Two bloggers posted today about having been nominated for blog awards. Sadje, at Keep It Alive, got the Mystery Blogger Award, and Mel, at Crushed Caramel, got the Sunshine Blogger Award. So a hearty congratulations to both of them.
For some inexplicable reason, they each nominated my blog for these awards, even though I’ve declared my blog to be an award-free blog. But I still do appreciate the recognition and the generosity behind the nominations.
And between the two of them, they asked 16 questions. And as the answer-man, it’s my duty to answer their questions.
First, Sadje’s five questions:
1. What is the more important thing for you, your day job or blogging?
I’m retired, so this is an easy one. With no day job, by process of elimination, the answer is blogging! Shocking, I know.
2. What are your plans for the coming year?
To stay alive.
3. Have any of your blog posts received a surprise response?
I was surprised that my post titled “Better Than Sex” is my most viewed post this year. The post is about blogging and has nothing to do with sex. But given that post’s popularity, I am thinking about including the word “sex” in the title of all future posts.
4. A cat or dog, which one you have as a pet or would like to?
We have both. Our cat is a stray that we took in and our dog is a rescue dog that we, um, rescued from a kill shelter.
5. What is one habit you want to give up?
Donald Trump.
And now for Mel’s eleven questions:
1. Where are you from?
My mother’s womb.
2. Do you think of yourself more as an early bird or night owl?
Early bird. I am over at out by 11 pm at the latest and usually up between 6-7 am.
3. What is your birthstone?
Marijuana. Oh wait, you said birthstone not best stone. In that case, the diamond.
4. What’s your favorite season of the year and why?
Autumn because of the clean, cool, crisp air (except when there are nearby wildfires) and because of the beauty in the clots of the leaves before they fall from the trees.
5. What’s a favorite quote that’s really inspired you?
6. If you could choose one fantasy world to visit for a day, which one would it be?
America before Trump was elected president. And I would hope it would last more than a day.
7. How do you like to wind down after a busy day?
I’m retired. I never have busy days anymore.
8. What would your dream job be?
Best selling author.
9.Why did you start blogging?
I started this blog in May 2017 to distract me from the insanity that is Donald Trump. I have failed miserably.
10. What have you enjoyed most about blogging so far?
All of the other bloggers I have “met” as a result of my starting this blog.
11. Which of your own blog posts would you recommend to new readers first?
I’d suggest my Who Am I? page. That way they can then decide whether or not my blog is the kind of blog they want to invest their time reading.
This, That, and the Other 
Ooooops! – I had no idea you were blog-free!
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Not blog-free, Award-free. But no worries!
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Sorry…I am dozey!
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Don’t be sorry. I posted the wrong questions. So I don’t know what “dozey” is, but whatever it is, I think I’m the one who is dozey.
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I loved your answer’s to Tom’s questions!
Since you are the question man…I am going to throw my questions right back at you, and would love to see your answers at your leisure. A couple of them I wrote with you in mind!
My Eleven Questions For My Nominees:
1. IF YOU AND I WERE GOING TO DANCE TOGETHER – WHAT SONG WOULD IT BE TO?
2. HAVE YOU MADE ANY CONFESSIONS IN YOUR BLOGGING POSTS ABOUT MOMENTS OF MADNESS IN YOUR LIFE OR TIMES YOU WERE ALMOST IN TROUBLE WITH THE AUTHORITIES? (I know that some of my nominees have shared a long list of their confessions already, so please do pick the most outrageous!)
3. WHAT IS THE MOST UNUSUAL OR MEMORABLE DISH YOU HAVE EVER EATEN?
4 ARE THERE CHARACTERS FROM ANY MOVIES OR NOVELS THAT YOUR FRIENDS COMPARE YOU TO?
5. ARE THERE ANY QUALITIES YOU ADMIRE IN OTHER PEOPLE AND WISH YOU HAD TO A GREATER EXTENT?
6. HAVE YOU ANY EXPERIENCE OF ACTING, SPEAKING, SINGING OR DANCING ON A STAGE?
7. APART FROM REMOVING ANY PARTICULAR POLITICIANS, IS THERE ANY ISSUE OR PROBLEM IN THIS WORLD THAT YOU FEEL PASSIONATELY YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE?
8. IF I WERE TO MAKE YOU YOUR DREAM CAKE – WHAT WOULD THAT CAKE BE?
9. WHAT WOULD YOU LOVE TO SEE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWSPAPERS TOMORROW MORNING? (other than than any particular politician being abducted by aliens)
10. HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN INTERNET ROMANCE OR AN INTERNET CRUSH YOU WERE TO SHY TO CONFESS?
11. YOU ARE ON MY LIST OF NOMINEES BECAUSE YOU CONSISTENTLY MAKE YOUR POSTS INTERESTING, YOU ARE FULL OF PERSONALITY AND YOU SUPPORT THE BLOGGING COMMUNITY SO MUCH – BUT TELL ME, ARE YOU LIKE THIS IN REAL LIFE?
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Ooh. Did I answer the wrong questions? My bad. I’ll answer yours shortly.
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🤣 your answer to Mel’s number three. That could’ve meant that you were born in May or August and see all green — I looked them up — as pot (or just that you’re so into marijuana it doesn’t quite matter what the question is). But of course you had a play on words in store.
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Actually, the diamond is the birthstone for April. And isn’t pot the answer to all questions? Just kidding. I may indulge in weed once every few months, certainly not very frequently or with any regularity.
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Marijuana is certainly a different sort* of stone from others, no matter how infrequent. It’s not legal — yet — where I live. I’ve almost always said it’s not worth legal trouble (plus, there are other risks I learned). I was going to take part in the new legality in Colorado when I was there a few years ago, but something didn’t work out about that and I wished I’d gotten an infused drink (less complicated).
* Okay, I don’t actually know firsthand about most others (one other by mistake/non-consensual spiking, and that wasn’t fun and was when I was a minor and far too naive).
I simply know most others are somehow dangerous.
My logic has been all along that a plant shouldn’t be illegal.
(I think I’ll often connect emerald and peridot to the plant now.)
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It is legal for recreational purposes now where I live. But it has been legal for medicinal purposes here for quite a few years.
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An infused drink actually goes outside of my long-time logic, because it’s something isolated and concentrated added in rather than simply a natural plant or the plant in brownies or a tea or whatever. Same with medical purposes, but I’m in favor of medical purposes (and the drink). I also hear the plants are different from back in nineteen eighty.
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I loved your answers, we have so much in common being retired gentlemen. My goal for the next year is the same, fingers crossed. One of my favourite quotes has been: “I complained because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” I agree with you about which blog they might read, our “ABOUT” page tells them enough about who we are. Great answers.
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BRILLIANT! Nice that someone wanted to nominate you, but understand about being an award free blog. I want mine to be that way too, though lots of people have kindly wa ted yo nominate me.
Oh dear -TRUMP. Well, I can’t say I am surprised lol. I did notice that he was errrm, not your most fave person! Lol. Anyway, loved your a dwers. I love yoyr daily word promot too. Thanks for doung it.
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Good answers ! I nominated you because your blog is great. And I enjoy your posts a lot. Thanks for taking it up.
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Those were fun answers.
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Thanks!
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I think the biggest surprise for most of us were the friends we made. I never expected that and it has really improved the quality of my world. I want my un-busy days BACK.
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love your answers, nice blog.
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Thanks Geno.
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No matter if they are the right or wrong qustions, they are good answers!
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