Mystery Blogger Award

Also known as, A Large Amount of Random Facts About Me That You Didn't Ask For. 😁  [Unless, of course, you're one of the ladies who nominated me.  In that case, you literally did ask for them. 😜]

 

Thank you to the lovely bloggers who nominated me!  I'll have links to their blogs at the beginning of their questions. 

Rules

• Put the award logo/image on your blog.
• Thank whoever nominated you and provide a link to their blog. 
• Mention the creator of the award and provide a link as well. (This award was created by Okoto Enigma.)
• Answer the 5 questions you were asked.
• Tell your readers 3 things about yourself.
• Nominate 10-20 people.
• Notify your nominees by commenting on their blogs.
• Ask your nominees any 5 questions of your choice; with one weird or funny question.
• Share a link to your best post(s).
  

I'm not doing the "three facts" part of this award, since I'm already answering fifteen questions.  I'm also not going to create new questions or tag people, because I think the majority of bloggers I follow have already been nominated (or soon will be 😜).

✾ Ivy's Questions ✾

1) What is it that you hope to achieve in your lifetime?

In terms of career aspirations, I want to become an "established" author, and possibly a speaker/ministry worker as well.  Those would be my primary goals right now.

i mean we got a little dramatic
there towards the end but
the basic idea, yes

2) Who is your favorite person from history?

I tend to attach myself more to historical periods than historical figures, so I don't really have an answer.  But Joan of Arc and Mother Theresa are both amazing, and I've enjoyed learning a bit about both Hatsepshut and Anastasia. 

3) Do you prefer the country or the city?

COUNTRY.  I truly get anxious when in a city. 

Storytime: 

When I was a wee youngster [and by 'wee youngster,' I mean 'fully pubescent tweenager'], I was talking with one of my aunts and I casually mentioned that I hated cities, saying: "When I go outside in them, I get the herpes."

Now, context.

I said that as a reference to that one Andy Griffith episode in which Barney tries to set Andy up with that blank-faced girl named Lydia, the one who says weird things in a monotone.  [She mentions that she hates the outdoors, see.  She says that when she goes outside she gets the herpes, see.  So it was more or less a direct quote, see.  It's funny in the episode, see.]  

And I, being a Good Christian Homeschooled Girl, did not know that "herpes," in the common vernacular, most generally refers to a sexually transmitted disease.  I hadn't the faintest, one might have said.  I thought that herpes was a generic, socially innocuous "rash". 

My aunt did not have the bliss of that same ignorance.  Her reaction, as you can imagine, was different than I had anticipated it would be.

4) What genre would you describe your life at the moment as (comedy, drama, sci-fi)?

Oh, drama, for sure.  With a splash of musical theatre thrown in there just for kicks.

5) What do you remember the most about 2010?

Ummmm . . . I must admit, I have no solidified memories connected to 2010.

sorry.

✾ The Maidens of Green Gables' Questions ✾

1) If you had to teach a class on one thing, what would you teach?

Literature!  I don't think I'm well-suited to being a teacher, but if the conditions were ideal ⎼ motivated, orderly students who would take it easy on my awkwardness and insecurity 😅 ⎼ I'd do best with my passion.  [I think.]

2) If you had to write an alternate ending to any book, which book would you choose, and how would you end it?

I had to think about this for a different Q&A scenario a little while ago.  I couldn't come up with anything then and I can't come up with anything now.

I would be HAPPY, however, to take a few books out of existence altogether.

3) What is your favorite Bible verse right now?

1 Corinthians 7:17 has been helpful for me lately as I've struggled with peace & contentment with my own choices & other Life Decision Things: " . . . let each of you lead the life that the Lord has assigned, to which God called you."

Your life doesn't have to look like other people's lives.  Your school or career choices don't have to look like other people's school or career choices.  Rest. ♡

[Another one that I keep coming back to over the years is 2 Thessalonians 3:17: " . . . peace at all times in all ways."  Sometimes it feels like I'm always missing the mark, that I'll never be free from all the anxieties that haunt me.  This verse helps. ♡]

4) What Gif/Meme describes you?

SO MANY.  This was the hardest question to answer because I wanted to share them ALLLLLL. 😂

but this one.  we feel this one.

5) What is the last book/movie/song that made you cry?

I can't remember which was the last one to bring actual tears, but these are two that have made me fight.

 

[Which is funny.  Sometimes I can listen to them both and be completely unmoved -- less affected than I am by other, less thematically deep songs.  But at other times?  Nooooope.]

✾ Katie's Questions ✾

[Katie just opened the tag up to everybody and I wanted to answer her questions. 😛]

1) Your opinion on The Hunger Games? 

It is Not For Me. 😛

[I have Very Strong Opinions about when killing is justified and when it is not, and I just KNOW that me trying to read/watch that story would be a recipe for disaster.]

[Also dystopia is just Not My Jam.]

2) What was your favorite subject in high school, and what do you think that says about you as a person? 

My favorite classes in high school were two literature classes I took through the second homeschool co-op I attended.  It was the first time I really felt like a teacher was just as passionate about the subject as I was, and honestly my literary analysis nerd soul was Thriving™.

3) If you could choose any meme to represent your inner soul, which meme would you be? (you know, Dark Kermit, angry lady yelling at cat, Blinking White Guy, Sponge-Bob’s “aight I’mma head out,” etc.) 

There are several, but Blinking White Guy really speaks to me. 

4) Do you prefer movies or TV shows? Why?

Movies.  I like the shorter timeframe for many reasons, one of them being speedier resolution.  I've also Surrendered My Vulnerable Heart to one too many Emotionally Scarring Television Dramas in the past to want to rush into many more and risk the same aftermath. 😛

Sitcoms are usually a different story.  I don't watch many, but I'm always happy when I find one that I do love.  [For instance, I recently discovered Bless This Mess and it's darling and it should be more popular.]

5) Honest answer: Would you be any good as a spy or secret agent? Why or why not?

I highly doubt it. 😛  See: Question re. The Hunger Games.

^^ how easily the first enemy assassin would take me out.