Birthday Week Giveaway Day 3

For today's giveaway, I am resorting to one of my favorite games - Two Truths and a Lie. I will make 3 statements and your job is to correctly identify which one is the lie. All correct answers will be eligible for the prize (final selection will be random drawing). All answers must be received by midnight tonight.

1) I dated 3 different guys in high school whose first names all started with the letter T and who were all 6'4" tall (a full foot taller than I was).

2) I had my first date on my 16th birthday.

3) My first semester of college I sat by a guy every day in American Heritage. We talked and laughed and visited and even hung out sometimes out of class. Two weeks before school ended, he handed me a wedding invitation - his! First I'd ever heard of it.

Day Two Winner!

And the winner is...(drum roll here)...Sabrina!

We had 8 answers in common. Wow! I just knew we were kindred spirits! Favorite food - Mexican. Favorite candy bar - Almond Joy. I like to watch tennis (she likes football). Favorite breakfast food - hash browns. Favorite vacation type - I like sightseeing (she likes beaches). Favorite activity - hiking. Best way to pamper self - pedicure. Favorite genre of movies - romantic comedies. Favorite actress - Sandra Bullock (she's everyone's favorite). Best way to relax - escape to the mountains!

I had 5 answers in common with Crystal and Mom, 3 in common with Karen, and 2 with my dad.

Sabrina - I will mail your cards after the contest is over (just in case you win again).

Birthday Week Giveaway Day 2

It's Day 2 of MY BIRTHDAY WEEK! The fun continues with another giveaway. Today's giveaway is for a set of 5 handmade cards!

This time it's a "how do you match up with Marvelle?" contest. You are not trying to guess what my answers are but are answering for yourself. Put your answers to the questions in a comment. The person who matches up with me the best wins. In the event of a tie, I'll draw a name from the winning answers.

1) What type of food do you like best?

• a. Chinese
• b. Mexican
• c. Italian
• d. American

2) What is your favorite candy bar?

• a. Almond Joy
• b. Peanut M&Ms
• c. Dove Milk Chocolate bar
• d. Butterfinger

3) What is your favorite spectator sport?

• a. Basketball
• b. Football
• c. Soccer
• d. Tennis

4) What is your favorite breakfast food?

• a. Hash browns
• b. Omelettes
• c. Pancakes
• d. French toast

5) What is your favorite type of vacation?

• a. cruise
• b. relax on the beach
• c. sightseeing
• d. theme park (i.e. Disneyland)

6) What is your favorite aerobic activity?

• a. biking
• b. Jazzercise
• c. hiking
• d. running

7) What do you do to pamper yourself?

• a. get a pedicure
• b. go out to lunch
  
• c. go shopping
• d. get a massage

8) What genre of movies do you like best?

• a. romantic comedies
• b. dramas
• c. horror
• d. action

9) Who is your favorite actress?

• a. Angelina Jolie
• b. Nicole Kidman
• c. Sandra Bullock
• d. Reese Witherspoon

10) Where do you go to relax?

• a. the mountains
• b. hot tub
• c. library
• d. hotel

All comments must be received by midnight tonight. Good luck!

giveaway - starting today!

Okay, I finally decided on giveaway rules. The substitute teacher in me is coming out and you'll all have to take a pop quiz! (No groaning!)

Let's see how well you know me. I'll even make it multiple choice to make it easier.

1) Besides chocolate, what is my favorite flavor?
a) raspberry
b) lemon
c) blueberry
d) vanilla

2) What is my favorite candy bar?
a) Almond Joy
b) Snickers
c) Reese's
d) Hershey's plain milk chocolate

3) What would I like to go back to school and get my Master's Degree in?
a) Hospital Administration
b) Accounting
c) Business Management
d) Organizational Behavior

4) Besides chocolate, what is my biggest food weakness?
a) cheesecake
b) warm, fresh bread
c) brownies
d) popcorn

5) Besides the Book of Mormon, what is my all-time favorite book?
a) Pride and Prejudice
b) Little Women
c) Jane Eyre
d) The Outsiders

6) Where am I spending this Thanksgiving?
a) Las Vegas
b) home
c) Phoenix
d) San Diego

7) How many temples have I been to?
a) 16
b) 19
c) 26
d) 31

8) What is my favorite kind of fruit pie?
a) lemon meringue
b) peach
c) blueberry
d) cherry


All entries are due by Wednesday, November 10 at noon. Anyone may play. (I will ship.) The person with the most correct answers is the winner. In the event of a tie, those people will be entered in a random drawing to determine the final winner.

Now, what the heck are you playing for? The winner will receive a Thankful table runner.

Three Truths and a Lie

Hope you've enjoyed the contest.

Place your vote for which story was the lie. All correct answers will receive a small prize and be entered in a drawing for a bigger prize. All comments must be posted by 6 am tomorrow (Saturday, August 14th).

Good luck!

Three Truths and a Lie - stalking Moose

Four years ago I was the Stake Camp Leader and my assistant and I were up scouting out the property. We decided to take a trial hike. We were enjoying ourselves and walking and talking when I realized something was behind us.

I turned around and came practically face to face with a moose. I wasn't sure whether to keep walking or whether to try to get off the path so the moose could pass.

I finally told my assistant to just keep walking and talking like the moose wasn't there. It followed us for a while more then finally veered off the path and headed to the river.

Scary.

Three Truths and a Lie - bear and baby

When I was a young girl I traveled with my family to Yellowstone Park. I absolutely loved seeing the wildlife so I thought we were extremely lucky to see a mother bear and her cub in a pull-out. My dad pulled our car in along with several other cars and we sat in the car observing the bears until some idiot decided to get out of his car and approach the bears to get a close-up photo. My dad immediately said, "we are getting out of here."

He tried to get out of the parking lot but the mother bear charged first. She went after the man with the camera. The man hopped over the hood of his VW bug and managed to get into his car before the bear got him and my dad hit the gas and got out of there before we saw anything else.

I wonder if that man now believes all the warnings on bears that they hand you when you enter the park.

Three Truths and a Lie - stinky skunk

About 15 years ago I was training for the St. George Marathon so I was logging a lot of miles in the very early morning hours. It was often dark when I ran and I couldn't always see very far ahead of me.

One morning I startled a skunk and got sprayed. It was the nastiest thing ever. Do NOT believe that tomato juice gets the smell out.

My clothes and shoes had to be burned. I couldn't go into work that day (or the next) and I smelled a bit for a few days. Yuk!

Contest

I am heading on vacation to Yellowstone National Park so I've scheduled some wildlife-related posts for the next several days.

Three of the stories are true and one of them is a lie.

Read them carefully and on Friday you may vote for which one is the lie.

If you are correct, you could win!

3 truths and a lie winners!

Wow! Either some of you are really good guessers or I'm not too good of a story-teller. Four people got the answer right! The motorcycle crash story (#3) was the lie. I never wrecked Gary's bike. In fact, I don't believe he ever even let me drive it. I only got to ride behind him.

The four winners are Jill, Sherlene, Sabrina, and Dianna. Congratulations! I will get your prizes to you shortly.

All four were entered in the grand prize drawing and the winner is....drum roll, please...DIANNA! Yea! applause, cheers, sounds of merriment and celebration

Congratulations, Dianna, and I will get your grand prize in the mail within the week.

Thanks to all who played. It was kind of fun.

last day to vote!

Just a reminder that today is the last chance to vote on the 3 truths and a lie contest. All votes must be in by midnight. Anyone in the U.S. is eligible to win.

3 truths and a lie voting

Okay, the stories have been told and now it's time for you to render your verdict. Which story is the lie? Is it?

Story #1 - Taco Time manager at age 15
Story #2 - stalked by a moose
Story #3 - motorcycle crash
Story #4 - moving cadaver

Now for the fine print. Place your vote below in a comment. Only one vote per person. If you are commenting anonymously, please leave a first and a last name or a first name and an email address. (I am embarrassed to admit but the last contest I tried to award the prize to the wrong Tonya.)

You have until midnight on Saturday, September 26th to place your guess. All correct answers will receive a small prize and be placed in a random drawing for the grand prize. Prize winners will be announced on Sunday, September 27th. I hope you have as much fun trying to determine the lie as I had telling the stories. Happy guessing!

3 truths and a lie

This week I am running a contest. For four days (Monday through Thursday) I will post stories about my life. Three of them will be true and one will be a lie. On Friday you can begin guessing which story is the fabrication. All guesses must be posted by midnight on Saturday. One guess per person. There will be small prizes for every correct answer. Also, everyone who answers correctly will have their name entered in a drawing for the grand prize. The winner will be announced on Sunday, September 27. So, put on your detective cap and enjoy the stories!


When I first arrived at BYU the only job I could get was cleaning in the early mornings. I started out cleaning the Health Center but then Kevin and I both transferred to cleaning the MARB so we could work together.

For those of you unfamiliar with BYU, the MARB is the biology/life sciences building. On one floor you could always find partially disected cadavers. Kevin's usual job was to clean the floor where they burned the cadavers.

One day I was sweeping the floors in the classroom containing the cadavers when one of them moved. Literally, an arm kind of jerked and then was still again. I was totally freaked out and ran to find Kevin. Together we went and found our shift supervisor who explained that that can happen. There is sometimes involuntary muscle spasms in the cadavers (I forget why).

I never wanted to clean that floor again and was glad when I got a job as the secretary in the dance department!

3 truths and a lie

This week I am running a contest. For four days (Monday through Thursday) I will post stories about my life. Three of them will be true and one will be a lie. On Friday you can begin guessing which story is the fabrication. All guesses must be posted by midnight on Saturday. One guess per person. There will be small prizes for every correct answer. Also, everyone who answers correctly will have their name entered in a drawing for the grand prize. The winner will be announced on Sunday, September 27. So, put on your detective cap and enjoy the stories!


I think I have always loved motorcycles! I first learned to ride one when I was about 12 years old at our huge family reunion in Island Park, Idaho. I learned on an old manual motorcylce (one you had to shift gears using your toe - one up, two down, etc). I thought I was a pretty good driver and had this mastered.

My sophomore year of college I was friends with a guy named Gary Gray (really cute - looked like Andrew McCarthy in Pretty in Pink but I digress...) Gary bought a motorcycle and I loved to go riding with him. I'd sit behind him, wrap my arms around his waist and we'd be off. It was so much fun!

So, when Gary offered to let me drive one day, of course I jumped at the chance! This time he sat behind me, wrapped his arms around my waist, and we were off! It was great too until I found myself on an unfamiliar trail with a 4" deep rut barely wider than the tire.

I knew if I caught the edge of that rut, we'd crash or be thrown. I tried my best to stay inside the center of the rut and I managed for a little while but then, sure enough, I hit the edge and down we went. I had slowed my speed way down so we just tipped over and got pretty scraped up but nothing serious. The bike, on the other hand, looked pretty bad. It had still looked all shiny and new and I had just done a number on the paint job.

Luckily for me, I still had a few hundred dollars in my savings account and could pay for repairs. Even luckier, Gary forgave me and we remained good friends.

3 truths and a lie

This week I am running a contest. For four days (Monday through Thursday) I will post stories about my life. Three of them will be true and one will be a lie. On Friday you can begin guessing which story is the fabrication. All guesses must be posted by midnight on Saturday. One guess per person. There will be small prizes for every correct answer. Also, everyone who answers correctly will have their name entered in a drawing for the grand prize. The winner will be announced on Sunday, September 27. So, put on your detective cap and enjoy the stories!


I was once followed by a moose. No, not just followed, I was STALKED by a moose. A few years ago, a friend and I were hiking. We were on a part of the trail that was actually more of a dirt road than a trail when I heard noises behind us. I turned and looked only to find a moose ambling along the trail only about 15 feet behind us.

I turned to my friend and asked, "What do we do? Should we keep talking loudly like we have been or will that aggravate him? Do we keep walking or do we start running? Or do we move off the trail and allow the moose to pass?" Neither one of us was sure what the proper procedure is when you are being stalked by a moose so we kept walking and talking, keeping a wary eye behind us.

The moose followed us for 2-3 minutes and then turned off the trail and headed to the river.

Whew! (but cool at the same time)

3 Truths and a Lie

This week I am running a contest. For four days I will post stories about my life. Three of them will be true and one will be a lie. On Friday you can begin guessing which story is the fabrication. All guesses must be posted by midnight on Saturday. One guess per person. There will be small prizes for every correct answer. Also, everyone who answers correctly will have their name entered in a drawing for the grand prize. The winner will be announced on Sunday, September 27. So, put on your detective cap and enjoy the stories!


I managed a Taco Time restaurant when I was just 15 years old! I have always been pretty reliable and very organized so after I'd worked at the Taco Time for a few months, the owner decided to start having me make the work schedules. A couple months later, as summer approached and the owner wanted to spend more time partying and getting drunk, I was pretty much left in charge. I had the combination to the safe so I could stock the cash registers in the morning and/or store the cash at night. I ordered the meat, the tortillas, and the other supplies and paid for them when they were delivered. I scheduled employees and dealt with employee problems.

All of this and I was actually the youngest employee! During the school year, the owner would be pretty responsible but summers were a different story. I worked there for two summers and one school year. I think I could still make bean burritos in my sleep!

contest starts tomorrow

Just a reminder that my contest starts tomorrow. For four days, I will write about an event from my life. Three of them will be true accounts and one will be a lie. Beginning on Friday, you can vote on which one you believe is the lie.

I had stated earlier that the first one with the correct vote will win. I apologize but I am changing the rules (my contest, my rules - that's just how I roll). Every correct answer will get a small prize and then every correct answer will get thrown in a hat and the grand prize winner will be randomly drawn.

So, don't worry about being first. Just get your vote in before midnight on Saturday. The winners will be announced next Sunday.

upcoming contest

In June I ran a contest. I had so much fun doing it that I am going to do it again. I hope you had fun with it as well and will want to participate again.

Next week, beginning on Monday, I will run a series of blogs. They will be stories of my life. Three of them will be true. One will be a total fabrication. It's up to you to determine which is the lie. On Friday, you will be allowed to vote as to which story is the lie. The first person to post correctly which story is the lie wins.

There will be a prize of course (what good contest does not have a prize?) so stay tuned. In fact, there will be multiple prizes - a grand prize for the first correct answer and a small prize for every correct answer. More details will be given at the close of the contest.

3 truths and a lie contest winners!

Thanks to all who played. It was really fun! I had such a good time doing this that I may do it again in the future! I realize I do still have some untold stories. Even my mom and Kevin, who probably know me best, did not get it right.

The answer is Story #1 was the lie! I did not fall out of a tree on a date. That's probably cheating because I am klutzy enough to do so, but I didn't!

Congratulations to Tonya - you are the grand prize winner! You are also the only one who got it right! I will get your prize to you shortly.

3 truths and a lie contest voting

Hope you've had fun playing! I know I have! Now it's time to see (1) if you know me very well and (2) if I am a very good liar.

Post your guess as to which one is the lie. For those who aren't regular bloggers, you can post by using anonymous. Just make sure you sign your name so I know who you are!

Once again, there is a grand prize for the first one to guess the lie correctly and small prizes for everyone who guesses correctly. Happy guessing!