Its Like An Awards Show, But For Blogs!

Wow!
I'm so honored!
Brenda over at Mummy Time nominated me for this awesome award!
I honestly don't know what to say.
If anybody has found me via Brenda, thanks for popping over and tell her I said "Hey!"
(It's my first, am I gushing?)
Here's the award:

Am I scrappy?

Pshhhh!

Doesn't matter, beggers can't be choosers.

I'll take it!

Here are my ten honest facts that you probably don't know about me.
If you do know these things about me......I'll make it up to you I guess.

1.  I am a cheese lover. 
I love cheese. 
I will eat it on/with anything!

2.  I'm not one for heroes but man I love Martha Stewart.
She is so crafty!

3.  I'm a closest rap-music enjoyer.
I'm anticipating T.I.'s release from jail.

4.  I'm as redneck as they come but I am not trashy.
(I have lived in a few trailers though.)

5.  A year ago I thought I had a serious drinking problem.
Turns out it was just the guy I was dating.

6.  I am a cheapskate, spendthrift, tightwad, whatever you want to call it.
I like good buys and bargins on good, practical things.

7.  I get excited when no one sits near me in church because then I can sing as loud as I want to and nobody cares how bad it is.
(It doesn't take much to excite me, I know.)

8.   I'm teaching myself to cook and things are going fairly well but pretty bad.
I've only almost burned down the house once.

9.  I consider myself better than most of the kids my age because I'm completely self-supporting and have been for about two years now.
I pay all my own bills (my car is completely paid for), I don't ask anybody for money, I work at least 40 hours a week and go to school fourteen.
It is possible and I don't have to answer to anybody.

10. My biggest fear about my job is getting locked in the cooler. 
I know its only 42 degrees in there (compared to the temperatures outside, that's summer right now!) but I'm terrified of the door shutting on me! 
I prop the door open with anything I can find when I have to go in there.


Now it's my turn.
I have 9 wonderful followers.
Five of them will recieve this award (Brenda won't because she already has it) and I will include four blogs that I follow that you may or may not know about.
1. Travel and Dive Girl
2. Marnie
3. Lea
4. Pearl
5. Chris
6. Pioneer Woman
7. Zakary
8. Matt
9. Bakerella


Ok, there's my list.
Do some readin'!
......If you want to!

New Leaf

Its time for me to change.
I know that its several days past the new year and that this resolution is a bit late but its not a resolution, its a life change.
Since I was eight years old, I've been a Christian.
Until about age fourteen I was a pretty strong-in-my-faith Christian.
I know that God helped me through my parents' divorce and I'd probably be weirder and more messed up than I am without Him.
But when I was fourteen or so I started getting distracted by boys, one boy specifically and since then God hasn't been as important to me.
For about a month now, I've been reading my Bible almost everyday.
Since October I've been going to church every Sunday night and have only missed two from working late.
I've realized that God is really important to me and that I need to act like it.
My faith is really personal to me, I'm not one to talk about God to people, even though that's what I'm technically supposed to be doing.
Eventually I'll get to that I guess.
But right now I'm going to work on my mouth.
I'm going to stop swearing, cursing, cussing or whatever you want to call it.
Its really not nice for me to say things like that and its gotten to be a particularly nasty habit.
From now on I will not be swearing, cursing, cussing or whatever in my blog posts.
In a few minutes I'll be going back through all my old posts deleting a bunch and maybe just tweaking the words on some other ones.
I'm not going to get all religious and start posting "Daily Bible Verses" or whatever but I might talk about God a little more and definitely change some bad words for good.
I have to start somewhere and this is where it will be.
My posts will still be sarcastic and funny (If you even think they're sarcastic and funny in the first place. I do.)
I'll still be me, but with a little less sailor.
Oh!
Check out these really cool socks I got as a belated Christmas present.

They're knee socks.

Well, over-the-knee socks, technically.

Pretty cool.

So this week was my last first week back at school and I missed every day of it.
I only go to school two days a week; its part of the program I'm in. 
I take 14 hours of classes in 2 days and then I work 40 hours a week at my job.
I missed Wednesday because it was Boots' grandmother's funeral.
It was a very nice funeral.
Its so different attending a funeral rather than working one.
I don't know what to do really, so I spent most of my time watching Boots like he was going to run away and leave me!
I wasn't scared being around these people that I don't really but kinda know, I just wanted to be with Boots.
Hold his hand everywhere we walked.
And I just like looking at him.
Observing.
I like watching the way he walks and watching him laugh at jokes while he's talking to other people.
I'm missing school today, Thursday, because of the snow.
My school's in Mississippi and they are scheduled to receive 4 to 6 inches of snow today.
So no school.
And now its starting to snow here in Alabama.
Ugh.
I hate snow.
Why does it ever have to snow in the South?
If we wanted snow that bad, couldn't we go up North to experience it?
It only creates headaches down here.

Today is my last first day at my school.
I've been going here for two years, this is my fifth semester and I'm almost officially done.
Its not much longer til the end.

New Quarters

I'm not talking about money.
Guess where I'm sleeping tonight.
At the fun house funeral home.
Guess why.
Read this next part really fast just for kicks.
Trust me, it sounds better inside your head that way.
And imagine the voice that's saying it is really southern.
K?
Here goes.
Cuz I got a horrible gas leak and I almost woke up at work instead of coming to work because last night before I went to bed I almost left the gas logs on and went to sleep but I got up to turn them off because I was afraid that the extra heat would catch my couch (lovely couch!) on fire and then burn our  house stupid apartment where 8 dogs live upstairs nice apartment down but instead I might have prevented us from dying in our sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning!
Whew!
Out of breath now.
And that's quite a string of prepositional phrases.
OK, fast story slower.
The roommate came home from work, smelled gas, called landlady, no answer.
Proceded to hunt down call maintenance man.
Maintenance man arrives, says, "Ya gotta gas leak!", procedes to shut off gas, pops back in his truck with his lady friend and speeds away.
OK.
Now what?
Roommate decides maybe still not safe to breathe there, packs up my dog and since I gotta be on call for the "Hotel California" tonight, I'm sleeping at work.
In the dorm.
On one of the old twin beds.
Excellent.
I don't mind sleeping here, but I'd rather be at home sleeping in my bed because I KNOW whose cooties are in that mattress--mine!
And I gotta get ready for school here in the morning.
And Boots' grandma died last night.
Which really sucks.
I never even knew the lady.
He cried.
Which was really sad but I can't wait to see him cry Wednesday at her funeral.
I want to wrap my arms around him and squeeze him and love on him.
Is that wrong that I'm eagerly anticipating seeing the boyfriend cry?
It just occurred to me that I might be a tad bit excited.
Geez Louise, what kind of sicko am I?
Oh!
Aaaaaaaaannnnnndddddd......I'm up to 9 followers!
Yay me!

Last night at visitation I was talking to my friend Worm (we call him Worm because he's so skinny) about his upcoming wedding.
He said that her parents have spent $4000 (that's FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS folks!) on flowers.
FLOWERS!
I don't have $4000 to spend on anything let alone something that will be dead and ugly the next day!
I'm flabbergasted!
I've been thinking plastic silk was the way to go.
What about your weddings?
Give me some ideas!

Traditions/Superstitions

Here in America (or maybe I should just say "Here in this South" since I can't really speak for the rest of the country) we believe in eating black eyed peas, cornbread, greens, and hog jawls on NYD.
Why?
Because its a long standing tradition.
Because they say its good luck.
Because they say it will bring you money in the new year.
Whatever.
I ate two ham and cheese sandwiches with mustard for lunch. 
We'll see how my luck runs this year.