Revealed

You made it through the week of secrets and lies! Now I'll give it to you straight and tell you where I divulged and where I stretched the truth a bit. Although, sometimes I did a little of both.

Sometimes I use fake names to leave incendiary comments...just to stir up trouble.
SECRET!
I was roundly accused of doing this on the most popular website I frequent daily, eatfeats.com, mostly because 95% of the commenters there are using aliases. They do it to call people out, voice unpopular opinions, or just entertain themselves. I have so much fun trying to guess who's who (we're on to you, Rhonda) and reading the wars that ensue, I'm not sure there'd be room for me with an alias. So, I'll be honest when I say I don't use fake names there to start trouble (just to gently make fun of people when they make their aliases argue with each other). And I don't use fake names and boobs in real life ;-)

However, let's take a quick trip back to 2005's Ultimate Blogger. Specifically this entry (entry is NOT WORK SAFE but the link there to the comments should be fine, just careful scrolling up). Anyway, hi I'm "Carin." And boy did I stir up some trouble there. And you'll notice that I not only lied once, but I went and defended myself with another lie. I was so embarrassed about the trouble this caused and I immediately called Willow and made her swear never to tell Mike or Steve, which as far as I know she never did. A couple years later this is just funny to me.

I was in space...camp.
SECRET!
Well sort of. Actually I was in The Young Astronaut Program. I don't remember anything about it except launching a few rockets and making paper airplanes. I did, however, grow up to marry an Ohioan, so maybe I learned something after all.

I'm going to Atlantic City for the meatball competition.
SECRET!
Although it's not much of a secret anymore. I found super cheap plane tickets, am planning on staying up the entire 24-hours I'll be there. Woo! I officially don't really have the money to be doing this at all, but I'm a sucker for an eating competition. Plus it's Krista's and my one year anniversary of covering these things. PLUS! Remember those eater magnets we made for the 4th of July? Well we are auctioning a set on Ebay and people are crazier than I thought, because they are up to $51 now, which is all money going towards travel expenses.

The reason I got serious with my guy is because I saw his baby pictures and I wanted to see what our kids would look like.
LIE!
I'm just a sucker for ANTM. And the most bizarre commercial ever. (Maybe not as weird as the toothpaste commercial here. But close.)

Someone else owns naked pictures of me.
SECRET!
It's true. I am probably 18 in those pictures and pretty naked. On some rocks outside, I think. But the person who owns them is Heather and they were part of some photography project. As far as I know, they never saw the light of day. She's the best person in the world to be in possession of things like that.

I don't like to play Risk because I'm afraid to lose.
SECRET!
Sally's right that I used to say I didn't like to play because it was boring. But I actually like the game. It just terrifies me when I start to lose. I get really panicky when someone attacks me or I lose guys or I'm spread too thin. I'm panicking now just thinking about it! I do like Taboo, though. Good game, there.

I had to replace it, but he never found out.
LIE!
This is just a flat out lie. It was a cool picture of a broken fan and I just made something up to write on it. Eh, it was Sunday and I was feeling lazy.

That's it, kids! I hope you enjoyed the game; I sure did. It's a perfect way to fill up a post if you get stuck. I highly recommend it, mostly because I want to know your secrets and lies now.