19 Random Truths and 1 Lie
Care to play?
1. When I was a little girl, I assigned gender to various things: Cats (girls), dogs (boys), the moon (girl), the sun (boy), cars (girls), trucks (boys)…
2. I was once invited to spend 6 months in the Chinese province of Guizhou, working with doctors to reduce stigma, and to develop a community volunteer program…at a ‘leper colony’.
3. Despite coming from a very musically gifted family, I cannot carry a tune in a bucket.
4. If I could drop everything, and go anywhere in the world right now, I would go to Paarl, South Africa.
5. I’m afraid of parking garages.
6. I’m a bit of a pervert.
7. Alphonse Mucha is my favorite artist.
8. When I was younger, I accidentally broke up my roommate’s band by making out his guitar/mandolin/viola player and causing a bunch of drama–earning myself the nickname, “Lips”.
9. I’m a sympathetic crier.
10. I abhor handguns, but am a pretty good shot.
11. I once shattered my ankle while walking down the Las Vegas strip, making out with a complete stranger.
12. I have a syphilis lunchbox.
13. My favorite book is Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections.
14. I’ve never seen The Terminator.
15. I have no idea what happens to us when we die, but I really want to believe in reincarnation because it just makes sense to me that God would recycle.
16. I think the desert is a magical place, but I’m not so sure people were meant to live there.
17. Next month marks my 10 year ‘cancer-free’ mark. According to my oncologist, my chance of reccurance at this point is less than 2%. You bet your sweet ass we’re having a party to celebrate the closest thing to “cured” that I’m ever going to get.
18. I’m a little bit obsessed with stripey knee socks.
19. As much as I’d like to say that I’m completely over The Capt’n, there are times, late at night, when I’m in bed, and his arms aren’t around me, and his breath is not on the back of my neck…and I miss him, damn it.
2o. I can keep a secret.
Moxie Britches 
Sure I’ll play.
1. I kind of like to be the center of attention, even though I am also shy.
2. I am not very fond of jazz.
3. I have been nearly killed at least three times in my life.
4. My totem animal is the River Otter.
5. I had a huge crush on LeVar Burton for most of my childhood – ever since “Roots” – and when I was a nanny, I’d make the kids watch Reading Rainbow so I could look at him some more.
6. I have met James Herriott, in his hometown of Thirsk, Yorkshire, England, and found him to be very endearing and delightful.
7. I have never seen any of the Godfather movies.
8. I have never in my life used any kind of illegal drug.
9. I want to skydive someday.
10. When I was in Germany, I met and made out with a guy I met in a bar.
11. I am obsessed with time travel. My favorite books and movies all seem to have something to do with it.
12. My biggest crush when I was a kid was a character in a book.
13. So far, my 40’s are my best decade ever – in spite of the pain of losing my mom.
14. I have one regret, that I allowed my daughter to live with a man that didn’t like her or appreciate her, for four years. But I don’t wish it never happend or that I hadn’t lived with him, because then we wouldn’t have had Pender Island or met so many of our good friends. So its confusing.
15. I secretly love sappy love songs with corny lyrics.
16. I am terrified to have my own practice as a doula/parent support person, but I know I have to do it or I will have major regrets when I die.
17. I wish I could sing better than I do.
18. I am scared to go white water rafting, and wish I wasn’t.
19. I’m pretty scared of getting cancer. It seems to be prevalent in my family, but I am doing everything I can reasonably do to prevent it.
20. If I accidentally got pregnant right now, I would be thrilled.
Great list, Dylan. I love your crush on LeVar Burton. Heh. Watch a lot of Star Trek, the Next Generation?
So, shall I guess which one is your lie? And care to guess which one is mine?
Star Trek: NG….I own the entire series now. LOL
Sure, go ahead and guess my lie. And yours is the last one I think.
Nope! Number 2 is also, true! I didn’t end up going but I had the opportunity. Part of me regrets not going, what a great opportunity, right??? But it would have been a long, expensive trip (especially since the Clinic wouldn’t hold my job), and I couldn’t find anyone to watch the Ruby Dog for six months. And was told I couldn’t bring her because ‘spotted dog’ is considered ‘just right’ and she surely would have been eaten. Hrrrumph. There will be no eating the Ruby Dog.
Try again!
HINT: My lie isn’t all that interesting.
I’m going to go with…sky diving. That’s gotta be a lie–right? Heh.
Ha! I can too, keep a secret! Nope. My lie is one of the others…;)
And yours is tricky! I’m going to go with…number 6? Because you would expect him to be endearing and delightful, based on his books…so, perhaps there’s irony here. Maybe he wasn’t such a delightful fellow? Tricky, tricky, Dylan–this is tough!
Ha…ok. My second guess then – this is HARD – is #2 then.
And you’re wrong! I have met him and he IS just like he is in his books! :o) Try again!
Nope. I have wanted to skydive.
Try again! Hint: Part of it is true, part of it is not.
My next guess…#8?
Boring lie….hm….I have no idea. I could guess all the rest, one by one. Since I’ve never heard of a syphillis lunch box I’ll say that one is the lie.
And #1 is true also. One more guess till we reveal?
Mary, I love reading your thoughts! They really do make me smile 🙂
Thanks, Olimpia. They clutter up my brain, so every now and then I have to release them. 😉
Okay, Dylan…my guess is #1!!!
And #8 is true. Embarrassingly, enough. Big early 20s romantic drama that happens when you date/make out within your circle of friends. His (at that point) ex found out that we were crushing on each other and threatened to kill herself, and they ended up getting back together and moving out-of-state–within a couple of weeks. Crazy, huh? The big joke was, “that must have been some kiss…”
Care to try again? Again, it’s a rather boring lie…
Okay, okay, I give…what’s your lie?
Mine’s #13. I felt like I was *suppose* to love the book because everyone and their mother recommended it to me, and it was up for a Pulitzer and a National Book Award but…I reeeeeeeeeally hated it. I wanted to kick its ass when I was done reading it. I’m not sure if it’s Jonathan Franzen’s “voice” or what, but I found it pretentious. I actually threw it across the room when I finished reading it. LOL
PS: I have a pic of my syphilis lunchbox in one of my Facebook albums. It was a birthday present from my friend Dooley. Heh. It’s metal and has vintage syphilis ‘posters’ on it. It’s pretty much awesome.
Mine is #10. I have never been to Germany. The guy I made out with was from Liverpool and I met him in Wales. :oP
I’m gonna have to go look at your picture. And I’ve never heard of that book and now won’t bother. LOL
Love it! Okay, I’ve changed my FB profile pic just for you…
This is a fun game…I totally missed the boat (LOL). I really enjoyed voyeuring -is that even a word- the comments too.
Ha! Voyeuring is great. Your turn for a list. 😉
PS: I should have picked a more interesting lie. Heh.
Thanks, I’ll play though now I already know your lie… 🙂 ANYHOO, let the games begin!
1. I also assigned gender to various things as a child. The moon was definitely a “she”!
2. I hated my mom for a little while as a child of eight when she divorced my father.
3. I do not like Country music.
4. I have never been a jealous person.
5. I can sing very well but am so shy I don’t sing in public anymore. Not even in front of my man.
6. I used to play the flute in 3rd and 4th grade.
7. My favorite author is Jo Clayton.
8. I once tried to be an “escort” and almost moved to Nevada to work in a brothel.
9. I have a crush on Sam Rockwell (Moon, anyone?).
10. I’ve had men ask me to spank them for money.
11. I am so shy I will at times get so anxious that I will ask my mom to go somewhere with me.
12. I went to Europe during a Spring Break and smoked the ganja in Amsterdam with my now ex-husband.
13. I have had several one night stands and not known the person’s name.
14. I love the smell of puppy breath before they’ve eaten food other than their mother’s milk.
15. I am in the process of collecting all of Christian Bale’s movies for my viewing pleasure.
16. I have been with a woman.
17. I will eat my cereal dry and then drink milk after I take a bite.
18. I have worked in several retail porn stores and had a “fan club” of strange men.
19. I am kinky and I like it.
20. I want to learn how to belly dance and secretly wish I was Rachel Brice.
I finally came around….
1. I swear I remember my little brother having his two front teeth extracted when he was a toddler due to baby bottle mouth –neither him nor my mother remember or believe me.
2. I went to a different elementary school pretty much every year, three junior highs, and luckily only one high school for a total of about 13-14 schools.
3. I used to want to be a semi-truck owner & driver.
4. I love to read, I always have 2-3 books going at a time.
5. I wish I would have continued French in school, it came pretty easy as it’s a Latin based language.
6. I’m known in certain circles as the “Mexican MacGyver”.
7. I took a picture with Jamie Foxx here in Phoenix.
8. I’ve lived in five states, but been to 15 of our states –and D.C.
9. I have the feistiest mama I know –she’s so awesome.
10. I’ve lived in Arizona for almost 16 years and have never been to the Grand Canyon.
11. I used to have a mini tradition of getting a tattoo on Memorial Day weekend.
12. I’ve been a paid pelvic model for (medical) residents doing their gynecology rotation.
13. I love football –good ol’ American football.
14. I graduated from beauty school…er uhm Cosmetology College.
15. I have taken a belly dancing class.
16. I enjoy detailing my car myself –it only takes me about two and a half hours.
17. I have never voted.
18. I kissed my first boy when I was five, and I liked it a lot.
19. My family doesn’t know I was abducted for a few hours by a “family friend” when I was in junior high.
20. A Moroccan man who was with his parents at the Tabor Center in Denver, proposed to me when I was 24 because he liked my calves (no livestock, just my legs).
#11 is the lie… hmm?
Nu-uh…it’s a bit harder when you don’t really know someone. I can’t tell yours, but I’m going to guess #5.
Woooooooooo! Thanks for playing, ladies. Great lists!
Now, Heather, I have no idea. I’m going to go with either #2 or #8? I think #5 is adorable. I really cannot sing well at all but love to, anyway. I would get shy around the Capt’n, though, and sing very quietly to myself. And #9? Me, too. Big time. Have you seen his dancing outtakes from “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”??? So flippin’ adorable.
Olimpia: You did make your lie too easy! For me, at least…hehe…which books are you reading, huh? Huh? Love your list, though. I think I knew all of these except #1, #19 and #20…
My turn! My turn!
1. I still believe in Love…
2. I’ve lived in 2 countries and 5 states…
3. I still want to be a Rockette (and I’m STILL too short!)
4. I wish I had more time with my father (both of them)
5. I wish I had a better relationship with my mother
6. Until recently, I was afraid of public restrooms
7. I used to sell panty hose on the telephone to random people
8. I was MVP on my high school track team
9. I dream of being a professional dancer
10. I LOVE The Bears and The Cardinals
11. I used to collect tea sets
12. My dogs are my life (couldn’t or wouldn’t want to live without them – even the stinky one)
13. I wish I did more community service
14. I had a crush on Fred Savage growing up (I hated Winnie – That Bitch!)
15. As I get older my fear of flying increases
16. I’m allergic to alchololic beverages
17. I tried to become an alcoholic
18. I used to chase a boy named Colin around the playground for a kiss and he got hit by an ice cream truck running away from me!
19. I don’t like living in Arizona (if it wasn’t for my family I would be living some where else)
20. I want lots and lots of babies when I grow up
Oooh, love your list, Susan! I love your dogs, too–even the stinky one! Heh. And you’d make a fabulous Rockette. I’m gonna guess that #16 is the lie (since I’ve been out drinking with you!), but #18 seems a bit far fetched–I mean, what boy would run away from a kiss from YOU?! 🙂
Thanks Mary…Yes, I AM alergic to alcohol and I DID cause Colin to break a leg with my kisses! 🙂
Hmmm…interesting. How about #10? Or #17?
Sue…I’m going to have to guess #2….am I right?
Wrong ladies… good guesses though. And Mary, #8 is true sad to say.
Olimpia. I say # 17.
Susan, I say # 11.
Great guesses but #8 is my lie…I was horrible on my track team! Didn’t even make Varsity! 🙂
Susan, you lived in Germany too -right? That why I guessed #2. My lie, as Mary & Susan know too well, is #4. I am the only person in my family and circle of friends that really doesn’t enjoy reading. Heather, I give up what’s your lie?
Hee hee!! # 4 is my lie 🙂
I am a Taurus after all *wink*