Versatile Blogger Award

Oh my gosh! The super awesome Miss Fairchild has given me my very first blog award, The Versatile Blogger award! Thanks Miss, I will treasure it forever!

I was going to wait until tomorrow to post this but then I realised that I have Actual Work to do tomorrow morning and I'm going to the dentist in the afternoon so I wouldn't be able to notify my nominees about it until later.

So you get two posts today, lucky you!

The rules of this game are for me to reveal seven (hopefully interesting) things about myself and then nominate 15 bloggers for the award.


1. I grew up kind of a hippie
Although I currently live in Sydney I was actually born in... Sydney. I grew up in Byron Bay. We were vegetarian and I went to a Steiner School. My family was anti-vax and my GP was a homeopath (he was also a GP). I am much less of a hippie now. Except that...


2. I don't use shampoo
I used to notice that when I was running low on shampoo and used less and less of it to stretch it out my hair seemed much more awesome. I found that the perfect amount of shampoo for maximum awesomeness was... none. Once a week or so I'll wash it with a bicarb solution and then rinse with a vinegar solution.

3. I have a ridiculous bra size
8FF. What even is that? Ridiculous. Actually I have noticed that MYER have recently started stocking bras with size 8 band, so hooray!


4. I feel like a grown up and I am pretty happy with that
I know a lot of people who claim they don't feel like they are Real Adults and/or they don't ever want to feel like an Adult. I'm... actually pretty thrilled to be married and thirty and living with my husband in a city away from my family. I mean, I still freak out over making phone calls but whatever! Being an adult doesn't mean I am not allowed to freak out about things.

5. I have one sister and one and a half brothers
They're all younger than me. I guess I also now have a brother and sister-in law. They are both older than me!

6. I twice walked 100km
In 2009, 2010 and 2012 I participated in the Oxfam Trailwalker in victoria. The first time through I only got 2/3 of the way through but in 2010 and 2012 I walked the full 100km in 29 and 28 hours. 100km is a very long way.

7. I don't like Vanilla
It is not plain, you folks, vanilla is just gross. I can cope with a teeny-tiny bit. I won't gag on vanilla icecream for example. But yuk. I really don't like it.


My nominations for the Versatile Blogger Award (and if you are nominated, then you win! Congratulations) are:

• Subtumblr
• Something Short and Snappy
• Ana Mardoll's Ramblings
• Shallow Depths
• Tricky Eaters (it might be cheating because I help run this blog but I nominate my cohost, Julie)

Edited to Add: I realise this "award" is basically a chain letter. So please don't feel pressured to post about it, or "nominate" other people if you do post about it. I just wanted to let you know that I think your blog is neat :)