Ashley at Writing to Reach You gave me the Honest Scrap award!

The Honest Scrap award comes with a caveat or two. First, you must tell your readers 10 true things about yourself that they may not know. Second, you must tag 10 people with the award.

1. I’m 5′1 and extremely petite. My husband is a foot taller than me. Even my 13-year-old brother has passed me up. I’ve embraced my height. However, I have not embraced the fact that I still look fourteen even though I’m twenty.

2. My first job was at a coffee shop. It was really a little restaurant, and I washed dishes every Sunday. My first full-time job was at McDonald’s, and I worked 30-40 hours a week my junior year of high school. My senior year, I worked 40+ hours a week, and I’m still not sure how I did it.

3. I’ve only had two real relationships. Other than “boyfriends” before high school (all of which lasted less than three months, probably), there was Ryan, a boy I dated for two years–we began dating my freshman year of high school. I was mostly single for the majority of my junior year and half of my senior year. Josh and I started dating the second semester of my senior year.

4. If you’re a long-time reader, you know that I was a virgin before marrying Josh. I’m proud of it, actually. Luckily, he was a virgin, too. Even though I’m proud of it, I always feel like I have to explain it because I don’t want people thinking I’m some sort of prude. Hah!

5. Every week, I try to think of something to write about for TMI Thursday, but I can never think of anything. Okay, that’s a lie. I think of stuff, but I’m too afraid to post it. Maybe I should go into the archives of my memory to find something mild to start off with.

6. Even though I look like I’m the youngest, I’m the oldest child in my family. I have a younger sister (18) and a younger brother (13). On my mom’s side of the family, I’m the oldest grandchild. On my dad’s side, I’m the oldest female grandchild (I have two older male cousins, ages 26 and 24). That’s only counting first cousins, of course.

7. I always like to tell this story. Getting married young runs in my family, I suppose–but it gets even crazier! My parents got married at eighteen after knowing each other for only eight days. Yes, EIGHT days. Dad walked into the grocery store that Mom worked at, she gave him her number, and eight days later, they were married. Love at first sight? Or maybe they were just crazy. Almost twenty-two years later, they’re still married.

8. I’ve never really had close friends that were my age. I always became friends with people older than me, even if it’s only by a few years.

9. My absolute favorite book is Echo by Francesca Lia Block. It’s honestly too hard to explain without just showing you  the entire book. You’d just have to read it.

10. I can never finish the “100 things” memes, so I’m glad this one was only ten. I usually stop at ten, anyway.

Tagging:

Kyla Roma
Tiffany
Lily Speak
Amber Alert
Courtney
Girl Jordyn
LiLu
That’s What Je Said
Vagina Drum
The Almost Right Word

I know some of you already have this award, but just know that I love you (and your blog)!