I'm an Honest Scrap, and Here's Why

Last week Marilyn at A Lot of Loves gave me the Honest Scrap Award. I would have posted it then, but the award requires you to write ten honest things about yourself, which I presume are ten things that you haven't talked about before on your blog. When I read that requirement, my mind went blank. Seriously, I couldn't think of one honest and interesting thing about myself to put on the list. Had I not been required to do so, I could have probably rattled off ten things in under a minute. However, because I was being told to do it, my brain just shut down.

Anyway, I have finally come up with ten honest things, but first I'm going to do the slightly easier part of winning the award, which is stating the Honest Scrap Award Rules and the bloggers I'm going to pass it on to.

The Honest Scrap Award Rules

1. Present the award to seven bloggers whose blogs you find brilliant in content and/or design or who have encouraged you.
2. Tell those seven people that you have given them the Honest Scrap Award.
3. Share ten honest things about yourself.
   

The Seven Brilliant or Encouraging Bloggers

• Necole at The Creative Mixx
• Kat at Candles, Crafts & What Not
• Grace at Hugz Before You Go
• Buggys at Cute as a Buggy
• Margo at Life in the Short Lane
  
• Vicki at Frugal Mom Knows Best
• RE at Mama Asid's Entrepod, Recycled Frockery, A Bad Gal Says, & Bad Gals Radio
  

Now for the ten honest things:

1. One of my bucket list items is to visit the Grand Canyon. If I don't have another opportunity to go or someone to go with before 2018, I'm going that summer with my nephew. I figure if we wait until he's 18, my sister, who's always afraid that he is going to fall of the side of a mountain/cliff/sidewalk/Ferris wheel/anything over an inch tall, can't say no. However, since I want to do more than just visit--that is, I want to hike, camp, and go white water rafting--I have already warned Chandler that if he starts smoking or gains 300 lbs. so we can't go, he is one dead kid.
2. My first crush was on Dirk Benedict. For those of you too young to know who that is, he was the guy who played Templeton Peck aka the Face Man on The A-team. Here is the cover art for the Season 1 DVD set if you need a reminder:

Dirk Benedict is the one in the bottom right corner. He was followed closely by my second crush, Ryan from Kids Incorporated. Here's a little 80's flashback for those who missed the wonderfulness of that show:


And yes, Stacy Ferguson is the same Stacy Ferguson that now goes by Fergie.

3. In college, if I ran out of underwear and was too lazy to go to the laundromat, I'd go and buy new ones at Target instead. I hate to say it, but I have done that a few times since college as well, like, uh, last month.
4. Also in college, whenever my sophomore year roommate and I would run out of plastic utensils, we'd go to Wendy's, order a combo to go, and then raid the plastic utensil stand when no one was looking.
5. I have a weakness for Chick-fil-A milkshakes. Every now and then I have to throw $3 and my lactose issues to the wind and buy one.
6. I came this close (pinches an inch in the air) to being name Ora Ida after my fraternal great-grandmother Ida. My parents also considered naming me Kent Clark if I was a boy. Can you imagine how much teasing I would have gotten from either of those names? Like high school wasn't bad enough. Try adding a french fry or superhero-related name to the mix. Just thinking about it gives me the shivers.
   
7. Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar on Me puts me in a good mood 95 percent of the time.
8. I have an incredibly bad habit of picking at my lips. In fact, I'm doing it right now. Since Chapstick doesn't seem to stop me from picking, I may very well need to join a 12-step program to stop.
9. Last Saturday, I finally did something everyone else in America seems to have done--I watched Twilight. I had originally opposed the movie because I figured it was just one, big, Buffy ripoff. I will now admit that I was wrong, that the movie was good, that I actually want to see the sequel, and that Robert Pattinson is, in fact, hot. However, I still have not done two other things that the rest of America, if not the world, has done--join Facebook or buy a Tivo.
10. I used to have this thing about sleeping with the closet door open. I could not go to sleep unless or until it was shut. I'm not sure why. Maybe it was because I grew up on horror movies where bad things always happened in or came out of closets. Case in point:
    
    Maybe I used to have nightmares about closet monsters as a kid. Maybe I just didn't like the dark. Whatever the cause, an opened closet door at night irked me like nothing else could. However, I got over that aversion my first night at college when I asked my freshman year roommate to shut her closet door before going to bed, and she, in turn, looked at me like I was a fruitcake. Needless to say, I never asked again.
    

Thanks again, Marilyn, for the award!