A million things about me… or close to it..

… a good place to start …

1. I am turning 30 next year
2. I am always on a diet but never losing any weight


3. I’ve just had my second baby in 2 years
4. I have two girls, Rowan is 2 and Ella was born in August.
5. I am short tempered but fair minded and non-judgmental.
6. I am easy to annoy but hard to anger.
7. I am a juvenile when it comes to domestic arguments but mostly because I can only ever think of the funny and/or witty/intelligent/cutting/smart things to say after the argument has finished so I resort to humphing/door slamming and exhaling a lot.
8. I can bear the most ridiculous of grudges for an extraordinary amount of time with people I don’t really care about anyway - but forgive incredibly quickly as long as I get a well placed hug and an apology from the people closest to me.
9. The most hurtful comments have stayed with me a lifetime.
10. The best compliments *are* hardest to believe.
11. We don’t own any pets mostly because I can’t bear the thought of having to clean up anybody else’s poo - I do enough of that already.
12. I can’t often think of anywhere I’d rather be than at home.
13. I’m a flickr geek.
14. I’m ridiculously competitive without any real talent at anything.
15. I am totally capable of completely unjustifiable snappyness but am always instantly remorseful even if I don’t want to apologise.
16. I’m always the first to apologise.
17. I’m often suspicious without any real cause.
18. I love to read but never seem to have the time.
19. George Bush makes me wanna cry.
20. Tony Blair makes me wanna laugh.
21. My husband to be ‘Big Nut’ is the best cook in the world.
22. He’s the only person that really makes me laugh out loud till I have to cross my legs
23. I’d do anything for my family.
24. I love chocolate.
25. I love anything savoury more and if I had to choose between the two I’d never eat chocolate again.
26. I love going to the cinema or out for a meal with BN and reminiscing about when we were childless.
27. I really love going to one pub and sitting there for the evening in a nice comfortable chair without having to move from one pub to another in order to stand in a new pub when I could have been sitting down somewhere else. I really don’t understand why ppl have the need to do this relentlessly on a night out. I’d rather be warm. And seated.
28. I can be really grumpy.
29. I can be a shocking speller but I have a complusion to try really complicated words anyway.
30. I rarely have a complete understanding of the really long words I use .. well that’s not true .. I often have an incomplete understanding but have enough of an idea to try them out anyway .. you’ll never see this though cos I’ll always ask BN first
31. I’ll generally always answer a direct question with total honesty.
32. I generally always get asked ‘is that your real name?’, ‘where does it come from?’ and ‘how do you spell it?’ whenever I introduce myself but not always in that order.
33. The answers are yes, greece and/or Ireland and/or Australia and g-r-e-e-r in that order and always followed by ‘no, I’m not Greek nor am I related to any Greek people not that there’s anything wrong with Greece or Greek people in the slightest. Replace Greece/Greek with Australia/Australian.
34. I am half Irish half English.
35. I am a Cancer starsign - not sure I really believe in that though - although being a Cancer means you get to be called homely, reliable, loyal, thoughtful etc etc. - I may have to reconsider my position on this if I ever get very lonely and/or depressed..
36. I am not tidy.
37. I am clean - personally and domestically
38. I am the manager of an office and required to be grown up for at least 80% of most days.
39. I am not grown up in the slightest.
40. I jabber and babble relentlessly unless I’m told to be quiet.
41. I find it hard to share.
42. I am bossy but well meaning.
43. I love to be right.
44. I love my friends and my family.
45. I’d love to be thin but I love food equally if not more and invariably the stuff that I love is the stuff you really shouldn’t eat if you’ve put on 4st in 2 years - curse the babies
46. I love lists.
47. I love to appear organised but deep down I’m not sure that I really am.
48. I love to clean when I’m angry. It really helps me to reorganise my thoughts and always gets me time alone seeing as no-one else in my house loves to clean (or is capable or allowed to) seeing as only one of the other people *in* my house is over 2 years old.
49. I have unresolved anger issues from my childhood.
50. I love the weather just as it’s getting warm.
51. I say I hate snow but actually I only hate snowy weather because I’m always the first to fall over and it’s embarrassing.
52. I am truly in love.
53. I love the way my daughter loves me - she looks at me like I’m the best thing in the world and that’s pretty priceless.
54. I am always honest but try never to be tactless.
55. I hate arguing with BN.
56. I hate people that say always and never. Note to self.
57. Pet peeve - people that tut me when I have the pushchair and can’t walk at 100mph with 3st of children on 3wheels….. *and* think they have a given right to barge in front of said pushchair with children on for example road/level crossings and don’t understand why I’ll bash them in the ankles right back if I want my kids out of the way of oncoming traffic/train.
58. I can’t help but notice people that don’t look at my children with adoration
59. I get irritated when pedestrians feel the need to coo and chuckle at my sleeping children and wake them up when they need to be asleep.
60. hate - people that wave charity boxes at me in the street and don’t respect my right not to want to give. FTI I have direct debits to all the charities I want to support but why should I have to justify that to them? I shouldn’t. But I feel the need to when I don’t want to give them money.
61. Love Christmas decorations. Love Christmas and love the Christmas spirit.
62. Love making ppl feel good about themselves.
63. I only lie when necessary.
64. I love reading gossip but I never stir trouble.
65. I’m a good listener.
66. I’m a hopeless babbler - in fact I think I may have said that already..
67. I’m the person that always gets told the secrets.
68. I’m a ppl pleaser often at my own expense. I’m just happy if everyone I care about is happy. I saw this TV interview with Terri Hatcher about her book Burnt toast or something but she explained it like this.. mothers always take the burnt toast.. if they’re making everyone breakfast and there’s 20 slices of perfect toast and 3 of them are burnt, the mother will always take those slices to make sure that everyone else has got the best ones. In life her mother always took the burnt toast out of everything. She tries to take less burnt toast and hopes her daughter doesn’t have to take any at all. I take plenty of burnt toast but not to say that I’m not happy. I’m happy taking the burnt toast *because* I’m a ppl pleaser. Knowing that noone else has got it *makes* me happy.
69. I don’t actually eat burnt toast. Or toast that’s gone to cold to melt the butter.
70. If I’m truly angry, I’ll probably never let it go.
71. I do wonder if that will be my undoing altho I’m making myself sound angry and I’m really not..

hmmm…

You Are 38% Angry

You’re occasionally angry, but it’s really not an issue. While you may give in to your temper once and a while, you’re pretty mellow. And as long as your anger doesn’t effect your relationships, then it’s probably in check. You know that anger is a bad habit - and you don’t engage in it often.

How Angry Are You?

72. It makes me snappy if somone asks me if I’m snappy or when people snap at me and then say ‘nothing ‘ when you ask them what’s wrong even though something clearly is!! You know who you are
73. You know what - this brings me on to my biggest pet peeve of all - when people make a comment or a little snip at you but then don’t have the guts to follow it through with the explanation because they know it’ll lead to an argument - so they just leave you wondering what’s wrong or why you’ve upset them and how. It can ruin your day. And you know what - this is my biggest peeve because I’m pretty sure I do this all the time
74. I love being so connected to Big Nut that we can start sentences and never have to finish them because we just know…
75. I love being that cute couple that all my friends think are ‘just lovely together’
76. I hate q’s at the post office/supermarket/sandwich shop/bank/cash machine where everyone in front of you is having a day where there’s just-one-more-thing and you’re having a day when you couldn’t give a shit about anyone else and you just wanna go home
77. I don’t understand people who wake up in bad moods for no reason. I may sound like I hate a lot but I never wake up in a bad mood.. something has to put me there.
78. I love a good debate and I’m confused by people who can’t debate without getting upset if they can’t convert people to their way of thinking. I get quite heated when I debate and it’s hard to debate if you’re not allowed to get heated for fear of offending.
79. I often open mouth without engaging brain first.
80. I have lots of friends.
81. I haven’t sent any Christmas cards - not because I don’t want to but because I am a hopeless texter.. is this bad? If we all communuicate by email wouldn’t it just be cheaper and less time consuming? Terrible I know - I’m not for one second advocating “Christmas word processed Round Robins” that get sent out to 100 ppl with the name added in pen at the top for each recipient.. they *are* terrible.. we laugh at those that do it unmercilessly but … I can see where they began to think that was a good time saver .. don’t be ashamed to admit you can’t be bothered to keep in touch .. don’t want to keep in touch/ never liked them anyway ..
82. ROFL I love smileys
83. I appreciate proper use of the words myriad, comprise and plethora
84. I would like to meet Robert Winston - he is my idol - I love him.
85. I feel bad that it was so easy for me to have babies when I wanted them and I feel desperately sad for those that can’t ever.
86. I sincerely admire people who adopt children - and not in a crappy patronising way. I understand that it’s not something I can fully appreciate but I’m not a moron and I do get that it must seem so perfectly natural to some and last resort to others. Not to say that all the children aren’t wanted.. this could go on and on but you get the idea.
87. I don’t read enough but I’m going to attempt to do a recommendation of books on here. You will soon find out that I’m not very deep. I like a book to make me laugh. Generally they’re silly short novels aimed at women my age who are settled down with kids and like some escapism every now and then and I’m not ashamed to admit that. The other side of it is that we are so relieved to be happily settled and kidded up that we read about singletons to remind us that we really *are* lucky so… you will be recommended gems by Jane Green and Jennifer Wiener of In her Shoes fame (although her best one is undoubtedly not In her Shoes in fact but the novel about Candice Shapiro in Philly) Good In Bed… maybe I just empathised because I’m chubby
88. My knowledge of world politics/geography/world events is shockingly poor - not for want of trying I hasten to point out but merely because my ability to hold information in my head for longer than a half hour when it involves learning is also shockingly poor - having said that remembering words to songs I listened to when I was 11 - 20 is shockingly good!!
89. I love to laugh about anything - big belly laughs when you can’t talk for fear of wetting yourself!
90. I am not afraid to admit I’m wrong or stupid
91. It irritates me when people *are* scared/ too stubborn to admit they’re wrong.
92. When I first wrote this - I spelled plethora wrongly