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velvetpage) wrote2005-02-06 08:43 pm
velvetpage) wrote2005-02-06 08:43 pm
The answers
I'm cutting this for the sake of those who didn't see the meme, and want to guess before they do.
1) I first met my husband at the age of nine weeks.
This is true. My parents and his were in Salvation Army training college together as babies. In fact, since we came from the same corps, we probably met before that.
2) I have served shots at a strip club.
Nope.
3) My sisters have both served shots at a strip club.
True. One of them still does.
4) I am deathly allergic to cottonseed oil.
Completely false. I stole it from a student a few years ago.
5) Practically all jewelry makes me break out in a rash.
True.
6) I got the best massage of my life on Christmas Eve 1993, from an American in France.
True. Sorry, I'm not telling this story.
7) I once rode on the back of a scooter in Florence.
True. The scooter's owner put up with a classical music concert in a beautiful old church in an effort to get the lonely American girl into bed. It didn't work, but the concert was lovely and Florence is beautiful from the back of a scooter.
8) I have French grandparents.
This one is sort of true. They are no blood relation, but they were my counsellors the year I was in France and they kind of adopted me. I saw them again when I went back a few years later, and we e-mail back and forth from time to time. They're lovely people.
9) I possess a bound edition of a weekly French newspaper chronicling the first six months of WWI.
True. It was given to my in-laws while they were corps officers in Montreal many years ago, and since I'm the only member of the family who speaks French, it's now mine. It's very interesting reading.
10) My book collection exceeds two thousand volumes.
This is the other one that's kind of true. If you consider possessions of married people to be communal property, then it's true - together, Piet and I have more than two thousand books. Individually, though, my collection is less than one-third of that (though not much less.)
11) I wrote my first book at the age of eight.
True. It was called "The People of Pentar", and it filled two school notebooks. Hey, I didn't say I PUBLISHED a book, now did I?
12) I visited or lived in eight provinces before my sixth birthday – but not a single state.
Again, true. Chalk one up to the Sally Ann's penchant for moving its officers all over creation. I spent a winter in Nova Scotia, and the two winters after that in Winnipeg. It was quite an education.
13) My great grandmother was an ordained minister.
True. She was a Hallelujah Girl in Nottingham before WWI. She left the Work to marry my great-grandfather after the war.
14) I am the only member of my immediate family never to play a brass instrument. (Elizabeth excepted.)
Not true. My mother has that distinction. I played the trombone for a while in middle school.
15) I have written letters to the editor defending creation science.
False. I have argued creation science, but by the time I started writing letters to the editor, I had started to question it.
So there you have it. This was fun!
1) I first met my husband at the age of nine weeks.
This is true. My parents and his were in Salvation Army training college together as babies. In fact, since we came from the same corps, we probably met before that.
2) I have served shots at a strip club.
Nope.
3) My sisters have both served shots at a strip club.
True. One of them still does.
4) I am deathly allergic to cottonseed oil.
Completely false. I stole it from a student a few years ago.
5) Practically all jewelry makes me break out in a rash.
True.
6) I got the best massage of my life on Christmas Eve 1993, from an American in France.
True. Sorry, I'm not telling this story.
7) I once rode on the back of a scooter in Florence.
True. The scooter's owner put up with a classical music concert in a beautiful old church in an effort to get the lonely American girl into bed. It didn't work, but the concert was lovely and Florence is beautiful from the back of a scooter.
8) I have French grandparents.
This one is sort of true. They are no blood relation, but they were my counsellors the year I was in France and they kind of adopted me. I saw them again when I went back a few years later, and we e-mail back and forth from time to time. They're lovely people.
9) I possess a bound edition of a weekly French newspaper chronicling the first six months of WWI.
True. It was given to my in-laws while they were corps officers in Montreal many years ago, and since I'm the only member of the family who speaks French, it's now mine. It's very interesting reading.
10) My book collection exceeds two thousand volumes.
This is the other one that's kind of true. If you consider possessions of married people to be communal property, then it's true - together, Piet and I have more than two thousand books. Individually, though, my collection is less than one-third of that (though not much less.)
11) I wrote my first book at the age of eight.
True. It was called "The People of Pentar", and it filled two school notebooks. Hey, I didn't say I PUBLISHED a book, now did I?
12) I visited or lived in eight provinces before my sixth birthday – but not a single state.
Again, true. Chalk one up to the Sally Ann's penchant for moving its officers all over creation. I spent a winter in Nova Scotia, and the two winters after that in Winnipeg. It was quite an education.
13) My great grandmother was an ordained minister.
True. She was a Hallelujah Girl in Nottingham before WWI. She left the Work to marry my great-grandfather after the war.
14) I am the only member of my immediate family never to play a brass instrument. (Elizabeth excepted.)
Not true. My mother has that distinction. I played the trombone for a while in middle school.
15) I have written letters to the editor defending creation science.
False. I have argued creation science, but by the time I started writing letters to the editor, I had started to question it.
So there you have it. This was fun!
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I'll tell you my parallel story to #7 if you tell me the story of #6. . .
I do have a question about #7. You said "in an effort to get the lonely American girl into bed" - are you American or Canadian? I'm confused.
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I remember having conversations where people would try to guess my nationality. It went something like this:
"Dutch?"
"non."
"Anglaise?"
"Non."
"Americaine?"
"Non. Absolument pas."
The guesses would get more and more outrageous, and when I finally told them the truth, their answer was, "But you can't be Canadian. You don't have a Quebecois accent." *bangs head against wall*
Story for six to follow later.