2 posts tagged “true lies”
Thanks to Krissy, Phisch, and Amy for playing along with my "two truths and a lie" post.
Item #1 that I was kicked out of children's choir for noting that ewes and rams are different is technically true though oversimplified a bit. We were doing a program called something something like All We Like Sheep, which was a strange children's musical with talking animals learning about forgiveness if I recall correctly. All I really remember is that the two main characters were a ram named Ramsey and an ewe named Eunice. The ram had the biggest speaking/singing part and I was one of the better ones in the choir for memorizing parts, so they decided to make the character a girl by changing the name to Ramona in order for me to play the part .
I pointed out that it was silly to change the name to Ramona since Ramsey and Eunice were supposed to be playing off "ram" and "ewe". I suggested either leaving it a boy part with me still doing it or coming up with another "ewe" name. The director had a meltdown and kicked me out of choir for "trying to shame an authority figure". I was overjoyed because my mom had been "encouraging" me to stay in the choir even though I didn't want to be there. They later tried to get me to come back to the choir, but my mom gave them a piece of her mind about the whole silly situation, and that was the end of children's choir for me! The next year I was able to join youth choir because I started middle school, and that was much better.
The second item about never being a vegetarian because I could never give up steak is definitely a lie, which Krissy correctly guessed. I'm actually not a big fan of steak. During my years as a vegetarian, the only non-vegetarian item I really missed were bacon cheeseburgers. I'm a simple girl.
I also really hate raw meat, so cooking with meat is a little bit of a hurdle for me. (And that aversion is something I still don't really understand because I dealt with a lot worse than a little raw meat on my grandparents' farm.) If Matt were willing to give up meat, we'd definitely be vegetarians at home at least. Oh, I also said in that item that I don't like most vegetables, and that's a lie too. At the moment, I can't think of any vegetable I don't like unless you count tomatoes as a vegetable. I do not like tomatoes at all.
Then there's the third item about wanting 26 children. That was actually a reduction from the number I mentioned when I was really young. My earliest opinion on the matter was that I wanted to adopt a boy and a girl from every country in the world. I think I was fixated on my coloring book with all the little kids dressed in native costumes.
Then I realized there were a lot of countries, so I cut that number by half and said I'd just adopt one child from each country. I got a little older and came up with the coolness of using the alphabet to name my 26 children. At one point, I had all the names picked out with A-Z for the first names and Z-A for the middle names in the style of Abigail Zinnia to Zoe Amalia or Andrew Zane to Zachary Asher. Then I decided an even dozen would be a good number.
Matt was thankful that I'd dropped down to wanting four kids by the time we got married. Now I'm 31, and we've been married for close to 11 years with no kids and no kids planned for the future. It's funny how plans change over the years. Sometimes, that makes me sad, and other times, I don't even think about it one way or the other.
Tell us two truths and a lie about yourself.
OK, you tell me which is the lie.
- When I was in 5th grade, I was kicked out of my church's children's choir program for pointing out that rams and ewes are different.
- I could never be a vegetarian. I'd miss steak way too much, and I don't even like that many vegetables.
- At one point in my life, I wanted 26 children so that I could name each one with a different letter of the alphabet from Andrew/Abigail to Zachary/Zoe.
