I am pleased to announce that Patty from http://petitemagique.wordpress.com has nominated me for the Really Neat Blog Award. Patty is a kind hearted and warm individual, who is always very supportive of my quirky endeavours. Thank you so much Patty, you are a true shining star in the darkness!
I am about a year behind with my blog award nomination – Yes, that’s so naughty I know. I am also a year later with my Break Through the Barriers of Redundancy book being published. Yes, I haven’t forgotten to publish my book, to let you into a little secret, I am waiting until I finish building my Quirky Empire of business/embrace your quirky life related sites, so I can unashamedly advertise my free and paid for services in the back of my book. See – I told you there was method in my quirky madness, well, I may not have said that to all of you, but hey! You telepathically thought it in a quirky way now, didn’t you? I mean absolutely everything I do in my life has purpose and meaning whether it is apparent to even myself at the time or not.
Before I announce my nominations, to give you an idea of the scale of what I now do – Below are links to my websites and social media – Please join me on my embrace your quirky mission. http://www.embraceyourquirky.com and http://www.worldofquirky.com will be coming to a screen near you, later in 2015.
For those of you who don’t know, I used to suffer with depression for years and freed myself from it, without medication, almost 3 years ago. I still worked when I was suffering with depression, because I felt better working than being at home and could separate that part of my life, to still be affective. I wasn’t a manic depressive person, but I did have a lot of times when I did not want to exist in the world. Now I am a completely different person, because I know my purpose in life is to write and to help others and I embrace every quirky thing about me. There is never a dull moment in my life, it’s super awesome. I used my own embrace your quirky philosophy, to get myself well, improve my life and be happy to be alive. I want to help others to do the same.
By the end of 2015, I want everyone to know how to embrace their quirky to lead a happy, successful and fulfilling existence. If you haven’t already subscribed to my quirkybooksTV channel, please do so now, because I will have more videos next year, all about embracing your quirky, and if you miss them on here, you can get them straight to your inbox via the settings in your YouTube account. I would really like your involvement about the quirky topics I will be raising, so feel free to comment to your hearts content. I have some more fun videos to share with you first over the next few weeks as we ease into the new year. I still have another 6 websites to build and more writing of courses for the teaching I do, as well as attend my day job 5 days a week. All in the life of a Quirk!
You can now find me at Facebook on 8 Pages and you can find me on Twitter at 8 Accounts:
To all of my friends who get worried about my health for taking on so much, I really appreciate your care and worry over me. It is a lot to take on, even I admit it, but I instinctively know it’s the right thing to do, and I have to go by what my instincts and creative mind are telling me to do.
I can’t wait to see what 2015 brings, bring it on!
So, to break my usual rule of doing my nominations in the order they were given to me, I am doing the latest one first, as I only need to nominate as many people as I want and not answer any questions – If only more awards were like this one!
I may have to break the rules with my other award nominations and not answer some of the questions, or nominate the required amount of people, otherwise there will be a sad lack of award giving due to my tight time constraints. Even now I have a mountain of work piling up with deadlines, and I have to work the next 6 days in a row after today, in my day job, up until Christmas Eve. Happy Christmas!
The Really Neat Blog Award is a new award created by Dear Kitty.
You can find DearKitty here http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/
~~IN HER OWN WORDS~~
“I have made this new award: The Real Neat Blog Award. There are so many bloggers whose blogs deserve more attention. So, I will try to do something about that”
Here goes with my nominations:
http://notapunkrocker.wordpress.com
https://babyjill7.wordpress.com
https://bookmust.wordpress.com
https://etinkerbell.wordpress.com
http://mytrainofthoughtson.wordpress.com
https://hilalachmar.wordpress.com
http://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com
https://arlenshah.wordpress.com
https://bbanublog.wordpress.com
https://diedreblake.wordpress.com
https://blessedwithastarontheforehead.wordpress.com
https://hutchagoodlife.wordpress.com
https://damiejohn.wordpress.com
http://michaelhodges3.wordpress.com
http://inspireyourbusiness.wordpress.com
https://eyedancers.wordpress.com
https://cupcakepetrillo.wordpress.com
https://blogmethisblog.wordpress.com
That concludes my nominations for this award. Thank you to all of my nominees, many of whom join in the quirky fun on a regular basis. Apologies for not being able to nominate everyone who follows, comments or Likes my posts, I could not have got so far in life today, without your support, you are amazing. Never forget that you are quirkily awesome. Keep embracing your quirky, be your authentic self, and live the life that only you were born to lead.
If you like this blog, you will love this blog’s YouTube TV Channel. Go ahead and subscribe for more quirky fun and serious embrace your quirky conversations http://www.youtube.com/user/quirkybooksTV
As always, embrace your quirky, stay positive, write soon and Happy Christmas xxxxxxxx
Thanks Ute. I am about a year and a half behind with my blog awards. Something I hope to rectify when I have published my book.
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Yay! Congratulations and thanks for the shout out.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
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Thanks. You are welcome. I love your blog xx
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One word – shinning like a Star!
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Hi Mihran, thank you so much, that’s lovely.
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Congratulations and thank you for thinking of Fictional Machines! Keep up the great work and all the best for the new year!
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Dear Ms Sandra.
Thanks you for the nomination and congratulations for your awards. Happy New Year 2015.
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Hi Hilal, thank you. How are you celebrating New Year?
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Nothing special. I went to eat ‘rendang’, was meat flavored very spicy. Yes, spicy at all. Indonesian people love spicy meat. If at Hawksmoor Seven Dials one for pepper spiciness level, you could say that I eat meat spiciness level 9. 🙂
And how with you? 🙂
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Wow! That’s hot. I am going over to my mum and dad’s soon. My piggies are already over there.
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Thanks bunches Sandra! I just found this in my SPAM folder! 😦
I’m sorry I didn’t see it before now! Thank you so much for the nomination!!! You rock my dear!~
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Hey Courtney, you are welcome. I think that may have happened to other people too, because many of them didn’t know I gave them an award, even though I messaged them about it. How strange. You really deserve the award. You are such a warm person.
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Your accomplishments are awesome!…I give you high accolades! … not many could do this…but, I imagine your reaching out to others will benefit so many…Thanks for the nomination…how fun is that!
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Hi Marilyn, thank you so much for your kind words and support, they mean so much and so do you xx
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Thanks so much for the nomination and congratulations on all of your well-deserved awards! And merry Christmas!:)
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Thank you. You deserve the award. Merry Christmas.
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You truly are an inspiration Sandra, and thanks so much for the nomination and many congratulations to you too! I am signing off later today for Christmas so will catch up with you in the new year, but wanted to wish you a very Happy Christmas and here’s an exciting 2015 for us both hopefully…look after yourself and have a wonderful time. Hugs, Sherri ❤
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Hi Sherri, that’s so sweet of you to say. Thank you very much. Now you know why there has been a delay with the book coming out. Have a great Christmas. Hoping in 2015, all our dreams come true. Love and hugs. Happy Christmas and New Year xx
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Yes, wouldn’t that be so nice! Love and hugs back to you too Sandra, Happy Christmas 🙂 xx
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Happy Christmas xx And new year xx
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Thanks Sandra 🙂 xxxxxxxx
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Congratulations and thanks for the nomination, there are some familiar blogs here but a load of new ones to discover which is always a good thing!
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Hi Ste, that’s good to know. Everyone is easy to chat to, so you should make some great new blogger friends.
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Thank you so much for nominating us. Whee love feeling and sharing the blogosphere love!
xxxx
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That’s great, because wheee love you.
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Thank you so much! I appreciate your support and readership!
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You are welcome. You have a great blog.
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Thanks so much! Constantly improving! So much more I want to do.
Jessica, Turquoise Compass
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I look forward to reading more.
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Glad to have you along!
Jessica, Turquoise Compass
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HI Sandra
Congratulations on being awarded and thank you for awarding me! Blessings! 🙂
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Hi Sandra 😀 It’s a kind thought. Thank you, but I don’t do awards. ❤
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You do now Ralph! Ha!
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Thanks for the nomination! One of my goals while on break next week is to actually catch up on awards 🙂
(I just resubscribed here…I think I was following one of your other blogs and not this one)
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Hi, thank you so much. Yes, you follow my inspirational http://www.beatredundancyblues.wordpress.com blog. I still post under the name of quirkybooks on that blog too, and my http://www.youtube/user/quirkybooksTV channel, is an extension of this blog, covering a lot of the same topics plus more besides.
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I think I gave you an incomplete address for my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/quirkybooksTV _ Is an extension of this blog.
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