Kreativ Blog Award!
I am most honored to have been nominated for the Kreativ Blog Award by Miss Jackie Ashenden. Hey, I even managed to type it all out, despite the fact that my own personal spelling peeve is people getting kute by spelling c words with k’s! 🙂
So I’m supposed to let you all in on seven little known facts about me (whoops, almost typed seven little known facts about men…well that’s another blog post altogether, isn’t it?) and then I’m s’posed to nominate seven of my fine cyberspace friends, although many have already been nominated. So good luck, me.
Okay, ready for my seven facts?? (make sure there are no children present…)
1. I used to do a lot of concerts with my hubby. We used to sing at a coffee shop a few times a month. Acoustic contemporary Christian music. 🙂 (Yes, I have latent American Idol fantasies…although now I have to tell Simon I can’t give up writing, not even for music)
2. I got married at nineteen, had my first child at twenty, my second at twenty-one, and my third at twenty three, only thirty days after M&B bought my MS!
3. My husband is the only man I’ve ever kissed. And I didn’t get that first kiss until I was eighteen!
4. I play (very casually) The trumpet, the flute, the violin and the piano (also the tin whistle if pressed.)
5. I am a Lord of the Rings geek. I waited in line for the midnight showing of Return of the King for six hours, and for that one and Two Towers I dressed as an elf. I was on the news. (hey, I was in high school)
6. I married my boss. Yep. I started working at the coffee shop Haven assistant managed when I was seventeen. And he was twenty five. Yeah, we’re so Presents.
7. I started going to college when I was sixteen, and though I have never, ever worked in this field, I am a certified dental assistant. I’ve only had two jobs, one as a barista at a coffee shop, and the other as a bridal consultant. Now I have STORIES from that job…no joke, my first customer bought a pink wedding dress. She came with her stepmother, who was fifteen years her junior. She was marrying a man she met at her work (she worked at the DOG POUND). He was doing community service while serving time in prison. I’ve got a million of them…
And now for my noms…
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Wow, you do have stories! And your own story is so presents! Can’t wait to hear that one in full 🙂
Lol!! Great stories, Maisey! I’ve never been on the news. Oh but if you really wanted to be Presents, Haven would have to be 30 and of Italian extraction. And he’d have to blackmail you into giving him that kiss. Right, better stop there. 😉
But, Jackie, he IS part Italian, and he’s eight years older than I am. So he wasn’t thirty then, but he’s thirty one now. 🙂
Kerrin, oh yes, I have stories. 😀
Wow Maisey, thank you so much for nominating me! Off to my blog now to post 7 interesting things about me. Hope I can find 7!
Awww! Numbers 3 & 6 had me sat here just saying ‘awwwwww’ to myself. I love it!
I liked your other facts, too, but those were my favourite. 3 reminded me of that line in Sweet Home Alabama when she says to him “so I can kiss you any time I want”.
Great stories Maisey.
Hmm, don’t know if I can think of 7 interesting things. This might take awhile…
Oh, come on, Anne. I believe in you. 🙂
Jo, yeah, we’re disgustingly cute. 🙂 Wait till you see the dedication in my book…
Wow, thank you so much for the nomination, Maisey! Have to dash to SIL’s birthday party now, but I will return to read your 7 in more detail, especially that one with the bridal shop stories! Thanks again.
Maya
Maisey, your bridal shop story just proves that truth is definitely stranger than fiction. In the very first story I ever wrote I had the heroine make the exact same career move I had just made. When I entered it into a contest one of the judges wrote . . “no one in their RIGHT MIND would ever do that.”
Ha! Maybe she was on to something.
Amy
Amy, the truth IS stranger than fiction. My crit group has often talked about how some of the things that have happened to us in life wouldn’t seem realistic in a book.
Bonus bridal shop story: This girl came in with her mother and father to buy a wedding dress. Her father was dressed in coveralls and was filthy from a day of really hard labor. The girl tells me she has no budget, as in, the sky’s the limit she can get whatever she wants. So then she explains that when she met her fiance, she just though he was a regular guy. They dated for a couple months and one day he pulled up in a Rolls and said ‘oh, btw, I’m a billionaire.’ He just wanted to find a woman who loved him for who he was and not for his money (too cliche for a book, I’m afraid!) And she bought the most beautiful dress and her dad cried, and it was so amazing because they were these humble, hardworking people and she married a billionaire!
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