Blog Awards

Sandy Ackers, the creative mind behind Strangling My Muse, has sent me two Blog Awards.  In all honesty, she sent them nearly a week ago, but I’ve been swamped with work, putting the finishing touches on Saponifier’s September/October issue (which is fantastic, if I do say so myself). Knowing that it would take a bit of creativity  to answer the questions that accompanies the ‘awards,’  I thought it was in the best interest of you, my readers, to wait until I could come up with complete sentences.

Having said that, here are the awards:

You might be curious about the Honest Scrap award.  I know I was!  Here are the instructions I was given:

THE HONEST SCRAP AWARD:

1. The Honest Scrap award must be shared!
2. First, the recipient must reveal 10 true things about themselves in their blog that no one else knows.
3. Second, the recipient must pass along this prestigious award to 10 more bloggers.
4. Third, those 10 bloggers must be notified they have been given this award.
5. Those 10 bloggers should link back to the blog that awarded them the Honest Scrap award.

Before I list the 10 true things about myself, I’d like to share the links to the blogs I chose- there are only 5 of them, because I think 10 is pushy…lol.

Battered Trunk

Blue Girl in a Red State

Outloud

Penny Jar

Writing Under Pressure

Well, okay! Now I need to reveal 10 true things about myself that no one else knows- which is actually completely impossible for me.  I know, it sounds cliche, but the truth is that I tell my husband (hi Jim!) and my best friend (hi Stacy!) everything.  So, in the spirit of the award, I think I’ll list 10 things most people probably don’t know about me.

1. I drowned.  When I was very little (around 2 years old), I was learning how to swim and fell into a hole left behind from a small airplane crash.  My mother pulled me out, performing CPR and saving my life.  I spent time unconscious in the ER, before waking and announcing that I’d died and seen God.  I spent some time recovering in the hospital, which I remember as a place ripe with ice cream (more on that later..lol).  Today, I suffer from short term memory loss and have difficulty remembering names and large portions of my childhood, although my husband says that some of it is simply selective memory.

2. I’m an incurable junk food addict.  I blame my father, who also has quite the sweet tooth.  I love everything from Circus Peanuts to Whoppers, Cheez-Its and popcorn are my salty go-to snacks and nothing beats butterscotch pudding or Italian ices from the little shop downtown.  Yes, I currently have Whoppers on my workstation, Cheez-Its too, and my freezer boasts a cache of Reece’s Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Katts and Popsicles.

3. I hate washing the silverware.  I will leave it until every fork, spoon and knife in the house are dirty before even considering it.  I will scrub dirty pots, clean the lasagna pan, even mop the floors- and leave the silverware in the sink.  I have no idea why washing flatware is such an issue for me, but I keep trying to convince my family to throw it all away, that we can just use plastic from now on. So far, no love from them on the silverware-free home.

4. I love trashy romance novels.  I’m talking Nora Roberts, Stephanie Laurens, etc. I can read three or four of them in a day, and often do.  I go through them so quickly that I’ve stopped buying them retail (sorry authors!) and now pick them up for .30 cents each at the local Goodwill.  My husband, in an effort to control this habit, has put into place a house rule: No new books come in unless the same amount go out.  You might wonder why the need for this rule, but the truth is pretty simple: I have way too many books.

I have a floor to ceiling bookshelf that is full, boxes of books stashed in various locations around the house, books hidden in my nightstand, in my dresser, on my desk…well, you get the idea.

5.  I can’t talk politics with my sister. We nearly come to blows anytime someone mentions something like health care reform or even the election process.  It amazes me how two people could possibly be raised in the same environment and have such diametrically opposing views of the world.  I love her, think she’s one of the most amazing people on the planet (a talented photographer in her off time, she’s a firefighter by day!) but will never agree with her on things of political nature.

6.  I believe in ghosts.  I mean, I believe people are seeing things, possibly even interacting with them, but not in the traditional sense of it being a lost soul or spirit.  I think we need to look at the phenomenon from more scientific approaches (see #7).

7. I’m eager to find out the results of the experimentation at CERN’s LHC.  For those who don’t know, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, built a giant particle accelerator, which they intend to use to smash two subatomic particles beams together, monitoring the results and hopefully proving or disproving many scientific theories.  I’m fascinated by theoretical physics, and think that it might just give us the answer to what ‘ghosts’ really are.

8.  I sometimes wonder if I write too much.  In the past month I’ve logged over 100,000 words, and I always worry that by being so prolific, I’m losing the quality that I hope to have in my work.

9.  I can’t spell.  I am terrible at it, never did well with it in school and would be in serious trouble if we didn’t have spell checking included in almost all software today.

10.  I’m really looking forward to watching the new Avatar movie.  I really liked the cartoon and think the movie looks fantastic!

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