Super Sweet Blogger Award, thanks Brigid and Crysta!


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of the blog aristonorganic and Crysta of the blog Dancing with Fireflies have been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Super Sweet Blogger Award.

Thank you so much, Brigid and Crysta! All the best for you, your garden, your writing and your blog!

The rules of this award are:
•    Thank the Super Sweet Blogger that nominated you.
•    Answer five Super Sweet questions.
•    Include the Super Sweet Blogging award image in your blog post.
•    Nominate a baker’s dozen (12) other bloggers.
•    Notify your nominees on their blog.

The 5 Super Sweet Questions:
1.    Cookies or Cake? Cake.
2.    Chocolate or Vanilla?   Vanilla.
3.    Favourite Sweet Treat? Pineapple.
4.    When do you crave sweet things the most?  Long after meals.
5.    Sweet Nick Name? My sweetie.

Now I present this award to the following bloggers:

1. Creativistic Philosophy

2. 1001 Scribbles

3. FreeBirD

4. laurie27wsmith

5. allaboutlemon

6. The Art Studio by Mark Moore

7. A Daily Thought

8. Souphaiphone

9. Scott Marshall Photography

10  Friend Nature

11. whatuful

12. Michele D’Acosta

Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thank you Khalil!


Very Inspiring Blogger Award

Khalil of the blog Chant d’oasien has been so kind nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

Thank you so much for this generous gesture!

The Very inspiring Blogger Award rules are as follows:

  • Display the award on your blog
  • Link back to the person who nominated you
  • State 7 things about yourself
  • Nominate 15 bloggers, link to them, and notify them about their nominations

I must confess I broke one rule, as I nominated more than 15 bloggers :)

Seven things about myself:

1. Most visits to my blog today so far are to these blog posts and pages:

Title Views
Ancient fossil named after Johnny Depp 32
Home page / Archives 25
Ape, monkey evolution discoveries in Tanzania 10
CIA, art, and the Cold War 7
Greek nazis burn Roma people’s homes 5
Syrian war refugee attacked by Greek nazis 5
Austrian artist Margareta Berger-Hamerschlag 4
New ancient Egyptian discoveries 4
Torture in Libya continues 4
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal 3

2. Most visits to my blog this week are to these blog posts and pages:

2013-05-10 to Today

Home page / Archives 564
Greek nazis burn Roma people’s homes 488
Shetland fire festival 61
Interesting Blog Award, thanks Shaun! 57
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal 50
Cuckoo, linnet, and purple heron 47
About 39
Best Moment Award, thanks Tazein! 37
Bangladesh lethal factory collapse, Avaaz petition 37
Super Sweet Blogger Award, thanks Jill and Tazein! 34
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 34
Greek teachers demonstrate against forced military mobilisation 34
Ancient fossil named after Johnny Depp 33
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England 33
Irish Labour Party crisis for joining austerity coalition government 33
Fukushima nuclear disaster measured 31
Bronzino painting restored after prude censorship 30
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 30
Red squirrel nesting season, video 29
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger 29
Corporate destruction of Mayan temple in Belize 28
World’s rarest mammals, amphibians on new map 28
Gray whale seen off Namibia 26
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 26
Save Indonesia’s Sumatran orangutans 25
Drowned medieval English town Dunwich, new research 24
Amur tiger back into the wild 24
New ancient Egyptian discoveries 23

3. Where did most visitors to my blog come from today so far?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 73
Australia FlagAustralia 23
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 17
India FlagIndia 14
Greece FlagGreece 12
France FlagFrance 11
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 9
Canada FlagCanada 8
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 7
Japan FlagJapan 7
Lithuania FlagLithuania 5
Germany FlagGermany 5
Sweden FlagSweden 4

4. Where did most visitors to my blog come from this month?

Top Views by Country for 30 days ending 2013-05-17 (Summarized)

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 6,317
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 2,221
Canada FlagCanada 1,313
Jamaica FlagJamaica 792
Australia FlagAustralia 626
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 564
Greece FlagGreece 499
India FlagIndia 482
Tunisia FlagTunisia 427
Germany FlagGermany 401
France FlagFrance 396
Sweden FlagSweden 264
Ireland FlagIreland 235
Italy FlagItaly 207
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 177
Romania FlagRomania 170
Belgium FlagBelgium 165
Armenia FlagArmenia 155
Spain FlagSpain 152
Singapore FlagSingapore 127
Brazil FlagBrazil 126
Philippines FlagPhilippines 117
Indonesia FlagIndonesia 117
Japan FlagJapan 115
South Africa FlagSouth Africa 106
Saudi Arabia FlagSaudi Arabia 102
Malaysia FlagMalaysia 77
Norway FlagNorway 75
Bahrain FlagBahrain 70

5. Most popular topics this blog has written about recently:

Topic Views
Economic, social, trade union, etc. 1,208
Human rights 1,141
Environment 952
Crime 930
Greece 574
Bangladesh 565
Racism and anti-racism 552
nazis 538
Golden Dawn 509

If you tag your posts effectively, this panel will show you which topics get the most traffic. Snapshot generated from your top posts over the past week.

6. Which search terms did people use most to find my blog this month?

Search Terms for 30 days ending 2013-05-17 (Summarized)

Search Views
iguana 78
watergate scandal 73
caterpillars 34
poisonous caterpillars 32
prostitution in bahrain 30
shetlands midwinter fire festival 27
lady liuwa 27
sri lanka new spider 25
bishop john francis scandal 21
bahrain prostitution 21
wetland animals 20
new spider species 2013 16
egyptian sarcophagus 16
some animals from indonesia 15
pope francis 13
new spider species 12
great egret 11
ortello business corporation 9
henriette roland holst 9
shetland’s midwinter fire festival 8
kooteninchela deppi 8
dinosaur bones 8
miniskirt 8
atsinganosaurus 7
dutch king coronation 7
geese 7
unusual birds 7
helen keller 7
van gogh museum reopening 6

7. Which search terms did people use most to find my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Search Terms for all days ending 2013-05-17 (Summarized)

Search Views
watergate scandal 312
atsinganosaurus velauciensis 256
prostitution in bahrain 256
napalm girl 242
iraq war 201
long tailed tit 194
cercopithecus lomamiensis 188
boy raped 165
egyptian sarcophagus 139
bahrain prostitution 138
wetland animals 123
largest centipede 117
great egret 116
iguana 114

My nominees are:

1. Hoof Beats and Foot Prints

2. Cresy Caradonna’s Blog Scrittrice

3. writingsofamrs

4. Humbirdhum’s Blog

5. Jill London

6. Treeweasels

7. TrekOhio

8. renxkyoko’s space

9. robertlenton

10. I Can’t Relax in Greece

11. 2me4art

12. southweb2

13. ASpoonfulofSuga

14. Let it come from your heart

15. ci sono

16. fully awake and dangerous

17. Sisterhood across continents

18. Rampix Photography Milton Keynes

Linking to other WordPress blogs


This video is called How To Use WordPress.com.

How to make links to other websites? For instance, if another blogger is so kind to nominate you for an award, and you want to nominate other bloggers, passing the award on?

What I write now should work for linking to WordPress blogs. Probably for other sites as well, though I have not really tried :)

1. Change your new blog post (about an award, etc.) to Visual mode.

2. Then, copy the title (top of the other site) of the site to which you want to link.

3. Then, paste it to your new blog post. Both the title and its URL are copied this way.

This is especially useful if you want to link to a site with a title in Cyrillic, Armenian, Japanese, Arabic, etc.

If I link this way to the site Кровли и Фасады (site of a business in Russia), then both the Cyrillic title and the link to it are copied.

I wanted to use Arlen Shahverdyan’s site as an example of how to copy both title and URL. However, on my blogroll that site is still in the Armenian alphabet; but meanwhile, Arlen has changed his blog title to the Latin alphabet.

So, I used the Russian site (the only non-Latin alphabet site which I was able to find soon) as an example.

Best Moment Award, thanks Tazein!


Tazein of transcendingbordersblog has nominated this blog for the Best Moment Award.

RULES of the Best Moment Award:

Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awards! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and, winners, notify them the great news!

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  • What makes a good acceptance speech?
    • Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
    • Humour. Keep us entertained and smiling
    • Inspiration. Make your story touch our lives
  • Get an idea from the great acceptance speeches, compiled in MomentMatters.com/Speech
  • Display the award’s badge on your blog/website, downloadable in MomentMatters.com/Award

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

First, I would like to thank Tazein for nominating me. She has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog twice for this award. Thank you so much, my dear blogging friend!

These kind nominations came just before Dear Kitty. Some blog today reached the milestone of 214,245 visits ever since moving to WordPress. When I had to move my blog once again in December 2011, I never expected that (I had eight visits then, on my first WordPress day …). Thanks, all of you!

Finally, a bit of humour.

WordPress cartoon

My nominees are:

1. PEACE.LOVE.HAPPINESS

2. JosieCoccinelle

3. Raxa Collective

4. WEB SPACE

5. Beauty of Photos

6. Poet: Jemmy Farmer

7. Chant d’oasien

8. Norwegian Wildlife Photography

9. Green Living London

10. poetbblog

11. marthapfeil

Super Sweet Blogger Award, thanks Jill and Tazein!


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Jill London and Tazein of transcendingbordersblog have been so super sweet to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Super Sweet Blogger Award.

Thank you so much, both of you, for this kind gesture! Thanks, Tazein, for nominating my blog three times for this award!

The Rules:

  • Thank the Super Sweet Blogger that nominated you.
  • Answer five Super Sweet questions.
  • Include the Super Sweet Blogging award image in your blog post.
  • Nominate a baker’s dozen (13) other bloggers.
  • Notify your nominees on their blog.

The 5 Super Sweet Questions:

  1. Cookies or Cake? Cake.
  2. Chocolate or Vanilla? Vanilla.
  3. Favourite Sweet Treat? Pineapple.
  4. When do you crave sweet things the most? When I am not busy.
  5. Sweet Nick Name? My sweetie :)

My nominees are:

1. Save Mangar Bani Aravalli‘s sacred ancient forest grove

2. Ashley Bollinger

3. Sunshine Factor

4. The fashion glitter

5. Sterry

6. FATman Photos

7. misseychelles

8. ZazuMove Danza Libera

9. dilipnaidu’s blog

10. Taking the Kitchen

11. FUTEBOL DE CAMPO

12. Thoughtbaker

13. Arlen Shahverdyan. Author’s Blog

Interesting Blog Award, thanks Shaun!


Interesting blog award

Shaun of the blog Looking for reasoning to a complicated world has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Interesting Blog Award.

Thank you so much for this kind gesture!

The rules of this award are:

  1. Thank the person who nominated you
  2.  List 5 random facts about yourself
  3. Nominate a minimum of 5 blogs for the award
  4.  Reply to 5 questions you are asked. Ask the nominees 5 new questions of your choice
  5. Notify all nominees on their blog

Five random facts about me:

1. When I was small, we used to play football on the street. There was not much traffic. Only one family had a car, and they used it only to go to church on Sundays.

2. One day, a policeman said we were not allowed to play football. He grabbed our ball, cut it with a knife, and threw the bits into a ditch.

3. When we went to the police station, they said that the policeman had been wrong to do this. We got a free new ball, for which we could choose between the balls at the police station (probably lost balls for which owners had never turned up to claim them).

4. Where did most visitors to my blog come from, so far today?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 68
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 52
Jamaica FlagJamaica 51
Greece FlagGreece 49
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 16
Australia FlagAustralia 14
Canada FlagCanada 11
France FlagFrance 11
Germany FlagGermany 10
Singapore FlagSingapore 10
Bahrain FlagBahrain 6
Hungary FlagHungary 6
India FlagIndia 5

5. Which of my blog posts and pages attracted most visits, so far today?

Title Views
Greek nazis burn Roma people’s homes 125
Home page / Archives 58
Shetland fire festival 20
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 8
Irish Labour Party crisis for joining austerity coalition government 7
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 6
Bangladesh factory collapse death toll over 1,000 4
Nazi murder gang at work in Texas? 4
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 3
Galapagos islands: why Darwin’s finches differ in beak size 3

5 Questions by Shaun:

1. Favourite food? Pineapple.

2. Favourite movie of all time? Fahrenheit 9/11.

3. If you could time travel, where would you go and why? To just before the Iraq war started, to stop it.

4. What are you most proud of? Some of my poems.

5. Do you enjoy awards? Yes!

My 5 new questions:

1. Which bird species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

2, Which mammal species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

3. Which fish species, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

4. Which painting, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

5. Which building, which you have never seen yet, would you like to see?

My nominees are:

1. www. merrybabes. com

2. jackiewriting

3. Antonia Ispas

4. Michele D’Acosta

5. emilyballillustration

6. Pishe Poro, Vlore, Albania

7. Wambui Bahati “You Don’t Know Crazy”

8. Old Picture Project

8. Poems & People

9. The Global Perambulator

10. Daina’s Book

11. theidealistmenon

12. Antoine Cassar

13. Sandbag Heart

14. Repeating Islands

15. the time is nigh

16. Diary of a Wimpy Writer

17. ☞ Flo ☜

Bahraini blogger escapes from dictatorship


A woman holds a photo of freed Bahraini blogger Ali Abdulemam (photo AP)

From The Atlantic in the USA:

Escape From Bahrain: Ali Abdulemam Is Free

The exclusive inside story of a dissident blogger’s getaway from the repressive island kingdom, how events overcame rescue plans, and what’s next for him

May 10 2013, 8:39 AM ET

After more than two years in hiding, Ali Abdulemam, the globally renowned blogger and free-speech advocate, has been freed from the Kingdom of Bahrain. Abdulemam is now safely in Europe, after a dramatic escape in a secret compartment of a car, and will make his first public appearance in more than two years on Wednesday at the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF).

In 1999, Abdulemam created the pro-democracy news website Bahrain Online, the island’s first free Internet forum for political and social debate, becoming a pivotal architect of his country’s political blogosphere. Because of this, and his related efforts to promote human rights in his country, Abdulemam was detained numerous times by the Bahraini authorities — eventually imprisoned in September 2010 along with 25 other human-rights activists for “spreading false information” and defaming the king – and subjected to interrogation, beatings, and torture. Despite being blocked by regime censors, Bahrain Online still regularly gets more than 100,000 hits a day.

In February of 2011 Abdulemam accepted an invitation from the Human Rights Foundation (HRF, OFF’s parent organization) to give a talk on dissent in Bahrain. Two weeks later, amid massive anti-government protests, he sent a cryptic tweet and abruptly disappeared. Three days after that, police ransacked his house. In June of 2011, Abdulemam was tried in absentia by a military court and sentenced to 15 years in prison for “plotting” an anti-government “coup.”

In 2012, with Abdulemam’s whereabouts still unknown, his wife was invited to the Oslo Freedom Forum but was unable to attend because of family commitments. This year, in close cooperation with another organization, HRF took a much more aggressive approach: planning Abdulemam’s escape from Bahrain.

Missing Bahraini blogger surfaces in London. Opposition activist Ali Abdulemam, sentenced to 15 years in absentia, has reemerged after two years in hiding: here. See also here. And here.

Versatile Blogger Award, thanks Tazein!


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Tazein of transcendingbordersblog has been so generous to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Versatile Blogger Award.

Thank you so much, my dear blogger friend!

THE RULES:

1-Thank and link back to the person who awarded you.

2- Nominate 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award and include a link to their site (and tell them that you have nominated them).

3-State 7 things about yourself.

SEVEN THINGS ABOUT ME:

1. Not far away from where I live, a coot sits on a nest under a bridge. I think that the youngsters will hatch soon :)

2. Where did most visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 122
Jamaica FlagJamaica 57
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 38
Canada FlagCanada 22
Australia FlagAustralia 18
Greece FlagGreece 9
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 9
Philippines FlagPhilippines 7
France FlagFrance 6
India FlagIndia 6
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 5
Ireland FlagIreland 5
Brazil FlagBrazil 4

3. Which ones of my blog posts and pages attracted most visits this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-05-10 (Summarized)

Title Views
Home page / Archives 591
Bangladesh lethal factory collapse, Avaaz petition 123
Australian solar eclipse, Friday 10 May 72
Curaçao anti-colonial, anti-corruption politician murdered 49
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England 48
About 46
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Bette! 44
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 34
Arctic Ocean acid problems 32
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 31
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 31
Nuclear weapons and sexual abuse in the US Air Force 30
Sunshine Award, thanks Jill! 30
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal 28
British Conservative sexual abuse scandal 27
Wonderful Team Member Readership Award, thanks Tazein! 27
Cicada invasion in the USA 27

4. Which referrers referred most to my blog this week?

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-05-10 (Summarized)

Referrer Views
Search Engines 1,251
WordPress.com Reader 203
Google 134
WordPress Dashboard 70
mail.yahoo.com 66
2012indyinfo.com 54
google.co.uk 50
kuidle.com 35
Facebook 30
google.ca 24
google.com.au 24
topix.com 21
Twitter 18

5. Which search engines referred to my blog this week?

2013-05-03 to Today

Google Search 804
Google Image Search 329
Bing 55
Yahoo Search 35
Google Mobile 9
AOL 4
Ask.com 3
isearch.avg.com 3
mywebsearch.com 2
search.comcast.net 2
search.babylon.com 1
Bing Mobile 1
dogpile.com 1
earthlink.net 1
Yahoo Image Search 1

6. Which search engines referred to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Google Search 48,221
Google Image Search 37,913
Bing 3,337
Yahoo Search 3,039
Yahoo Image Search 549
search.babylon.com 310
Google Mobile 284
AOL 271
Ask.com 221
isearch.avg.com 183
Conduit.com Search 148
mywebsearch.com 148
search-results.com 145
Yahoo Mobile 81
search.bt.com 70
WordPress.com Search 65
search.comcast.net 62
Bing Mobile 46
dogpile.com 35
sweetim.com 32
search.sky.com 21
swagbucks.com 20
talktalk.co.uk 18
search.softonic.com 13
earthlink.net 13
search.incredimail.com 13
orange.co.uk 9
t-online.de 8
search.virginmedia.com 6
icq.com 4
peoplepc.com 4
search.com 4
kvasir.no 3
Yandex 3
search.imesh.com 3
arianna.libero.it 2

7. Which topix.com pages referred most to my blog, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

topix.com/world/bahrain/2013/02/bahrain-dictatorship-kills-boy-hussein-al-jaziri 41
topix.com/world/bahrain/2013/02/bahrain-regime-kills-teenager 24
topix.com/wire/world/bahrain 23
topix.com/world/libya/2013/01/british-merchants-of-death-in-libya 22
m.topix.com/world/bahrain/2013/02/bahrain-dictatorship-kills-boy-hussein-al-jaziri 21
topix.com/news/transgendered/2012/04/transgender-victims-of-war-on-terror 19
topix.com/forum/world/mali/TU4DJD6990MQHQBP1 19
m.topix.com/world/egypt/2012/08/saudi-princess-cruel-revenge-on-egyptian-woman 17
topix.com/world/ecuador/2012/05/ecuador-brazil-wikileaks-news 16
topix.com/science/archaeology/2012/12/big-ancient-chinese-coins-discovery 16
m.topix.com/news/transgendered/2012/04/transgender-victims-of-war-on-terror 14
topix.com/world/east-timor/2013/02/east-timor-conservation 13
m.topix.com/world/libya/2013/01/british-merchants-of-death-in-libya 12
m.topix.com/world/bahrain/2013/01/migrant-workers-killed-in-bahrain-fire 11
topix.com/world/bahrain/2012/03/100-000-bahrainis-demonstrate-for-democracy 11
topix.com/world/egypt/2012/08/saudi-princess-cruel-revenge-on-egyptian-woman 11

My nominees are:

1. The Travel Society

2. mysuccessisyoursuccess

3. Teacher as Transformer

4. sharechair

5. Heritage and trail cooking

6. Sketches in Prose

7. sukies original

8. usmanhashmi

9. americanimmigrationcenter

10. Ann Novek–With the Sky as the Ceiling and the Heart Outdoors

11. Miss Ayo Délé

12. Clouds N Cups, Share With Us~

13. Deconstructing Myths

14.Chasing The Perfect Moment

15. Gradinita Fluturasilor Talentati

Wonderful Team Member Readership Award, thanks Tazein!


Wonderful Team Member Readership Award

Tazein of transcendingbordersblog was so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award.

Thank you, Tazein, and all the best for you and your blog!

The rules of this award are:

1-The nominee of The Wonderful Team Member Readership Award shall display the logo on his/her blog.

2-The Nominee shall nominate 14 readers they appreciate over a period of 7 days, all at once or little by little; linking to their blogs; and telling them about it at their blogs.

2-The nominee shall name his/her Wonderful Team Member Readership Award nominees on a post  during 7 days.

MY NOMINEES ARE:

1. BeeCee

2. Anarya Andir’s Blog

3. VisualRiver’s Blog

4. Prison Pork

5. conorcullen

6. Miss Marzipan

7. At the Polish table

8. metaretriever2

9. Laboratorio de Imágenes

10. dragoscalinescu

11. natycalinescu

12. deeacalinescu

13. bearspawprint

14. MOTION Photography

Sunshine Award, thanks Jill!


Sunshine Award

Jill London has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Sunshine Award.

Thank you so much for this wonderful gesture!

Here are the rules:

Include the award’s logo in a post or on your blog.
Link to the person who nominated you.
Answer 10 questions about yourself.
Nominate 10 bloggers.
Link your nominees to the post and comment on their blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

The 10 questions:

Favourite food: pineapple.

- Favourite actor: Melina Mercouri.

- Favourite TV show: I don’t watch much TV. Wildlife documentaries.

- Favourite tear-jerker: The Bear.

- Favourite sport: track and field.

- Lucky number: I don’t think a number has ever brought me luck or misery :)

- Tea or coffee: tomato juice.

- Holidays – rest on the beach or active time: wildlife watching. Like here.

- Twitter or Facebook: Twitter, as Facebook has privacy issues.

- Favourite Christmas movie: this video:

My ten nominees are:

1. Walking with the Alligators

2. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

3. The ObamaCrat.com

4. JSC: Jamaicans in Solidarity with Cuba

5. digital catharsis

6. My French Heaven

7. Paris en photographies

8. People, Places and Bling!

9. TheReporterandTheGirlMINUSTheSuperman!

10. The Crafty Cook Nook