Meet Me Monday + award

A few months ago, I got this comment from a very pretty lady:

 ashley.warner said...

I just found this pretty little space and I LOVEEEEEEE it! :)

don't mind that I am going to click the follow button right now....

ashley

www.ashley-warner.blogspot.com

Shortly after that, she kind of took a blogging break, but has since returned full force, telling her tales of loving and living for Christ. It's been a lot of fun to read, and this past Saturday night, she informed me that she had given me an award:

Like most blogging awards, it comes with some rules:

There are a few things you must do to accept this award:

1. Thank the person who gave you this award and link back to them

2. Tell us something about yourself

3. Nominate 10 other bloggers

4. Contact these other bloggers and let them know they've received this award

So thank you SO MUCH Miss Ashley from The Heart of Life is Good for giving this to me! I appreciate you thinking about me!

So now I am supposed to tell you all something about myself...for this, check out the rest of the post below!

10 bloggers:

1. my little/roommate/best friend (Katy) at Wo Xihuan Mianbao for putting up with my emotions being all over the place these past couple of weeks, for being my best friend, and for being a nerd that I love so much

2. Sam at Love Never Fails because she is still inspiring half a world away.

3. Kendra at A Grimm Tale (check back for her Tell the World Tuesday feature tomorrow!)

4. Angie at Living Aloha

5. Jamie at The CP

6. Lindsey at TexaGermaNadian: My Life in 3 Countries

7. Jaimie at Legos in my Pocket

8. Erin at My Beautiful Disaster

9. Ixy at Illusion

10. and last but CERTAINLY not least, Mollie at OK in UK. I like to give her awards because she doesn't like to follow the rules!

Also, Ashley (who I received my award from) started a type of meme last week that is called Meet Me Monday. I realized a couple weeks ago that I will update on Sundays, but very rarely update on Mondays. Why not join in on this and give you all some more facts about me?

-I'm 23, and I'm graduating in 5 days.

-Eventually, I'm going to be a nurse. Not want to be, WILL BE.

-I'd love to be a coach

-I'm a sorority girl

-My top three girl crushes are Natalie Portman, Hayley Williams (of Paramore), and Zooey Deschanel. Although after this month's cover of Cosmo, Cameron Diaz may have to make my list bump up to four.

-I got to cross another thing off of my bucket list:

• Take piano lessons.

(even though it was for class, I'm still counting it, and I want to take them again in the future)

Have a good Monday!

Thursday: This week's funday!

OKAY! I have two fun things for you today!
First off, this lady got another award! I'm super pumped! For the first time ever, I got:

THE STYLISH BLOGGER AWARD! yay!

The wonderful Kristina from a perfect dose of life so generously tagged me in this award! She is one of my newest finds from FTLOB, and I like her content a lot!

Obviously, it comes with rules. I have to give 7 facts about myself, and I have to pass it on. I don't know how many I have to pass it on to, but we'll see how generous I am at the end of this post :)

The facts:

1. I'm a Pepper. As in, Dr. Pepper is my pop of choice. I'm not really a pop drinker, but when I'm drinking pop, DP is the way to go!
2. I will get to cross something off of my bucket list 10 days from today :)
3. I am the oldest of 3 children, and we are all graduating the exact. same. weekend. I'm kind of upset about it. I am graduating from the University of Oklahoma, Jared is graduating from boot camp, and Jacob is graduating from high school. Sadly I won't get to go to theirs, and they won't get to come to mine :(
4. I own a golden lab. His name is Jax :)
5. I love reading. I'll read just about anything. I'm really looking forward to being able to relax and read on the beach next week :)
6. In case you haven't heard, I'm officially on spring break :) just won't be heading southeast until tomorrow!
7. I'm a biological sister, a sorority sister, and a brother. And no I'm not crazy :)

Well there ya go. 7 facts about me, and I may have repeated some when I got my Versatile Blogger award...

I'm going to pass this blog award onto:

Danielle at Positively Postive! because she is an amazing lady :)

Jamie at The CP because it is one of my newest blog addictions.

Val at threads and thoughts and things I love because I feel like it would be a crime to not pass it onto someone stylish enough to make their own clothes!

and Shay from Laugh Until Your Cheeks Hurt because she passed along the memetastic award to me, which she re-named "The smelly armpit award." This girl seriously makes me laugh!

The other fun thing I have is Erin of My Beautiful Disaster (you remember her from Tell the World Tuesday, right?) tagged me in the handwriting meme. Here is my writin', y'all!:

The Questions:

1. What's your name/blogger name?

-Mallori---blogger name = -Mallori

2. What's your blog's url?

-http://nushkoboaiukli-chokvshweki.blogspot.com (I'm seriously thinking about buying www.aiukli.com because it is SO LONG!)

3. Write "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

-(Erin, this line forces you to write every letter of the alphabet...) [which is why they use it to see fonts]

4. Favorite quote?

-"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware." -Henry Miller

5. Your favorite song?

-ALWAYS CHANGES! But this week, Electric Feel by MGMT [I posted it on yesterday's "What I'm Lovin' Wednesday]

--or my Mimi singing any gospel song!

7.6. Your favorite band/singers?

I hate favorites [because I can never choose one]...Aerosmith, The All-American Rejects, Ke$ha, Lifehouse, Eli Young Band, Paramore...you know, a good mix of everything!

7. Anything else you want to say?

-Apparently I can't count...I numbered the one before this "7."

-You readers are UH-MAY-ZA-ZING!

-Danielle, I promise "What's in my Backpack" is coming!

8. Tag 3 bloggers to participate:

-Kristina(? I do this when I'm not sure of something)[but now I know your name is Kristina!]-a perfect dose of life

-Jaimie-Legos in my Pocket

-Mollie-OK in UK

-Jamie-The CP

(I'm not always the best at following the rules! ha!)

and apparently I just really liked Kristina and Jamie today...

Hope you had a great Thursday friends! This time tomorrow, I will be on the road to a sunny beach/beach house :)

I love me some March Madness.

WARNING: This post is abnormally long; I felt like I had a lot to say to end the month of February. Sincerest apologies.

This lady is SO ready for March. First of all SPRING BREAK and MARCH MADNESS!! (I told you I was a sports fan.)

Also, I realized this evening that I have just kind of been going through the motions the past two months, and that's no way to take on a year that has endless potentials.
I mean, I started off great taking a road trip to Phoenix and all, but somewhere along the way I kind of got stuck in a routine. This is NOT acceptable, Miss Battiest!

So here's to March!

• NO MORE GOING THROUGH THE ROUTINE. If you're going to do something, have a purpose for it. This includes sitting on facebook.
• MORE COMMUNITY SERVICE! I'm in two organizations that make community service easily accessible and what do I do? NOTHING!
• ONE BIG/little DATE WITH EACH little INDIVIDUALLY! That equates to one a weekend--yikes! Better work on #1 soon (haven't seen her since before Christmas break). (And roommate, this also means that spring break DOES NOT count.)
• APPRECIATE YOUR WORKOUTS. No more slacking because you don't feel like it. Get your ass up and MOVE! (This past week being forced to relax has taken its toll on me. I'm dieing here!)
• WHATEVER YOU DO NEXT YEAR, BE HAPPY WITH IT. This means being in Tulsa taking classes or being elsewhere teaching classes....ps I find out about Teach for America tomorrow...wish me luck!

Whew! Glad that's out of the way. Now on to more fun stuff :)

First off, I just want to recognize all the new readers! Within the past week, I have gained 10+ followers. *happy dance* I never really think the stuff I have to say is that interesting, but THANK YOU!

With spring break coming up, and me not getting to work out for two weeks, I did a little online retail therapy this weekend. I don't buy for myself often, but sometimes you run across deals you just can't pass up. I'm a lover of the store Vanity, and they are having a spring break special, buy one get one half off. Typically their full price stuff is a little more money than I'm willing to part with, but they have these shirts on sale! So I bought 4! They're very plain jane, but I will totally wear them this summer! It'll be a nice break from my typical t-shirts!

I also bought a very pretty necklace from this etsy shop. I was first introduced to etsy back in August or so, and in October or November I put a lot of necklaces in my "favorites." When I logged back in on Wednesday, there were only two necklaces that hadn't been sold. One of them I didn't really like, so I bought the other one. In my eyes, I was meant to have the necklace! It arrived in two days! That's right, it was in Norman before I was! Here's the necklace:

I couldn't find my camera to take a picture of it, so this is from the transaction details.

I love it. I'm so happy I didn't talk myself out of buying it.

And last but not least:

The very pretty, very funny Shay of Laugh Until Your Cheeks Hurt awarded me with this fun blog award:

I always like awards! So here are the rules:

Since I have now accepted this award (which she so fantastically named the smelly armpit award), I have to list five things about myself. However, only one of these facts will be true! The other four have a bit of truth in them, but are ultimately incorrect. Think you can guess which one is real?

This in fact, makes me a liar too Shay!

1. My favorite color is purple, my second favorite color is green.

2. I have visited 20 of the United States (including driving through them). 

3. The University of Oklahoma was the only school I applied to.

4. I don't drink pop ("soda") very often, but when I do my pop of choice is Dr. Pepper.

5. I've been hospitalized twice.

Can you figure it out? I tried to make it a little difficult, and if you know me and you know the real answer don't spoil the fun for everyone else! GEEZ!

Well poo. I, like Shay, forgot to tag people in this award. Here are my 5:
1. roommate at "I Like Bread" in Mandarin (Wo xihuan mianbao.) because maybe if she gets an award she'll blog more consistently.
2. Big at 1000 Different Pieces for the same reason as roommate
3. Chrissy over at Chrissy in America because she is one of my newest addictions
4. Jamie over at The CP because she is also a newest addiction
5. And the new mommy-to-be Jessica at Happily Ever After because I just miss you and I said so.
--also, it's not required to tell why you tag people, that's just what I do because I'm cool like that.

Okay I lied, ONE MORE THING! Don't forget to check back tomorrow! I have my very first ever Tell the World Tuesday! It's a good one, and the woman who was my guinea pig is sure to make you laugh!

(Also, sorry for throwing all the links at you today. Okay now I'm really done I promise!)

...Wait, What?! I Got an Award?!?!!!!

Yes that is right, ladies and gentlemen. This Blogger, right here got her very first blog award! I am so excited, so thankful, so HONORED to have received this award! I've seen many of my blogging friends receive blogging awards, and I've always been very excited and wondered how many awards were out there! SO, without further ado, here is my post dedicated to my very first award! :)

Rules:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

2. Answer 10 questions.

3. Pass it along to 7 blogs you've recently discovered and enjoy.

4. Leave your recipients a note, telling them about the award.

thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU to the lovely Miss Amanda over at The Little Yellow House Blog. I appreciate you thinking of me when you received this award!

The 10 Questions:

1. Why did you create this blog?

-I first created it to have an outlet to express how lonely I was. Not such a great way to start a blog. BUT, by reading an OU alumni's blog at Fairytale Beginning, I decided that I wanted to change up the blog. I wanted it to be a way for me to remember what it is I love about my life, what it is that I think makes it beautiful day in and day out, and a way for me to remember 50 years down the road what was important to me at the time I wrote it :)

2. What kinds of blogs do you follow?

-I seriously follow ALL KINDS of blogs! I mostly follow the blogs that my friends own, and when I am out and about looking for new blogs, I read through a couple of their pages and posts to see if they write about things I am truly interested in. And a couple of blogs I follow simply because they make me laugh. I'm not big on fashion blogs (just because I have NO sense of fashion myself), but I do love the cooking blogs I find (since I will have to begin cooking for myself soon).

3. Favorite make-up brand?

-ohh man, I'm not really a "make-up" kind of person. I mostly use eyeliner and mascara....but I do love eyes.lips.face. (or e.l.f.) simply because everything is $1 and I can try new things without spending a fortune on them!

4. Favorite clothing brand?

-I LOVE Vanity! It is a little boutique-type store that has jeans long enough for me at a REALLY reasonable price! I also love GAP clothing, probably because I worked there for a year and a half.

5. Indispensable makeup product?

-mascara and chap stick :)

6. Favorite color?

-I hope my background/banner/text color give a clue here, but hands down it's purple, which is kind of ironic because I'm not a big girlie girl.

7. Favorite perfume?

-I prefer body splashes because they aren't as potent, but I have two that I wear, Live by Jennifer Lopez, and Love Kills Slowly by Ed Hardy. (No judging, I really love the non-overpowering floral-y scent that is in the Ed Hardy perfume!)

8. Favorite film?

-I'm TERRIBLE at picking favorite things....I love all kinds of movies, and for the most part it depends what mood I'm in as to what movie I want to watch... SOME favorites include: Grease, Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Love & Basketball, The Ugly Truth, The Hangover, The House Bunny, Harry Potters, Saws.

9. What country would you like to visit and why?

-Again, there are so many! I want to travel all over! But I truly think the one country I want to see most is Greece for many reasons. It didn't fit into my tour that I went on in 2006, the pictures from the coast are always gorgeous, and there is SOOOO much history within the country that I would probably pee my pants from so much excitement.

10. Would you rather forget to put mascara on one eye or forget blush on one side of your face?

-I think mascara . . . I don't really wear blush, and at least with the mascara, I could easily make it look somewhat normal . . . maybe . . .

And now, to pass along this award, here are 7 blogs I've recently discovered and enjoy (in no particular order):

1. Angie at Living Aloha
2. Kristin at Diary of KFun
3. Donna at Write Now, Write Later
4. Kendra (and Ryan) at A Grimm Tale
5. Valerie at Threads and Thoughts and Things I Love
6. Lindsey at TexaGermaNadian
7. The FOUR writers at Legos In My Pocket

Go check all of them out! They are great blogs that I enjoy reading with every update!