{"id":1654,"date":"2009-10-24T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T17:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2009-10-24T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T17:29:38","slug":"an-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/2009\/10\/24\/an-award\/","title":{"rendered":"An Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1653\" title=\"honest\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bluemonkeybutt.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/honest.jpg?resize=200%2C193\" alt=\"honest\" width=\"200\" height=\"193\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The wonderful Stephanie over at <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeinabluezoo.blogspot.com\/\">Life in a Blue Zoo<\/a>\u00a0gave us this lovely award.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The instructions are to list 10 things you probably don&#8217;t know about us.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Elle<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong>I have a 50 foot long tunnel that leads from my basement to my garage. My youngest thinks everyone has a tunnel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>I&#8217;ve held a lot of different jobs. Some of\u00a0my various jobs-working for the IRS, a 911 dispatcher for a police department and an EMT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. <\/strong>By the time my youngest graduates from school I will have been getting children on the school bus, going to parent\/teacher conferences, chaperoning field trips and helping with homework for 33 years. Holy crap!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. <\/strong>When I hit the spell check button on a post and it comes up with &#8220;No misspellings found&#8221; I get all happy. It seems to happen more when I&#8217;m solo posting. Just saying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. <\/strong>You may or may not know this, but I hate monkeys. For some reason people find this funny and give me monkey themed gifts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stacy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>6. <\/strong>Although I dress very fashionable for work, I am not allowed to own a <strong>Be-dazzler<\/strong> because I would Be-dazzle the crap out of <em>everything<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. <\/strong>I love the water and the ocean, but am scared to death to go in an underwater tunnel.\u00a0 This is either due to that stupid <strong>Jaws 3D<\/strong> movie that\u00a0was in <strong>Sea World<\/strong>, or I drowned on the <strong>Titanic<\/strong> in a previous life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. <\/strong>I love to dance!\u00a0 I&#8217;m not very good at it, but I love dancing.\u00a0 I would take ballroom dancing, if it didn&#8217;t require me to be too close to an ugly, smelly guy&#8230;.now if it was <strong>Giles<\/strong> from last seasons <strong>DTWS<\/strong>, well then I would be<em> just<\/em> fine!<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> As I&#8217;ve gotten older I&#8217;ve developed a fear of heights&#8230;but I have also had the desire to jump out of a perfectly good airplane with a professional skydiver attached to my back.\u00a0 <em>(one that would hopefully not die mid-air)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. <\/strong>I am scared to death of vampires&#8230;it all started with &#8220;The Count&#8221; on Sesame Street!\u00a0 So, please stop asking me if I&#8217;d read those stupid Twilight books&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<strong>NO I haven&#8217;t<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Now we pass this award along to a deserving blogger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bloggingmama-andrea.blogspot.com\/\">Andrea<\/a>\u00a0The Blogging Mama. 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