The Versatile Blogger Award!

Ooh, this is fun! 

I've been nominated by several people for this one recently.  Thank you all so much! :)  Thank you to someday-soon, Mel, Leslie, and Trisha!  You guys are all awesome! :)

For this award, here’s what to do:

1. Thank whoever gave you the award.
2. Tell 7 things about yourself that readers may not know.
3. Pay it forward by nominating 10 bloggers you’ve recently discovered.

Things you may not know about me:

1. I started teaching when I was about 10 years old.  My parents started an educational consulting company when I was a kid and I taught computer summer camp to elementary school teachers.  (I can only imagine how awkward that was for them...) We were teaching teachers how to teach kids to use computers.  This was the mid-80s, mind you.  We taught them to use Basic and this old drawing language called LOGO on Ataris and Commodores.  Yeah, I'm that old.
2. I tend to memorize movies I love and annoy the heck out of people who are watching them with me.  Multiple Monty Python movies, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, etc.  
3. I broke my nose in college in a circus performance class.  It was a lot of fun -- well, until I started streaming blood everywhere.
4. I'm from the south, but don't have an accent and it always seems to freak people out. When I was interviewing for jobs I must have said "yes, I know I don't have an accent" at least five times at every interview. Except for the ones in the south where people understand that not everyone from the south has an accent... I tend to mimic the accent of whoever I am around without realizing I'm doing it and that can get embarrassing.
   
5. My father almost named me Mandy because he was a DJ in the 70s and I think the song sold a million copies or went platinum or something the day I was born.
6. I love Tangrams. They're one of my favorite things to do to pass time. That and crossword puzzles.
7. There are only 6 things that are interesting about me... OK, there are probably more but I really can't think of any...

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Now, here are my nominees for The Versatile Blogger Award.  Some of you may have been nominated already -- well, consider yourselves ULTRA-nominated, now! 

Bumps Along the Way
Dear Diary
The Elusive Embryo
Happy High Heels
Infertility:  A Type A's Nightmare
Mission: Motherhood
No, I'm not pregnant, just fat
So Much for Simple and Easy
TTC Hopeful