Lie Meme, Tagged by simplysakka

Write a blog entry with five complete lies about yourself. That is, five things about you that are completely not true. Not even slightly. THEN hide in the entry a 6th line, something that is absolutely TRUE and the first person to guess which one is true wins :) Then tag up to five people you want to turn into compulsive liars too.

(Note: I tried to make this as a poll, but the character limit did me in. I had to come up with elaborate lies, 'cause it was really hard for me to come up with lies at all.... So, just comment on which number you think is the true one.



1. When I was little, a cat bit me hard enough to draw blood. For years, I really didn't like, and was somewhat afraid of, cats.

2. My senior year in college, I thought I had enough credits to take almost no classes, so I didn't. Unfortunately, this resulted in a last minute scramble, in which I had to take a proficiency test in an easy class, to get my last *1* credit hour and graduate!

3. My first husband and I used to play card games as foreplay. Whoever lost (best 3 of 5) went down on the other. (Hey, everyone's a winner!)

4. My somewhat-prudish mother used to always tell me, with a faraway look in her eyes, to marry an Italian. I was too young to have any clue why she would suggest that.

5. A few months ago, driving on 400, I saw some sort of zoo/circus truck thingy, with a really tall trailer - I could just barely see the giraffe inside!

6. When I was in high school, I went to a mall, and there was thing travelling show thing, where they'd let you hold exotic animals and get your picture taken. I got to hold a lion cub and a tiger cub. I still have the pictures!

Meh...

I called in sick to Sedona this morning. I had thought last night that I was sick. David went to the Falcons pre-season game last night, and so they just called me when they were on their way home, which woke me up from a nap (which is how I had planned it). But I woke up feeling like I'd been hit by a truck - headache, nausea, overally shittiness. I even took my temperature while I was there - 98.6, which is actually a little high for me, but not really at that time of night, given biorhythms/circadian cycles and all that. So, I figured I was just tired.

This morning, headache was worse (don't remember if I was nauseous or not), and I was EXTREMELY photosensitive. So much so I had my husband email my co-workers and tell them I wasn't coming in, 'cause I couldn't handle sitting in front of the computer screen. We even closed the blinds in the bedroom, which I don't think we've done since we moved here. I used the headache pillow that SimplySakka had gotten us for a gift, and it was lovely, and kept the light out of my eyes, and smelled good. The usual 800mg ibuprofen didn't help. BlckwngdOrcl had some sort of sample for migraines that had been given to him by a co-worker, so I downed that, and went back to bed. I woke up around 2pm, I think, and I'm clearly better enough to sit in front of the computer. I can't tell if the pain is completely gone or not. I feel kinda wiped, still, though. I had some tea and toast (which is what my mother always gave me when I was sick, sans the cinnamon/sugar I put on it), and I think I'll be brave enough to eat something more substantial soon. For the most part, though, I think I'll take it easy today. Laundry and TV sounds just about right.

Some Further Thoughts on Polyamory

The following is a cross-post. I posted my angst-y polyamory woes to my Core Energetics group, and got a very strong negative response from one of my class members, who thinks that BlckwngdOrcl is taking advantage of me, and that my reaction to his dating is normal. Which, really, I suppose, it is. I'm editing my post a bit to make it more LJ-friendly, and I'm not posting what he wrote to prompt it, because that particular group is a private one, and everything said there is "safe" from anyone's eyes but our own. But this is my writing, and I want to share it.

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