Roodonfood has just nominated Sleeping with Lenin for a Liebster award 🙂 Oura as we would chorus this side of the border: So check out his blog for some cool food facts.
Then read on for a glimpse into the cobwebs of my sordid mind.
Then check out eleven other cool blogs I follow from my bed late at night!
The rules:
Post 11 random facts about yourself.
Answer the 11 questions made by the person who nominated you.
Create 11 questions for the bloggers you pass the award to.
Choose 11 bloggers to pass the award to and mention them in your post.
Go to their blogs and let them know that they have been nominated.
11 random facts about me:
1- I went into my kitchen to write this post, but had to retreat to my bed because of the mess in there
2- People ask me what country I’m from and I don’t know what to answer them. The heart of an Irish woman, the culture of the French, who looks like a Russian and lives like an animal.
3- I used to write a fanzine about riot grrrl (feminist punk from the 90’s)
4 – I have been arrested twice
5- I write about death and destruction to earn my living
6- I’m a bit like Moscow, I live by extremes, there is nothing moderate or ‘moderable’ about me, it just depends on my mood
7- When faced with opportunities, I ask myself 3 questions : Have I ever done this before? Will I get the chance to do this again? Is there a high chance I might die doing it? If the answers are NO, NO, YES, you can be sure that I will be doing it.
8- I love to feed people
9- I am writing the Vegan City Guide to Moscow
10- According to Russians, I should already be married, with children and stay at home to look after the kids – I have so far accomplished none of these tasks.
My answers :
1) What is your absolute favourite meal?
I don’t have a favourite meal – but I have a favourite food – BUCKWHEAT – the Queen of all food, I have it for the first time in Russia. I eat it for breakfast as porridge with soy milk and frozen blueberries from the Russian countryside, for lunch with some fried onions or adjika and I replace as much white flour with it in my muffins and pancakes.
2) What is your favorite spice?
Cinnamon – it goes in everything from my porridge to my coffee
3) What place would you most like to visit?
Baikal Lake – Siberia
4) What do you do to relax?
I don’t know how to relax, so instead I go and do sports, push myself to the brink, sit in the sauna, then prepare myself something fresh and have a glass of wine
5) Where do you live and what is the coolest place there?
Moscow, Russia – there are so many cool things here, I live between 3 parks where you can cycle, run, rollerblade, see Lenin statues, buy Armenian, Georgian, Syrian, Tchechen food and of course iceskate and cross country ski during the winter… Could it get any better?
6) What was your proudest moment?
I get excited about the little things, so I am just pretty proud when my cooking doesn’t kill someone.
7) What is your dream job?
I don’t believe in dream jobs, because, even if it is your dream job, it is still economically reliant on outside factors,therefore at some point, you will be forced to compromise your love of the activity to suit someone/something else. I believe that if we all learned to live outside our jobs, the world would be a much more creative place.
8) What are your favorite TV Shows and movies?
I haven’t owned a TV in about 5 years, which is quite funny, as I work in TV.
9) What is your favorite book or author?
Still struggling with the favourites but I think Aldous Huxley is among the greats. I also recommend Moscow 2013, a post-apocalyptic, zombie, ghost, plague, gang land book set in the Moscow metro – not the best writer – but what a plot!
10)What is the best recipe on your site?
DOKUKINETTA – it’s better than hummus, and faster, and easier 🙂
11) What super power would you most want and why?
Teleporting – well to save on the 2 to 3 hour commute every day, to go and see my friends everywhere in the world, plus never needing to worry about income, because you could always nab what you need.
The Liebster Award is awarded to blog that you love which have less than 200 followers. Here are the blogs I’d like to nominate – in no particular order – :
My questions for nominees:
1- Does your family read your blog?
2- What is the last thing you bought?
3- How many people do you live with?
4- What is your next Big thing on your To Do list of life?
5- What happens when we die?
6- What is in your fridge?
7- Favourite blog?
8- If, in a hypothetical world, someone forced you to be an animal, what would it be?
9- What film should I definitely never watch?
10- Give us a piece of advice?
11- Moustaches, yay or nay?
sleeping with lenin 
Great job and thank you for nominating me! Best of luck to you.
Hope you get unstuck 🙂 If not, come to Russia – that would even unstick the toughest of superglues, I promise))
Thanks SO much for the nomination! I feel honoured :). Good luck to you. Love your blog!
I’ll post here.
Facts:
1. I’ve bartered baked goods for tattoos.
2. I weigh less now than I did at the beginning of middle school. Seriously, I kept track of calories and exercised. Who’d a thunk I would drop 115 pounds? I never did.
3. I play guitar and banjo.
4. I psychoanalyze everyone I meet. In my head.
5. I color coordinate my bookshelves. It actually makes finding books easier.
6. I have an incredible sense of smell. And touch. It’s pretty awesome.
7. I love giving gifts. To everyone. I remember the little things people mention off hand. There’s nothing like seeing child-like wonder on an adult’s face.
8. I recently went ninety days without sugar.
9. I drink a lot of water. I love water.
10. I have an temper most people would never believe possible. I have found myself in a number of pickly situations due to my principles.
11. I am under no delusion that I am not an animal.
1. My family reads my baking blog. I keep another blog for the darker side of life.
2. An ant farm.
3. 3
4. Own and operate a cafe.
5. The worms play pinochle on your snout.
6. Too many expired condiments.
7. http://jacquelynfedyk.wordpress.com/
8. But I am an animal! I’ll stay human.
9. Desperate Living
10. Fear and shame stunt creativity.
11. Mostly nay.
-Jillian over at willbakefortattoos.com
I’m happy you came across my blog. Reading your answers to the questions you were given put a smile on my face. I’m an american mutt, but my outlook and philosophy on life closes resembles your own. I’m most likely generalizing, but I feel a kinship to the russian introspection.
congratulations for this award Leigh-Ann, that’s cool !
love
Lena