Beautiful Blogger Award and Other Random Minutiae

Yay! I was awarded the Beautiful Blogger award by Rain and Sunflowerrr! You two girls are amazing and so sweet :) I love you both!

So now I have to pick seven bloggers to award this to! I know some of you may already have been awarded, but oh well :) If you've already gotten it, don't feel like you need to award it again. Oh, man, choosing is always a toughie! Here goes:

1. I have to give it back to Sunflowerrr. She is such an amazing friend, and she is always there for me when I need someone to talk to. She leaves me the most inspiring comments, and I can always count on her to pick me up when I am down. I am so happy she is back blogging! If you haven't come across her blog yet, you should definitely check it out. This girl is a fighter!

2. I also have to give it back to Rain. She also leaves me the best comments, from funny ones to helpful hints, to serious comments when I am in a bad place. She is so strong, and I admire her so much for her determination. She is really a great friend.

3. The next one goes to embre. This girl is hilarious! I always get a laugh out of her posts - her recent one about her son's gift for Mother's Day is priceless! She is determined to get down to 108, and there is no doubt in my mind that she will get there very soon!

4. This one is for WannaBskinny. She is such a sweet girl, and always comes up with good diet plans and posts them, which I like a lot. Right now she is on a protein shake diet, which I hope works for her!

5. My next award goes to the always lovely P.D. You should really check out her blog if you haven't. She holds nothing back, and I LOVE her for it :) She also posts thinspo of herself all the time, and she looks amazing! She is a mommy, too, along with embre, and her little girl is adorable! She is a lucky little girl to have a mom like P.D. :)

6. Number six goes to Zen. Love this girl! She has a super cute dog, and she loves Vampire Diaries, and she leaves me the best comments! Her writing is super hilarious, too, always good for a pick me up :)

7. And my last one... oh, man, this is so hard to choose!.... Dreams and Bones. She has already lost soooo much weight, and she is still planning on losing more! She is home from college for the summer, and even though she is a little nervous about it, I know she is going to do great while home! She is so strong :)

So now I have to come up with seven things about myself. Let's see...

1. I have a cat whom I love very, very much. He is a tiger striped grey tabby with a white belly, and he just turned two years old on Friday! He is currently the only man in my life, but what man will jump on my lap and start purring at the exact moment that I need him to? It's all I can ask for :)

2. I LOVE make-up and clothes. I have recently become addicted to watching beauty channels on YouTube (thanks, WannaBskinny!! lol). I already have too much make-up, but it is a compulsion to buy more.

3. I cannot stand Renee Zellweger. I don't know why I have such deep-seeded hatred for her. Maybe it is because she looks constipated in every single picture she takes. I guess it makes sense, because my mom has a direct hatred of Nicole Kidman, so apparently hating actresses runs in my family? It makes me sad, because my mom has not seen Moulin Rouge, but I have also never seen Jerry Maguire, so whatever.

4. My favorite color is green. I am painting my room in our apartment green over the summer. I am so excited, because right now it has ugly wallpaper with a fruit border running around the top of the wall. Like, seriously? Who puts up a fruit border?!

5. My aunt set my underwear on fire once when I was four. I had sat on the ground after it rained, so I went inside and told her they were wet. She decided it would be a good idea to put them in the microwave. They started smoking... Not a good idea.

6. I accidentally peed on a pillow on a long 10 hour car drive while I was sleeping, and only discovered it upon getting out of the car at our destination. I was nine.

7. I believe in ghosts. I love spookiness :)

This is getting to be very long, but just a few more things I wanted to tell you guys. I threw out a bunch of food on Saturday, and it felt SO good! I got rid of an almost full pint of ice cream, three boxes of cookies (of which two weren't even opened), a bag of barely eaten sourdough pretzels, a box of Rice Crispies cereal (about a 1/4 left), some random Easter candy, some strawberries (this I felt sad about, and wouldn't have done it ordinarily, but they tasted really weird, like they had been sprayed with cleaning fluid or something... pesticide? I don't know), a half eaten package of almond crackers, and a frozen pre-packaged burrito. None of my other roomies were home, so I just did a massive clean out of all my food. I know this sounds like really bad food, and it is, but if you've been reading for a while, you may remember that I have a weird obsession with buying junk food just to have in my cupboards. I hardly ever eat it, and if I do, I have one thing at a time, and then it goes stale anyway. So periodically, I have to clean out the cupboards. I still have a box of Teddy Grahams in the depth of the cupboard which has been there since September. I am keeping it there as a testament, or something, I don't know. LOL

Also, I am planning wayyyyy in advance, a liquid fast. I am starting May 22nd, and I will see how long I can go. My roomies are both leaving that day, and I will be alone for a week to take a week-long summer class before heading home. It would be awesome if I could go the whole week! I wanted to let you all know, so you could figure out if it's feasible for any of you to join me. I will remind anyone who wants to do it with me about it when the time gets closer, but those are my future plans!

I am going to see Iron Man 2 tonight for W's birthday. Smart girl, no going out to dinner for her! I hope it's good :)

Love you, Skinnies!

~Sottile