Liebster Award

I was just nominated for the Liebster Award.  What?  People read this blog?  I'm so honored and thankful.  Big shout-out to my nominator, Tiffany from Keeping Up With Tiffany.  Be sure to check out her awesome blog!

What is the Liebster Award?
This award is for bloggers who are just starting out and have less than 200 followers.  The award helps these bloggers and their blogs get noticed by others.  Bloggers who have been nominated pass this award along to other new bloggers.  It is such an amazing and cool honor to be recognized!  

Rules
1. Thank your Liebster Award presenter on your blog and link back to their blog.
2. Answer the 11 questions from the nominator, list 11 random facts about yourself and create 11 questions for your nominees.
3. Present the Liebster Blog Award to 11 blogs of 200 followers or less whom you feel deserve to be noticed and leave a comment on their blog.
4. Copy and paste the blog award on to your blog.

11 Random Facts About Me
1. I love to travel and I don't see myself settling down anytime soon.
2. My obsession is Diet Coke.
3. My library is another obsession of mine.  I collect little library identification cards to put in my books.
4. I have absolutely no idea what I am doing with my life.  Whatevs.
5. If I had to learn a new language I would want to learn French or Arabic or Farsi.
6. I love Baz Luhrmann movies.  Moulin Rouge, anyone?  I can't wait for The Great Gatsby.
7. I'm always on the hunt for a new pen pal.  I have an excuse to buy fancy stationery.
8. I carry my passport everywhere because you never know when you're going to need to leave the country.
9. I have a cactus named Nancy.
10. I love storms.
11. I love white chocolate Reese's more than anything.

Questions from my nominator
1.  Why do you blog?
I blog because I love it.  It was never about how many people read it or how popular it gets.  It has always been about an outlet.  It is a why to creatively keep your thoughts together.  Kinda like an online journal.
2. What is your favorite color?
Green! 
3. What bugs you the most?
I hate it when people flake out.  I like to count on plans that I make with people. 
4. What is your favorite go to food/recipe?
Is take out a good answer?  I don't cook much while I live in the dorms.  My favorite take out would have to be Chinese.  American Chinese that is.
5. What is your life's dream?
Ultimately I would like to say that my life dream is to give God glory.  Do His will and worship Him daily.  He has given me passions, however.  I would love to travel and write a book.  I would love to start a business.  I would love to live overseas.  All of my little passions are a way to give Him glory.  
6. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?
I'm not quite sure.  I love traveling and moving about.  I lived in Australia for a summer and loved it.  I would probably live in Australia as long as I'm still able to travel to other places. 
7.  What is your favorite song and why?
I have no idea.  I love Hanson.  Maybe Come to You by Hanson or Carry You There.  For those of you who don't know, Hanson comes out with new albums.  If you haven't heard from them since their Mmm Bop days, than you're missing out.8.  What bugs you the most?
I hate it when people flake out.  I like to count on plans that I make with people.
9. What is your ultimate hobby?
Umm...blogging?
10.  Where have you traveled?
My favorite U.S. place would be New York City.  Outside the U.S., I have traveled to La Nariz, Mexico for one week periods, three times.  I spent a summer in East Fremantle, Western Australia.  That is close to Perth.  Last summer, I spent a little over two weeks in Lilongwe, Malawi.  I want to increase my traveling.
11. What is your least favorite thing to do?
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."  - G.K. Chesterton

My 11 nominees
1. Made to Be Broken
2. Frankly Fickle
3. A Mist of a Life
4. A Slocum Story 
5. Girl Meets World 
6. Kasia's Kitchen  
7. Steal My Sunshine
8. Shaped By Grace  
9. I Have Thoughts
10. Forever Changed
11. A String of Purls 

11 Questions to my nominees
1. Why do you blog?
2. Where did your blog name come from?
3. What is your favorite book?
4. What is your favorite quote?
5. What is your life's dream?
6. Where would you live if you could live anywhere in the world?
7. What is your favorite song lyrics?
8. What is your least favorite thing to do?
9. What is your favorite thing about spring?
10. Where have you traveled?
11. Where would you like to travel?

That about sums everything up.  Now all you have to do is grab your award button from the sidebar.  Copy and past this blog post and fill out the questionnaire.  Remember to change out the questions to the ones I want you to answer above.  And check out the wonderful blogs that I nominated!   

Super big thanks to my nominator Keeping Up With Tiffany. 

Check her out.