Someone Thinks I’m Honest
I have to start this post off with an apology because Candance, the Crazy Texas Mommy, was so kind to award me with the Honest Scrap Award a couple of weeks ago and I am only just now accepting. This award is for writing from the heart, so thank you. It means a lot.
Let me say too that, like Candance, I’m not one for the memes. But this is different. The timing was exquisite, landing in my inbox just after my first crushing defeat on the novel, and almost at the exact moment I decided I needed to get just a little more honest with my writing. I’m honored Candance thinks I’m so honest, especially because compared to her I’m like NBC at 6:pm.
Anyway – on with the award accepting. How this works is that I pass the award on to 7 other blogs and tell you 10 honest things about. And ladies, dear award recipients – no pressure, okay? (<-not even sarcastic)
Oh dread. Here we go.
7 Honest Bloggers
1. Wendi Aarons – I don’t care if you’re sick of the whole kissing-Wendi’s-butt vibe going on her lately. I like her. Deal with it.
2. Bern This – Her tag line is ‘Read this and you’ll never have to meet my family’. Plus, anyone who speaks openly about a wax job deserves this award.
3. Crazy Texas Mommy – What? I can’t give it back to the person I got it from. Crap! Too bad, because she’s the honest-est one out there.
4. MyPheme – This is that new website I contributed to this week. They’re all about telling it like it is. I’m hoping I can meet the challenge.
5. My Real Life Was Backordered – Denae is just incredibly cool. – you know, for a Mormon. She seems to tell the whole truth and nothing but it.
6. The Mouthy Housewives- Cheating a little here, because both Wendi Aarons and Jessica Berns contribute to this, but it’s good stuff anyway.
7. i am minivan- This is a new blog by Kate Meyers, who, when she’s not picking Cheezits out of the cracks of her minivan seats, writes celebrity interviews for real magazines. She tells stories about her life, which is messy, like the minivan.
10 Honest Things About Me
1. I don’t read a lot of blogs. I mean, I try, but seriously, I have a lot of other things to do, like write.
2. I’m not so fond of other peoples’ children.
3. I was born on Thanksgiving. I’m grateful for that.
4. I feel guilty about this post because most of those blogs are on my blogroll already. But whatever. See #1.
5. I wish I liked jazz, but I don’t.
6. I fall asleep during rented movies and then annoy my family with questions about the plot.
7. I jog about 8 miles a week, but I don’t consider myself a runner.
8. Country music makes me cry, but only if I’m alone in my car.
9. When I grow up I want to be Jodi Piccoult and David Sedaris.
10. Wherever I go, I meet anchorwomen.
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by Lela Davidson on September 25, 2009
in It's All About Me
Oh my goodness, Lela, it is an honor just to be NOMINATED!! I am delighted to be the token Mo here, particularly since there are just over 13 million Mormons worldwide, and at last count, 12.978 million of us had blogs. This is what you do when you don’t smoke, drink, or dabble with recreational pharmaceuticals.
You blog.
Oh, and I have a music degree and loathe jazz. And opera. And the “Hallelujah Chorus”. So I’m totally going to hell.
And I actually clotheslined someone else’s kid in church when he jogged passed my pew one time too many. Is that bad?
And David Sedaris is my gay boyfriend. So if you become him, does that make me a lesbian? I just need to know, in case my husband requires briefing.
I read dozens of blogs, but most of them involve friends beating each other up for fun in some way or another.
But I’m glad I’m not the only one who, as a general rule, doesn’t like other peoples’ children. I’m the youngest crotchety, old man in my neighborhood, if you listen to my wife tell it.
Oh my goodness, I’m not the only blogger who doesn’t follow other blogs! I’m embarrassed to admit I only follow maybe four (including yours). Who has the time? I’m sure there are BRILLIANT people out there, but it is hard to spend the time finding them.
As for Jodi Piccoult and David Sedaris, I’ll just say, “Ditto!!!”
(Oh, and DeNae is one of the other bloggers I follow, probably due to you.)
Phaedra and anyone else, if you’re not taking advantage of some kind of RSS reader, you’re missing out. I follow probably over 100 blogs, but it’s not as onerous a task as it sounds. Google Reader is the one I use, but there are many others.
Of course, this presumes you’re interested in reading more than four blogs. If not, an RSS feed reader would make finding the new posts on your four blogs much easier.
Oh, you don’t have to stop kissing my butt. It feels good.
And you now have the title for your memoir: Wherever I Go, I Meet Anchorwomen.
That’s a good idea, Wendi – about the title. I’d prefer it were Everywhere I Go I Meet Denis Leary, but that might not be as fun as it sounds.