I'm so flattered! I love seeing the awards float around the community, so I'm very appreciative when people feel I deserve them. :)
First award is the Honest Scrap Award from
(army)Wife!
"The Honest Scrap award comes with a caveat or two. First, you have to tell your readers ten things about you they may not know, but that are true. Second, you have to tag 10 people with the award. Third, let all the people you've given the award to know that they've gotten it (comment on their blogs or something). And finally, make sure you link back to the person who awarded you."
Ten things you may not know about me. Hmmm...
1. I have never lived in one place for more than five years. Up until Madison, it was four years. When I was growing up, my dad was working his way up through his company, which required lots of transfers. That's why the moving part of the military lifestyle doesn't faze me at all.
2. I have a mild case of OCD. In fact, I joke that it's CDO, not OCD because then it's in alphabetical order. I alphabetized my books by author growing up, and when you have a bookcase the size of a queen bed full of books, that's not an easy feat!
3. I didn't like cats until I got one. Now I have two. I actually dissected one in senior year anatomy, and it never bothered me. Now, I think I'd have a really hard time with it.
4. I love beer. I love to try new kinds of beer, and have a particular fondness for Wisconsin microbreweries.
5. I am terrible with credit cards. I have debt that I am working at paying off, and I never want to be in debt ever again.
6. My room is a disaster at almost every moment. It's always cluttered and disorganized. I need someone to come through and organize my life for me! (Strange for a person with OCD, I know.)
7. One of the most trusted people in my life is someone I've never met in person. She and I have been friends for around 8 years, and she was the reason I made it through some of the most difficult times I've been through in the past three years.
8. P and I met online last year, using eharmony. I signed up on New Years day last year, because I was tired of meeting/dating jerks. A friend of mine met her husband through the site, so I figured it was worth a try. We were matched last February, started talking and texting non-stop for several weeks, and had our first date on Friday, March 13th. And the rest... is history. :) Not all of my friends know this, most assume I met him through my other friends that are military.
9. I have a distinct Wisconsin accent, but only when I say certain things. Apparently when I say "hockey" and "phone" people hear it. When I get drunk slightly intoxicated, it comes out in full strength.
10. I have an overactive imagination. For instance, as I wrote this (scheduled) post, I heard a helicopter buzz over my house twice in the span of a few minutes. (I just heard it again, about 10 minutes later...) I have no basis for thinking this, but I started thinking that maybe there was some sort of manhunt, and was too scared to go look out my window, in case the person was somehow near my house and picked it as the one to break into/steal a car from. I often freak myself out and hate to be alone upstairs when it's dark outside. I live sort of out in the country, where the nearest neighbor is within sight, but definitely not right next door! And the reality is.... no manhunt, no crime spree in my neighborhood--just my typical overactive imagination!
1. Link back to the blogger who sent you the award.
2. Post where you would like to be in 10 years.
3. Pass this on to 10 other special bloggers.
Hmmm... where I'd like to be in 10 years. I would like to be "home" with P, no matter where in the world "home" is. I think we'd probably have two small children by that point, and I'd be working part time, mostly to keep myself entertained. I don't have a really clear idea of what I want, other than to be married and hopefully have at least one child by then.
Also,
A Lady in Waiting gave me the blogger BFF award! I am so flattered to earn it again! :)