Guessing Games

Guess what?

Remember how we used to drive our parents batty with that question?  And then how our own children drove us batty with the same question?

"Guess what?"

"What?"

"Guess!"

"I don't know..."

"Just guess!"

And so on and so on and so on...

But guessing games can be quite fun at times, so that's what're doing today.  Why?  Guess.

Come on, take a stab at it.  Just guess.

Give up?

Okay, I'll tell.

Mother Theresa, at The Rain in Spain has presented me with the Stylish Blogger award.  Isn't it pretty? I like the way it sparkles.  And since I've never, EVER, been referred to as stylish, I will gratefully accept this award.   Thank you, Mother Theresa!

As with many awards, this one comes with requirements - that I tell you, my readers, seven fascinating bits of knowledge about myself, and that I pass it on to ten other stylish bloggers.

Stylish, y'all hear that?  You gotta be stylish.

But, I'm having a little trouble coming up with seven fascinating bits y'all don't already know about me.  I mean, come on, when you've told everybody what brand of feminine products you use, well, that just doesn't leave much to the imagination, now does it?

So, to disguise the fact that I have no further scintillating tidbits about myself, I've come up with my own version of this meme: Guess what.  As in, guess what's true and what's not true.  About moi.

Yeah, I'm a French Southern belle.

That one's not true.  I'm giving y'all a freebie.

Oh, I almost forgot...I now get to pass this on to ten more Stylish Bloggers!  And since I don't know much about some of my newest followers, (except, of course, that they're stylish,) I choose to present the award to some of them... 

1)   Heather, at This is the Day.

2)   Kelly, at Cross Your T's.

3)   Cindy, at Another Step Forward.

4)   Wanda, at Tennessee Perennial Images. 

5)   Colleen, at Edge of the Woods Studio.

6)   Barbara, at Confessions of a Photography Addict - Long Hollow Photography.

7)   Birdie, at 40 and Loving It.

8)   In the Gutter.

9)   Rain, at My Farm on the Hill.

10) CherylK, at Lake Mary Musings.

Okay, so here we go.  Since I need to list seven true things, I'm balancing it out with seven things that aren't true. Watch out, now - some are a cinch, but some are tricky.  Play along, and I'll post the answers Monday, April 4.  If you're just dying to know before that, though, e-mail me and I'll clue you in.

1)    I used to live just 7 miles away from Elvis Presley.  I painted his portrait more than once and even have one of my originals hanging in my loft at home.

2)    I once chased a bear up a mountain to get a closer photo.

3)    I have been invited to the Royal Wedding in London.

4)    I have a photo hanging in my house of me with Gary Trudeau, of Doonesbury fame, taken after I had been commissioned to do some life-sized stand-ups of his characters.

5)    Had Fred not put his foot down (which he does a lot,) I would probably be the mother of twelve children.

6)    Shirley McClaine and I were sisters in a past life.

7)    I love my job.

8)    I once helped deliver a baby in the backseat of a car.

9)    My father was on the Selma march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

10)  When I was a little girl, I wanted nothing more out of life than to go to the moon.

11)  I was once asked by a good friend to partner on her grand money-making idea, but I refused.  She made a bit of money...as designer of the Cabbage Patch Kids.

12)  As an artist long, long ago, I worked with the man who eventually became a Disney artist...and the producer of Mulan.

13)  Fred served for a brief time as a deputy sheriff and we met when he had to arrest me for...well, we won't go into that right now.

And now the most important little tidbit...

14)  In July, I will welcome my first grandchild into this world, and it's....a girl!  Or is it a boy?

Guess what?