Beautiful Blog Award

Candace at Believing in C-C is Me nominated me for a beautiful blog award!  Thanks, Candace!  I have to share 7 things about myself and then pass it on to 7 bloggers.  Y’all might know a couple of these already…

1. I love singing, have been in choirs and choruses from elementary to graduate school, but have never sang karaoke or a solo longer than a couple of bars.  I would love to take voice lessons someday because I know I’m not using it to its fullest potential.
2. I’m a chronic joint-cracker (fingers, neck, back)
3. The first home I knew was a yacht.  My dad lived on it during his residency, my Mom moved in when they were married, and it was where I was brought home from the hospital.  We bought and renovated a house that we moved into when I was a year and a half old, and it’s still not finished.     The yacht is still tethered to our dock, though it’s in a sad state of disrepair.
4. I got a 1400 on my SATs, and at least one of my friends (maybe two?) got perfect 1600s.  We were (and still  pretty much are) a bunch of nerds.  In addition, some South Carolina schools have SAT Teams and go to competitions where they take watered-down SAT tests in competition-style.  I think this is to try to boost scores in the state?  Anyway, we were members of that team, and our school was state champion for multiple years.  I don’t know, but they still might be.
5. I was a member of our high school dance team that only lasted about a year.  My senior year, they were holding auditions for a new dance team and my friends wanted to try out.  They dragged me to the auditions but I wasn’t too  serious about it.  I ended up being the only one to get in!  Until that point, I had lost 60-70lbs and continued to lose during the many hours of practice we attended each week.  That year, I was in the best shape of my entire life.  I’m pretty sure the team disbanded the next year.
6. My Master’s thesis was about the health and social benefits of virtual communities and the steps healthcare organizations should take to develop communities for the benefit of their members.  At the time, I wasn’t really a part of any communities of my own, but now that I’m blogging and twittering in my own little community, I fully understand how on-the-money my thesis was.  Now, if only I could put it to good professional use….
7. In high school, I took honors drama classes and served offices in our drama club for 3 years, including presidency.  I wish I had stuck with theater, because it was definitely a form of therapy for me. 

Reading back over those, I wonder what kind of person I’d be if I had stuck with numbers 1, 5, and 7.  The ladies I’m tagging* are:

1. Jenny at Color Hungry
2. Dori at Dori’s Shiny Blog
3. Lily at Lily’s Health Pad
4. Laura at 100in12
5. Amanda at Food Exercise Express
6. Nicci at Nifty Eats
7. Chanelle at This Dancer’s Life

Mosey on over to these blogs and check them out!  They’re some amazing ladies!
*This is just for fun, and it won’t hurt my feelings at all if y’all don’t pass it along.  I used to use MySpace only for surveys like these, and now that I never use it, I felt a vanity void.  :)