Monday, June 22, 2009

101 Random Facts About Me, well 80 odd, but dont you think thats enough:

  • I am addicted to useless information, my brain has a huge capacity to store all the things that don't matter, yet I forget where I put keys.
  • I live in Paarl, a recent development, packed my life in Checkers bags, and well here I am, a change is as good as a holiday, so they say.
  • I was born on 10 December at 5 am, after which my mom got up from the farm hospital theatre bed and walked to her room. I hope her strength is hereditary.
  • My 1st dog was a poodle, Oortjies, we had to give her away, luckly, because Poodles are not my favourite, maybe when you 5, she lived to the ripe age of 17 years.
  • My favourite thing to cook is curry, an Indian friend taught me now I am addicted to all my spices.
  • The Love of my life is Bella, my blonde Spaniel, I can't get enough of her unconditional love and she has so much personality.
  • I am not a huge dessert fan, I get the occasional chocolate binge but the sweetness gives me hot flushes, glad cause I think it's good for the figure, I have a weak spot for Kit Kats and anything Lindt, oh and Snickers!!
  • I love chicken, pekek, especially in salad and curry.
  • I am completely addicted to tomatoes as in really really.
  • I have a to do before I die list that is crazy long.
  • One of my entries is to still milk a cow.
  • I go crazy for art history, and all things aesthetic, I get completely lost in my own world.
  • I am sentimental.
  • My favourite holiday was in Italy, touring the Amalfi coast on a Vespa was indescribably satisfying.
  • I am not a hoarder, can't take it. If you haven't used it in the past year, chuck it.
  • I don't care what people think, life is too short to hold back because of others opinions, I think in a way we all do but I am trying really hard to convince myself I don't.
  • I overdose on wine, everyday is an occasion, it never used to be, but we in the Boland baby!
  • I love playing 30 seconds.
  • I love a challenge, I love to multitask. Don't dare me!
  • I am incredibly restless, I hate not being busy with something, can't sit still.
  • I love Rooibos tea, and Chai Roobos, divine new discovery I made down here, another recent yummy one is the ginger Rooibos.
  • My surname changed colour when my mom remarried.
  • My first kiss was at 15, I had to get wasted to have the courage for it.
  • I have my degree in Visual studies and majored in Art History, I loved every moment of it, I miss studying, having a hard time with the self discipline of the correspondence course I am currently busy with.
  • I am not a big white wedding type of girl, more a barefoot on the beach thing would do it for me, splurge on the honeymoon I say.
  • I want to climb Kilimanjaro, I think it must be the most serene experience when you reach the top, but is it so expensive so will have to wait for now.
  • My favourite red meat is ostrich, and I love Carpaccio.
  • I want to see all the wonders of the word.
  • After being terribly teased while still at home and not even being able to cook a pot of rice, I discovered when I left home that I adore cooking.
  • Feminist undomesticated me, I am almost ashamed to say turned out to be quite the housewife, ha who would have thought!
  • I love having marshmallows in my coffee.
  • Vietnam and Machi Pitchu in Peru is high up on my list of places to visit, and St. Basils Cathedral in Russia.
  • I use the word "love" allot, I love this and that.
  • I discovered that South Africa is the most beautiful country and I first want to see more of my home country before I venture to bigger things .
  • I love compartmentalising things, having a little box or tin or container for anything and everything.
  • I always have Stimmirol Wild Cherry Chewing gum with me, since I was about 16, round the time when it came out I think. Been addicted to it ever since.
  • I can be quite naive.
  • I am a reasonable person, but I can be very unreasonable deliberately.
  • I am a one man kind of gal, I get no thrill from one night stands.
  • I tend to over react easily, I am spontaneous in your face type of chick.
  • I am a complete morning person, I don't have the ability to watch a movie without falling asleep, ask anyone who dated me, they loathed it.
  • I love drinking Oros, it makes me all reminiscent and feel like a kid again.
  • I want to life on a farm.
  • I hate when people touch their toes yet I love when someone sucks mine, I have a conflicting foot fetish.
  • I can be quite oblivious as to what's going on around me, this has not proven to be helpful.
  • I can hardly ever remember my dreams, it's frustrating cause I wish I could.
  • I have a very special place in my heart for my only brother.
  • I think everyone is inherently manipulative, not always aware of it but we all are. It's part of our instinct.
  • I eat everything, I dislike any kind of pumpkin but I will still eat it. Well almost everything don't know about anchovies but I am open for suggestion. This is my new year's resolution and so far so good.
  • I completely believe in reason, season and lifetime friends, thus far I think there is only one which I think is truly a lifetime friend.
  • My 3 sisters are my best friends, when my little one grows up I hope we will be the same.
  • I can't spell, don't know what my life would be like without spellcheckers.
  • I love confusing people with my crazy mixed up family tree.
  • I love going to the movies by myself, I am a firm believer that movie without popcorn is a sin! A guy took me to a movie the other day and didn't get any, that kind of was a make or break ha ha!
  • My favourite holiday yet was Zanzibar with family and friends, we started the countdown on the beach with huge bonfires all around.
  • I don't believe in soul mates, but I would like to, I think I lost mine...
  • I am not scared of bugs, I have a gogga hunting dog which helps exterminate them.
  • I am trying really hard to get my head around HTML, even if it only means being able to add my own little quirky things to my blog.
  • I love mountains and crazy beautiful views, they enchant me.
  • I want to get engaged in a really out of the ordinary romantic way, nothing cliché.
  • I find being thoughtful incredibly satisfying.
  • I love New York city, The hum of the big apple.
  • I think Vegas is so over rated.
  • I love being way random.
  • Randomness and craziness is awesomeness.
  • I love –ness.
  • I discovered a real love for Radiohead, thank you, you know who you are.
  • I have come to deal with my hate for sand, and allot of other things, I think I have become way more relaxed about the small things that used to tick me of, life is too short for pet peeves.
  • I have a thing for guys with big egos, the thing is they put me of completely no matter how hot they are if they know it they not.
  • I also have a big thing for arms, big strong hands, mmm.
  • I believe that everything happens for a reason.
  • I love the smell of antique furniture.
  • I love being techie, well I try.
  • I have a thing for vogue prints, I have new ones from new York and classic copies of the 1st original posters.
  • I don't think my sisters realize how much they mean to me.
  • I want to start canoeing, or do something where I can take part in a race, I seriously need to work on my self-discipline and determination.
  • Every year I tell myself I am going to sing in the shower, but I just can't sing out loud, I have no sense of pitch.
  • I think everyone has to go to Disney world at least once, its indescribably magically enchanting, the kind of experience you can't explain.
  • I love the expression one slice short of a sandwich.
  • I love extreme stuff like bungee jumping and sky diving but I am really afraid of heights, I freak out if you bump my shoulder when on a 3 story high balcony.
  • I have trouble dealing with narrow minded people.
  • I really miss my family allot.
  • I love my food hot hot, so my coffee, I just gulp it down.
  • One of my favourite lines from philosophy is Descartes :"I think therefore I am" appropriated as "I think therefore I am single" I want to put it on a shirt but I think people are too stupid to recognise the humour of it, maybe I underestimate society but I don't think it will always go down the right way.
  • I am spontaneous, which I love about myself but have realised often lands me in a pickle.
  • I love messing with people's heads. Like that guy I read about who waves at people just before they get of the tube, making them wonder all day where they know him from ha ha!
  • I am a difficult person to date, at least I am aware of it, but who ever ends up with me, my family will take their hats of for you and always take your side.
  • If you have read all of this I think you are either very board, don't feel like working, or really inquisitive to find out what I am all about.


     

1 comment:

Michelle said...

And I love you for all you are...