Pay it Forward (and the circle of love)

At high school, the popular kids hung out by the entrance to the tuck shop. I was decidedly not one of them. I was so not one of them that I tended to avoid visiting the tuck shop altogether. I was happier down by the art classes with the geeks, losers, smokers, skaters and bikers. I have never smoked, but have certainly been classed as geek and loser, and dated my fair share of skaters, if not bikers!

So imagine my surprise when not one, but five, lovely bloggers named my blog as one of their faves! It just shows how far blogland is from high school, thank Gawd.

Julia, the stylish, cat loving, knitting yogini from Knitteroo said my blog made her day! Right back at ya, Miss Muffy!


Then four yoga gals offered me an excellent blog award, wow! Thank you, Brenda (Grounding Thru the Sit Bones), Yogamama, Linda (Linda's Yoga Journey), and Nona( Everyday Yogini)! I love all you blogs too, and yogamama, I am looking forward to getting to know yours!

So I thought I would pay it forward by naming my favourites other than the ones listed above, since there are soooo many great blogs that I read, and it is hard to pick just ten!

Here goes:
Yogademia
Creating Ms Perfect
Cupcakes & Yoga
Poppalina
Rand(Om) Bites
Shiny Yoga
Zazazu
YogaDawg
Holistic Girl
YogaGumbo - by yogamum, creator of woyopracmo!

Some have already elected their top ten blogs, but for the rest, I am looking forward to finding great new blogs from your lists!

Tag, I'm it!

So I have been tagged by Christine - thanks for finding me, Christine!

Tag rules are:

• Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
• Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
• Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
• Let each person know that they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

OK, as usual I am the dead zone girl for tags etc, so I'm gonna ask that if you want to participate, take yourself as tagged - and send me a link!

Now: 7 Random and/or Weird Facts About Me:

1. My thumbs are a truly strange shape, yet I have never had an issue with them. My nose is normal, yet I spent my teens thinking it was unsightly. Go figure.
2. I really, really hate rock music involving screaming guitars. I'll take Johnny Cash any day.
   
3. I love early summer in Johannesburg, because of the flowering Jacarandas and Bougainvilleas.
4. I only discovered what peonies were last week - bought them because they were pretty, and found out their name from a client afterwards.
5. I call SUV's and MPV's and all those big-ass cars stupid-mobiles. Not politically correct, but then neither are those gas guzzling resource chewers.
6. As a teenager, I not only dressed super-sluttily (retrospective shudder) but also had five body piercings. I still think the piercings were cool, but would never repeat the clothes. I think I might re-pierce my nose...
7. If I had been completely honest, I would have studied linguistics at university instead of business.