Liebster and Mixed Nuts

Hey, everybody. We're on the downhill slide to that holiday where we relax by trying to do too much. Every year, we swear never again, but here we go anyway...

Dana tagged me with the Liebster Award. Thank you, Dana! I will cooperate as best I can.

I'm supposed to share eleven facts about me. At this point, I have no more secrets that I haven't already revealed (which makes them pretty lousy as secrets go). So we are reduced to Bonnie trivia.

1. I once worked as a lifeguard
2. I like to garden, but don't get time to do it well
3. I was on the school newspaper staff in high school and college
4. I have performed on stage
5. I also worked backstage
6. I had a vanilla blog before MBS
7. I took it down mostly because I lost interest
8. I much prefer to blog about spankings
9. We saw Sir Paul McCartney in concert
10. Randy loves to watch apes at the zoo
11. A big pile of laundry is calling my name

OK, now, I'm supposed to answer Dana's questions.

1. What is your most treasured possession? - My wedding band because of all it symbolizes
2. What is on your bucket list? - Lots of things, but to name one, I would like to visit Yellowstone
3. What historical figure would you like to meet? - Mark Twain
4. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? - I'd go back to having just one chin
5. What is your favorite movie? - Casablanca
6. If you were shipwrecked, what three people from blogland would you like to be there with you? - The ones who know how to fix a boat
7. What person from blogland would you most like to meet? - Pretty much all of them
8. How many pets do you have? - Two
9. What is your greatest fear? - Being old and sick and alone
10. If you could go back in time and change one event in your life, what would it be? - I would teach a certain ex-boyfriend the concept of "No Means No"
11. What is your favorite color? - OK, here's a surprise... It's red

Now, I'm supposed to tag eleven more bloggers. I thought about tagging eleven owners of dormant or dead blogs in hopes of coaxing one of them to return. But that seems a little too self-serving.

Let's try this instead. If there is anyone out there who has a blog and feels worthy of a Liebster (whatever that means), please consider yourself officially invited to participate by me. Here are your questions:

1. What's the most foolish thing you've ever bought?
2. What is your favorite body of water?
3. After a spanking, lotion or no lotion?
4. Would you skinny dip if you could be sure that no one would see?
5. What was the first name of your first crush?
6. What is your favorite flower?
7. What is the best reason to have children?
8. Do you snore?
9. What is your favorite smell?
10. Are you attracted to people in uniform?
11. Do you prefer mountains, beach, forest, desert, grasslands, or city?

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In other news, I have a question for you. Many readers noticed the problem we were having where giant photos from Tumblr were finding their way into my blogroll. I can assure you that this was not my doing. It appears to be a new "feature" of Blogger.

I addressed the problem by turning off the snippet feature where a few few lines from each post appear beneath the post title. Many more readers have noticed this change. They miss the snippets and so do I. So, the question is which is worse? Having no snippets or occasionally seeing a part of someone's anatomy that we have traditionally not featured on this blog? I don't like either option, but I really want to hear what you think.

Update: The snippets are back, at least for now.

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Last and least, it is not advisable to compare the gentlemen of the house to the poultry commonly roasted at Thanksgiving. Doing so may cause the chef to become overcooked.

Happy Thanksgiving!