How Cool!

Thank you sweet Angie for the cool award! You have such a great blog and I am one of your biggest fans (stalkers. ha!) What a blessing you are to me! Well, here it goes. I will give this a good try. Warning: comments are straight from the horses mouth....me! 1. I am a pickle fanatic. Not just any kind of pickle, it has to be dill only. ewww...sweet. I have always loved dill pickles. As a kid for birthdays I would request a jar of pickles for my birthday present. In college my brothers bought me a green dill pickle looking phone. You can only imagine the impression I made on my new roommate who had never met me before. ha! I can only imagine what she told her family about meeting me (she is one of my dearest friends now). My hubby and the 3L's know my love for dills. They show their love to me by saving their pickles off of their hamburgers. ha! I know, I know....I am weird! Hey, you wanted some honest stuff here didn't you? haha.

2. Being a nurse scares me. I am afraid of messing up and hurting someone. I am probably one of the most careful nurses you will ever meet because I double (triple) check everything! With my new job of putting people to sleep I have a ritual. I hold your hand as I push my meds, after you are asleep I don't leave your side because I am glued to all of my monitors watching your vitals, and each time I give more meds to my patients I am praying over them. I love being a nurse! I just want to make sure I am as careful as can be.

3. I once drove a snowcone trolley around my home town as a job. It sounds so goofy but I was the envy of my friends. It was so much fun. I would pick up my friends on this little trolley not much bigger than a golf cart (yes, I even had that goofy snowcone music that I so much hate to hear now as it comes into my neighborhood and the 3L's go wild). We would travel up and down the streets letting little kids chase us. I was so bad.....I even made them run at times cause it was funny. Hey, I was a teenager! That was one fun summer. Met a lot of cute boys that way too. ha!

4. I was in a bad, bad car wreck when I was a senior in highschool. My best friend, Robin (she had the same name), and I were going to go pick up our prom dresses in Amarillo when an 88 year old man ran a light. He hit us going 65mph. Our car flipped and he kept hitting us over and over. His arm got stuck in the steering wheel so his car kept doing circles. I was hurt pretty bad. A nurse who was at a farmer's market did cpr on me. To be honest....I really think I will continue this story some other time. It isn't easy for me to blog about this.

5. I am not good at pretend playing with my kids. Some moms can play for hours in make believe world. I just am not good at this. Something I wish I was better at. I can be goofy and roll around on the floor with them for hours but ask me to be a princess or a puppy I freeze up. ha! I don't think I will ever be an actress:)

6.) In the winter I hardly shave my legs. Yes, gross. Being real here my friends! I do shave them for special times..wink, wink....but I hate the way my skin gets so dry and scaly like a snake when they are shaved. I am not really that hairy so it doesn't bother me. Now you know my secret! Summer time is a differnt story.

7.) This is the first award I have done on my blog. Why? Well........cause I just now figured out how to copy the award picture to add to my blog! haha. I never knew how to copy a jpeg of someone else. Man, I am so new at this! Also, I don't know how to copy a link with your name in it so you will see me copy all of your blog title. haha! Help a sista out friends:)

8.) I love the way my husband smells. That is when he is clean. Not when he has been outside working in the yard. ha! When he gets ready for work and he is in his tie and suit...sprays on that Gucci cologne....hold me back! TMI? haha

9.) Dang these are getting harder......Oh, Joel Osteen. Why is it when I turn on the tv and see this preacher talking, his topics always seem to be the right message I needed to hear? God is good. I feel like I am hit with a bat listening to him sometimes. It always seems to be a message my heart needed to hear and put me right back where I need to be with God.

10.) As crazy as life feels sometimes to me, I wouldn't want it any other way. I think I am at my happiest I have ever been in my life. Not because of one thing but because of everything. The good and bad too. Before I close my eyes at night my last thoughts are thank you Lord for another day.

Ok, now that I have spilled my secrets, quirks, and honest scrap it is your turn! SOOOOO, I want to pass this on to some great blogger pals. (Remember I don't know how to do the linky thing with your name. ha!) Mindy, Stacey, Amanda, Kelley, Adrianne, Angela, Amanda N, Marianne, Lesley, Jennifer, Lisa, and Rhonda. I can't wait to see your post. Have a blessed day! Thanks again Angie that was fun.

"When you receive the prize, you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link them back. Choose a minimum of 7 blogs that you find brilliant in their content or design. Show their names and links and leave them a comment informing that they were prized with 'Honest Weblog'. List [if you can and/or dare] at least ten honest things about yourself. Then, pass it on!"