Compulsive Liar

...not really!  In fact, Rosemarie at the *beautimous* Just Moi gave me the Honest Scrap Award!!  

Here is how it goes:

#1: Choose a minimum of 7 spectacular blogs that you can't live without and pass this goodie on to them

#2: Post the "chosen ones" on your bog in link form AND

#3: List 10 honest things about yourself (the hardest part unless you are addicted to embarrassing stories like me)

I will try my absolute hardest to think of things you don't already know about me but I will apologize in advance just in case any of these are repeats!  Let's roll...

number one - I still cry EVERY time I watch The Notebook.  It never fails, no matter how hard I try to act like I just have allergies that day, everyone knows I am crying like a baby.

number two - When I was a teenager, I would cut off pieces of my hair that weren't acting right that day.  This all stopped when I realized that I was beginning to look bald.  Who would have thought?

number three - As a young child, I was asked to sing "Jesus Loves Me" in front of the church (even though I couldn't sing).  When I got to the part that says, "We are weak but He is strong" I said, "We are FREAKS but He is strong."  Booya.  Talk about never singing again.  

number four - I randomly try to convince people to buy Mac computers.  I have no real reason to do this and don't really know what I'm talking about, but somehow I feel compelled to pass on the wonder that is Apple.  My very first computer (way back in the day) was an Apple and I fell in love at first site.  It had the old color logo and the screen could only produce black and green.  But damn it if I didn't play me some Oregon Trail on that thing!

number five - I hate candles that smell like desserts, i.e. sugar cookies, vanilla ice cream, creme brulee....

number six - One time I stole a fortune cookie, or five.  It was completely innocent - I asked my mom "Can I have one of these" and she thought I said, "Do you have to pay for these?"  Her answer was "No, they look stale" so I took about five of them.  Why I would proceed to take them after I was told they were stale remains unexplained but later my mom found the wrappers and asked if I had paid for them.  Busted!

number seven - When I was in elementary school, a little boy told me that ketchup was made of chicken blood and I believed him.  I should have slapped him instead.  ;)

number eight - I get upset when my husband says something mean to one of my cats even though he says it in a nice tone and they obviously can't understand English. I have actually cried over this...lame.  He secretly loves both Grenade and Biscuit.

number nine - I love all things sour.  I think I mentioned this before, but I have been known to forego regular food and eat only sour candy for a meal.  Delicious...maybe I still have some sour patch kids left??

number ten - I love reading comments that people leave on my blog - especially if they have experienced whatever that particular post happens to be about.  If you ever read something on this little blog of mine that makes you think of something funny, PLEASE, PLEASE share it!  I love to laugh and I love to hear about crazy stories!  

Now comes the easy part.  There are way more than seven blogs that I absolutely adore, but I will try to pick those of you who have not yet gotten the chance to be brutally honest!  If you have already done this, feel free to skip it...

I pick:

 Pocket Full of Pink

 Weight for Me

 The Hall Family

Newbie New Yorker

Life at the White House

and...anyone else who wants to be totally honest!

I know that is only six, technically five, but it is hard to people who haven't recently played!  That just means we are super honest ladies!

XOXO

Tell Me (no) Lies

Yay!  Thank you to Holly for the Honest Scrap!  Holy cow butt, now I have to be honest!!  ;)

So, check out the rules...#1.  You have to chose a minimum of 7 fabulous blogs to pass this goodie onto...#2.  Post the fabulous blogs of your choice as a link on your blog...AND #3.  List at least 10 honest things about yourself.

Picking the blogs I love will be easy, but finding 10 honest things about myself that I haven't already shared, not so much!  Hmmmm, here goes:

#1.  When I decide that I want something, I usually go buy it right then and there.  I do not take into account whether we have enough money for it nor do I think about if I really need the item about to be purchased.  In fact, I seldom really NEED the chosen item but that doesn't subtract any of my want for that thing.  This applies mainly to things that I want to decorate the apartment with and rarely applies to shoes, purses or anything like that.  That should make me feel a little better, right??  Sometimes this "disorder" applies to animals which drives DP to the loony house.  One time I brought a stray cat home from work after giving zero thought to it actually living in our apartment.  Not to mention, I already had one cat at home.  Oh well, they are friends now!

#2.  I like to put half-and-half in my cereal.  Gross, I know.  It is soooo bad for you but also soooo delicious to my soul.  The strange thing is, I don't really like milk AT ALL but give me the opportunity to have some half-and-half (H-A-H) and I will most certainly indulge.  It all started when I was a child and my Mimi would let me drink the little one serving H-A-H's at the table of any restaurant.  My mom only let this occur because there were a few months when I refused to eat for some reason.  Kids!

#3.  I peed in my pants in the third grade.  I still remember my teacher - Mr. Kincaid.  This is how it went down.  We were learning how to count money and I kept raising my hand to go to the restroom.  Needless to say, he never called on me which caused my cute little 3rd grader bladder to give up on me in the middle of the class.  Luckily, no one noticed at first and then to my surprise, a little girl named Vanessa raised her hand and told Mr. Kincaid that she had saved some lemonade from lunch and had spilled it all over me.  I will never know if he believed her, but the other kids sure did and I was saved!  How sweet is that?  God bless her wherever she is!

#4.  My mom and I blew up the fish tank when I was a kid.  My mom and dad had just gotten divorced and he hadn't moved all of his stuff out yet.  That left my mom and I to take care of his "prized" aquarium.  There were certain fish in there that required the tank to have a heater - my mom and I had no idea what temperature to set it to so we just cranked it up.  We ended up forgetting about the damn thing and we went to sleep; soon after we had a rude awakening.  There was a HUGE bang and the next thing we saw was smoke coming out of the attic so my mom called 911 thinking that the house was on fire.  The firemen showed up and discovered that the fish tank had been blasted to smithereens.  I always hated that thing anyway.  

#5.  I gag when I do the dishes.  It completely and utterly grosses me out and for no good reason.  This leaves my sweet DP to do them most of the time.

#6.  I love to take pictures but usually end up deleting most of them because I think my face looks fat or that my teeth are too big.

#7.  I crack up every time I see a car/truck/vehicle that is "tricked out."  This includes custom paint, hilarious rims that couldn't have been bought anywhere besides Wal-Mart, hydraulics or any other insane addition.  I literally laugh until I cry...I hope I haven't offended anyone.

#8.  Every time I say "I won't drink too much," I drink too much.  End of story.

#9.  I am sometimes unnecessarily afraid of driving.  I have anxiety attacks about accidents, hitting unseen animals, running out of gas, blowing a tire - you name it, I worry about it.  What to do?

#10.  I love when people tell stories and insert their own sound effects into the story line.  I have a bad habit of doing this but to me, a story isn't a story without sound effects.  The thought of this very thing is making laugh just while writing about it.  ;)

Phew!  Now to choose some fabulous blogs!  

The chosen ones:

Kelly at Dear Friend, 

Stacy at The Hall Family

Anna at Sweetly Unique, Beautiful Life

The Mrs. at Simple Yet Classic

Meredith at The Tichenor Family

Caitlyn at Love, Cait

Em at The Life and Times of Team Taylor

Now it is time for some honesty!  

XOXO