About a week and a half ago Kristine tagged me to write an Honest Scrap post! The rules of the game are to:
1) Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.
2) Show the 7 winners' names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with "Honest Scrap." And while there's not really a physical prize, you do get to keep and post the nifty icon.
3) Finally, list at least 10 honest things about yourself.
So... here goes 10 honest things about myself:
1) I'm way too picky when it comes to eating anything remotely healthy. My "healthy" at home lunches include peanut butter & jelly on wheat bread with pretzels. Now, I say it's healthy because I'm using low fat peanut butter and low sugar jelly. Still... I feel this is a stretch to call it healthy. This wonderful trait of mine seems to cause some contention in my household. The only thing my husband
won't eat are olives. He thinks I need to broaden my tastes.
bleck!2) I'm bordering on one of those crazy-over-the-top-animal-lovers. I don't think I'm quite there yet.... but others might argue with me on that one. I seriously love Shelby so much that it's probably unhealthy. I feel so guilty when it's too cold to walk her and she has been in the kitchen all day while we're at work. I feel bad when we have plans after work and she has to stay in the kitchen. Then, I feel bad on the weekends when I have plans because those are supposed to be her "fun" days out of the... you guessed it.... kitchen! I talk to her all the time and I really think she understands me. I love her little noises she makes when she is falling asleep or stretching. Anyway, I could write an entire paper on this subject so I'll just move along now....
3) I
over-analyze what people say and do entirely too much. I also think about how to say things about 100 times to someone before I type it out. This probably isn't a characteristic that I'm unique in... I think most women are this way. At work when I type out emails to agents I will delete it and restart way too many times... I don't think the end result really changes that much from my first attempt. Sometimes when someone says something simple I can change that to mean something ENTIRELY different. Dan has to make me chill out. 0=)
4) Cooked carrots are the nastiest food I have ever eaten. They make me gag. One time my mom forced me to eat them in a restaurant... the consequences were enormous. She never forced me to eat anything again. Maybe that's what's wrong with me! Raw carrots are great... especially covered in Ranch.
5) I have more books on marriage than the Franklin Library and have not finished a single one. I want to be a reader so bad!!! My television just sucks me in....
6) I am in love with pictures. I have too many already and not enough space to put them out so they're stacked in a cabinet getting no love. Sad! Yesterday I was thinking about how bad I want a framed picture of my Gommy's wedding. I could find a spot for that, right? Maybe I just need to rotate my pictures every 6 months or something.
7) Speaking of Gommy, she is my grandma (don't call her a grandma to her face). She is the most beautiful person inside and out that I think I'll ever meet. I wish I lived next door to her. Well... rather... I wish she lived next door to me! She is the sweetest most genuine person alive. She has so much
class! I want to be like her! When I was growing up and having trouble with kids from school she would always say "you tell them your Gommy will STOMP THEM IN THE GROUND!" I get my love of animals from my mom who got it from her.
8) I think I'm too outgoing. Maybe it's just because I'm in a city where I don't have many friends and I just naturally
want friends. Not just the kind of friends that you see at work (because you have to) but friends that want to hang out with you and text you and on and on. You get my point. My two best friends are in other states and we don't see each other or talk nearly enough. It makes me sad to think about it. :(
9) With it being superbowl Sunday and all, this is appropriate. I
hate watching football on TV. I really hate football season more. Honestly, I dislike watching most sports on tv. There are just way too many football games on and it is the same thing over and over! There are so many rules I don't know how guys learn all of them. I guess playing it in highschool helps. Speaking of rules, Dan and his friend Greg like to make up terms and rules and convince me they're real. (Did you just see that double dribble!?) I love actually going to games. Totally different experience!
10) I can't wait to travel out of the states! I've never been overseas and I would looove to go to Europe and Africa and Austrailia. (Not to be specific or anything) :D
Finally done! Now it is time for me to award 7 people for their beautiful blogs and tag them to do the same thing. If you don't want to, I understand. It was time consuming, but a lot of fun! Here goes!
Amy Henry,
Tina Vining,
Sara Leach,
Julie Butcher,
Carrie Howie,
Melodie Hanes, and
Shane Glover.
