Honest scrap

I’ll admit that I never really participated in these kinds of adventures back in the old school days.  But I’m trying to be as much a part of the contemporary community as possible.  So I say thanks to Allison Writes, who has quickly become one of my favorite blogs found through 20-Something Bloggers.  Here we go.

The rules:

1. “The Honest Scrap” award must be shared.
2. The recipient has to tell 10 true things about themselves that no one else knows.
3. The recipient has to pass along the award to 10 more bloggers.
4. Those 10 bloggers all have to be notified they have been given this award.
5. Those 10 bloggers should link back to the blog that awarded them.

My ten fun facts, themed accordingly to this blog:

1.  I wake up to NPR, but, if the alarm goes off between 5:48 and 10-something, I immediately bring up Google Chrome and send it to DC101 for Elliot in the Morning.  Even after listening to Elliot and The Class for the better part of the last decade, they’re still the funniest, best way to start the morning.

2.  Amy Grant was the first concert I ever went to – summer of 1995, House of Love tour.

3.  US Weekly is my go-to magazine for celebrity trash, especially if Lindsay Lohan or the Olsen twins are on the cover.

4.  My favorite actress ever is Gracie Allen.

5.  I don’t harbor a great desire to ever meet celebrities, but I would make the exception for Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Kevin Kline, and Tina Fey.

6.  Speaking of Kevin Kline, I don’t usually refer to Topher as my future baby daddy, but as my future Kevin Kline, after the latter’s character in The Big Chill.  I just hope Topher someday marries someone as awesome as Glenn Close’s character.

7.  When depressed, I watch the ER arc wherein Dr. Greene dies or when Sally Field rolls up as Abby’s mom (the depressed half, not the manic half, though those episodes are great, too).  With people who know me well, “watching Dr. Greene dying” is shorthand for crying on my couch and the probability that I won’t stop until someone forces me to.

8.  My goal in life is to collect all of the Sweet Valley books.  Of the over five hundred titles from its various threads, I’m about halfway there.  Mostly, they come free from the for-the-trash pile at the bookstore where I used to work.

9.  I am forever in debt to Kevin Smith for introducing me to Degrassi in its various forms.  Stef and I couldn’t figure out what the hell they were talking about in Chasing Amy, then we could, but didn’t know where to find it, until I was house-sitting one weekend for a house with satellite.  First episode?  Where Sean and Emma go on their first date and she has that awful half-crimped hair.  We’ve been hooked ever since.

10.  About eight years ago, Jason gave me a Ralph Wiggum doll, whose finger can stick to its nose.  I’ve never taken the doll out of my car.  It lives in the backseat, much to the delight of various drunk people and small children.  It’s only rarely that someone doesn’t know who Ralph is, and then that person has to walk home.  I mean, of course I’m not intolerant of other people’s pop culture shortcomings.

Passing this along, in alphabetical order, to:

1.  Blogxgen

2.  Building Beauty Beyond Body

3.  The Confessions of a Lazy Writer

4.  (Dear Diary) Vodka Made Me Do It

5.  Gabby, She Wrote

6.  Girl Out of Bubble

7.  Liner Notes

8.  The Public, the Private, and Everything In Between

9.  The Scholastic Scribe

10.  Who Invented Roses