  So I say , “Catch a glassful… , then I take a sip….  Well..pineapple juice is pretty tart for a kid, and I swallowed the juice the wrong way, and on this tape I end up like choking on it, but try to recover and go on.  It ends up coming out like a cough, a head shake , and then I stick out my tongue (which looks like I am saying ICK!!!!) ,finishing up my line ” And see why morning will never taste the same.”  Can you see the irony LOL
5. I was a Brownie Girl Scout.  My mom was our troop leader.  I loved girl scouts, but we moved a lot when I was a kid and it got harder to find good troops the more we moved.  I think my last year doing girl scouts was the 5th grade.

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