Honesty is the best policy....er..Award!

Thank you to Lettuce Head !

Thanks so much to Lettuce Head for giving me this award.  If you haven't please stop by her blog.  She's cool and honest, and thoughful and fun.

I love this award because I put off blogging for so long because I didn't believe that anyone was interested in what I had to say or the straightforwardness with which I dig through the remnants of who I used to be.  

I believe there are some rules attached to this award.  I am supposed to list 10 honest things about me.  So, in no particular order are some random facts: 

1) I love Jimmy Buffett music.  It makes me happy. 

2) While I do appreciate a clean house, I don't care for cleaning.  At all. Still searching for a house cleaning fairy - if you know one point him or her in my direction.  

3) I am 39 years old and still get carded at the liquor store. 

4) I like to think that I am funny but most of the time when I think I'm being witty people just don't get it.   So maybe I'm really not funny, just deluded.  I can live with that.  

5) I really like fantasy and science fiction.  Doesn't matter to me what medium it comes in either.  I don't discriminate, I am happy to read it or watch it.  

6) I love the theater.  I haven't been in a show since High School but I still miss being on stage. 

7) I rarely wear make up or nice clothes now that I work from home because, well, why?  

8) At my age I am surprised to find that I still have a healthy sex (over)drive and my husband keeps up quite nicely.  

9) I adore my children but I don't love or even like all children.  At least with mine I know that I correct behaviors that I find irritating and offensive.  With other people's kids, not so much.  

10) And finally, I drive too fast.  I don't mean to, it's just that the car likes to go, go, go.  

Now, I'm presenting this award to some other worthy bloggers that I am hoping to learn more about.  The recipients are, in no particular order.....

Mrs. Hyde from A Bitch Called Mom

Mynx over at Dribble
StephGas and her blog It's never too late to save a hopeless case
Simple Dude from Simple Dude in a Complex World just because I know what an award hog he is and maybe if I keep giving him awards he'll follow my blog too.
And finally to SSW at The Anonymous Perils of a Single Southern Woman

Enjoy!  I can't wait to see what you all have to say for yourselves as you pass it along.

Oh, and I nearly forgot my ABC's of thankfulness.

G- God (I could have saved this for U too - Universe).  I am thankful because I believe that there is a sentient omnipotent life force who cares about me.

H - Husband & Humor.  I'm immensely thankful for a wonderful husband who not only tolerates the crazy when it shows up but empowers it.  Which leads to my being thankful that we have humor in our lives.  There are few things I like better than laughter.

I - That's a tough one.  Am I more thankful for insight or ice cream?  I think I'm more thankful for ice cream (current fav is Bryers waffle cone overload) because ice cream is sweet and satisfying.  Insight, while useful often shows you things you'd rather not see.

J - Joy. This is not to be confused with happiness because happiness is based often upon our circumstances.  I'm talking about the joy that is a wellspring of life deep inside that keeps your head above water even on the worst days.

Okay, I think I'm caught up through today again.

Thankfulness

I know that it’s early, and as much as I hate to rush the season  I am *that* girl.  I love Thanksgiving.  It is my favorite holiday.  Food, football, and family without the stress and drama that in my experience happens on Christmas over presents or whatever.   So, for me it doesn’t really get much better.  And poor Thanksgiving finds itself becoming a nominal blip on the radar screen of life.  Just something to do between Halloween and Christmas.  Of course it isn’t the retail sales driver that Halloween and Christmas are either.  But I’ll save that rant for later.  

There are certain things that take place on Thanksgivng morning that are precious to me.  I alway watch the Macy’s parade, in my pajamas, with my slippers on while eating powdered sugar donuts and drinking irish coffee.  I don’t move except to pee and refill my coffee.  It’s a guilty pleasure.  By the time Santa comes out at the end of the parade I’m warm and fuzzy and in a mood to do some creative cooking.  

Usually our meal consists of the traditional stuff.  However I think this year will be a departure from that.  Since it is just going to be me, Darling Husband and the kiddos, I’m thinking of preparing everyones favorite something to eat and ditching the whole traditional meal thing.  Of course, that will probably mean that our Thanksgiving meal looks like this : cheese pizza, Kraft Shells and Cheese, steak and orange potatoes (that’s what the 10 year old calls sweet potatoes), and maybe a fondue type boil of seafood, chicken and steak for myself and darling husband. Yes, I know the menu sounds schitzophrenic, but I figure if it is just us, then everyone might as well have what they want and to hell with the ‘traditional’ meal.  

Also, I have been resisting blogging about this because it seems a bit trite even to me.  Some of you have no doubt seen your friends doing the ABC’s of thankfulness this month on Facebook.  I try to practice thankfulness in life daily, however, in spite of myself I find that I want to list the things that I am thankful for on my blog this month.  No guarantees that it will be daily but I’ll try to keep up.  As it is, I’m already 6 days behind.  

ABC’s of Thankfulness - 

A - Abundance.  I am thankful for abundance.  Because even though we may not always have everything that we ‘prefer’ we live in an abundant society.  If you have $15 in your pocket or bank account you are better off than 92% of the world.  

B - Blogs.  That’s right, I’m thankful for blogs.  Mine and all of yours.  I love reading the blogs that I’ve already found and can’t wait to find more.  They are thought provoking, hilarious and unfailingly ‘real’.  

C - Children.  Please understand that I am not necessarily thankful for everyone’s children but I am crazy about my own.  I am thankful for their smiles, warm hugs, and ability to make me laugh.  

D - Dryer.  That’s right.  As silly as that may sound, I am immensely thankful for my clothes dryer.  As many loads of laundry as gets done by a family of 5 every week.  If I didn’t have a good dryer, I don’t know what we’d do.  

E - Electricity.  I not only live in my house but work from home also.  So my electricity enables my lifestyle.  It heats my home, cooks my food, and runs the aforementioned dryer that I am thankful for.  

F - Friends.  I am thankful for the friends that I see every day, the friends that I don’t get to see very often and the friends that I may never see face to face that I’ve made online.  

I think that catches me up through today.  

What are you thankful for?

Cupcake Award!!!

Happy 101 Award!!!  

Thanks so much to Lettucehead for this wonderful award!  I love Lettucehead because she blogs about things that matter.  She is thoughtful and insightful and I can never wait to see what is next.  And there really are very few things better than cupcakes!

Now I get the pleasure of passing it on to 4 others as I understand the rules.

First I bestow the wonderful cupcake on Steph at It's never too late to save a hopeless case because her blogs are sometimes funny, sometimes serious, but all the time real.

Also, the Enigmatic Masked Blogger just because I thoroughly enjoy her posts. She has a kind spirit and that should always be rewarded by something just as sweet.

This brings me to Simple Dude over at Simple Dude, Complex World.  He deserves the cupcakes just because, its so sweet and frilly and he is anything but.  I think he'll appreciate the irony.

Finally, Amber, over at Amber LaShell Rants needs some sweet bloggy love to get her through those long nights working on her novel.