Honesty

The fabulous Rebecca has passed this award on to me.

The Honest Scrap award. Alas...I have to write a list of 10 honest things about myself. Really honest!

Here goes...

1. I axe-murdered and buried 3 ex-husbands in my backyard...
no? LMAO- okay, I'll start again.

1. I am secretly married to Anderson Cooper....don't believe that one either, huh?

okay - for real this time...

1. I am a famous published author who writes under the pseudenom Stephen King.

(are we having fun yet?)

Okee-dokee.....here we go! For real this time....and real honest!

1. I am a horrible housekeeper. A slob. It takes everything I have to wash the dishes some days. I despise it all...cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, cleaning out the fridge, making beds, cleaning the toilet - despise it all. Grocery shopping, cooking & baking I like.

2. I rearrange furniture constantly. I've always been like this, even when I lived at home, I would move my bedroom furniture around all the time. I've been told this is classic behaviour in creative people, but I've lived in this apartment just over 2 months and I've changed the livingroom around 3 times already!

3. I love to move. Again, not sure why, but I start to get bored and antsy after living in the same apartment for a couple years.

4. I went from dating white trash LOSERS to being the most picky girl in the world. Nobody is good enough now. Just one more way being a mother changes us drastically.

5. I LOVE scary movies. I mean LOVE THEM!!! I love to rent the creepiest thing I can find, turn out all the lights and curl up on the couch, hugging pillows tight against me. I find an odd thrill in seeing how scared I can get before my head explodes with adrenaline.

6. I have never wanted to get married. I grew up watching and despising my mother who was so hyper-dependent on my dad for everything. I think it turned me off marriage in an unhealthy way. I've always felt a need to prove to myself that "I can make it without a man".

7. When my daughter was 6 weeks old, I crashed, big time. My friend took me to the hospital because she thought I was dying. Turned out I was dehydrated, malnourished, weighed less than 100 lbs, and had serious sleep deprivation. I had to spend the night in the ER. They knocked me out with some kind of pill, and pumped IV bags through me all night. I started weaning my hatchling off the breast the next day, onto formula. I felt like a failure as a mom. My daughter had thrived these first 6 weeks, gaining weight steadily, but depleting me of everything I had. Maybe if I hadn't been living on coffee and popsicles, I could've done better. I learned fast how to start taking better care of myself.

8. I moved 2 hours away to a bigger city when my hatchling was 6 years old. I had just finished 2 more years of college and wanted to access a "booming job market". After a month and a half, I totalled my car and couldn't afford another one. I couldn't cope, knew 2 people in the whole city and hated navigating the bus system. So, after 7 months, we moved back home to the area I grew up in. I still feel if I could've held onto my car, I could've made a better life for us there.

9. In this same big city, I lived in the "projects". Affordable housing - "geared to income rent" and really beautiful apartments. But every 3rd apartment had a pit-bull rotweiler type dog, cops coming to the building for "domestic violence" calls all the time...it was a beautifully disguised ghetto, is what it was. But hey, cheap rent.

10. My dad was the inventor of Pop Tarts. (kidding!!! -lol)


Now, instead of tagging people, if you like this REAL HONEST meme, consider yourself tagged, grab the award, and list 10 honest things about yourself.

Then pass the award on to bloggers who you feel embody the spirit of the "Honest Scrap".