Before you say “But she said she wasn’t going to do posts on awards” This is different, and I did say I may post some that are slightly different. Anyway, it’s my blog!
Fhaye of Photodito passed this on to me. Thank you Fhaye, I enjoyed doing it.
This is the ‘Honest Scrap’ award
With this award I must list at least ten honest scraps about myself. It’s not easy to list things that I haven’t already shared here, but I managed to come up with ten new things.
1. I come from a very large, and somewhat colourful family. Our family history could not be mistaken for ‘ordinary’ by any stretch of the imagination. I grew up with a toleration of differences that maybe I wouldn’t have, if our family had been more ’so-called’ ordinary.
2. Everything I do, by way of hobbies, Is totally self-taught. Playing the guitar, drawing, painting, photography etc. I never read books, or go to classes. I may well get the same results, through experimenting, but it no doubt takes me much longer than it would if I’d had lessons. I feel that if I’m taught, I miss out on the experimental journey, which is half the fun for me.
3. I have never used facial creams in my life. Not anti-wrinkle, or moisturizer, or any other cream. Other than soap and water, and the odd face mask when I was a spotty teenager, my face has been totally beauty product free! No comments please!
4. I am not very tolerant of people who, every time you see them and say “Hi, how are you?”, sigh and proceed to list all of their ailments and problems. Once, or even twice, is reasonably acceptable, but if that’s all I ever get, I will usually say something positive in an attempt to stop them. If that doesn’t work, I will stop saying “How are you?” replace it with “Hi” and move on. There are far too many people in this world with real problems.
5. I am a very optimistic person. Life has taught me that most things work out for the good long term, and no amount of worrying will change the outcome. You may as well go through whatever it is with a light heart. If you worry that something might happen, and it doesn’t, you’ve just wasted part of your life in an unpleasant state for no reason.
6. There are many things in this world that I feel deeply about. All of them are caused by man’s greed, and most end up with man’s inhumanity to either man or animals. The worst thing is that man never learns from the past, he just repeats the same atrocities using a different label.
7. I love animals, and have always wanted a tiny little elephant of about 3 inches high. One that I can hold in my hand and play with. I know, I’m weird.
8. I’ve always been painfully shy and would never speak to people I didn’t know. Once I became a Christian, and learned my true value, I no longer worried about what judgment I came under from strangers. I find that most people are just waiting for someone else to make a friendly gesture, and they respond well.
9. I am only 5′1″ and I have always wished I could have been taller. Being short has definitely been a drawback in life, especially in business. I was once told by a client that he was generous to have given me the opportunity to win his account, for two reasons. One that I was a female and the second was because I was short. Can you believe that? He said that most other people wouldn’t have even given me the chance to try for it, let alone give me the account. I went up against several other designers - all male, and all taller than me, and I won it through my work, not my height! And I held on to the account for 21 years! That made me so mad!
10. I love to make people laugh. Either by being funny or being teased. It’s as if somehow I encourage people to laugh at me and tease me. Everywhere I go people tend to do that, in the most loving way, of course, and I don’t mind at all. In another life I might like to have been a comedian. I would so love to be able to write good humour! That is hard.
I also received two other awards. Both from people that I didn’t know read my blog.
I received ‘The Lemonade Stand’ from The Matthias Chronicles
and ‘The Butterfly Award’ from Rambler @ Lofty Matters
Thank you both.
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Round 1
We bought a Wii. 
Today I decided to use my lightweight tripod and try some indoor shots. It’s an aluminum telescopic one. As I extended all the legs I got my finger caught in it somewhere. I screamed out! I didn’t know where it was caught but the tripod was firmly closed with the fleshy part of my finger trapped inside! It wasn’t trapped for long because it cut the flesh right through, freeing my finger. Oh man! It hurt!
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