Going into my Hermit Hole and a Blog Award

I can feel a bout of hermit-itice coming on. When I was growing up my mom called it getting "peopled out" - it is a introvert thing. So just to give you fair warning I may be flying under the radar for the next couple of weeks. If I seem unresponsive to your blogs or comments, or absent from twitter, it is not because I don't love you. It is because I am in my Hermit Hole.

But before I disappear into my hole...I want to pass on a blog award. WilyBCool has given me the Versatile Blogger Award. Yea!

Here are the rules:

Thank the person who nominated you. Tell 7 things about yourself so that your readers may learn more about you and nominate 15 other newly discovered bloggers and let them know you nominated them.

7 Things About Me

My apologies if these are repeats.

1. If I lived in the Star Trek universe I would go into engineering. Although yellow/gold isn't really my color :)
2. My very first idea for a book involved 14 children that were ship wrecked on a remote island and had to defend it from pirates. Very The Swiss Family Robinson-esk. P.S. This was when I was 6.
3. The first story I ever wrote (and completed) was about a mouse that was framed for stealing and sent to a special colony for thieves. It was called Rose among Thieves and I still have a copy of it.
4. One year for Halloween I dressed up as a college student (I think I was in HS at the time). I wore sweat pants and held a mug with a sign that said - 'Will work for Tuition' - taped on it.
5. Another year for Halloween I was a Game Boy Fanatic. I used an old shirt to give me a second set of arms, put one of those Game Boy gum containers in the hands and carried around my real Game Boy.
6. I never believed in Santa. Growing up I always knew my dad was Santa. So that song I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause was always funny to me.
7. My favorite time of year are the holidays!

Winners!

And I am going to pass this lovely award onto the following fantastic bloggers:

1. Cassie Mae at Reading Writing and Lovin' It
2. M.E. at Breaking Fantasy
3. Maggie at Bramble Spice
4. Elizabeth at Elizabeth Varadan's Fourth Wish
5. Abby at Something to Write About
6. Ashley at Ashley Nixon
7. Cassandra at Bookish Bird
8. Stephen at Nikon Sniper
9. Melissa at Have You Heard
10. Christine at Christen Rains - Writer
11. Peaches at Conceive Writing
12. Ellie at Ellie Great
13. Jessie at Living a Life of Truth
14. Lola at Sharp Pen/Dull Sword
15. Lillie at Lillie McFerrin Writes