Travelin' Light

Five Things You Probably Didn't Know About Me If You Only Know Me From My Blog

Aw, shucks! I've been asked to participate in a game! This more than makes up for all the times I was picked last for kickball teams in grade school! So, here are some fresh morsels of trivia for the devoted members of my fanclub. I love you all, especially Lagged2Death and musickna who are jointly responsible for this list. However, I want to change the rules a bit, and make it more interactive. So, I've decided to include one outright lie in this list. See if you can guess which one it is!

1. I have never been to a nudie bar. I have, however, kissed two girls in my life (one of those stupid bets that usually take place at a bar after mixing several kinds of alcohol together), and I didn't like it either time. All that lip gloss- it was like kissing an oil spill!

2. Ketchup is my favorite condiment! I eat it on everything, including salad and waffles.

3. I have been visited by the dead several times.

4. I have never been married, engaged, proposed to or pregnant. (What kind of girl do you think I am, anyway?)

4. I do not have a genius I.Q.

5. I sometimes hear disembodied voices or orchestral music that no one else seems to hear, and have done my entire life.

I hereby tag isabel, nicolas,claudio and Lo. They've probably all been tagged already. I'm a slowpoke and I don't pay attention well, which is why no one ever wanted me on their team.

Bust your gut on this one...You Can't Lose What You Never Had

Comments

dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsıwickedlizard Thursday, December 28, 2006 11:15:43 AM

oh what the hell! up

Emily DavisEsme_11 Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:42:43 PM

Oh goody, I hope this means you're going to play!

dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsıwickedlizard Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:45:33 PM

i did! new list already submitted...

Sarah angel292005 Thursday, December 28, 2006 4:29:12 PM

lol Hey there Emily,

I think that the one that is a lie is number 4.

~s~

Emily DavisEsme_11 Thursday, December 28, 2006 6:15:51 PM

Sadly, no. I really ain't a genius. Actually, I've never taken an IQ test, but I bet I'd know it if I were smart enough to qualify. I wish I were smarter, but I gots to make do with what the good lord gave me. Anyway, I'm flattered beyond measure that you would think so. Kind-of makes my day, actually.

And I saw your post, Isabel. You're an interesting chick.

Lagged2Death Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:34:39 PM

Your rule change is either a stroke a genius (in which case #4(b) leads to one or more paradoxical problems) or the basest sort of blog-pandering and a perfect example of why kids today are bound to bring about the downfall of civilization. (And get off my lawn, you damn kids!)

Either way, it's a laudable innovation. I wasn't using that civilization thing anyway.

The notion of putting ketchup on salad and waffles is giving me the heebie-jeebies, so I'm desperately hoping #2 is your fib.

Emily DavisEsme_11 Thursday, December 28, 2006 9:48:47 PM

I'll get off your lawn when I'm finished using ketchup to make your lighted Christmas yard decorations look like car-crash victims. You're right- civilization is overrated.

And you guessed it! Number two is the lie. It's actually mustard that I feel so passionately about, but I haven't tried it on waffles. Yet.

I'm thinking of making a new list where I tell four lies and one truth and seeing who can guess it. I had the idea only because I'm so boring that making up fantastical facts about myself was more fun than listing tedious-but-true minutiae. You should do it too. Your blog is funny. I'm sure it would crack me up.

lesoldatperdu Friday, December 29, 2006 5:24:11 AM

I guessed 4; I couldn't believe that nobody had proposed to you. People slather everything with ketchup in England; this is a running joke in the Heinz adverts.

Emily DavisEsme_11 Friday, December 29, 2006 8:46:36 AM

Oh, that's so sweet! The difficulty in accepting #4 as true, that is. Not the ketchup. I actually think ketchup is a bit disgusting. But I'd take it hands-down over a glistening glop of mayonnaise.

dɹɐzılpǝkɔıw ɐʞɐ ɹǝɥgɐllɐg lǝbɐsıwickedlizard Friday, December 29, 2006 12:04:26 PM

i find ketchup disgusting.... yuck i never touch the stuff!

I prefer mayo and mustard on my chips (french fries by the way), if I have a hamburger the same, hold the ketchup... yuck

Claudio Santambrogiocsant Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:26:15 PM

There, it took me longer than planned, but I finally have managed to find those 5-things-you-didn't-know-about-myself - first I also had to get over my dislike for blog games, but your charming invitation made that bit easy smile I think I agree with what others have already said, and I point at *the first* #4 as being the lie (can't believe nobody ever proposed to you!).

P.S. I have kissed more than two girls in my life, and lips au naturel are nicer smile

Emily DavisEsme_11 Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:20:05 PM

Ha ha! You're so sweet to say so! But, it's true. Actually, for a long time I was very anti-marriage. I lived with a guy for 9 years once, and he probably would have proposed if I hadn't always been talking about how marriage was an archaic system designed to keep women down, and saying stuff like, "Don't you ever even think about buying me a ring, Buster!" I feel differently now, but still no takers.

I agree about lips au naturel. I don't like to wear that stuff myself, but sometimes I think it looks pretty so I do anyway. I'm going to your page right now to check out your list. Glad you played, man.

Dillon RobertsDillonRoberts Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:26:01 AM

No takers huh? Hmmm....interesting.

Sam SabbaghSäm Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:27:23 AM

I read number three "I have been visited by the dead several times," and it interested me. Could you elaborate please?

Emily DavisEsme_11 Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:00:02 PM

Well, the first time was right after my grandmother died. I dreamed I was in her house (I actually live in that house now) with all our relatives, going through her things and dividing them up between us, an activity which actually took place several weeks later. I looked out the front windows and saw my grandmother moving toward the house across the front lawn. She still looked old, like my grandmother, but healthier and lovely and kind of emitting light. It was golden-white. I was amazed, and began alerting my other family members to her presence, but none of them could see her. I wasn't afraid, only I wanted everyone to see what I saw. They acted like I was crazy. My grandmother moved into the room through the windows, and as she stood before me, she radiated peace and happiness and light. She spoke to me, but wasn't using her mouth or her actual voice. Rather, I was made to understand her meaning using some other kind of esoteric communication. The words were very clear, however, as she informed me that she was okay, that she was at peace, that she was all better now. She wanted me to tell everyone in the family this message.

I did tell some of them, but they all thought it was weird and that I was crazy. I'm used to people in my family thinking I'm crazy, but I was disappointed that I couldn't relay her message in a more meaningful way. Of all the grandchildren in the family, I think I was closest to her, though we weren't exactly close. She had always seemed distant and cold, but living in her house I've learned some things about her that have been very illuminating.

The second time was in New Orleans, on the last vacation I took to that city before actually moving there. It was in the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, and I was visited by the very angry ghost ofa civil war soldier who kept telling me his name and was very insistent that I remember it. I was frightened by this ghost, but intrigued. Sadly, I was unable to remember his name in the morning. Goes to show how important it is to write stuff down. For some time afterwards, I was obsessed with doing research to try and figure out who he had been, but I never came across anything relevant. Poor soul. Actually, that hotel room had several "ghostly" things happen while I was staying there, but he was the only ghost I actually saw.

Sam SabbaghSäm Tuesday, January 16, 2007 11:30:33 PM

The possibility that there is more to the world that meets the eye is wonderous. Believing your accounts as true or just imagination brings up various philosophical questions; but even as a skeptic, I enjoy simply wondering about the big questions. I can't say I've ever been visited by the dead, but I have had some "hallucinations" (no drugs of course). I think everyone has had a few.

Emily DavisEsme_11 Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:38:34 AM

Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff going on with reality that we can't see or fully understand. I used to think that delving into it would reveal to me some of life's great mysteries, but maybe some things are better left unexplained. Ghosts and dead people are scary to me now. Sometimes I hear voices but I try to ignore them. I've got enough real stuff to figure out. I live alone, and the last thing I need is a chronic case of the heebie-jeebies.

scott cummingI_ArtMan Friday, February 9, 2007 8:45:24 PM

my mother, nancy, came to my studio in pearl river the night she died but i didn't see her, just felt her presence. i knew when she came and i knew when she left.

Nicolas Borgsmidtnopanic Saturday, June 2, 2007 2:42:58 PM

If I´m very tired, I can hear orchestral sounds as well. Beautiful harmonies. sometimes so beautiful, that I get goose pimples on my arm smile

scott cummingI_ArtMan Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:44:04 AM

she's gone.

Nicolas Borgsmidtnopanic Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:17:45 AM

sad

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