Some useful information, some anecdotes, some rantings, and some inspiration
from my quest to make my family and perhaps the world around me A Little Greener Every Day

Carole Brown tagged me for an Honest Scrap Award. I like Carole and I learn a lot from her Ecosystem Gardening blog. She promotes my writing often to so I’ll play along this once. In order to accept this award, I have to tell you 10 honest things about me that you wouldn’t know from reading the blog. And I’ve got to tag 7 other bloggers to participate in being honored in this way.

Okay, here it goes.

1. I was a full-time undergrad student for six and a half years. You read that right. I changed majors a few times – elementary education to communications and ultimately to Bible. Then when I got my BS in Bible (go ahead and snicker – BS, Bible, I know), I decided I wanted to teach high school English. So I had to take a whole slew of undergrad courses and do student teaching.
2. I could live on cheese, wine and all of the things that accompany them (good bread, fruit, etc) for the rest of my life.
3. I’m mostly a wine girl and have several favorite local or organic wines that I love, but my favorite beer is neither local nor eco-friendly (as far as I know). It’s Smithwicks from Ireland. If I’m at the bar and it’s on tap, I’m getting it.
4. I would love to have a podcast with my friend Susan that’s as clever, funny and relevant as More Hip than Hippie except we’d do it about food and wine. Unfortunately, Susan lives too far away for us to attempt it.
5. My eco-friendliness has led me to accept shopping at Good Will. I found a black wool coat that I’ve gotten a ton of compliments on this year for $6.99 there. In fact, the shirt I’m wearing right now came from Good Will. So are the jeans. All of the clothes are name brands and no one would ever know I bought them second hand if they looked at me. So why not?
6. There are some websites I wrote for when I first started freelancing that I wish would take my name off of the pieces.
7. I keep my Facebook account for people I actually know or work closely with online. If you ask to be my friend on Facebook because you like my writing, I’ll be flattered, but I won’t add you to my friends. However, I will probably send you a message saying thank you and letting you know I’ll follow you on Twitter.
8. Sometime back in the early ’90’s, fueled by much Aqua Net, I caught my waist length hair on fire at a Christmas Eve service on one of the candles. I wasn’t hurt, and it’s a great story to tell now.
9. I am a terrible, horrible speller.
10. I think it’s absolutely hysterical how those of us who are doing this are making it a point to say we normally don’t do these things. Really, I think we’re all a little happy to talk about ourselves a bit. Me included.

Okay, now, tag you’re it. That’s right, you. I’m half cheating here and half giving anyone the chance who would like to participate in this the opportunity to. Maybe you would like to do this on your own blog, but no one has tagged you yet. So, if you’re one of the first seven people to write a comment, say “I’m it,” and put do this on your own blog, I’m tagging you.