Showing posts with label Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Award. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

25 Random Facts Award and Surprise...

I received this award back from Dancy of Beer Budget Bride's Musings and I just love it. he, he

1. I was born in St.Lucia where the population is about 300,000. That's like the number of people living   
    in my building in the Bronx (just kidding) and no everybody doesn't know everybody.

2. I love peanut butter and cheese sandwiches. I know, yum!

3. I used to swear like a sailor but stopped when I became a mommy, well sort of. I may still let one slip when my son is out of earshot.

4. I can't hold my liquor so I don't drink anymore. Although I plan to drink more than my fair share at my wedding.

5. Surprisingly I never smoked weed/ganga/spliff/chronic/grass (you get the drift) but I did smoke 
    cigarettes for 6 months. It got old, so I stopped, since it was all about image.

6. I lived in Toronto for  5 years where I graduated at Seneca College. It's such a beautiful, polite and friendly city. Now I live in NY. Enough said. ha, ha


7. Mr. Muscle is Jamaican but I speak better Jamaican patois than him.

8. I got a degree in Hospitality Studies, changed my mind and got a degree in Accounting then became   
    an office assistant. Now I want to be David Tutera. Go figure.

9. I've become so enamored with wedding planning and DIY projects that I'm going to get certified in 
    wedding planning. See 8

10. I climbed St. Lucia's 2nd tallest mountain. Twice. Although not on the same day. This is me at the top. It's the shorter mountain you see in the picture in number 1. My skinnier days.
11. Like a lot of my fellow bloggers, I want to write a book and started a few times. The closest I ever got was writing one full chapter about men and sex. well mostly men and sexual encounters. Both imagined and real. Ha, ha. I settled on writing poetry and had a notebook full of poems.

12. I lost said book of poetry, all novels, old text books, clothes,  and basically all my stuff from Toronto when my ex roommate decided to hold them hostage or whatever the hell she did when I moved back to St.Lucia. I had planned to have them shipped to me after. She refused to send them and I really didn't think a trip to Toronto to try to find  a few material things was worth it at the time. Plus i'd probably have to bust a cap in her ass. Just kidding. Remember kids, violence is not the answer. 

13. I love, love the sea, beach, ocean, water and Mr. Muscle is the exact opposite. Sometimes I wonder if he really came from Jamaica.

14. People say that after a couple has been together for a while, they start to look like each other. Just look at Mr. M and I. See a resemblance? 

15. Between Mr. Muscle and I, we have 8 parents. Both of our parents divorced and remarried. My son gets a hell of a lot more presents at christmas and birthdays from his Nana, Grandma, Granny and Ms. Paulette; his Papa, Granpa, Uncle Tony (don't ask) and Daddy.

16. I was an elementary school teacher for 4 years and loved it but when the school politics tok over, it became very unenjoyable, so I quit and flew to Canada.

17. My cousin/best friend and I once bussed to Montreal for Jazz Festival and tried to speak French the whole time. Needless to say people were staring at us like we were crazy since our french wasn't french after all. It was hilarious. Oui, oui monsieur.

18. A a teenager and in my early 20s, I had the thickest eyebrows ever and refused to have them done. Don't believe me?


19. My maiden name is my mom's maiden name for some reason and she's remarried and has her husband's name. So my last name isn't either of my parent's name. It raises some eyebrows when I fill out family info on forms. Some people must think I was a foster kid or adopted.

20. I would love to move to North Carolina. I know after living in NY, it will be a much slower and laid back pace but that's really what I want right now. I think.

21. When I was little, I had shirley Temple curls and especially hated when little old ladies said I was so cute. I wanted straight hair like my sisters but my mom wouldn't hear of it. 

22. My son is named Anthony and if I have a daughter, i'll either name her Teresa Lyzette after my and Mr. Muscle's mother. Or i'll just name her Skyla cause I love that name.

23. I just might make it. Almost  at 25.

24. I have huge news for you. Coming soon.Wait for it.

25. WE GOT MARRIED!  YES WE DID! Now you HAVE to come back for my next post.


Thanks again Dancy for starting this post and now i'll pass this award on to:
  • Jacin of She Said Yes
  • Frugalista of Frugalista Getting Married
  • Ms. Sunday of Sunday Bride
  • Tamar of The 2500 Mile Wedding
  • Erica of Love at eh Lodge
  • Tova of The Tova 100 Song ADD fun hour
  • Leigh of All you need is Love
  • Penga
  • Sara of Olive Wedding
The only rule is to pass it on to however many people you like.

JEM.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

I got an Award (sung to the tune of "you can't catch me")


They love me, they really love me. Chocolate Lover that is. Thank you so much for my newest award. The ever so sweet Chocolate Lover (pun intended) donned this award on me and I'd like to say a big merci beaucoup! It's gorgeous, (again pun intended). If you haven't already, check out her blog, if for nothing else but some sweet inspiration. (wink, wink)

The rules:
Accept and thank the person who gave it to you!
List 10 things about yourself
List 5 additional things you DON'T like
Then pick ten people to give this lovely award to!



10 Things about Moi

  • I eat way too much bread.
  • I really don't like living in an apartment. Being a West Indian and growing up running around in the backyard and climbing trees, this is a huge adjustment.
  •  I absolutely love blogging. My wedding would not be so well organized had I not found the blog world. I love reading and getting inspiration from all my fellow bloggers.
  • In spite of my occasional rants, I absolutely love wedding planning; I go to sleep with wedding thoughts and wake up with them in the morning.
  • I've written about 50 poems that no one has ever seen.
  • I'm told I look exactly like my dad although I don't see it.
  • My son looks exactly like his dad and I can definitely see it.
  • I want to have a daughter someday whom I will name Theresa, Lyzette after both of her grandmothers.
  • I love, love , love my life. I wouldn't have it any other way.
  • I cannot wait for my wedding in August and I pray that we don't have to move it.
5 Things I Don't Like
  • People who talk badly about others even when they don't know them
  • Liars
  • Being so lazy sometimes that I would not be motivated to work out for days
  • Seeing  and hearing teenage girls and boys cussing up and being disrespectful - It hurts my heart
  • The fact that people have become so dependent on technology that they can't write a proper sentence or have a face-face conversation anymore


Now I in turn must pass this award onto 10 other lovely bloggers. So here goes:

1. My Dream Life
2. Sonya at Bridal Bliss
3. The Pink Bride
4. Heather @ Soon to be Mrs. K
5. Nuflaiir
6. San Diego Budget Bride
7. Bee @ BP Wedding
8. Amber
9. Buhdoop
10. Gonna Be His Mrs.

Enjoy ladies and thanks again Chocolate Lover.
JEM.

Friday, February 19, 2010

My First Award!!!!


I am now a Sugar Doll, well not exactly but thanks to The Pink Bride who passed on this lovely award to me, I now have a Sugar Doll award. YAY! Thanks honey. I now have to write 10 things about myself and pass the award on to 10 other lovely readers. So here goes:

1.I’m West Indian from the lovely island St. Lucia and Mr. Muscle is Jamaican.

2.I used to be an elementary school teacher.

3. I like things how I like them and it's really hard seeing it from another point of view.

4. I lived in Toronto, Canada for 5 years.

5.I really, really want to become an event planner after my wedding and will enroll in a course.

6. I already have a son and hope to have a daughter right after the wedding. Well I’ll start working on it after the wedding. (I
see you rolling your eyes.)

7. I’m obsessed with tiffany blue/aqua. Yeah what a surprise right?

8. I ultimately want to become a CPA – Certified Public Accountant. Not Crazy Person Always ha, ha I just made that up, clever
huh?

9.I love peanut butter and cheese –together (I know ewww! Yeah maybe double eeww!)

10. I burn my hand cooking almost every month or so. I even burned my stomach once when I was cooking with no shirt
on. Don’t ask.

And without further ado, I choose to pass this award on to:

Brittany Allen
Laura AKA Miss Mojito
Alicia - San Diego Budget Bride
My Dream Ring
The lovely Nester
Unspecified Thoughts
TTFN (ta ta for now).