Just to bring it to a nice round one hundred:
2. I hate balloons. They're untidy. They look awful after a day or too. They take up too much space. I secretly pop every balloon my kids get within about 24 hours of them bringing those cursed latex spheres home.
3. I can't tell my left from my right. I have to point the forefingers of both my hands upwards to decide which is which. (The hand whose forefinger and thumb make an "L", that's the left one - try it, you'll love it!). In fact, when I did my driver's licence exam, I nervously held onto the steering wheel with both forefingers pointing at the windscreen awaiting the examiner's instruction as to which direction I should turn.
4. I answer my phone: "Jessica Hallo".
5. I got married when I was 20. My dad had to sign consent for me to do it, and that was so embarrassing! I was doing this grown-up thing, but I wasn't grown-up enough to do it on my own - I actually had to get permission. Oi vey!
6. Whenever I see our national flag, I think of y-front underpants.
7. I am seriously addicted to Terry Pratchett.
8. I had a crisis of faith. Now I don't know.
9. My dad dropped me on my head when I was a few months old. In front of a LOT of people.
10. I can read and write backwards. (But I don't think it's because I was dropped on my head as a baby.)
11. I was born the same year that the first test-tube baby was born. Sometimes I wished that it was my claim to fame too.
12. My butt is always ice-cold.
13. I love walking in the rain, but I hate being wet.
14. I usually snore.
15. I used to get grumpy when I was tired. Now, I'm tired so often that it's too much effort to be grumpy.
16. I puked pretty much through my entire first labour. After 12 hours of hurling I ended up having a Caesarean section. Which I didn't throw-up in.
17. For most of my childhood, my nickname was "Flea". I have no idea why.
18. I love singing under the influence of helium.
19. I like hats.
20. I only wear hats when I'm having a bad hair day.
21. I sort my laundry into colour piles: blues + blacks, pinks and reds, whites, oranges, yellows + browns.
22. I could always have another cup of coffee. Thank you.
23. I've never had an imaginary friend, but I did once see a fairy.
24. The first time a boy really kissed me, I nearly choked. It was awful.
25. I don't mind catching frogs, moths or Christmas beetles in my hands.
26. Stupid irritates me.
27. I usually sing in the car.
28. I doodle whenever I'm on the phone. If I'm not driving, of course.
29. I have never been able to stick to a diet.
30. I don't like how people smell. You know, when they're all crowded together. Hot and many.
31. I will not swim if I can't see what's in the water. This includes night time dips in the pool (there might be sharks!)
32. I hate it when people call me Jessy. It's messy. And it sounds like they're calling their dog.
33. I dislike the word "penetrate". It too is messy.
34. I don't like doctors.
35. Everyday I am afraid that people will find out what a loser I really am.
36. Manners are important. If I fail at everything else, at least let my kids be polite.
37. I am not an animal person. I don't mind animals in general, but just not all over me. It took me a really long time to agree to the bunnies.
38. The only time I have been hospitalised was for the births of my children.
39. Acapella intrigues me.
40. I enjoy conspiracy theories.
41. I was bulimic in my final year of school. Not having the will power to deny myself food, I resorted to bingeing and purging in order to get skinny. Eventually I gave that up too, because it was just too much schlep.
42. I have pierced my belly button. Twice. Neither piercing is currently present. Just a nasty scar.
43. I don't like eating breakfast.
44. I love my Mac.
45. I once greeted an egyptian gardener with a "Shalom" instead of "Sa'laam". My husband dragged me away before the poor guy had time to respond.
46. I had a huge scrapbook dedicated to Princess Diana when I was a young girl. She was just spectacular, and I was sure I would marry Prince William.
47. I used to frequently jump off the roof of the church into the prepared, or not, arms of my childhood hero. I was 5. He was 15. He was everything!
48. I hit a slump everyday at 14h30 and 21h30.
49. My recurrent nightmare as a child was about a giant panda escaping from the Jo'burg zoo.
50. When I sneeze, I implode. I don't know how I do it, but I somehow swallow my sneezes so that it sounds like I'm sniffing. Backwards.
3 comments:
I think the parentals dropped all of us on our heads at a point. Kind of explains a thing or two
The Princess Diana Scrapbook... me too. And piles and piles of magazines with The Wedding. And Prince William was definitely supposed to be mine.
I thought I was the only meanie mum who popped balloons when the kids aren't watching...I feel better.
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