Elemental Grace

It’s ALL about ME!

July 8, 2010

I’m feeling intolerably lazy about blogging and I really do absolutely love memes, so here are 25 so-called interesting facts about me:

1. I experience wordjoy. Particular favourites include: frond, effervescent, collywobbles, ignite, anthropomorphic, meringue and renege. On the other hand, I also have a list of words that I don’t like. Particularly unjoyful are: lithe, stringy, moist, invaginate and remonstrate
2. I have a love affair with brightly coloured hair, and often yearn to dye my dark brown hair pink (again) … even just a little bit of it.
3. I would love to be one of those superior intellectual readers but the truth is that I enjoy the Famous Five and Harry Potter just as much as proper grown up literature, and if you called me on it, maybe even a little bit more.
4. I’m addicted to decorating and home improvements. The potential and possibilities appeals to the creative in me. Show me a new house I could move straight into and I’ll turn my nose up at it. Show me an ancient, tumbledown old shack that’s going to involve me being on my hands and knees in mucky clothes for months on end and my joy will be uncontained.
5. I am mortally afraid of dried fruit. Phobic. There is simply NOTHING on the face of the planet more hideous. I actually have to leave the room if someone starts eating it in front of me. *shudder*
6. I rule my spending with a rod of iron, because if my naughty ‘I enjoy shopping side’ goes out armed with a credit card, I’d be in a LOT of trouble.
7. I am ever so slightly *cough* addicted to chocolate. I’m pretty sure I get withdrawal symptoms and everything.
8. I LOVE colour and texture. It’s like a new form of language to me: the way that you set and combine different pieces to create different effects. The subtlety, the statement, all the unsaid things, the subconcious effect of colour and texture on your mood, the way you can clash and combine and all of it works. Delicious.
9. I love old films and tv series and am particularly fond of a good whodunnit. Poirot, Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes …. a surefire good night in
10. I get very bored very quickly, and constantly need new things on the go to excite and fulfil me. This shockingly bad habit of mine has led me to do many insane things that include giving up perfectly good jobs to set up businesses, move across country for no good reason, date ridiculously inappropriate fellas (well, it was interesting at the time) ….
11. I have a really hideous recurring dream that involves being eviscerated by rats in the middle of a kitchen. The odd thing is that the kitchen always changes to reflect wherever I’m living but that seems to have absolutely no effect on the rest of the dream.
12. I love to bake but I don’t do it nearly as much as I’d like to. I somehow imagine that baking makes me a more capable grownup.
13. I can never remember what I’ve done with my keys. Even if they’re in exactly the same place they normally are, I still look straight past them, panic momentarily, run around going ‘omigod, where the hell are my keys’ before finding them exactly where they ought to be. I have now started tying them to my clothes in an attempt to stop losing them. Because, clearly that will work.
14. I have a decidedly contrary character. While I tend to be a big picture person, who can’t be arsed with the finer details of things, if there’s no-one I trust to sort out the details, I become insanely nitpicky to the point that I want to rip my own head off and use it to hit people with.
15. I’m an insufferable romantic. I believe wholeheartedly in love at first sight, and will one day be swept off my feet by a man worthy of me.
16. I think the most beautiful poem ever written is Before the world was made by William Butler Yeats.
17. I like to defy expectations
18. I want a tattoo. Two actually. A star on my wrist and a floral design on my foot. I haven’t worked up the courage for it yet. But I will.
19. I like the feeling sand makes under my feet when I walk barefoot on the beach.
20. I am incapable of walking along a beach without collecting stones, shells and driftwood
21. My first dog was called Rio. He was a vast golden lab that belonged to My Godfather’s son originally. I used to ride him around the garden. Giddyup.
22. I have weirdly double jointed fingers. They scare people.
23. My favourite flowers are roses and daisies. When I have a garden of my own, these flowers will feature strongly
24. I don’t drink. I gave up entirely by accident, and don’t miss it even remotely. Nobody really seems to mind, since it means I’ll happily play designated driver.
25. I really want a goat. Yep – that’s it.

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