Happy happy, joy joy!

I woke up not knowing today was going to be such a special day.  

As per usual, I got up and did the bird cages and veggies, made my coffee and sat down at the 'puter.  I knew I had to take El Juevo to school this morning, so I didn't plan on writing anything until I got back, so I just settled down with a cuppa and went straight to my Google reader.  Now, I have kind of a ritual with my reader (big surprise, eh?) in that I always read my overseas bloggers first, as they are ahead of us timewise, and I finger they may know something that is going to happen that might have some bearing on my life.  Heh.  

Okay.  Now that I've sat here entertaining myself for thirty minutes pondering the paradoxes that situation could create, where was I?  Oh, yeah.  So I opened my reader and chose one of my favorites, Strange Pilgram, which is written by an American living in Italy, a place that holds a very special place in my heart.  In today's post, she had this badge:

I read down a few lines, and suddenly my mental willy got a big ole boner, for part of the bleme she was tasked with states that the recipient must pass on the award to their five favorite blogs as well as completing the attached meme, bleme-whatever the hell you want to call it.  And lo and behold, there tucked into her list of five was Life in the River!  Ah am so proud!  

Not to mention grateful.  I never know what is going to come out of my fingers until I sit down to write, and this was free blog fodder.  The guidelines of the bleme are that you have to answer each prompt with just one word, so here goes:

1. Where is your cellphone? Pocket

2. Where is your significant other? Nigeria

3. Your hair color? Multiple

4. Your mother? Birthday

5. Your father? Birthday (!)

6. Your favorite thing? Internet

7. Your dream last night? Blank

8. Your dream/goal? Travel

9. The room you're in? busy

10. Your hobby? This

11. Your fear? Alzheimer's

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Abroad

13. Where were you last night? Houseboat

14. What you're not? Bored

15. One of your wish list items? Macbook

16. Where you grew up? Seabees

17. The last thing you did? Ducks

18. What are you wearing? Attitude

19. Your TV? Background

20. Your pet? Parrots

21. Your computer? Essential

22. Your mood? Elated

23. Missing someone? Absolutely

24. Your car? Fuckus

25. Something you're not wearing? Makeup

26. Favorite store? ANY

27. Your summer? Dar

28. Love someone? Yes

29. Favorite color? Transparent

30. When is the last time you laughed? Today

31. Last time you cried? movie

I am going to nominate five of my favorite blogs, but I will leave it up to them whether or not they want to use the bleme.  I am usually the stopping point for emails etc that end with "forward to x number of friends or Guido will be coming after your kneecaps with a bat".  I also want to say that I although I am only supposed to nominate five, if you are on my blogroll, I read you every day that you post and treasure your words whether I always agree with your views or not.  Here, in no particular order:

1. Clusterfook

2. Attack of the Redneck Mommy

3. Gnomespeak

4. Derfwad Manor

5. Magneto Bold Too

Today's lagniappe: