25 Random Things

1. I don't get the whole thing with Krispy Kremes.  Are they really that good?  I didn't think so.  Meh, they're just doughnuts.
2. When I was four, I was playing `Mummies & Daddies' with some things my brother and Dad were using to glue model ships together.  I managed to stick myself to the chair I was sitting on with superglue.  I was rushed to hospital and to this day, because of the burns, I still have lovely smooth spots on my bum.  I also made it to the front page of The West Australian.  We still have the article, more than 30 years later.
3. When I found out I would have to be induced with my daughter, I opted to go for July 21st, so she would be born a Cancer and not a Leo.  True story.  She was born at 9pm the next day, just in time.  I think it could have backfired on me though.  Typical.
4. The most embarrassing moment of my life was when I was caught flashing my naked bum at my then boyfriend while walking up the street outside my parent's house.  I didn't know there was an elderly couple walking their dog behind us.
5. When I was 18 and joined the Army Reserves, I only did it because I thought walking around in my uniform would impress people.  When you join up they don't tell you about the tinned sausages and beans in jelly, or the friggin' rifle picket at 3am, or the fact that having to clean that rifle when you first wake up in the morning - every morning - before you're even allowed to wee, is a sophisticated and brilliant form of torture.
6. I am so scared of spiders that once I didn't go out the back of my house in Scarborough for a whole week, because there was one clinging to the underside of my outdoor table.  It was less than 5mm in size.
7. The last time I went to the gym, I ran into an old friend from primary school, and while we were talking, a little bird flew into a window behind us and knocked itself out.  I held it on my outstretched palm for nearly 45 minutes while my friend and I talked, speculating about it's condition, thinking it had broken its neck and wondering how I was going to give it a decent burial, when it hopped up, shook itself, and flew away.  THAT was a good feeling.
8. Once I weighed my boobs.  Really.  The results were surprising.
9. I have an irrational prejudice against four-wheel drive owners.  I could explain it, but I probably shouldn't.
10. I wish I had the guts to get a whole sleeve tattooed.  I wanna look like Kat Von D.  Just for a year or so.
11. I have a total of 14 piercings and three tattoos.  These days I'm boring though, and only wear one pair of earrings.  I still wear all my tattoos.
12. The thought of anything happening to my daughter mainly freaks me out because I don't know if I would have the strength to go on living if it did.  I know that's really selfish, but it's the truth.
13. Every time I turn a light switch on or off, I have to touch it's whole surface with my fingertips.  It drives me nuts, but I can't snap out of it.
14. Farts really, really make me laugh.
15. I can't kill anything.  Not anything.  Flies, cockroaches, spiders, ants - you name it, nothing.  I saw a spider near P's playpen the other day and I had to kill that because I was too scared to pick it up and put it outside, and I cried for nearly ten minutes afterwards.
16. Before I die I want to :  i) Hang glide.  It's the closest thing to flying I can imagine.  ii) To a ski jump.  It's the second closest thing to flying I can imagine.  iii)  Ride a tube wave.  Because everyone I know who's done it says it's indescribable.
17. I spend WAY too much time on Internet forums.  There are a couple of people at politicalforum.com that I would throw a drink over if I met them in real life.  Really.  But there are more people there that I feel really sad that I will probably never get to meet in person, and that's a bummer.  
18. I never, ever thought that one day I would say the Tour De France is the most exciting sporting event that exists in the world today.  It's awesome. 
19. I have had the same song in my head, honest-to-God truth, for more than 20 years.  It goes away sometimes, but not for long, and it's nearly always there in the background.  And worse, it's played with bagpipes.  Not a word of a lie.
20. One of the experiences I am most grateful for, is having been able to study music and singing under Richard Gill for a whole year.  That was brilliant.
21. If I could say I have a real dream, it would be that one day I would win the Man Booker prize for something that I write.  It used to be the Nobel Prize for Literature, but that could be a stretch.
22. I cannot blow raspberries.  I discovered this after P was born.  I still haven't decided whether or not there is a God, but this makes me think maybe not.
23. I did not try a prawn until five years ago.  That is 29 years of my life that I missed out on prawns.  More proof that there probably is no God.
24. I have read The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett 27 times.  I really like it THAT much.
25. I spent two years secretly transcribing The Lord Of The Rings into screenplays, and then when I found out that Peter Jackson was making the movies I burned all my work in a barbecue.  I forgive him though.  Those movies were so incredible that I was completely silent for over an hour after each one.  Nothing else has been able to achieve that.