Happy 101 Award

Many thanks to Yaya at Yaya's Changing World for gifting me with the Happy 101 award!

Now I'm to share 10 things that make me happy and pass the award on to 10 fellow bloggers. I asked for some help on these in my last post so I'm going to combine my happy list with the recipients who inspired the answers:

1. What could inspire happiness more than cupcakes with sprinkles!  

Dawn at Plotting and Scheming
Stephanie at Hatshepsut: The Writing of a Novel

2. I'm not sure what tipped you off Bridget, but yes, the cowpoke does make me happy :D. The fabulous art at Bridget's "other site" makes me happy as well.

Bridget at J.B. Chicoine-Unsupervised & at Large

3. I enjoy talking about books and the Wheel of Time series offers all sorts of fodder for debate. (I have it on high authority that certain bloggers believe that pink awards go well with the black blog backgrounds.)

Bane at Banes Blogging Blues

4. Did you know that a spiders blood is transparent? Love trivia. Here's to my fellow earwig loathers:

Roni at Fiction Groupie
Deb at Catbird Scout
Laura at Laura's Simple Pleasures
Elspeth at It's a Mystery

4. I'm not the only one who covers my eyes when it comes to scary movies!

Tamika at The Write Worship

5. Compliments on my writing make me blush but to be honest they also make me happy. Ah, shucks.

Wordy at Word Designer 
Donna at Donna Hole

6. Getting an invitation for a cuppa and a chat is awesome. Finding that it comes with an award, is icing on the cake. Thanks so much for the "One Lovely Blog Award" Jarmara! (I'll get that out soon!) 

Jarmara at A Mission Impossible for a Nightwriter  

7. I love the outdoors and animals. I'll toss gardening in here as well.

Helen Ginger at Straight from Hel
Paul Greci at Northwriter 

8.  Reading is one of my absolute favourite passtimes. Honestly, I don't know what I'd do without my books and having free time to read is a huge treat.  

Alissa at Slightly More Than Dirt
 
9. I'm a genealogy hound, I've been known to spend hours, days, weeks tracking a single fact; a date or a name. I love following clues and solving puzzles. I think I would have liked detective work. Yet, when it comes to writing - plotting is not my strong suit...  

10. Saying supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is fun and I'm happy that I know how to pronounce it because otherwise I'd have to translate this - (pronounced /ˌsuːpərˌkælɪˌfrædʒəlˌɪstɪkˌɛkspiːˌælɪˈdoʊʃəs/) - and that would scare me.
 

"Let them eat cake!"