Honest scrap

Mara was having a bad hair day, or she just doesn't like me (can you imagine that?) so she decided to give me an award with a HUGE string attached! The recipient of this award has to list 10 honest personal things. I feel this is more of a tag than an award, but hey, I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth. *very deep sigh* I liked reading Mara's personal confessions, so wasn't it just fair to list some of my own? And I do appreciate people who give me an award. And I didn't have this award yet. So I sighed again and decided I would not ignore this one. Previous results however are certainly no guarantee of future ones. This will most probably be my last acceptance speech for an award or a tag.

Sad thing is that I have to pass this award and the HUGE string attached to it on to other bloggers. More or less fortunately a very dear blogfriend of mine, who shall remain nameless because she might JINX ME if I say who she is, asked me to tease another very dear blogfriend by "threatening" him with an award of some kind. She can't do it herself, because she is a very wise woman and doesn't accept awards or tags.

And I am too nice for my own good.

Actually I hardly dare call the person I/we would like to pass this on to, a blogfriend, because he is actually my Blog God and a certain respectful distance would be in order if he wasn't the sweetest and funniest guy I know in Blogworld which makes it hard to keep that distance. I'm already groveling, have you noticed? And I think I can't even knit a meaningful sentence together anymore. It is sheer fear. I will reveal to you who my Blog God is at the end of this piece. First you have to plough through my

10 honest things: 1. Brinkbeest is a nickname given to me by an English teacher. My last name begins with Brink... and beest means animal or beast. Thank you English teacher! 2. When I hang the multi-coloured washing out to dry, I colour coordinate it. How sad is that? 3. I have a carpenter's eye. It is a blessing and a curse. 4. I don't like shopping. Hubs is very pleased with me. 5. I hate talking on the telephone. One of the reasons is that I don't like talking to people without being able to look them in the eyes. 6. I'm always in doubt. 7. A couple of months ago our piano-tuner called to make an appointment and he is a really nice guy, but always stays far too long and talks too much, and I really wasn't in the mood for that, so I lied and told him we sold the piano, which is rather stupid, because all piano-tuners in our part of the world know each other so he's bound to find out that I've lied. Now I can't bring myself to call another piano-tuner and our piano will remain out of tune for some time to come. 8. I don't lie, except for that one time mentioned in point 7. 9. I think I might have to start wearing my glasses. 10. I 'don't do' numbers. I can't add, divide or deduct. I just can't count! This is the award. I feel I've really deserved it now:

So, now I have to pass this award on to someone else. As I have told you I am going to pass this on to a very sweet guy, who has already received lots of awards, but I couldn't find this one in his award list. Amazing, because if anyone deserves an award for reveiling honest things (I would not call it scrap in his case) about himself...it is of course Suldog! While I'm hiding under my desk for fear of what he might say I would like you to pop over to his place and read this. And, dear Suldog, if you choose to accept this Honest Scrap 'award', you have to list 10 honest things about yourself. Sorry ;-) Personally I am very curious what you will come up with (nudge nudge wink wink).