Welcome Distractions

Yesterday was one of those days. We paid the plumber to plug in our hot water heater. Don’t ask. We had pre-teen drama in the household. I’ll spare you the details. My husband sprained his ankle. Hopefully it’s no more than a sprain. And to put a cherry on top of it, my youngest got sick at school. So when I got tagged on Kelly Morgan‘s blog, Distracted by the Internet, I was ready to welcome the distraction. Apparently, I’ve been nominated for Lesa’s Bald Faced Liar “Creative Writer” Blog Award. Thank you, Kelly! This was just the kind of distraction I needed after my day yesterday.

So, here are the rules:

1. Thank the person who gave this to you.

7. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them.

Here are my outrageous lies and truths. The problem is that the outrageous lies are at least half-true, and the outrageous truths are worded a bit misleadingly—except for one. See if you can figure out which are true and which are lies.

1. I had a brief brush with fame at Dulles International Airport while waiting in line to get my ticket for a trip to France when I was a teenager. Hulk Hogan and his entourage were in line right behind me. I was too timid to say anything but kept glancing back at him until he flashed me a big grin.

2. Raised an Air Force Brat, I’ve lived in three countries (USA, Japan, and Thailand) and seven states (Connecticut, Alabama, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, California, and Wisconsin). By the time I started high school, I had been enrolled in nine different schools, and until high school, I never attended a single school for more than two years.

3. I’ve had to get stitches four times in my life, in four separate incidents (in my lip, my leg, my head, and my finger), but I’ve never broken or even cracked a single bone.

4. When I was seventeen, I wrote a book with my best friend based on a book we’d read together. We sent our manuscript to the author, who told us we were very talented and encouraged us to keep writing. Unfortunately, the manuscript got lost in the mail when she sent it back to us and we never thought to make a copy. No, the book never appeared in publication under anybody else’s name, but it is now lost to us.

5. I rode horses competitively as a teenager, and regularly won ribbons in every event I entered. My crowning glory was winning Overall Champion in my division at a Three Day Eventing competition when I was fifteen years old.

6. My family tree is full of branches grafted onto it through adoption: I am adopted, my birth mother was adopted, my aunt is adopted, my daughter is adopted, her birth mother was adopted, even my foster daughter has adoption in her family tree.

7. I can speak six foreign languages, but not fluently: American Sign Language, French, Japanese, Maori, Spanish, and Russian.

So, which ones are true and which are lies? Comment if you know, or if you want to take a guess. I’ll post the answers later this week.

As for my seven nominees, I don’t necessarily expect everybody to play along, but you should still check out these blogs:

@deannahoak
@fergaloid
@inkyelbows
@jkoyanagi
@lilithsaintcrow
@matociquala
@MonicaEmme

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