Candace Blevins

I’ve received the Sunshine Award from Qwillia Rain, one of my cohorts over at Kinky Ever After.

This fun award requires I reveal ten things not many people know about me.

1. I love to hike. Before husband and kids came along I’d throw a backpack on and wonder off into wilderness areas for days at a time. If it were an area where dogs were allowed I had my German Shepherd with me. If not, it was just me. My husband hiked with me some before we had kids, but now we consider camping in a tent right beside the car to be an adventure.
2. I lived in China a while. Follow the link to my Pinterest Favorite Places board and take a look at the karst mountains surrounding Guilin. Yeah, I’ve climbed a few of those. You’ll also see some of the areas I enjoy hiking close to where I live now – some of which have made it into my books. (I recently joined Pinterest, there isn’t much up yet, I need to spend some time linking to more books, especially.)
3. I came of age in the 80’s and like 80’s music. My favorite internet radio station is Club 977’s 80’s channel (clicking link will open their player in a new window and start the music).
4. My oldest daughter is no longer a fan of 80’s music, so I’m learning to like current music, too. (Again, clicking link will open player in a new window and start the music).
5. I used to be a dancer, but an injury ended things years earlier than I was ready to stop. I was best at ballet, but most of the jobs I got were for Broadway type shows (but in Tennessee, Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Florida – not on Broadway).
6. I’m taking an adult hip-hop class now from someone I used to dance on stage with twenty plus years ago. She turned into a most excellent choreographer, and she’s making us look pretty good. Even if we are dancing to Gaga.
7. I juggled professionally for a few years, which helped pay my way through college.
8. I love to swim. I’m more at home in the water than I am on land.
9. Opening the pool in the spring is both exciting and sad for me though, because it means no marks that’ll show in a bathing suit for the next four or five months. Unless the weatherman calls for three or four days of rain in a row, which has been known to happen.
10. I’m a vegetarian.

Thanks Qwillia, this was fun!

I consider myself to be fairly tech savvy. I was on the internet before images were, and I’ve learned all of the new tech things as they’ve been programmed into life.

For various reasons, I never took the Twitter plunge. Maybe it sounded to cutesy at first? I don’t know, it just didn’t appeal to me. However, I’ve decided I need to change that, so I created an account last night, and attempted to give myself a crash course.

I’ve read up on hashtags (Is there a list somewhere?), and read a few dozen Twitter Etiquette lists, and I think I understand the basics of how the software works, but if I make a horrible faux pas, someone please tell me.

If you’d like to follow me, I’m pretty sure this is the link to do it.