A Gift From Khalid: Dragon’s Loyalty Award

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Dragons Loyalty AwardWow, another award! I don’t think I deserve all these, but hey, I’m not going to argue.  This award comes from Khalid over at The Blazing Reel.  Khalid offers many different features on his site so I highly recommend you go check it out.  The rules are as follows:

  • Display the award on your blog
  • Announce your win with a post and link the blogger who awarded you
  • Present 15 deserving bloggers with the award
  • Link your awardees in the post and let them know of their being awarded
  • Write seven interesting things about you

Khalid, you and I have only recently started following each other, but thank you for the nomination!

I’m going to do something slightly different but I will explain in just a moment. I had trouble coming up with facts about myself I haven’t used in my other awards, so this took me time to think of some new stuff. I managed to think of a few things, so here are seven facts about myself:

  • I am a web developer. I’ve been web programming for about five years and I’ve been a programmer for about eight years. I enjoy (almost) every minute of it.
  • I can’t write English cursive.  It’s not that I don’t know how, it’s just that when I do, I switch to writing Russian cursive. In high school, I only wrote cursive in my Russian language class. So after a few words I switch languages. I still write English words, just with the Russian letter equivalent (so “p” becomes “п”, “d” becomes “д”, etc.). It’s not as bad now but I have to concentrate more on what I’m writing.
  • I don’t mind when things are messy but I don’t like it when things are dirty.
  • I recently bought a new fish tank.  I upgraded from a 20-gallon aquarium I’ve had for almost 15 years to a 75-gallon aquarium.
  • I learned how do drive a manual transmission car only just recently. I wanted to learn so when I bought my car several months ago, I bought a stick shift so I would be forced to learn and keep up with it.
  • I have come to the conclusion that no one has a cute yawn.  You may have a cute sneeze or cute laugh or cute something else, but you do not have a cute yawn. I’m sorry, you just don’t.
  • I describe myself as an extroverted introvert.  I thought I created that term but then I heard other people say it and realized I’m not that special. What I mean by “extroverted introvert” is that I am an introvert but I have some extroverted tendencies.  If someone is really interested, I can talk about it in the comments, but I’d be here for a while if I started listing all the nuances. I’ve also seen the term “outgoing introvert” to describe this type of behavior.

Now, as for that “something different” I mentioned, I’m not going to nominate anyone. Whenever I see the Dragon’s Loyalty Award passed around, I think of it as a recognition to loyal followers of that blog. So going with that thought process, instead of nominating 15 bloggers, I’m going to list 15 20 bloggers who I would consider loyal followers. These aren’t loyal followers like a cult… maybe… (PS, I made some Kool-Aid for you guys)… but I constantly see their presence on this blog. I wouldn’t have kept up with this blog for nearly two years if people weren’t reading.  This is a giant thank you to everyone listed here:

If you feel left out, I am truly sorry. My initial list was waaaaay longer and I had a very hard time narrowing it down to 15, so that’s why I have included an extra five. But really, a HUGE Thank You to those of you (both listed and not listed) who continually come back to Drew’s Movie Reviews week after week. I wouldn’t be here without you! 😀

Thanks again to Khalid for the nomination.

Cheers!

23 thoughts on “A Gift From Khalid: Dragon’s Loyalty Award”

  2. Man, I don’t feel like I deserve to be on that list! I’ve only been a follower for, what, a month? But thanks, regardless! Is that a nomination? Because I thought it wasn’t, but the person above me in the comments said it was, and I’m kind of confused.

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    • Thanks, Darren. Just to be clear, I am more recognizing you for constantly stopping by than passing along the award. So like a sudo nomination. But if you want to do a write up like it was a nomination, that’s fine by me!

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  6. Thanks Drew!

    Wait, you speak Russian? WAY TOO COOL!!

    I agree with the extroverted introvert… I am horribly bad connecting with new people but if I’m comfortable, I rarely shut up!

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    • You’re welcome, Natasha!

      Sort of… Knowing and remembering how to speak it are two different things. I know a lot of the basics but I don’t remember much beyond that anymore. I want to relearn and expand on what I do know sometime. If I can become at least semi-fluent in the language again, I’d be happy.

      YES! That’s me. I see someone and I’m like “I want to talk to you but I don’t know what to say” and I am terrible at small talk. But If you’re my friend, I can talk and talk without end (a trait I say comes from my mom’s side). I often get asked “What’s wrong?” and “Why are you so quiet?” and have to explain it to them.

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  7. thanks for the recognition Drew!

    As stated above, if ur stuff wasnt so cool, we wouldnt be stopping by, so basically, we’re all here because of u!

    Congrats!

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