Some Random Things About Me

I got nominated for this by Sam, who is amongst other things one of the most brilliant commenters ever.  She’s one of those people who responds to every single comment by email, and the comments she makes are just always kind and encouraging. 

The idea is to mention 7 random things about yourself and then nominate 15 other bloggers.  So here goes:

• I love trashy reality shows.  My latest favourites are “Sister Wives” (about a polygamist family) and of course, “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” (during which I always entertain the fantasy that one of these days I’ll be walking down the chocolate aisle in Pick n Pay and go into labour, because nobody picked up I was pregnant even during my two IVFS and hysteroscopy.  I’ll be surrounded by all that lovely chocolate, which I’ll help myself to while I effortlessly deliver my full term healthy baby.  A quick and painless birth of course, as a kind of payback for the infertile years).
• I used to work at a very upmarket London hotel many years ago, answering the phones for room service.  I got to speak to some lovely celebs, and some real a-hole celebs.  Once when I went to take the bills to reception, Stephen Se.gal was walking through the lobby, and I got such a surprise I just stood there with my mouth hanging open.  He laughed at me, at which point I managed to close my jaw again.  He was definitely very sexy back then.
• I’ve backpacked to around 37 countries.  I used to aim for one country per year of my life, but I now have some catching up to do.  The backpacking budget is devoted solely to paying doctors to stick needles into places no needle should ever go, in an attempt to get a baby to go where apparently no baby wants to go either.
• I did ballet from the age of three to the age of 18.  I took it up again in my adult years before I moved to CT, and for a short while afterwards.  I really miss dancing, nothing makes me feel more alive than dance.
• Three months after I got my driver’s licence I had an accident and rolled the jeep I was driving (a really old battered one that my dad used to use for hunting and that I adopted as my own, which didn’t have seatbelts in it).  I was flung right out of the car, and I was extremely lucky to get out alive.  I got away with a few stitches under my lower lip.
• Considering my Dad used to hunt, I have no idea how he ended up with such a tree hugging daughter as myself.  I was mostly vegetarian for five years.  I have a guru in my favourite country in the world, India.  I rescue spiders from the bath rather than let them drown.  This weekend, I managed to convince my FIL to drive me back to a spot where I saw a lamb looking a little lonely in a field because I was worried someone had forgotten to move him to the new field (I was right).  I did an intuition development course.  I have a heart shape on my water filter at home because I believe it will transmit love into the water we drink.  Yep, I am a complete card carrying hippy in my heart.
• In my head on the other hand, I am the most logical person you will ever meet.  I develop financial software for a living.  I spend a lot of time reading business journals and newspapers.  I recently completed a degree in Quantitative Management, which is basically maths and stats.  I follow the economy and the financial indices.  I invest in shares and unit trusts both here and overseas.  I love spreadsheets.  I can’t believe I just admitted that, but it’s true.  There’s no reason why the inner hippy and the inner number cruncher can’t live in perfect harmony inside the same personality

I nominate mmccif, A Higgledy Piggledy Life, The Maybe Baby, Trip the Light, and A Path Less Travelled.  I know.  Only 5.  But I think everyone else has done it, and if you are reading and you haven’t done it then I hereby nominate you too :-)

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