The wonderful Dr. David Susman, PhD has nominated me for the Sunshine Blogger Award. You can find his website here or follow him on Twitter here. He’s a wonderful mental health advocate, and he runs an awesome blog and Twitter account when he’s not doing doctor stuff. 🙂

The Sunshine Blogger award requires you to nominate 11 other bloggers and answer 11 questions, so here goes!

My 11 nominees are:

1. living in stigma
2. sophiescloud
3. I Run This Mind
4. Along The Side Of The Road
5. Getting Through Anxiety
6. Me Myself and GAD
7. wanderluster
8. Raison d’etre
9. Chronicles Of A Kid Next Door
10. Under Construction
11. Reflections

My nominees can simply answer the same questions I’m answering here. I hope you all have fun with it!

1. What is the most important thing to you? Honesty. I try to be as honest as possible in my life because I believe it makes you a better person.
2. If you could go anywhere right now, where would it be? London or Japan. Most likely Japan, as I’ve been to London twice. I would love to take in the sights and sounds of Tokyo.
3. What’s your favorite thing about blogging? Connecting with others. I feel really at home in the blogosphere, and I’ve even joined a blogger pen pal group where we mail each other actual letters. Not emails, letters. It’s just awesome meeting new people and bonding with them through shared interests.
4. What’s your favorite thing about yourself? My weirdness. I love being weird. It’s not that I try to be, I just am. It makes life so much more interesting.
5. What has been your biggest challenge in life so far? Getting up to a healthy weight. I’ve been severely underweight for about ten years, and I’m just now starting to put on some weight.
6. Do you believe in love at first sight? “Depends on what you’re looking at.”
7. Where do you see yourself in ten years? Either as a crazy cat lady or still living with my parents. haha I’d be okay with being a crazy cat lady… I love cats. I want to cuddle them all.
8. How many languages do you speak? I’m pretty fluent in gibberish, but I don’t think that counts. Aside from my native English, I know a few phrases in Russian. I can, at the very least, read the Cyrillic alphabet.
9. What do you think is your best post so far? Link it. Uhhhhh… I don’t know about best, but I do have a favorite: my interview with Marya Hornbacher.
10. What’s your favorite quote? “It’s beauuu-tiiiii-fuulllllll!!!” from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. It’s when that weird French guy opens up the Ark of the Covenant and all the ghosties come out. I use this quote all the time for anything I find particularly awesome.
11. If you could recommend one fellow blogger for me to follow, who would it be and why?
    Lauren Hayley from By Lauren Hayley and BG from Getting Through Anxiety.

I can’t wait to see other people’s answers!