August 13, 2012

• 100 Things – Getting to know you. :)

   

  This was posted originally on Multiply, and I think it’s a good one to repost here now… several “old” friends have made it here, and I’ve made some NEW ones as well. Awesome! So here’s a little bit about me.

   

   

   November 18th, ’09

   

  “I found this on a friend’s page, and took her up on the invitation to see if I could make my own list…

   

  1) I have been a Registered Nurse for over 10 years.

   

  2) I have broken my left wrist twice in one year, when I was 10, and spent April to September in plaster.

   

  3) I have four gaps from having teeth pulled due to abcesses.

   

  4) I have read eight books back to back in just over two weeks ~ Orson Scott Card’s “Ender” series of four, and four of the “Bean” spin offs.

   

  5) I just Wiki’d Scott Card ad discovered there have been three more published since, yay!

   

  6) I have cross-stitched several large pieces which I framed and hung up on my walls in England.

   

  7) I have eaten homemade quince pie, made by our hausfrau, Ermi, when I lived in Berlin.

   

  8) I have knitted several monkeys.

   

  9) I have rolled my own cigarettes for over 20 years.

   

  10) I have always been mad at myself for ever starting to smoke.

   

  11) I have interviewed the band Sad Cafe for my school magazine when I was 16.

   

  12) I have Ed “Stewpot” Stewart’s autograph.

   

  13) I entered an Ed Stewart radio competition and won a pair of fluorescent yellow armbands. I still remember my winning poem.

   

  14) I have watched my football team win the F.A. Cup Final at the original Wembley Stadium in London.

   

  15) I have grown a garden full of vegetables.

   

  16) I have learned how to can and freeze them.

   

  17) I have no children.

   

  18) I was born in Munster, Germany.

   

  19) I have lived in three countries.

   

  20) I have spent periods of time in three other countries with my first husband, who worked abroad in construction.

   

  21) I have paid £25 to have IV valium administered, for a tooth filling costing £6.

   

  22) I have never overcome my fear of dentists.

   

  23) I have had a wild “pet” raccoon for a month.

   

  24) I have won an Easter Bonnet Parade, despite the fact that the tie on my bonnet broke and I cried all through it.

   

  25) I have blamed my brother for something really bad I did as a child, and let him believe it was him, for years.

   

  26) I have been owned by many cats, at one point by five at once.  Dizzy, Tabby, Shreddy, ClingOn and Sweep.

   

  27) I have had a driving licence for over twenty years, but have only been a driver for a little under a year.

   

  28) I have passed the US nursing exam, the N-CLEX, with the minimum of correct answers required and in just over an hour.

   

  29) I studied for it every day, before or after my shifts at work, for eight months.

   

  30) I have grown a pot plant from seed.

   

  31) I have passed the beginners, intermediate and advanced RSA typewriting exams.

   

  32) I have totally forgotten what RSA stands for.

   

  33) I have played Eliza Doolittle in a school production of “My Fair Lady” and hated it.

   

  34) I have started practicing singing “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” for my required “turn” at the family Thanksgiving get-together this year. *Rolls eyes*

   

  35) I have visited Amsterdam three times, with three different men, at three different times ofthe year, and loved it each time.

   

  36) I have visited Stonehenge.

   

  37) I have made my own leather thong knotted bracelet.

   

  38) I have two tattoos.

   

  39) I have several piercings.

   

  40) I have not watched television regularly since I moved here.

   

  41) I have lived with a heroin addict.

   

  42) I have escaped one relationship by packing my belongings and doing a runner while he was at work, after planning it for weeks. It was brilliant!

   

  43) I have not had a bath for over a year.

   

  44) I have dreamed about having a bath for over a year.

   

  45) I have watched the sun set in a desert in Saudi Arabia.

   

  46) I have ridden on the Peak Tram in Hong Kong.

   

  47) I have eaten shark in black bean sauce.

   

  48) I have had a lifelong dislike of raw tomatoes.

   

  49) I have owned a camera for as long as I can remember.

   

  50) I have owned goldfish called Benson and Hedges.

   

  51) I have watched baby pigs being born.

   

  52) I have met several online friends and hope to continue doing so!

   

  53) I met my husband on Yahoo 360 in August 2006. 

   

  54) I have survived the US Immigration process!

   

  55) I have worn glasses since I was about 5 years old.

   

  56) I have a fear of becoming sick or having an accident without medical insurance.

   

  57) I have had three written warnings in ten years.

   

  58) I have not spoken to my father for some 15 years, nor want to.

   

  59) I have one younger brother, no sisters.

   

  60) I have celebrated Chinese New Year, in China.

   

  61) I have been punched in the face by a patient at work.

   

  62) I have held more than one patient’s hand as they died.

   

  63) I have a fear of not being good enough.

   

  64) I have an obsession with my home being tidy.

   

  65) I have a hatred of soot.

   

  66) I have never read the Bible, though I still have the copy my mum was given when she was at school, dated 1953.

   

  67) I have gotten lost in a hedge maze.

   

  68) I have done naughty things on top of Lime Street Railway Station in Liverpool.

   

  69) I have a love of recipe books.

   

  70) I have kept the first album I ever bought, when I was 11. “Parallel Lines” by Blondie.

   

  71) I have strong memories of a bluebell wood, very close to home when I was very small.

   

  72) I have grown up as an Army Brat.

   

  73) I have stopped dyeing my hair after nearly 30 years of not knowing what it’s real colour was.

   

  74) I once lost 1 1/2 stones (approx 9 kilos) by cutting my fat intake to no more than 30g a day and walking everywhere, in four months.

   

  75) I have been a chewing gum chewer since I started my nurse training in 1995.

   

  76) I have worked as a shop assistant, a waitress, a telesales rep, a care assistant and a registered nurse.

   

  77) I have seen sights to make your hair curl when working with elderly/invalid clients in their own homes.

   

  78) I have never been arrested.

   

  79) I have been pulled over by the police here in Thornville, and totally flustered the officer with all my reams of English paperwork.

   

  80) I have fixed a broken muffler with an empty can of peas, tin snips, and a couple of hose clamps.

   

  81) I have had my photograph taken professionally after winning a “makeover” contest.

   

  82) I have crocheted a blanket big enough for a king-size bed. It cost me twice as much to post it here for Shane as it did to make it.

   

  83) I have been living a totally different life since moving here from England, in every way.

   

  84) I have set myself a target of studying and completing 5 hours of Continuing Education for nursing, each week.

   

  85) I have no desire whatsoever to join Farmville.

   

  86) I have played squash in 140 degree heat in Saudi Arabia.

   

  87) I have walked a mile in that same 140 degree heat, loaded with groceries and finding the taxi office closed, only to be told when I got back to the camp that they would have sent the minibus to collect me if I’d phoned them. I cried.

   

  88) I have become friendly with a giant beetle then trodden on it by accident and killed it.

   

  89) I have signed the paperwork allowing the hospital to turn off my mum’s life-support.

   

  90) I have wanted to be an English teacher, a librarian, and a mounted policewoman.

   

  91) I have served burgers & chips at half-time at a football match.

   

  92) I have attended more funerals than weddings.

   

  93) I have got drunk and climbed onto a restaurant table, singing along to “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen at the top of my lungs.

   

  94) I have tidied my bedroom, then got stoned later and completely forgotten about it until I’ve discovered the lovely surprise of a tidy room when going to bed hours later. 

   

  95) I have collected empty glass bottles for recycling, and then not gotten round to taking them until they’ve become an artistic feature on the floor of my kitchen.

   

  96) I have sliced the side of my tongue open, charging over a broken fence and screaming, hockey stick in hand, and running my mouth into the strand of wire that was still there along the top.

   

  97) I have always loved “scenery” ~ sunsets, crowded cities, empty beaches. Everything.

   

  98) I have never liked flashy sports cars. (Except red Mustangs belonging to Boo, of course.

   

  99) I have started knitting a shrug for Shane’s daughter for Christmas. It’s killing my wrist but it’s looking good.

   

  100) I have managed to think of 100 things. The End.

   

  How about you?

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