Apparently I’m
middle-aged now. So I’ve been told. Which, well it seems like a pretty harsh
thing to tell me but I guess that makes it no less true. The truth hurts and
all that. Anyhow, let’s celebrate my middle-agedom with a list of things about
me that you may or may not be aware of.
Also, here I am in Monaco last summer when I was still youthful.
1. If I am sleeping alone I still sleep cuddled up to the soft toy I got when I was a baby. I know. I’m adorable. It’s a popple, if you wondered.
2. I love lists. Hence this one.
3. I hate to drive. I’m also not very good at it. The two things are probably connected.
4. I have a lot of nosebleeds. They happen at any time and for no reason whatsoever. This has been a thing throughout my whole entire life. It’s tiresome.
5. If I was only allowed to eat one food for the rest of forever, that food would probably be marmite on toast. Preferably made by my Mum but I appreciate that making me toast for all of forever is a massive ask and she has a life so my own toast making skills would suffice.
6. I love the sea. I. LOVE. THE. SEA.
7. My favourite colour is purple.
8. I drink too much coffee.
9. I have one sibling. A brother. He is five years younger and one foot taller than me.
10. I have never broken a bone.
11. I hate lies
12. I used to feel sad that I didn’t have a middle name so if anybody asked I would say it was Mary because I once saw the name Josephine Mary on a gravestone. I was a strange child.
13. I have ‘an unhealthy relationship with food,’ This is a thing I am constantly working on.
14. I love cuddles. Like, seriously, I love to cuddle and be cuddled. I also love holding hands. If you are my person then you will likely be aggravated at some point by my invasion of your personal space. What are boundaries?
15. I used to be afraid of the dark, now I struggle to sleep with the light on.
16. I am left handed.
17. I buy more books than I will ever be able to read or than I will ever have space for. It’s a problem.
18. I hate being too cold.
19. I also hate being too hot.
20. I do not do enough exercise.
21. I have never smoked a cigarette.
22. I book my birthday off work every year because even if all I do is sit around in my pyjamas all day eating hula hoops, it’s a better celebration than being sat at my desk.
23. I only like broccoli if it’s in a soup with Stilton. Or mashed.
24. I am a fast reader. Not super fast, but fast.
25. I really wish I could speak French. I am determined to learn. Hello Duolingo app!
26. I love to ski.
27. I am not a tidy person. I want to be a tidy person but alas (earwax) I am not.
28. I am totally and utterly and indescribably terrified of the dentist
29. I have worked for the same company since I was 18.
Now I am in charge of it, and whilst I’m proud of that, I feel embarrassed when
people ask what I do and mumble something about working in an office
30. I love getting my nails done.
31. I am absolutely a cat person. I will probably end
up a crazy cat lady and I’m actually fine about that.
32. I dip my fries in my milkshake.
33. I have been 16% of the way through Anna Karenina for over five years.
34. I say yes more
than no because I worry too much
about what people think about me.
35. I am not on Facebook.
Happy birthday to me! I am currently eating tartiflette with my best guy which seems to me to be as good a way to celebrate turning 35 as any. Hurrah. Please, feel free to drink gin and eat cake in my honour- not that you should ever need an excuse to do either of those things.
