Random

Some random things about me, inspired by Jo's blog :]

1. I eat my dessert with soup spoons, and my spaghetti with chopsticks. Desserts - especially icecream - require as big a spoon as you can get! :D And I use chopsticks for spaghetti because it makes me eat slower, and therefore eat less...so the more dessert and the less spaghetti kind of cancel each other out! :P When Brad and I met 3.5 years ago I was thrilled to discover that he too uses soup spoons for dessert :D

2. I have an uncanny ability to remember dates and times. For example I know what I was doing this day 10 years ago. It was the day after my first serious boyfriend and I got together (we were 17 and had just graduated from high school. We were together for four years). Any time anyone in the family needs to remember when something happened, they ask me and I can tell them! :] My twin sister is the same.

3. I find Tim Curry dressed in women's clothing very sexy. On 22 September 2001 I watched 'Rocky Horror' for the first time. Why I hadn't ever seen it before this date I will never know. But it started an obsession with Tim Curry (and 'Rocky Horror') that lasted a good three years. It was probably one of the reasons that my boyfriend from Number 2 and I broke up --- I ended up loving Tim more than him! :D :P

4. I am a sucker for routine and planning. I didn't realise this until a few years ago, when I did a Myers Briggs test at a course for work. I had always thought I was quite spontaneous and happy to just go with the flow. But no. I like to know what I am doing, when, and with whom! I find routine a comfort, and also I like to know what I have planned for my life as it gets me excited and gives me something to look forward to :] This doesn't mean however that I don't like doing things out of the ordinary from time-to-time :D

5. I hate to be alone. I believe it stems from being a twin and never having to spend time on my own my whole life. The only time I like being alone is when I get to watch my baby shows on the 'Discovery Home & Health' channel :D Any other time, being alone makes me think too much, and I do find it quite boring :\ I work from home, so good thing I have my Ruby to keep me company during the day!! :]

6. I have a broken glass phobia. On Australia Day 2002 I was at The Vic with friends and it was PACKED and someone dropped a glass, then kicked it, and it skimmed over the top of my foot and left a gash. I had to be carried through the crowd, bleeding, and feeling quite nauseous. I had to get three stitches and a tetanus shot. Since then, broken glass makes me super edgey and I avoid it like the plague! Some people like the sound of breaking glass. I do not! :|

7. I love earrings, and have scores of pairs on my jewellery shelf. If there are earrings in a shop, I have to look at them and usually end up buying a pair. I especially like the pretty beaded earrings...good thing as they are usually well-priced, as opposed to having a penchant for gold or diamond earrings! I am not into fashion, clothes, shoes or handbags...I use my earrings to make the outfit :D

8. Nachos and sticky date pudding are my true weaknesses. If I am out to lunch or dinner and there is nachos or sticky date pudding on the menu, it takes every ounce of my being to not order them and to try something different!! :P For the record, the best nachos I have had were from Tijuana Mamma's at Keperra (now closed, boo hoo), and the best sticky date pudding I have had was made by my brother-in-law's mother, Bernie, and I ate it the day after my wedding :D

9. I am a Gemini, and I am a twin, which is the sign for Gemini. I never really thought much of this fact until I was at a hippy joint called Rusty Cock Ridge, just outside of Seattle, in January 1997. Whilst drinking root beer (which is really just sarsparella...I didn't know this until I tried it...yech! :\ I continued drinking to be polite...), one of the ladies, named Carol or Carmel, thought it was the most extraordinary thing that my sister and I were twins AND Geminis!! She was treating us as though we were the Messiahs or something!! :P

10. I love love love names. See my post from 26 November :D I have my children's names already chosen, I love discussing names with anyone who'll listen, and I love looking in magazines and newspapers and seeing what new babies are named. I also knew that I wasn't going to marry a John or a Dave. My husband would have a different name, I had decided. And I married a Bradford :D

So, there you go, just a few lil random things about me :]