I'm supposed to....
1) Say thanks and give a link to the presenter of the award. 2) Share "ten honest things" about myself. 3) Present this award to 7 others whose blogs I find brilliant in content and/or design, or those who have encouraged me. 4) Tell those 7 people that they've been awarded HONEST SCRAP and inform them of these guidelines in receiving it.
OK, here goes...
1- I still know all the lyrics to KISS songs pre-1980. Does that make me a bad Catholic?
2 - I hate bananas. I don't like the smell and I don't even like the way the peel feels. But I like banana bread. When I make it, it's the only time I REFUSE to lick the batter.
3 - I hate clutter but I hang onto stuff because I might need it someday or because I am fairly sentimental (for example if my great-aunt sent me a book (which I never read) back in 1972 I would be hard-pressed to part with it.) However, I am getting better at letting go of stuff.
4 - Being a very tactile person makes it practically impossible for me to have long hair and long fingernails. I did have longish hair all last winter but I was always twirling it and playing with it until my anxiety level got so high I had to get it cut. As for nails - I've had fake nails a number of times and always peel them off (very painful) within two weeks. If I grow them out on my own I can't keep my fingers out of my mouth. I am starting to think I have an oral fixation. When I was a baby I sucked my fingers (index and middle of left hand) until I was about 7. When I stopped doing that I started biting my nails. Then I smoked off and on for about 18 years. Now I am 57 pounds overweight. I also hate lipstick and foundation - I can't stand the way it feels on my face.
5 - I LOVE to talk about as much I love to write. However, I am much more eloquent on paper.
6 - I still think I will wake up one morning and magically I will be 57 lbs. thinnner.
7 - I am messy. My mom could always tell where I sat at the table because of the ring of crumbs around my chair. One particular habit of mine that drove her crazy was that if I ate an apple I would leave the core in the (clean) ashtray on the coffee table. After awhile it got to be a joke between us. Of course when she found the core it would already be brown - the bronze apple core. One year for Christmas a local gift store was selling wooden sculptures of fruit. They were very well done and painted realistically. There were apples, bananas, lemons, etc. However, when I spied the painted wooden apple core sculpture I HAD to buy it for my mom. Oh, she laughed and laughed when she opened that gift!
8 - I miss my kids so much. They live so far away that if I see them once a year I am lucky. I will be a virtual stranger to my future grandchildren and that is so painful to me I cannot even begin to describe it.
9 - My son is going to Afghanistan this Fall. I get chest pains just thinking about it.
10 - I wish I had more kids but I had such problems with my ex that if my second marriage had also failed I just could not envision dealing with yet another ex husband. I was not going to church at that time I married my second husband and in any case I was a card carrying liberal so any authentic Catholic teaching would have slide like water off a ducks back. And now I am too old to have more kids.
I am tagging the first seven people who read this entry.
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