Hi! Hello! Yes, it's me! and guess what I? I'm posting! Well, sort of. I'm posting that stupid '25 Random Things' meme that's gone viral on FaceBook. Because yes, FaceBook is now my brain.
So, without further ado, here are the FIRST 25 random things you never needed to know about me...
1. Although I've been tagged by no less than half a dozen people to do this meme, I have been reticent to do it because I don't believe I can come up with 25 things to write about myself. And even more problematic, 25 interesting things.
2. I moved a lot as a kid living in countless houses and attending 12 odd schools from k to 12. In Grade 1 a went to 3 different schools.
3. I am really comfortable meeting new people and I don’t have trouble making friends. See #2.
4. I’m only on number 4 and I feel like I may be running out of things to say about myself.
5. I have a little grey streak coming in the front of my hairline which I rather like. I found the first of those greys in that spot on my honeymoon when I was 21. I surmise this was the telltale sign that boys would always be the cause of my grey hair.
6. I was a chubby teenager. The kind of girl people called ‘healthy’. I was very self conscious.
7. I lost all my chubbiness after I had children. I weighed less 3 weeks after my first child was born than before I got pregnant. I don’t feel even slightly guilty about that in light of #6.
8. My mum sewed a lot but wouldn’t let me use her machine. Consequently I didn’t know that I could sew until I was 32. I haven’t stopped sewing since then.
9. I’m an intuitive cook. I hardly ever use a recipe for anything other than baking. It’s hard to intuitively bake, I’ve learned.
10. I’m a good cook, in spite of my flagrant disregard for recipes. I find it ironic that I live with a husband who wouldn’t be disappointed if food came in pill form and two very picky children. I make a lot of cheese sandwiches.
11. I have never liked my nose.
12. I used to sing all the time, publicly, in musicals and concert choirs. I stopped abruptly at age 19 when I went to university and didn’t have time for extra curricular activities. I’ve completely lost my nerve now and nothing terrifies me more.
13. I have never had a job I loved.
14. I haven’t had a ‘real’ job in over a decade.
15. I lived on the island of Borneo, in Indonesia as a kid - right on the equator (really there was a sign there and everything). I came home to Canada to start high school in 1985 because I didn’t want to go to boarding school. I lived with my grandma and grandpa Deighton. I trained myself not to talk about living abroad very much because the kids in my high school thought it was weird. Now, I’m surprised when people find this an interesting fact about me.
16. My grandpa Deighton died suddenly when I was 17. I was very close to him. I don’t think I’ve ever fully recovered from that loss.
17. I saw him the day he died. I was leaving my parents business to walk to school and he was just getting there to go to work. We were both crossing the street heading in opposite directions. We met in the middle. He said, ‘Good mornin’, honey. Have a good day. I love you.’ I can still hear his voice in my head.
18. I’m not all that graceful. I have taken some spectacular spills. Usually this makes me laugh so hard I cry, which alarms whomever I’m with at the time.
19. I’ve worked in an ice cream shop and a candy store.
20. This completely cured me of my sweet tooth. I’ll take salty over sweet any day. See #19.
21. The worst job I’ve ever had was managing a lingerie store. I can’t even begin to tell you the horrors.
22. I used to joke that ‘exercise’ was a four letter word. Now, I’m addicted. I never expected to be one of ‘those’ people.
23. I had big babies but didn’t get any stretch marks on my tummy. I feel this makes up so of my other physical flaws. Like the fact that my boobs shrunk a whole size after breast feeding. I mean, you give and you give and what do you get? A reduced cup size.
24. I hate throwing up. I’ve only done it twice in the last 27 years. It makes me panic.
25. Being a mother is the hardest thing I have ever done. It is also the thing that has taught me more than I ever expected.
I think I'll keep adding to this. In the end I kind of enjoyed examining my life in a quirky random way.
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