Not Just Another Award

Melanie of Bag and A Beret just gave me a Lobster?!  No wait, it's a Liebster Award.  Well, thank you.  Thank you very much.  ahem.  I see, apparently Liebster is a German word meaning sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing and welcome or so someone says.  I must say I am deeply honored to receive this award from a liebster, sexy, and wicked-sick style icon as is Ms. Melanie.

Melanie presenting my Liebster!

And hereafter it becomes a bit like a chain letter...so now I must behave appropriate to my newly acquired status and do the following:

Answer Melanie's 11 questions:

1. On a desert island, which would you choose, a pocket knife or a solar-powered e-reader?
 a pocket knife

2. As one of 27 island castaways, what would be your job: hut-builder, chef, caregiver, tailor, banker, other?
a tinker, a tailor, or a ...

3. Would you like some fries with that?
no thanks.

4. What's the meaning of life (in ten words or less)?
there is no meaning ~ or ~ it's what you make of it

5. Zip-lining in a rain forest, deep sea fishing in the Bahamas, or spelunking in Brunei?
 zip-lining?

6. What's the scariest movie you've ever seen?
Psycho, when it first came out.

7. One night of guilt-free lust, who with: Prince Charles, Steve Buscemi, Mister Ed (a talking palomino horse from a 1960s American sitcom by the same name), Portia de Rossi?
Who is Portia?  

8. What's your favourite flower?
Sunflower, of course

9. Do you ever dream that your teeth are falling out?
Yes!  more than once, or twice, or thrice.

10. Which is your favourite: mice, spiders or snakes?
That would most definitely be mice.

11. Which way is north?
UP

Write 11 facts about myself:
1.  I hate doing things like this,
2.  But I do them anyway cuz I'm a good sport.
3.  I have 3 cats:
4.  2 of them are named after football player brothers (Tiki and Ronde).
5.  The other one is named after a character in a Proust novel (Albertine).
6.  My true love and I will be married for 17 years next month.
7.  I still don't like doing this.
8.  I have got to lose weight!
9.  I just helped my Mom move into a Senior Living Community this week.
10. I saw Jimi Hendrix perform in an intimate venue.  so cool.
11. I don't use a cell phone.

Name 11 new awardees (and notify them of their nomination):
(in alpha order)

1.  Art for Housewives
2.  Bartinki EcoFashion
3.  Dross into Gold
4.  Not Dead Yet Style
5.  Of Dreams and Seams
6.  Rags Against the Machine
7.  Refashion Co-op
8.  Sewing Rebellion
9.  Tamera Beardsley
10. Thrifted Shift
11. Walking Colors

Ask the new awardees 11 new questions: 
1.  What's with the #11?
2.  How do you have fun?
3.  gray or au naturale?
4.  Where was your first vacation as an adult, i.e., not with your parents!?
5.  Do you "have" a song?
6.  Fidget or meditate?
7.  What age were you when you first did it?
8.  Is a cell phone really necessary?
9.  mini, midi, or maxi?
10. What do you know now?
11. What do you wish you knew?

To recap, here are the rules:

1.  The new nominee must post 11 things about him/herself.

2.  Answer the 11 questions from the person who gave you the award.

3.  Choose 11 new nominees and link them in your post.

4.  Create 11 questions for the bloggers you've nominated.

5.  Go and tell them that they've been nominated.

6.  No tags back!

okay, phew, that's it.  Good luck to all the Liebster awardees, may the force be with you...and if you've already been awarded, mum's the word.