Shitty Liar - Truths Revealed

OK, I really am a shitty liar, as its only five days in and so many of you have guessed the correct lie that I am going to draw a line in the sand and reveal it to you all, save myself the shame of letting my boring lie outshine my awesome truths. I had to laugh as some of you were shocked to find out there is only one lie in there, in truth I could probably give you another ten truths about my life that would shock you just as easily. It's the lie I struggle with, clearly by the overwhelming amount of right answers, I also think that some of you that choose other options only did so to help a girl out and throw some diversity in there lol...

While not being a good liar is not a bad thing, my problem lies _{Like my pun...} in that I didn't think my prize giveaway through very clearly...

I will split 50% of the SBD with all the people who correctly guess the lie and explain why they believe it is a lie. I will reveal the answer after payout to keep the fun going for as long as possible. Be creative with as to why you think it’s not true, all guesses will get an upvote from me, the more creative the high % upvote regardless of if you guess right.

With the interest in my truths along with the price of Steem dropping it looks like unless someone swings by and saves us, I will be splitting a whopping 0.75 SBD with my winners, which I think is a little sad, to say the least... So instead of splitting the pot, I will be running a mini "Truth or Lie" below for the seven that picked correctly. The first to visit my post and correctly choose will win the full prize from the original post. _{I hope they have @ginabot or some other notification tool to help you win this one.}

Let the reveal begin…

Yes ten were in fact true, my life has been that interesting, funny when you look back on it like this.

FACT

I spent a year of my life being home-schooled while travelling around Australia in an old school bus that had been fitted out for a family of five and a dog. We saw all things BIG, the BIG Pineapple, the BIG Ram, the Big Banana, the Big Lobster, I could go on, but you get the point.

_{Unfortunatly i don't have any images of the bus we lived in but think this one but orange and deceked out like a caravan.}

We actually lived in this bus while building the mud brick house, I missed all of grade one but remember having the time of my life, my favourite memory was picking grapes in Mildura eating them until we felt sick.

LIE

Besides my year home-schooled on a bus, I led a rather boring school life, moving with all my friends from primary to high school forging some great friendships along the way, I still talk with many of them regularly even 20 years on, now that’s telling my age.

_{This was one of my primary schools, there were a total of 45 kids from prep to year six when I started here}

I found lying to be very hard, as you can tell by my pathetic attempt here, after I was home-schooled for a year I flipped between a tiny rural school and a huge city one in Victoria before heading to WA to start high school, I left at 15 to look after my little brother while my mother was ill and then went back to finish year 11 & 12 in Queensland. I do have a best friend in most states and I still talk to them all regularly.

FACT

I built a house out of mud bricks with my family and helped another family build theirs out of stone. It took years but the best parties can be had when it’s ok to throw mud.

_{This is the house we built.}

We did indeed build both of these houses. When we were last in Victoria I took my husband @shai-hulud to visit the house we built, even the outhouse was still standing. If I ever was to build my own home again it would be out of this material, it was cool in summer and warm in winter.

_{The outhouse was also still standing.}

FACT

I have two sisters and two brothers, which belong to two mothers and three fathers, all of the fathers have passed away.

_{My sister Shada, the only one to live in the same state as me.}

My family is an interesting one, my father passed away before I was two, leaving behind not only me but an unborn baby girl to another woman. My parents were separated at the time so no real scandal. My mother remarried and had the next two siblings, first a boy and then a girl. We are all within two years of each other. Enter Jac, my youngest brother and dad number three who happens to be a best friend of dad number two, I was 13 when he was conceived, so he was a surprise to us all. No scandal again as they were also separated... Except dad number two committed suicide in the driveway of dad three soon after. Dad number three made it until Jac was about 13 before passing, although he was only living with us for about a year and by this time mum was married to Dad number four and he is still alive and going strong.

_{My youngest brother, he recently became a father, god help us all...}

FACT

I have a lowered dog called Pia, she is now fifteen years old and recently had surgery to remove eight teeth and a hysterectomy due to endometriosis.

_{This is her just after surgery still in puppy hospital, they wouldn't let us take her home for two days, she was miserable}

I thought I was going to lose her, this was a terrible week for me, she is not back to normal..ish… And that is wonderful!

FACT

I travelled to the UK when I was 19 leaving behind, my university degree, my boyfriend and my apartment with 50 pounds in my pocket and the promise of a job at the other end.

_{I was hoping to get a phot from back in the day but they are packed in a super safe place...}

I wasn’t happy with where my life was going and one night while working as a waitress _{A university students got to eat.} in a hotel, an English couple were talking about their daughter needing a nanny, I said I could do that and within a month I had a job and had given up everything to start fresh in a new country.

FACT

I am an accountant, graduating with a double degree in Accounting and Finance, I worked for large corporate companies for ten years before switching to not for profit roles to explore my ability to give back more. I also cut my hours down to part-time so I could volunteer my time more freely.

_{I got my CPA in the middle of all my surgeries, I was skin and bones under that dress with a fat head from steroids.}

I came home from the UK for my sisters 18th and fell in love and never left. So I went back to university and finished my degree, then going on to complete my CPA. I do work part-time now but am also the president for a huge not for profit company that supplies medical products to over 3500 ostomates.

FACT

I used to ride my motorbike with my parachute strapped to my back to the drop zone to skydive every weekend for about a year. We slept in swags on the hanger floors and jumped many a morning hungover. It’s the best cure if you can survive the flight up.

_{One of my 80 jumps, my parents had come to see me jump for the first time.}

Oh to be young! This is true, stupid but true, if my parachute had ever opened I would have flown off the back, hindsight. It was a super fun year of my life, I jumped a total of 80 times before getting ill and having to sell both my bike and parachute.

FACT

I have no large intestine, appendix, or rectum, they were removed from the age of 26 to 29. I have died twice in my life and am not ready for a third. One of those times as I was dying I was sure I saw my fathers, they promised me they would look after me and I told my mother to let me go, she didn't have to worry as they had promised to keep me safe.

_{Yes that is my butt...}

I got sick, real sick, I got diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis and went from being a healthy active 26 year old to death in just under a year. I was left skin, bones and an ostomy bag, I had 12 surgeries over three years and am now the proud owner of my own Barbie butt.

FACT

I married the most amazing man on Koh Samui Island five years ago, the day before Songkran, it rained all day, stopped just before our ceremony and then poured down as the last song was finishing playing, bringing in the new year and the water festival.

_{The day after our wedding as part of the Songkran festival.}

He is amazing and it did rain a lot, did you know it’s supposed to be good luck if it rains on your wedding? I don’t know if it’s true or not but I am one lucky woman.

FACT

I won two awards last year, one which took us to the US to participate in a Health World Congress Event. I had to fly home to fly over to the US as I found out I had won the award at 2:30am while at another event where I was being recognised for youth advocacy and awareness work.

_{I was selected as one of the final five from 2500 other blogs. Talk about cray cray!}

This is true and the main reason I started my health advocacy role, I really just needed to get my story off my chest and I won an award for sharing that, then I decided to start my own blog and it won “Rookie of the Year” less than six months after I started it. This took us back to the US, the second time in 2017, yes @erodedthroughs the first was for a nude cruise.

This is how everyone faired. I did tell you I was a shitty liar...

Mini SBD Tie Breaker

1. I didn't eat salad until I was 19 and forced too by another adult that laughed at me for never trying it.
2. I hated vegemite until I was an adult, now I am a huge fan, having it almost daily.
3. I used to swallow cheese like mini pills as I knew calcium was good for but hated the texture.
4. I love meat as a child I often swapped with my brother who oddly liked veggies.
5. I love beetroot, which my niece calls feet-a-root.

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