Oh hello, let’s start the week off with something light, a few random facts about me. Think of it as a getting to know you me chat. Ok, here we go…
1. I can only write blog posts with music blaring in my ears. Cafes are my favourite place to write, the vibe of the people and views of the ocean just feel good.
2. I love, love, love the smell of fresh mown grass and wood burning fireplaces.
3. I pick my nose in the car because somehow I believe there’s an invisibility shield around me…there isn’t!
4. I love stationary, Kikki K is my crack.
5. Sometimes I leave the new toilet roll on top of the empty one and blame the kids.
6. My eyes go super blue when I have sex, lately they are blue grey…go figure.
7. I won’t eat in a shopping centre food hall, the noise does my head in.
8. I snore really loud, apparently.
9. I have a very crooked index finger. I know you’re gonna try look for it now.
10. I’m the queen of typos. Don’t care…deal with it.
11. My memory is affected by cancer treatment. Some days I struggle to remember the most basic of things but I can remember the words to all the hits of the 80’s.
12. Most of the house cleaning gets done twenty minutes before the family get home at night.
13. My second lounge room is an extension of my laundry…clothes for days.
14. I used to dry reach at the smell of lavender but for the last 18 months I have been rubbing lavender oil on my pillow every night. Best sleep ever. Maybe that’s why I snore.
15. I have THE worst poker face. You can pretty much read my thoughts just by looking at my expression.
16. I have two middle names, because I’m fancy like that. Not really, one was after my natural fathers barmaid…classy!
17. I drink almond milk. I know, WTF? It’s not even milk but let’s pretend hey. Don’t judge me.
18. I shave, don’t wax. Thanks to meds I only need to whip out the razor once a month #silverlining
19. When I’m desperate for chocolate I eat the cooking choc buds, not as good as Haighs but better than Cadbury. Again, classy.
20. I always take my trolley back to the trolley bay and will shoot you a filthy look if you don’t.
I love some random facts so let’s turn the tables. Go on tell me one random fact about you.
Haha totally get the food court thing… me however feels sorry for older people sitting there alone so feel the need to invite them to sit with us … insert husbands rolling eyes ?
awww that’s sweet Kim
Love your random facts – my random fact would be…
*even though I have lived a lot of my adult life on my own, and hubby works away a lot, I am still scared of the dark.
Michelle, so am I!
Haha! I SO do the filthy like look thing if someone doesn’t return their trolley! AND I’ll do a sigh and head shake as I pick up theirs and take it back with mine!!
Hmm, so, random thing…. I can’t eat cheese on an un-toasted sandwich… something about the texture of bread and cheese together. I can manage it if I have to, but the cheese has to be inbetween the other fillings. (Eg, bread, ham, cheese, tomato, bread…. not bread, cheese, ham, tomato, bread – I know, weird!) Now, if it’s toasted, all is good!!
Have a great day all!
Cheers,
Jodie
A toasted cheese sanger is always a good thing Jodie.
Mmmmm, I’m still scared of thunder and I have just turned 50!!!!
Growing up in Queensland storms with thunder were commonplace but my sons have been raised in Adelaide and find it exciting…not much thunder here in the south 🙂
I lol reading the toilet roll one. Can relate to that even though there is a bin right outside.
Mine would be…….finding songs that match my random thoughts in my head sometimes. Not a huge fan but heard Kasey Chambers in my head this morning. Yep a tad nuts I think 🙂
Oh Kasey is a talent, I love her.
I hate tomato sauce. I can’t touch it, even the bottle. Can’t eat around people eating it . It’s not allowed in my house and if my son eats it when out i won’t let him kiss my cheek until he brushes his teeth and washes his face!
I have a friend who is the same, freaks her out!
Random fact about me, I have to use the correct pegs when hanging out the clothes. I have 3 different types in my peg bucket and you just can’t mix them when hanging out the clothes. Very OCD but at least I don’t colour co-ordinate…..
I get that Karen, I used to be the same.
I like eating Cadbury chocolate. Lindt is the best however!
Haighs were trained by the Lindt people so that explains why they are both my favourite chocolates 🙂
Me I love going to sleep with the sound if rain on the roof
Or waking up to rain…the beat!
Same! My son loves it too!
I have the exact same problem with my memory! I didn’t have cancer treatment, but had heart surgery after suffering a heart attack and my heart stopped beating. I just tell people I’m brain damaged now- milking it a little!
Haha, frustrating right!
I also dry reach at the smell of lavendar after rubbing a lavendar smelling moisturising lotion all over my pregnant belly to avoid stretch marks. I had terrible morning sickness in the first few months of my pregnancy and every time I smell lavendar it takes me straight back to that time (12 years ago!!!) and I just want to puke.
Ohhhh that’s not good. Thankfully there was no morning sickness for me when pregnant.
Here’s 3
* I have a total sweet tooth – lolly bananas, jersey caramels, clinkers, redskins, kool-mints – I love them all, except black lollies -I hate them!
* When my children were small all the batteries from the noise-making or flashy toys would mysteriously ‘disappear’, as eventually would the toys themselves…
* when I was a kid/teenager I used to climb up the grape vine trellis and on to the flat roof of the garage where it was amazingly peaceful and no one could find me. My beloved friend introduced me to the Jackson Browne song “up on the roof” when i told him this random fact.
Oh I adore that song 🙂
Check your snoring. Get a sleep study done. Lots of big beautiful women have sleep apnoea and don’t know it….
Have a shocking sweet tooth- hate green lollies or those really soft jellies.
Try Aldi chocolate. Well priced and delicious
Thanks kate.
Ooohhh yes, that Aldi milk chocolate is the bomb!!!!
I have a real phobia for birds.. don’t like them at all. I was swooped by plovers when I was in primary school and has scard me ever since…. ??
I have 2 friends who are exactly the same…petrified of birds.
I have to have the same coloured pegs on each garment when hanging my clothes out, including pairs of socks..slightly OCD I will admit…
I used to be exactly the same Kate 🙂
You pick your nose in the car? Haha love your honesty. I am absolutely terrified of monkeys, even seeing a picture of one makes my stomach flip and my skin crawl. Even typing this I am feeling sick 🙁
Yup, I do 🙂
I also have the “peg phobia”, actually I can’t remember never not having it!! My Family refer to the food hall as the “Pig Pen” and I too have memory gaps due to Chemotherapy. I have a double barrel first name and no second name. My favourite thing to do is lie in bed and read cook books (just like you would a novel).
I have to have my new magazines in a pile next to me on the sofa table. NO ONE is allowed to touch them except me. Sometimes the pile builds up if I’ve been busy but the same rule applies. Both husbands, children, grandchildren and daughter in law especially learned this the hard way when not long into my sons relationship with her, I came home to find her flicking through a new glossy. My shriek of horror made the poor girl leap off the sofa dropping the magazine upon which I swooped it back and restored it to its rightful place. We often laugh at this.
These days hubby thinks he’s incredibly privileged when I finish a magazine and offer it to him to read.. Just the way it should be!
1 random thing about me – I turn every piece of clothing the right way before the washing machine is turned on & each load of washing is hung on the line with the same coloured pegs! Oops that’s 2! & there’s lots more weird things I do!
Have a great Monday?
Oh the matching pegs…I used to be like that too.
Jen we share number 4, ah well!
A fact about me, I still go through the ritual of leaping into bed and not letting my feet hang over the edge of the bed in the dark so the monster that lives under there can’t get me – yep big scaridy cat ?
Oh I was like that for years after seeing ‘jaws’ and ‘nightmare on elm st’
I have my cutlery drawer arranged from L to R………spoons,forks,knives.
If I am in a kitchen where they are arranged differently I can experience
a slight case of mental unbalance..Lol
A little OCD 🙂
good morning ..one random fact about me..I am a Christmas freak..lol..Love, love, love Christmas and continue collecting Christmas trees and decorations, even though I am starting to run out of room..only decorate the inside of our home..
you need to start on the outside of your home Ann 🙂
I cant stand talking to someone while they are chewing gum
Hate chewing gum
UGH! same. It’s like the gum is all I can see
I was a croupier on a cross channel ferry (UK, Dover to Boulogne).
Wow, fun!
I too have always been scared of the dark, and I’m scared of mirrors in the dark just in case I see someone or something creeping up behind me, so every single night I turn the mirrors around, and back the right way in the morning…
haha…that spooks me out too
one random fact…. I hate getting into an unmade bed!
I love reading in cafes. , i love looking at real eatate and how people have decorated their homes. I habitually put myself last and am now learning to put myself first, well after my toy poodle..lol
Apparently I snore too but not all the time, I am a terrible sleeper and often wake in the middle of the night and read till I am tired enough to to sleep again. I have a ironing service so always have ironing ready for pick up but undies etc sit in Basket til hubby runs out sometimes. I also hate noisy food halls, we have a lovely new Golf Club in our estate and it quite during the week so my lunch place with a nice view. Worried that my mind will now get worse with Chemo, which starts next week. Thanks to advice I have gleaned from your blog I am organised for what it throws at me. Ginger chews tick, Hats and scarves tick, Butter London nail Polish tick, Organic make up and skin care tick, good company for chemo tick, stretchy clothing with pop of colour tick,. At least I will look good. Hair being shaved too. Thanks heaps Jenni 💋💋💖
I’m a great bargain hunter & love to barter but think nothing of spending whatever on a nice Lippy.
Never left the house without makeup on.. My children ( adults ) ring me everyday.
My second Husband (Sicilian ) of 16 years doesn’t speak English, I’m an Aussie but speak Italian
Always doing a course of some sort, your never to old to learn. More content with my life now.
As long as you have something to do & someone to love…. life is good xx
I’m 59 but alternative music is my thing. Royal Blood all the way !!!!!
I’ve got way to many vices
No one can sit in my chair weird I know
I snore and snort too .way to loud when taking being a carer with old people has made me talk loud they are all deaf
I have to drive when we go to the city
I’ve had cancer too but now on the road to recovery love your blog thanks Jenni
My random thing is I get agro if I see an able bodied person (with no certificate) parking in a
disability park because they are in a hurry or can’t find a space. So sad because the people who
need these spaces can’t access them due to someone else’s selfishness. Rant over
I still sleep with a bear and I’m 47! Can sleep without one but it feels like something’s missing!
Hello there. Before I had kids I was allergic to chilli. Four kids later and I’m no longer allergic. Go figure!
I am territorial about my kitchen and do not like anyone else in it other than letting my husband make coffee. I can have someone in with to help me cook etc, but invite only! Just because I let you once does not mean it is an open invitation.