I came across a '100 things about myself' post on
Cupcakes and Cashmere and
Contented Me last week and really enjoyed reading funny and honest little snippets of these ladies lives. I'm in a reflective mood this week, with New Years looming, and decided to take a glance at myself and follow suit. Here are the
first 50......
1. I cry like a baby at Extreme Makeover Home edition and the end of Cool Runnings
2. When I was 16 I got a Celtic tattoo. This year I intend to turn it into a design I actually like!
3. I have the most fantastical, cinematic, colourful, epic, celeb-filled dreams.
4. I am a Virgo – my Birthday is 9/11. I turned 17 on the day of the Twin Tower attack.
5. I have a bizarre habit of sometimes eating too much cheese in one sitting and waking up in the middle of the night with the cheese sweats.
6. When I was 12 I won a school competition for ‘most unusual dancer’ on a school trip. (I danced with both my hands and feet on the floor.)
7. I have been blonde since I was 15 and dyed my hair with a home kit ....and it went yellow.
8. I am most told I am like 5 different celebs – Heather Graham, Alicia Silverstone, Kate Winslet, Fearne Cotton and Kate Hudson.
9. I once went out dressed as a giant bottle of beer for St Patricks day
10. As a child I would repeatedly come back from the ladies with my skirt tucked into my knickers....
11. ....The last time I did this was 2006 in Vegas.At a buffet.
12. I believed in the Tooth Fairy until one night ‘she’ tripped over a computer on the floor by my bed and swore!
13. I have a certificate in Tank Driving
14. I pretend I am not impressed by Romance but I absolutely am.
15. I used to dye my barbies blonde hair red
16. I secretly wish I was in fact a red head
17. I appeared on the 6 0’clock news when I was 15 for standing outside a Leo DiCaprio London film premiere in a bikini. In February.
18. I know every single line to to the film Dumb and Dumber
19. If I was born a boy I was going to be named Alistair. My surname is Grainger – so yes, I would have been known as Ali G.
20. My favourite word to say is Polvolt.
21. Sunday evenings depress me without fail.
22. Whilst studying World War 2 literature during College I would regularly and spontaneously burst into uncontrollable tears, to the shock of my classmates. On the day of the final exam, my tutor had put a pack of tissues on my desk!
23. The sound of someone cracking their knuckles makes me feel sick.
24. I always steal toiletries from hotel rooms, even ones I don't want/like/need.
25. The best part of a roast dinner are sprouts and parsnips.Fact!
26. Pet hates include: People who are rude to waiting staff, homes that have no locks on the bathroom door (why?!), Radio DJ’s who talk over tunes, and men who are pushy on trains.
27. As teenagers my best friend and I joined the school choir simply to avoid detention. It landed us in an after school competition, but hey – we won!
28. I talk to myself in the car, and in changing rooms.
29. As a little girl I was obsessed with a TV show called ‘Head Over Heels’, set in the 50’s, and one character in particular. I dressed like her for a week and only answered to her name, Camilla.
30. I have been, and always will be, a Spice Girls fan.
31. I have zero sense of direction.
32. I have an inappropriate sense of humour. I cannot help but laugh when someone trips, falls, stumbles, tumbles or hurts themselves.
33. At School in home-economic lessons the teacher used me as an example of ‘how NOT to cook’.
34. I adore polka dots
35. My top 3 Disney heroines are: Belle (Beauty & the Beast), Alice (in Wonderland) and Ariel (Little Mermaid).
36. I have never: Broken a bone, gone skiing, seen a Carry-on film or been to Disneyland.
37. I once ate a fishes eye because my brother dared me.
38. I simply cannot lick the lid of a yoghurt –
eugh.
39. I confess...I do judge books by their cover...
40. ...and Facebook does help me remember peoples birthdays!
41. On holiday in Austria aged 11 I was given (what I thought) was Peach Schnapps in a restaurant to down and screamed that it tasted awful. It was really lemonade.
42. As a young child I did not understand the concept of spitting, so swallowed my toothpaste.
43. My favourite Beatles song is ‘
Drive my Car’44. Once during a nasty bout of food poisoning I was somewhat delirious and was convinced I saw a delivery man in the corner of my bedroom.
45. There is only one complete sentence I can remember from studying Italian at school.
Chi va piano, va sano e’ lontano*
46. The last book that made me laugh out loud in public was ‘Olivia Joules’
47. I had two goldfish when I was 12 called Tango and Sushi. I killed them both within a fortnight.
48. I’ve only been to the cinema once alone.
49. I cannot STAND karaoke.
50. I do most maths sums on my fingers
* Translates as 'He who goes slowly goes safely and goes far' !!
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