20 things you probably never knew about me (and probably don't need to know):
1. I didn't speak a word of English until I went to school. Now I am disappointed in how little Italian I know.
2. Bad grammar and spelling really ticks me off. And yes, if I have it wrong I do want to know about it - correct me!
3. I dry reach at the smell of sambucca, because once in my younger day I drank way too much of the stuff.
4. I have this fear that my long term memory is permanently damaged because I started drinking at an age well below the legal age.
5. I have a chipped front tooth.
6. I am long-sighted in the left eye and short-sighted in the right. They balance each other out so I don't need glasses. I suspect this is my own fault because I used to read with one eye closed under the bed covers as a teenager.
7. I once dreamt that I married Bob Hawke and recently dreamt that I went out to dinner with Kevin Rudd. I've had dreams about wars like Iraq air bombing Australia. And dreams that I was a man driving down a road in Antigua. My weird dreams are really really weird.
8. I have a fear that I will never have children, but I don't even know (at my age) if I even want them. Maybe the fear is that I will never have the choice.
9. I have three sisters-in-law. They all share the same birthday. Do you know what the odds of that are?
10. The house I live in is house number 3 that settled on the 30th November on my 30th Birthday. There are also three 3s in my home phone number.
11. I once had a collie dog named Lester. Neil Finn wrote a song about his dog called Lester.
12. I hate the movie Forest Gump.
13. I've met Ben Harper. I never felt so privileged.
14. I really wish I could play guitar.
15. I don't like scary movies, I don't like disney movies and I don't like sci-fi or fantasy movies. I am over action movies for the sake of action movies. At the end of the day, I just like a good drama.
16. I don't read sci-fiction books or romance books.
17. Besides learning how to read and write, I now think that one of the best skills I learnt at school was typing.
18. I don't like dish washers and I don't want one in my house.
19. I really hate it when people assume that because I'm single and have no children that I have plenty of time on my hands and that I lead a quiet life. Yes I have the privilege of not needing to compromise, I can do what I want, when I want and how I want. Doesn't mean I'm not busy and struggle to fit everything that I want to do in a day, week or month just like anyone else. Actually, if I achieve a lot, it's just because I'm pretty good at getting shit done. And if I had kids, I would still be good at getting shit done, because that's what I do.
20. And finally a work foible... if you want me to do something, I need to understand why, because if it doesn't make sense to me then you are obviously wasting my time. So I will incessantly ask you 'why' until I get an acceptable answer (even if the answer is "it will just be easier if you do it"). I know I am annoying when I do this.
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3 comments:
I didn't know that!!!
1. I'm amazed. Would never have thought. So you infected your family with English and they never spoke Italian to you again?
2. I'll check my comments carefully.
3. Great shame but it does happen.
4. Hopefully you'll soon forget that you hate sambucca! And then you'll forget that you drank too much when young. If they lower the legal age for drinking do you think your memory will improve retrospectively?
5. Smile!
6. Too much guilt happening here! I have to read with one eye closed now and I didn't do anything wrong as a child!
7. Keep us posted.
8. Perhaps it was something you did as a child?
9. That's coincidences for ya. Some people found religions on that sort of stuff. (About 1 in 48 million - better than winning lotto unfortunately.) Amazing tho (unless arranged marriages come into play).
10. Another miracle - or just letting us know when your birthday is?
11. My first dog was a collie called Glen. Amazingly, Glen Campbell for a while played guitar with the Beach Boys but was replaced by Bruce Johnston, formerly of Bruce and Terry. Terry (Melcher) later produced a Byrds album. Neil Finn covered three Byrds songs live which were released under the name "Byrdhouse" as bonus tracks on the CD single "I Feel Possessed." I wonder if our dogs were related.
12. Understandable - probably nothing to do with your childhood misdemeanors.
13. Don't worry. Things will improve.
14. For the photographic tour jam sessions?
15. Carla Cametti!
16. Don't be stiffled by arbitrary pigeonholes.
17. I'm starting to wish I could type!
18. Amen! (Though I do like sparkling glasses.)
19. We can tell by your posting frequency that you're a busy girl :-)
20. I don't understand - can you explain that again?
Phew!! Thanks for posting this. Waiting for the next 20.
Mark, thank you so much for your considered and witty reply. And I promise you I will give you another 20 when you post your first 20!
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