Lisa of The Butterfly Farmer tagged me for a Painfully Honest Scrap Award. I'm supposed to come up with 10 things that are painfully honest. Therefore, here are 10 things I'll share... painfully...
1. I think I suffer from agoraphobia. I don't enjoy leaving my safe nests. It takes a bit of resolve for me to get myself out of my comfort zone. I married a guy who is the opposite and drags me around the world. We raised our children to not be like me.
2. I hate driving. I did drive to work and to some places within my boundaries but now that I've retired, I never drive. A good friend of mine even composed a song for my school retirement party about my not doing any left turns. Again, we raised our children to not be like me. They drive EVERYWHERE!
3. I love ice cream. I mean, really. Mint chocolate chip, dark chocolate, melon... Yum! Sigh... but I can't have it very often since I am pre-diabetic.
4. I hate needles. I don't enjoy pricking myself to check my glucose levels AT ALL. However, I'm more than willing to prick somebody else to check their blood levels.
5. Which brings me to my next thing. I hate to exercise and yet I must to keep my glucose under control. It's always my resolution for the new year.
6. I love meeting people and having friends but I'm not very comfortable going to a party if I don't know people there. I'm actually extremely introverted at heart although some people might disagree. They might even say I'm bossy... but don't believe them even if they come up with arguments to prove it.
7. I love creating art but I'm not good at it. My brother managed to get all the artistry genes and the good teeth genes and the patience and goodness genes. I loved sewing but I'm not great at that either.
8. I'm a blogging fiend. Unfortunately, I haven't read a book in months.
9. I loved teaching. I loved the children and their parents. I loved all the teachers and staff at school. They were my second family. However, I hated the paperwork and constant pendulum like shifting of teaching pedagogy. Still, it was such a high to see children blossom so beautifully every year.
10. I hate spiders. Yes, I suffer from Arachnophobia, too. I can't stand to even look at photos of them. Snakes don't bother me though. Gosh! I sound like a whimp, hunh?
So there it is! I won't be sending this award forward to anyone but if anybody would like to pick this up, please do and I'll check out your painful honesty.
Here are the rules:
"The honorees are to:
A) First, list 10 honest things about yourself - and make it interesting, even if you have to dig deep!
B) Pass the award on to 7 bloggers that you feel embody the spirit of the "Honest Scrap."
We share 1, 5, 6 & 10....which might surprise you on the 1 & 6!
ReplyDeleteWell done you, you've been so honest. I think I know now why you and I 'clicked' - we share 1, 5, 6 and 9. In fact anxiety tends to rule my life rather too much. I've had to take a diazepam this morning as we're going out to lunch with some very good friends and I woke up with all the usual signs of an anxiety attack. Hence the idea of a campervan - we can take our home with us when we go on holiday!
ReplyDeleteI was a teacher briefly and hated it, because I didn't like to talk all day. My true calling is writing. Blessed solitude.
ReplyDeleteI, too, love ice cream!
1,2,3 and 8. I'm going to pass on this. The last time I was painfully honest, I wound up with my soul posted on my other blog.
ReplyDeleteI promised myself to devote the time here to helping Naomi, but I couldn't resist coming to this post of yours, Kay. Ha, your confessions could be so much worse!
ReplyDeleteWow, we share a lot of things. I only go to the supermarket on a Monday or Tuesday morning very early, because I hate the crowds, and I haven't done any exercise beyond my usual walks, for years. And the walks are hard to get out the door for!
ReplyDeleteI already posted about the spiders too, blech.
Good luck keeping the diabetes at bay: I'm glad you caught it this early. It's one of my worries for myself too.
Great list!
okay now I challenge you to write an equally long list of your good attributes. I think we dwell too much on the negative...I'll start off
ReplyDelete1. you are very outgoing-reaching out to bloggers around the world.
2. you care for your family so much that you left your kids and grandkid to move to Hawaii to be with your mom in her last days.
3....
please email me with the rest or post it tomorrow. I think you are the greatest, sweetest, nicest blogger I've met....so there. Best wishes, Lin
I'm with you on some of these. HATE spiders! I don't mind them outside but HATE them inside. I'm also not too much of an adventurer but am getting better. We have found that going on trips with guides I am very good at so to get me on trips that is where he gives in. Going to Ireland in June!
ReplyDeleteI share #1,2,6 and 10 with you! I agree with Lin, you are one of the nicest bloggers ever!
ReplyDeleteWow ... we have LOTS in common ... mint choc chip ice cream, spending time blogging that I could be reading books (something I've always enjoyed but have little time for these days), loved teaching while I did it (all 34 years), and a few others too. Dunno whether I'll do this Honesty Thing, but I'll give it some thought and let you know if I do.
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,
I got this one, too, and it was hard to really give myself one of those in depth looks, but I guess it doesn't ever really hurt us to take a long look at who we are. That doesn't mean a look just to find fault -- I think we all find it too easy to see the faults in ourselves. There's no doubt to me what a wonderful and delightful person you are and I'm so glad we've been able to meet in this fun, kind of screwy world of cyperspace.
ReplyDeleteSeems I share a few with you as well. As an Old Indian with a weird genetic type(they think)diabetes, do all you can to prevent extreme control measures. At 2 types insulin taken by injection for a total of 8-16 shots per day average, around the clock, it gets really tiresome really quickly. Can't bring myself to use a pump though, as I'd still have a couple shots a day.
ReplyDelete3, 5, 7 and 10!
ReplyDeleteThis was fun to read, but do make a list of all of your good traits as there are so many. I never would picture you as agoraphobic with the way you travel, but I guess that's your hubby "dragging" you around. Tough break, Kay!!
Congrats, neighbor! Aloha-
ReplyDeleteLin is right, of course. Your positives vastly outweigh any negatives, or as they liked to say in my last years of teacher workshops, deltas.
ReplyDelete3-love ice cream, am pre-diabetic
6-introverted, shy, insecure, but opinionated and sometimes "bossy"
7-not so much a creator as I am an arranger, like in putting together a flower arrangement, a table display, plants in my garden. I copy a lot!
9-I loved some parts of teaching, esp. relating to kids, watching them grow and learn, finding a way to get the light to come on.
10-Spiders I can handle as long as they are not on me. Snakes are my phobia.
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ReplyDeleteKay this is such a wonderful insight into 'you'. Thanks for sharing it. I love the way you listed then explained them. It is very interesting, #1 & #2 fit me to a 'T'-just the way you said it. I can relate to #6. And #9 could BE ME. My #10 is sn_ _ es (can't even stand to write it ugggghhhh!! They slither across the ground and stick their tongues out.LOL
ReplyDeleteWe have so much in common especially your comment about teaching..
ReplyDeleteHowever I love driving but flying now..that's different, hate it, hate it.
Good list, got us all talking.
This was fun and insightful. I don't think I could even do it. I didn't find any of these to be particularly negative... just, well... honest declarations of a few little blips in your likes and dislikes.
ReplyDeleteI'm another one who agrees with Lin. You seem so sweet, so genuine... one of my favorite finds in this somewhat wacky world of blogging friendships. I'd love to meet you face to face.
I'm having a hard time sympathizing with you over having to travel the world with your hubby, though. I'd give ten new pair of shoes to have a hubby that wouled drag me off on just ONE trip to see someplace new and exciting.
You are very sweet and genuine. I wasn't so much surprised at these, I was thinking you were too hard on yourself though. ;)
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