Chris Alba from
Enchanted Oak has bestowed upon me, the coveted "Honest Scrap" award. If you haven't been to visit her yet, now is a really good time! She actually has talent to write really well, and is very creative and witty. I have been blessed with her friendship and I am honored she passed this on to me. This award comes with rules and I am obliged to follow them as best I can.
Tell 10 honest things about myself.
Pick 10 honest bloggers to pass it on to.
Tell who gave me the award in the first place.
10 Honest Things about me (in no particular order):
1) I ran way from home when I was sixteen years old and never finished tenth grade or graduated from high school.
2) I raised two daughters on my own as a single parent. Today, they are now 30 and 32 years old. Both of my daughter graduated from high school and went to college. The older one graduated with a degree from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and just this year received her Masters degree from Columbia in NYC.
3) I have been self-employed since 1989, as an independent accountant. Before that, I never stayed at any job more than two years. I have never taken an accounting class. In hindsight, I realize that God brought amazing mentors into my life who taught me more than any accounting class ever could. The first year I worked for myself, I doubled my income.
4) Back in the late 90's, a friend and I owned a small house on the beach in Mexico. We took turns going down there every other weekend for about three years. There were no drinking rules in Mexico, and it was the wildest time of my life. I can see now, that this was about the time I began to lose the ability to control my drinking. I am still afraid to go back to Mexico sober.
5) On Tuesday night, I was elected Treasurer for our A.A. General Service District. We have a large district and it is an honor to have been chosen. It's a two year commitment and entails lots of work...but this is what I love to do.
6) I was married the third time on the island of Mauritius, in the middle of the Indian Ocean. My husband was from South Africa, and I have had the opportunity to visit that country many times. It is one of the most beautiful places I have traveled and hope that I will return again one day.
7) I once spent an entire day at Kelsey Gra**er's (Frazier) house. It was back before either one of us was sober. A bartender I had met in New York City two weeks earlier, had gone to high school with Kelsey. I picked him up from LAX airport and we drove to Kelsey's house in Van Nuys. He already had a gin on the rocks going at 10:00am. It was the first time I had ever seen anyone put those little white onions in a drink. It was quite an interesting day, and maybe worthy of more detail in a separate post...along with pictures!
8) I had more names on my sex inventory than all my resentments and fears combined. I was a lover, not a fighter when I drank.
9) I know the words to every song that comes on the radio...from oldies, to rock, to country. I would be hard pressed to tell you the name of the song, or the name of the artist who sang it.
10) I ran into a plate glass window and broke off my front tooth about a year before I got sober. Fear of the dentist knowing how much I drank, kept me from getting the implant I needed. I spent my first year of sobriety without a front tooth...I had a flipper I could pop in and out!
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I know that so many of you have already participated in this honesty exercise, so I am going to try to target newer bloggers, or others who maybe haven't had the chance to do this yet. In my opinion, these are all honest bloggers and worth your time to check them out!
Madison at
Fight of Your Life
Scott at
He Not Busy Being Born is Busy Dying
Annette at
Journey of Recovery-Search for Serenity
Bubbie at
Dear Bubbie
Diane at
This Sober Life
Boots at
Two Cats in the Yard
Mama B at
Her Big Sad
I know it's only seven, but I'll reserve the right to pass on the other three at a later date! Have a great weekend and thanks for all your love and support.
