Honest Scrap Award

Eeek! It's almost fall!

(Not my apple tree!)

On another topic......

I was award the Honest Scrap Award by Sarah.

So I have to tell 10 things about myself. 

Here are the rules:
1. Say thanks and link to the person who gave you the award. Thanks Sarah!
2. Share ten "honest" things about yourself.
3. Award this to seven people who's blog design/content I admire or who have encouraged me, and inform them of their win and of the rules of this award.

Okay....here goes.

• I despise cottage cheese. Never liked the texture.

• I'm obsessed with quotes by Chesterton, Churchill, and C.S. Lewis. It's become of hobby....collecting quotes and stuff. Odd, I know.

• NFL practically puts me into a coma.

• Rarely do I like contemporary piano music.....unless it's in a good movie soundtrack.

• I REFUSE TO MISUSE THE WORD "AWESOME." Sorry, no can do.

• I love thrift store shopping. Most of my favorite clothes are from used places. (Though I've found many things that still have the tags on them.) I love hunting for things and the satisfation of being economical. I've found stuff at used stores that I've never seen anywhere else. Plus there's part of me that says "Ha! See, it is possible to defy the materialistic trend of buying tons of new stuff we don't need!"  

• I've been singing for a little over 2 1/2 years. Every year I participate in a recital where I do silly things like dress up like a maid, screech Italian, and pick up bananna peels. Strange, I know.

• If I could learn only three languages.....I'd pick Arabic, Spanish and German. Or maybe French instead of German. I love the idea of writing all those fascinating Arabic characters. Spanish would be the most practical. And German and French just sound great:) BUT- I forgot! The glories of Greek and Latin! Oh never mind, I'll never narrow this list down......

• Only two authors have made me cry or almost cry. Dickens and Homer. And I'm not kidding about that last one. Seriously. The Iliad is so sad....And Dickens? Yeah, that kind of figures. How could you not love his characters?

• My perfectionistic attitude often causes me problems. Unfortunately.

Hmmm.....seven people:

Ellie

Autumn

Jessica

Cait

Elizabeth

Meg

Hannah

Have a wonderful weekend!

Natalie

A Tag

      I'm not a person who is generally interested in tags. However, I spotted one on Ellie's and Autumn's blog recently, that was, shall I say, "open ended." 

Which means that I have the freedom to mine up any random thing about myself, instead of describing the weather outside.

I've simply listed random facts about myself, or things I'd just like to say:

1- My least favorite movie is titled Harry and The Hendersons. With a plot concerning “Sasquatch,” and lady with fluffy eighties-hair, it kind of figures, right? It should figure. Don’t ask me why we watched that particular specimen.

2-  The most ironic thing I have seen lately, is an advertisement for a tutoring service in the paper. The “student of the month,” was pictured wearing a shirt with the following phrase printed on it:

                           spelling iss mi besst subjekt

Or something to that effect. Oh attitude shirts... They always catch up to you eventually.

2. I often judge a book by its cover. 

3. I like listening to harpsichord concertos, among other things, when I exercise.

4. I’m slightly annoyed when I’m browsing blogs, and some music starts blaring- and I can’t figure out which page it's coming from.

5. The one book I would like to recommend to everyone at the moment is titled The Fallacy Detective, by brothers Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn. Yes, it does have a hound in a trench coat (with a magnifying glass) on the cover, but that's no excuse to not read the book. After reading a good part of that text, my family has discovered how amusing (and easy) it is to spot logical fallacies made by politicians, the general populace, and ourselves. Despite the hound in the trench coat, this book has no age limit.

You are encouraged not only to read the aforementioned book, but also to tag six other people.