Since its birth, this photojournal has seen about 4 themes I’ve personally crafted, but this new layout is the first time I’ve ever used mint instead of the usual pink. I’ve always chosen to use pink because it was my favorite color since I could remember, but (not really) interesting fact: according to my mommy, green was my first love, aside from eating snow. I also randomly learned today that I never rolled around to crawl as a baby. Instead, I sat up & eventually progressed to walk. My mom told me I was weird for not rolling, but I just told her it’s because rolling over is for dogs. Anyway, so this theme color was picked by my -4 readers! Okay, so maybe I actually have a positive number of readers so thank you all for your input! Hopefully you all chose wisely because the next time I’m changing this would probably be next year. Let me know if there are any weird bugs or things out of place or suggestions. I still think my navigation bar is as awkward as you feel when someone is singing you happy birthday & you have no idea what to do. Can we talk about this? Do you all just smile & clap or what? I’ll probably change the ribbon to make it look all fancy later. I promised the boys of NAHT that I’d work on their website this weekend, so mush!
Libester Award
Jessy of Everything is Makeable was sweet enough to nominate my little photojournal for a Liebster Award! For those of you who don’t know what it is, “liebster” is German for “dearest”, meaning that the award acknowledges the small blogs that are held dear. The Liebster Award is modified chain mail as there is no committee that nominates you. Anyone who is “nominated” can nominate another blogger for the award, so long as they haven’t been nominated before. The original requirement was that the blogger had to have less than 3000 readers, but it’s now just more popular to award that to less than 200 readers because you’re kind of a big deal in the blogging community if you’ve got 3000 readers. You’re supposed to answer questions the person who nominated you created, so here we go:
1. Could you describe your dream house?
Yes & it is fabulous. A French Chateau that is completely sustainable (garden, solar energy, etc) & would be a zombie fortress. Build me that, Ted Mosby.
2. Your top 3 drinks at the moment.
Alcoholic:
- Extra Dirty Martini
- Amaretto Sour
- White Russian
Non-Alcoholic:
- Freshly brewed tea
- Orange Peach Mango juice from Trader Joe’s
- Any coffee/tea made with pumpkin
3. What is your favorite holiday destination and why?
Europe; self-explanatory.
4. Who are your favorite youtubers/vloggers?
Dom Mazzetti, Jenna Marbles, & Just Kidding Films.
5. Your favorite post of all time from your own blog.
I don’t really have one, but I thought Hi Timothy was fun to write.
6. Describe yourself in 10 words.
Adventurous, ambitious, bookworm, compassionate, eccentric, humorous, food enthusiast, rational, & scientific.
7. What is your favorite application on your mobile phone or on the web?
Games: Hobbit or Throne Wars
News: Flipboard
8. Who is your style icon?
Don’t really have one, but I do love the clothes that Rachel Bilson & Hilary Duff sport.
9. The top thing in your wishlist.
Thing: A 500 GB harddrive for my laptop.
Life goal: Get into a medical/osteopathic school!!!
10. Your favorite jewelry item.
The diamond charm my mom got me for my graduation present that is worn as a necklace.
11. Describe the most terrifying or “horrible” photo of you!
Why would I want to describe something so awful!?
Liebster Award Nominees
Continuing the chain mail award, I nominate 8 people instead of 11.
- Nancy of Hopeless Thunder
- Becca of Hello, Becca
- Alice of Fifteen Eight Jars
- Cat of Silent White
- Tiff of Tiff’s Bloggy
- Bonnie of Just Realized
- Faye of Bonkers
- Jenny of Jenigma
Shows you how out of touch I am with the blogging community because I can’t nominate 11 people. I should probably start stalking more people’s blogs, I guess. 8 people = 8 questions.
Questions For Nominees
- What is your spirit animal?
- You have participated in a scientific experiment that will pay your bills until you fall over & die. Your blood contains the cure for all major diseases. There is a single side effect: the next meal you eat will be the only meal you can taste for the rest of your life, no matter what you eat. The only exception are drinks. What meal do you choose to eat next?
- If you could be any Disney character (Pixar included), whom would you be?
- If you were a sandwich, what kind of sandwich would best describe your personality?
- What was the last book you read that completely changed your life or world view?
- You are given a break from every job, school, or life obligations & are allowed to travel anywhere in the world for a year. Where will you go & what would you do?
- What was the best meal of your life that would increase the likelihood of you punching people in the kidneys if they told you they ate it all?
- What was the most hilarious thing anyone has ever said to you that still cracks you up when you think about it, making you look like a crazy person? (Can be a story or a single line).
Hope the questions are fun for all of you to answer! Pictures & recipes in the next post!
Nancy Hoang
WOOP WOOP NEW THEME. YEAHHHHHH BUDDY MINT GREEN IS DA SHIZZLE MY NIZZLE
Ayo, HDuff is life.
Can you tell I’m tired?
Tiff
Bahaha yes & I need to stalk your blog right meow.
Jenny
Love the mint green theme! Amaretto Sour and White Russians are also some of my favorite alcoholic drinks – basically anything that doesn’t taste like alcohol, I like! 😛
Alice
whoah, my name’s there! and at the 3rd position too! whoahhhh are you sure you didn’t put the wrong url haha (ahem, i’m the person who’s never acknowledged into something like this so it’s really cool and unbelievable because wowimworththeawardwhaaattt hahaha)
It began elegant with French chateau and all that and then suddenly “zombie fortress.” super badass, huh. on the contrary, i wonder how does pumpkin + tea/coffee tastes like.. it sounds awkward lol
..oh wow, you’d love to have a 500gb HD…i have an external of 2TB here lol i don’t think 500gb can fit my wants and needs! 😛 even my internal 1TB one is almost full now wtf -__-;;
i love your questions, esp no.2. dang, so scifi and apocalypso feel >:3 i’ll do them when i uh…know who to nominate next? 🙂 i’d love to answer those questions ASAP but i’m out of touch from the blogging community too… like whuut idek if there’s a conclave occult community for bloggers in general like idk man, we just blog because we want to..right so… yea 🙂
P.S: nice, refreshing mint layout though i still need to get used to the input text color of this comment box 😛 i think it’s just me and my awful eyes that i have to squint closer to the monitor screen
Tiff
No no, you’re right in pointing out the input text. It is really light & I need to change it, which I’ll do right away. I just got lazy & didn’t want to open up photoshop.
Ah, I should’ve been more clear about those rules. Jessy nominated 11 people, but I only nominated 8, so honestly, nominate 3 if you want, but then you’d only get to ask 3 questions. Do what you please, it’s chain mail. Your pictures are beautiful & your blog deserves more viewers. 🙂
Cat
I like this new green look! I also like your choice of pattern for the background 😀
Your dream house sounds really nice 🙂 Being a good defense against zombies is important! I’ll have to check out those apps too. I’m a pretty terrible smartphone and tablet owner. I barely get any apps, haha.
Aw, thanks for nominating me! Your questions look fun to answer!
Tiff
Thanks on all fronts! You should definitely get Throne Wars. It is pretttty intense when you join an alliance. My roommate & I run one so it’s pretty fun when we get to socialize with other random people. Hope you have fun answering the questions. 🙂
Joyce
The new green layout is really refreshing tiffany! 😀 love the food and travel photos on the up-top! Neat-o~ 😀 I love getting to know more about people through these questions haha. nice top 3 drinks choices btw 🙂
Joyce @ carouselstreet.com
Tiff
Thanks! I’m actually trying to change the food & travel photos because I don’t like the ones I chose. 🙁 Gotta love the alcoholic beverages! 😉
Grysh
Oh my gosh! I love your theme! <3
Oh and Imma visit those who you tagged. Haha. Since I don't really know any of them 😉
Tiff
Thanks Grysh!
Agent Q
Congrats on the nominations! The chain nomination process sounds like a pretty neat, non-elitist, concept. I am still a bit confused about how it works though. :/
Tiff
It works exactly like chain mail & it’s supposed to be only for people with 200 or less subscribers as things evolved from 3000 to 200.
Person A makes the whole thing up, nominates Person B. Person B nominates as many people as Person A did (probably 10-11) & poses the same amount of questions as the number of individuals they nominated. The torch is passed on & no one really wins any award, it’s just an acknowledgement type of thing. 😀
Amy
I love the theme. I think the navigation bar looks fine. I cannot for the life of me make navigation look halfway decent. the same goes for text on the page. That’s why my layout is a premade with my own header slapped on top. That and my coding skills are shocking. (though not as bad as my camera skills haha)
I want a new hard drive too. My computer keeps complaining because there’s no space for anything else and I had to delete Sims 3. It was heartbreaking.
Haha, I don’t think I’d want to describe an awful photo of myself either. There are so many and it just wouldn’t be nice to have to describe.
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The no bottle caps at gigs is ridiculous isn’t it?? I’m sure if anyone was intent on throwing something they’d have plenty in their bag they could use instead. And paying for a ticket just to abuse the artist would be stupid.
The opening the velcro on a long note made me laugh. I may try that one next time haha.
Ooh, thank you for the advice. I didn’t know you could get more light without flash. This is why I should not be allowed a camera with anything other than a take photo button. All the fancy stuff is wasted on me.
xx
Ice Pandora
I love green colors as well cuz it gives really
freshness! I also like mint and seagreen c:
And congratz with your Liebster award!
Good luck with that medical degree ^^ Xx
Jenny
Loving the mint green theme! I think I can get over the fact that it’s not Tiffany Blue…haha. I remember a physics teacher once told me that deep down everybody’s favorite colour is green…I have no idea if it’s true, but how can anybody DISLIKE green?
I love the sound of your dream house…one day when you move in, you might find me already settled in there. 😛
Thanks for tagging me! I love your questions (some of them are so…fantastically odd! the sandwich one, particularly) and can’t wait to get started answering them! 🙂
At least you managed to tag eight people, I may only manage re-tagging myself! Oh dear… I better get on it quick!