This is a Little About Me...and an Award!

So no big deal, but I've only been given my very first Blogger Award.  I know!  Sweet sweet Jen from Jen-uinely Inspired gave me this awesome award for being super awesome I think.

You GUYS, I have so many people to thank!  The creators of Blue's Clues, without whom I would never have time to blog...Cuisinart and the coffee bean field workers of Columbia...Judy Blume, the author of Superfudge (pretty much the greatest work of fiction ever) which inspired a lifetime love of reading and writing...okay I can see I'm already losing you so I'll get on with it.

If you haven't read Jen-uinely Inspired, it is a terrific blog written by a darling DIY master.  She's crafty and cool, and I thank her so much for bestowing this honor upon little ol' me.

It appears there is a condition to accepting this award.  I must share 7 things about myself that you don't already know which shouldn't be hard since I really rarely talk about myself here which makes this place different than every other place in the world!

1.  Let's start with the basics...I have 3 brothers and sisters.  Fascinated yet?  We grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas but none of us still lives there.

2. I visited Disneyland when I was about 12 years old and saw something there that frightened me to my very core.  A gentleman in line next to me for the Star Wars ride had a mole on his face that was growing an impressive ponytail.  He had an elastic around it and everything.


That sweet face!  Subjected to mole ponytails.

3.  When I was in the 8th grade, my teacher assigned each of us to write a report on a famous Black American for Black History month.  My report on Billy Jean King got a big fat 'F' and my teacher, who was black, laughed herself absolutely silly and thumb-tacked that stupid failing paper up on the bulletin board next to all the A's.  My explanation is long and barely plausible, so I'll spare you.

Billy Jean King.  Not black.

4.  I was babysitting once in high school and the 7th grade boy and I came home to a robbery in progress. The crazy looking burglar (he looked just like the murderer from Ghost, swear) came trotting down the stairs and I said "Hi!".  He said "hey" and walked out the door we'd just come in.  I say strange things in awkward situations...I think it stems from my need to always be talking yet sometimes there is nothing. to. say.  Turns out there was blood everywhere from the glass window he broke coming in and he stole more than $200k in jewelry.

I don't have any accessible high school pictures, but this is within the same calendar year so it counts.

5.  My ridiculous fear of grocery judgement keeps me honest when shopping.  Seriously,  I rarely buy any junk at all because I'm worried that people in line with me will sneer at my processed purchases.  Lest you think I'm a complete food snob, I absolutely LOVE Red Lobster.  Please don't tell anyone.

6.  Speaking of food, I hate tomatoes with a passion, yet I love tomato soup, tomato sauce, ketchup, not-too-chunky salsa, and I actually scoop out the chunks in rotel dip to eat.  I think the crunch of the chip counteracts the texture of the tomato chunk. Also, I sometimes tell people I'm allergic to food that I really just don't like.  Very adult of me, no?


Okay, clearly not me but someone in my immediate family eating food.

7.  I am completely psychotic about sports.  To the point where I let them affect my mood for the majority of the year.  Totally ridiculous especially since I obsess over one of the worst sports programs in the country.  I should be heavily sedated during football season.  I was 7 months pregnant with Baylor (and already ginormous) at a football game in 100 degree heat.  My husband had to trick me to get me to leave the stadium and I was furious! 


 We may have lost the game, but we ain't never lost a party.

So there you go!  I have sufficiently accepted my award and embarrassed myself a little in the process.  And that really is the point.

Now it's time to honor another fabulous blogger and I like to keep it local....so give it up for my successor to the Versatile Blogger Award!

Let's all go stalk her blog to find out what she reveals.

We passed a Dunkin Donuts yesterday and Baylor yelled "Merica drives on Dunkin!"