OK. I guess I was kind of tricky and my falsehood is actually more of a half truth.
Here's the full story on each of my statements.
1. I was born right on my due date and weighed almost 10 pounds. TRUE
I was born on my due date and weighed in at 9 lbs. 15 oz. My mom once told me that I looked like I was three months old the day I was born. (When I was pregnant with my first child I read somewhere that mothers who were big babies themselves tend to have big babies. I was honestly terrified to give birth. None of my kids have been as big as I was, although my daughter weighed in at 8 lbs. 7 oz. and she was induced 10 days early so the potential is definitely there!)
2. Although I am the daughter of a beekeeper and was raised on a honey farm, I am deathly allergic to all stinging insects. FALSE! (or rather a half truth)
The truth is, I am only allergic to honey bees--not ALL stinging insects. A honey bee sting could send me into anaphylactic shock but a hornet sting has absolutely no effect on me. Which I have always found to be very ironic. I think it has something to do with the fact that I was stung by honey bees often as a child--although no more (and probably less!) than my siblings, so I don't know why I developed an allergy when no one else did. My brothers would often claim that my allergy was suspiciously "convenient" because it got me out of a lot of work as a kid.
3. I was once the star of a Korean radio show. TRUE
I was the on-air English consultant on a late night radio show called "Evening at Pops." Where I would loosely translate American pop songs and use a phrase from the song to teach something about English. For example, I once did the song El Condor Pasa by Simon and Garfunkle that has all those lines about "I'd rather be a ______ than a ______." Then we talked about using the phrase "rather than" properly in a sentence. It was probably really lame but I had fun.
4. I don't like sweet breads. TRUE
I am very picky about my baked goods. I'm not a fan of things like banana bread, zucchini bread or raisin bread. I also don't really like muffins, cake donuts or heavy cookies like pumpkin cookies. I like certain sweet rolls but can't stand others. Regular cake is fine but carrot cake, spice cake and heavy pound cake type things are not my idea of a treat.
I'm not sure what quality it is exactly about these things that is offensive to me, but I figure that it's all stuff I probably shouldn't be eating anyway so I'll just go with it!
5 comments:
Very tricksy of you! If you hadn't posted your answers yet, I was going to guess that you were a guest on the Korean radio show, but NOT the star.
By the way, how did mission rules allow you to be on a "late-night" radio show? Don't sister missionaries turn into pumpkins after 9:30 p.m.?
And also, I'm sorry that you can never understand the pleasure of piece of dense carrot cake with rich cream cheese frosting. (Yes, you are right, it's probably better that you don't crave such things.)
Sneaky, sneaky!
Have a great thanksgiving, you beautiful gal!
Should have read that one more closely!
It would be a good thing if I didn't understand the joy of a good pumpkin chocolate chip cookie.
You are a sneaky one! Wait - does #4 mean you don't like my Christmas ginger cookies??
Carolyn - Mmmm, carrot cake . . .
Carolyn--You're right I guess I wasn't really the "star." And don't worry, I kept all the mission rules (usually) and the show was actually taped in the middle of the afternoon.
Also, I know all of the joys of sour cream frosting. I just eat it with a spoon rather than on cake.
Em--Never fear. I adore your ginger cookies. I love regular cookies. Just not cookies that are masquerading as something healthy. You know, the ones with vegetables and rasins and stuff. What's the point of that?! If I'm going to have a cookie, I want to have a COOKIE! (And no, I'm not referring to a person)
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