My First Time

Blogging. What were you thinking?
So to start with, I thought I would let all you internet strangers get to know me a little too well with 100 things about me. Here goes:

I was nearly named Karen

As a kid, I was all teeth and eyebrows

I don’t want a career

I do want to be a mum. Badly.

I love my J more than I thought was possible

I am usually easily pleased

Summer is by far my favourite season

I’ve never seen snow

Calla lilies are my favourite flower

I prefer to wear silver over gold

I adore my sisters

I have a difficult relationship with my mother

I’ve known 3 significant father figures

I do not tan. I just burn and peel and stay white

I find it easy to grow my fingernails long

I’ve lived in 20 different houses and one caravan

I am glad that I’m Australian

I want a pet lizard. I even have my reptile license!

I also want a pet cat

Up until grade 11 I was nearly always the smartest one in the class

I love chocolate biscuits

I love Italian food

I love being outside but my crazy fear of birds and bugs and almost everything that flies has been known to keep me housebound for weeks at a time

I am just now learning how to drive and I think I’ll always suck at it

I have a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio

I don’t have a lot of friends, but they’re the best

I really want a dishwasher

Generally speaking, 80s music was the best

I like discussing controversial topics

I am quite passionate

I nearly always dislike the ‘alpha male’ types

I have only ever slept with one person – and intend to keep it that way

I spent half of my life sure that I would become a solicitor.

I love to read

I have glasses for reading because I have the focus abilities of a 70 year old

I’ve never had a blood test

I like my eyelashes

I do not enjoy long walks on the beach

Scotch is my alcoholic beverage of choice

I only drink cola if it has scotch in it

I sleep a lot

I love my future in-laws

I used to be very thin

I talk a lot. And I enjoy it J

Bad spelling annoys me

It annoys me when people read Shakespearean wrong

I’ve known my best friend since I was about 7 months old

I respect people who can admit they’ve made a mistake

I like feeling big feelings

Eleven is my favourite number

I don’t like facial hair

I think I’m going to end up with red-headed twins one day

I spent the first 12ish years of my life being the shy quiet girl, and now I’m known as the loud one

I think alligators are my favourite animal

Dolls scare the crap out of me

I love stuffed animals

The smell of vanilla always makes me smile

The smell of coconut makes me gag

I hate avocado

I love broccoli

I can be quite affronting

I often write in sentence fragments

I’ve been called random, but I don’t think I am

I have little patience for people who create all their own problems

I am pretty judgemental, but am always willing to change my mind if given the chance

I have never done anything illegal

I am often untidy, but nearly always clean underneath the mess

I’m not the biggest fan of seafood

I love hearing everyone’s opinions, even (especially?) when they differ to mine

I HATE the ‘just because’ argument

I don’t like to swear, but I still do it. Usually unwittingly.

I have a boring job

When people say ‘graph’ with a short ‘a’ sound, I think of giraffes

I like every Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks movie I’ve seen, except the Toy Story series and Fantasia

I like wearing pretty bras and matching undies

I wish I had a bigger kitchen

I love love love Harry Potter

It scares me when I see my mother in me

I am nearly always much nicer behind people’s backs than to their faces

I don’t mind change

Mocha with marshmallows is my favourite sweet indulgence

I usually drink 2 litres of water a day

I think The Cure is the saddest movie in the world

Sometimes I love a big cry

I don’t like taking medication. Or doctors.

I’ve only ever really been hurt by people I’ve cared about

I don’t like stupid people. Silly, I can handle.

I’ve been ‘going to’ start a blog for about a year

I don’t like being wrong, but I do admit it (eventually) when I am

I can be very overprotective. Especially of my sisters

I am proud of myself for being a good person despite my upbringing

I’ve never been fit

I watch more TV than I want to

The day I saw Wicked was one of the best days of my life

Heights don’t bother me at all

I am a fairly open and honest person

I would much prefer to be hot than to be cold

I want more friends that are girls

I don’t like wearing make up

I don’t like the kiss-on-the-cheek greeting

If you don't hate me now that you know all of that, stay tuned.