Tales from Falsidehill

100 Things

100 Things About Me

1. I’m married
2. I was born in the city
3. I now live in the country
4. I like being on my own
5. I have a pet Labrador
6. I like strong milky tea
7. I don’t like coffee
8. Coffee puts me on edge
9. Perfume gives me a headache
10. I love 80s pop music
11. I used to pick bits of onion out of my food when I was younger
12. I don’t much like summer
13. I would rather be cold than hot
14. I never wanted to get married
15. My wedding day was the best day of my life so far
16. I don’t like the way beehives or brains look
17. I love removing the ridges on my nails with a buffer
18. Making money on property excites me
19. I have owned three properties
20. I feel confident that I am going in the right direction with my life
21. I continually have to reassure myself that I will get to where I want to be
22. I have green eyes
23. I crave chocolate
24. I never really enjoy chocolate as much as I think I will
25. I am beginning to learn to trust my own instincts
26. The thought of how deep the ocean is terrifies me
27. I’ve had lots of teeth pulled out due to overcrowding
28. I enjoyed having my teeth pulled out
29. I keep all the teeth I had pulled out in a little box
30. I have never had a filling
31. I have never broken a bone
32. I have a blue scar on my left thumb
33. I didn’t finish high school
34. I don’t really swear out loud
35. I need reading glasses
36. I could never let a bar of chocolate ‘last’
37. I sometimes wonder if I should have gone to university
38. I don’t like wearing high heels
39. I would rather go to the dentist than to the hairdressers
40. I spent eight years as a bored office worker
41. I concentrate more on what I do wrong than what I do right
42. I feel guilty when I spend money on myself (especially now that I don’t earn any)
43. I hate sweetcorn
44. It takes me ages to get to sleep
45. I find text messages tedious
46. I never wear a watch
47. I love thunderstorms
48. I need to apply lip balm hourly
49. I’m allergic to cheese
50. My first celebrity crush was Kevin Costner in Robin Hood
51. I took ballet lessons when I was in primary school
52. I don’t like making mistakes
53. I’m learning that making mistakes can be a good thing
54. I don’t like shopping for clothes
55. I stopped chewing skin off my fingers when I got my engagement ring
56. I hate having dirty hands
57. Cuddling my dog means more to me than having a hair-free jumper
58. I don’t understand women who are obsessed with shoes
59. I don’t play the lottery but I think about winning
60. At the age of eight, I started to hold my tummy in
61. A bird pooed on my head – big style – when I was on my lunch break in town one day
62. I once forgot I had taken the lid off my smoothie and shook it all over myself in public
63. I don’t like the American way of writing the date
64. I don’t like it when people say ‘different than’ or ‘different to’ instead of ‘different from’
65. It annoys me when people think it is polite to always say ‘you and I’ when it could be ‘you and me’
66. I hate it when people say ‘at the end of the day’ or ‘for me personally’
67. It amazes me that people still confuse ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’
68. I have issues with spelling and grammar
69. I want to know what my dog is running from in her dreams
70. I used to be able to lip-read because I always had my walkman on
71. I don’t like lending things to people
72. I don’t like people lending things to me
73. ‘Flashdance’ makes me want to be a dancer
74. ‘Dead Poets Society’ makes me want to be a poet
75. Singing relaxes me
76. If you ask me not to tell anyone, I won’t
77. I once spat water all over work friends in a drunken fit of laughter
78. I love notebooks but have a hard time deciding what to write in them
79. I have lots of empty notebooks
80. I wouldn’t say no to more notebooks
81. I am nearly always scared to say what I really think
82. I can’t talk in a group of people
83. My grandad worked in a bookbinders and gave us rejected books with the covers on upside down
84. I hate it when they claim to ‘improve’ my moisturiser or shampoo – they lie
85. I hate the sound of a ticking clock in an otherwise silent room
86. I got my ears pierced when I was five
87. I hardly ever wear earrings
88. I haven’t read many of the books I own
89. I used to sleep with a toy seal under my arm
90. I like getting my feet rubbed
91. I never water my plants
92. I don’t like touching money
93. I love accents
94. I unconsciously look for twists in movies
95. I want to live to be 100
96. I hated being a teenager
97. I feel relieved when I clip my fingernails off
98. I love the sound of leaves on trees in the breeze
99. I love the smell of freshly opened Post It notes
100. None of my shoes are comfortable