In which you learn that I am really NOT a good sport

A few days ago, I was presented with an award for this blog.

It has been too long, but I am finally getting around to following up with that. It requires that I list 10 things you don’t know about me and then send the award on to ten other bloggers. The blog version of a chain letter.

Ten things about me? I’ll be honest here:

1. I don’t like chain letters. It doesn’t matter if they have recipes, poems, or funny pictures, I don’t send them on to anyone else. I usually throw them away. But okay, I am a good sport, so I will list 9 more things you may not know about me.

2. I still have not decided whether or not to send this on to any other bloggers. If I do, and you do not want to join in-well, I can’t speak for anyone else, but I won’t be offended.

3. The Mississippi River flows right behind my house. It is pretty shallow and rocky here, but I still love it.

4, I am OCD on a few things. I always make sure that the paper bills go into my wallet in denomination order-ones, fives, tens, twenties…..okay, let’s be honest, they never go any higher than that! I also make sure that they are face up and right side up.

5. Other than those few things about which I am very particular, overall I am generally pretty messy. Even so, I know where things are. If you saw my desk and asked for a specific sheet of paper, I could get it for you right away. An orderly mess, I like to think. It drove my mother crazy when I was a kid and my bedroom was a disaster but I could find anything she asked.

6. I will not eat mushrooms. Yuck!  I am like a little kid-I pick them out and place them to the side of the plate. The thought of eating fungus is disgusting to me, and I am old enough that I don’t have to eat things that disgust me.

7. I have absolutely no creative talent. I can’t draw, paint- nothing. It takes me about 4 tries to get the paint color right when I am painting a room. I think there are at least 4 layers of varying shades of brown on our house trim. I know the right one when I finally find it, though.

8. For some reason, people choose to tell me their life story. I don’t know what it is about me.  I really don’t want to know. I am not particularly comfortable around people, especially until I get to know someone well. I hate parties, I am not happy in a big crowd. I would rather stand to the side and watch what is happening. I would be perfectly happy as a hermit.

9. I have a great memory for telephone numbers. I can’ remember our family phone number from when I was 8 years old. I know most of the other phone numbers that I had throughout my life. However, I have a very hard time remembering someone’s name, even if I just met them. Maybe they should just tell me their phone number rather than their name!

10. I am an HGTV addict. I love the show House Hunters. I am a voyeur and really enjoy seeing the inside of other people’s houses. It makes me feel better about mine. I really love the International House Hunters show, to see what my money might buy for housing in Australia, Costa Rica, or Paris. I have decided that I want to be the realtor who takes foreigners around to find the houses. It would seem to be a great way to be in another country but have a way to earn some income.

Now I am supposed to pass this along to ten other bloggers. I am not sure what I should do with this.

Look, I am a crank. Crotchety. Often downright disagreeable. Some of you who have read this blog more than once realize that I don’t make a fool of myself if I can avoid it. I will never be described as bubbly, fun-loving, or-Godforbid-perky. (I just gave you another thing to add to the list of ten things about me.) For some reason it just feels weird to send this thing on to ten other people.

I will never receive another one of these things, I know, but I just feel too uncomfortable sending this along when I never send chain letters along to anyone.

My intent is not to offend anyone. If you would enjoy playing this game, just let me know, and I will very happily send this along to you. I would even send it on to more than ten others if there were that many who were interested.

But my part of this is done now.

Sorry.

 

 

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