I am Tickled Pink!

Thanks to wine-Y-wife blogger Rhonda for nominating me for this award!  I didn’t even realize it existed, so this was a real surprise!   I started this blog a little less than three months ago, and it has been a joy for me.  It thrills me each time I get a new follower, a Face Book like,  or a comment.  I keep a word document festooned with flags from each country my blog has reached—I am up to thirty one.

The blog world is still a bit of a mystery to me, and I am still learning how to navigate,it.  I’m not always sure what the protocols are, and am most challenged by the lingo.  I find sometimes I read what is probably some really great advice, and sit and shake my head wondering what exactly I just read.  I know all the words, but in that combination they don’t make sense to me…

In addition to wine-Y-wife, some other blogs I have been enjoying and nominate* are:

• Food In Jars  a great blog about canning, pickling and such
• Smitten Kitchen  great recipes, and always something I really want to make, probably my first blog addiction
• Ranting of an Amateur Chef  fun recipes and just a soupçon of self-deprecation
• Divorced Kat I am intrigued and can relate to this journey a divorce launches you on
• Elena Sonnino  with a great world view

*You can claim your award here 

There are other blogs I read, but these are the ones I read regularly no matter what.

Coming up with seven fun facts about me is a challenge.  But I will give it a whirl, and understand if your response is more ‘huh?’ than ‘yeah!’

1. I love to tell really long jokes, I have a repertoire that I have amassed over the years, including many I learned from my father, a master!
2. In college I tried to start smoking because everyone I knew who quit gained ten pounds.   I figured if I started I would lose ten pounds.  It didn’t work, I hated smoking, and the pack of cigarettes I had in my purse completely disintegrated and everything was covered in tobacco for months
3. I love cookbooks, and inspired by Rhonda I counted and including the encyclopedic, the food writing, and regular cookbooks I have 160.
4. I still use the knives I got in culinary school, I don’t have fancy expensive ones, or a lot of them.  They work just fine
5. I don’t like chocolate ice cream, or hot fudge or banana splits, though when I was a kid I use to love going to Schrafft’s for a hot butterscotch sundae.
6. (almost there) I collect glass juice reamers, but they are in a box in my garage because I have no room for them
7. In addition to cookbooks I love to read all kinds of books.  Some of my favorite authors are Ellen Gilchrist, Anne Lamott, John Irving, Toni Morrison, and Brené Brown.

I hope if you are new to my blog, you enjoy it, and I’d love your feedback!

If you’re a regular reader, thanks for your support and interest!!

Cheers!

8/22/2013