Tagged – Honest Scrap Award

Ok, so I had a really rough weekend last weekend.  Despite having successfully completed my PCT training (thank God I made it), I did not get to revel in my nothing-to-do-edness.  Instead, I literally stayed in bed all day Saturday, only getting up once or twice to visit the porcelain god.  (And no…it was not from drinking to much, just the good old stomach flu)  Also, due to my PCT training my marriage is in need of a major overhaul.  Thank goodness I get to see my counselor tomorrow.  I need help!

So to kill the time until then, where I hope to get a better grip on reality, I will gratefully accept the honor of being tagged by my spunky friend and fellow blogger, Emily, for the Honest Scrap award.

 

So here are the rules:

• Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in content or design.
• Show the 7 winners names and links on your blog, and leave a comment informing them that they were prized with “Honest Scrap.” Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.
• List at least 10 honest things about yourself.

Ok, here are 10 honest things about myself:

1.  I’ve had work done…Yes, that means I’ve had plastic surgery.  However I am soooooooo happy I had it done.  Growing up I had a huge self-confidence problem because of my nose.  After college, after I started working, after I bought a house, I thought, “what the hell, I earned the money for it, if I want it I should just do it.”  And let me tell you, I am so happy I did it.  I never even think about my nose anymore and I love that!   

2.  I had a BFF growing up (although we just called each other “Best Friends” at the time).  We were inseparable from 3rd grade through 12th grade.  We went on vacations together, we did EVERYTHING together.  Unfortunately once we went away to college we grew apart.  She still lives really close by but we rarely even talk.   This makes me sad.

(hmmmm….this is actually very hard…7 more…yikes!)

3.  Sometimes I pray and tell God that I’m ok withwhenever he decides to ”take me home.”  Not in a suicidal sort of way, but I’m just fine with the idea of going to be with him.  I suppose this could change if/when I have children because I wouldn’t want to leave them behind.  I also have never personally been faced with death, so maybe this is just a very naive attitude to have.  However, for now, that’s where I am. 

4.  Ok, so how about something less deep:  When I was younger I had a VERY active imagination.  I imagined all sorts of scenarios in my head many nights before I would fall sleep.  Most involved me and a crush-of-the-day guy.  But before you go thinking I had a dirty mind and all, please know my imaginations were of the totally innocent variety.  I think that’s why I’m still such a sucker for romance.  However, I think that gets me in trouble too because a lot of times when I’m expect prince charming, sometimes I just get a frog instead and it’s very disappointing!

5.  When I was in elementary school, I had a really hard time getting good grades.  Looking back, I realized that I was really just lazy and didn’t want to work hard.  Once I started working harder in high school I got all A’s easily.  Then when I got to college I went back to lazy and hard again.  Now that I’m in college for the second time, I’m again finding it fairly easy.  Hopefully I wont be eating my words in a few months!

6.  Ok, I have to wrap these up so how about 5 quick things.  I love reading and my new rediscovery of the library has been a godsend.  Like Emily, I tend to like the romance/mystery genre rather than the good old literary types.  If a book is hard to read, I just wont read it.  I have to be sucked in!

7.  I used to never work out…ever.  I played sports, but when I wasn’t in a sport, I never did anything on the side.  This has come back to haunt me since now I still hate working out.  Basically, I’m just lazy.  I’d much rather be parked in front of a tv all day than working out.  Now ask me to play basketball with you and I’d do it in a heartbeat.  Sports, I love, just working out, I hate…

8.  I totally knew my hubby was going to propose when he did.  For one, I was sorta snooping and saw his charge card statement with a rather large charge on it.  But mostly because he is such a bad liar and pretty much gave it away.  Because I knew, I even managed to change the lunch restaurant choice that day from Jimmy John’s (a Subway type place) to our favorite sit-down restaurant because I thought, there’s no way I want Jimmy John’s to be a part of our proposal story.  My husband’s defense?   He just really likes Jimmy John’s….sigh!

9.  Sometimes I think we shouldn’t adopt a child.  I feel like our marriage isn’t strong enough and maybe we are both just too selfish.  But then again, I think maybe that will force us to give up more of our own selfish desires just because we love another person that much.

10.  Even though I complain about my husband and our marriage, it makes me cry to think about him not being in my life, I love him so much.

Ok, now I have to pick 10 people:

…and not by sight
A Complicated Life
Accepting God’s Will 2009
All You Who Hope
He has Looked with Favor on His Lowly Handmaid
Percolating Petals
Sew Infertile
This Cross I Embrace
Waiting for Baby Blondie
The Quest for Baby Agosti

These blogs are all written by amazing women who have each inspired me to be a better person in various ways.  I look forward to learning more about each one of them!