Today, I found out that Hope Clark of Funds for Writers fame selected me for the “Honest Scrap Award.” I did a Google search on it and I’m not sure where it started, but the idea is that you share honest bits of information about yourself.
Here are 10 honest things about me:
1. I have a treadle sewing machine and enjoy sewing on it more than any electronic computerized sewing machine I’ve had the opportunity to borrow during quilting classes. The sound of a treadle is extremely soothing.
2. I can’t stand carbonated anything. This loathing was a big problem in the days before bottled water when the only thing you could get to drink at events was a Coke. Or beer. Yuck.
3. I really don’t like going to salons to get my hair cut. In fact, I grow it long for 2-3 years and then finally force myself to go into a Fantastic Sams and donate my hair to Locks of Love.
4. I think my husband is by far the coolest person I’ve ever met. (By FAR!) Okay, that one probably isn’t that surprising, but it’s true.
5. I almost flunked chemistry in high school because I couldn’t memorize the periodic table. (I viewed this as an idiotic requirement in the first place…I mean really who cares?)
6. I used to pinch my sister with my toes when we were sitting on the couch watching TV and then deny it when she whined to my Mom. (“Who me?!”)
7. I like my dogs a lot better than a lot of people. Even when they are obnoxious, they are better office mates than anyone I shared cubicle space with in Corporate America.
8. I took the Master Gardener course, yet thanks to my cats, neglect, and indoor environmental woes, I still have never successfully grown a house plant. (I’m much better with plants in the great outdoors.)
9. I don’t know my own cell phone number and never turn it on, except to make outgoing calls. I don’t want to be that connected; to me a cell phone is for emergencies or checking voice mail, and that’s it. (Cell phones are NOT for yammering on in the grocery store or other public places, if you ask me.)
10. Where we live, we have no DSL, no garbage pick up, no road maintenance, no pizza delivery, no visible neighbors, and often virtually no noise, except the sounds of wildlife. We trade a lot of “modern conveniences” for the pleasures of living in our quiet forest, but it’s all worth it.