I have annoyingly been tagged by the gorgeous Heather from SAHM Loving I in a meme called 10 Things You Didn't Know About Me. I'll forgive the intrusion into my slackers blogging domain just this once (can't be bovvererrrrred!) and will find a way to get my revenge at some point in the not too distant future. Like an elephant, the Beadzoid does not forget! Reluctant Housedad is also on my shit-list for living the life of a friend-to-the stars action hero.
But anyway, sulk over, here are my not-very-interesting factoids:
1. I was mad keen on football growing up and got a major crush on Roberto Baggio in the 1994 World Cup. As he was a Buddhist I decided I might like to be a Buddhist too, so I bought a load of books, started meditating, and dragged a school friend half way across London whilst on a college trip to visit the Buddhist Society only to be too shy to talk to them when I got there. The crush on Baggio pretty much ended with that disasterous penalty kick but a lifelong fascination with Buddhism has remained and every now and then I have a little dabble. I even ticked the box in the Census.
2. When I was 25 I'd arranged to move to Leeds with my gay best friend. Everything was sorted, we had jobs, the flat, everything! Then the night before we were meant to go he called me to say he had no money, well except for a tenner he had in his pocket. He knew I had a bit saved up and expected me to front it all, even though he had a history of not paying people back money he had borrowed. I called the whole thing off, went to bed with a migraine and woke up covered in spots and seeing double. I had a week in hospital and an MRI scan but it seems the whole thing was caused by stress, including my brain swelling up and freezing the nerves behind my right eye. The double vision lasted 3 months and I eventually moved to Leeds some time after, but with my sister, NOT my gay ex-best friend.
3. I used to be a BT operator. When I worked on the night shift we would get all manner of pervs and whackos ringing up. There was one guy who in a really creepy voice used to ask what shoes you were wearing. We would play 'caller-tennis' with him and give him really silly answers before batting him over to someone else. The shoe perv would get really mad as we were killing ourselves laughing at his expense rather than being freaked out like he'd hoped. One of the many ways we would kill the time on that graveyard shift...
4. When I was 18 I would have died of carbon monoxide poisoning had the student house I lived in not been riddled with draughts, according to a gas engineer who condemned our house for leaking 10 times the safe level of carbon monoxide.
5. I have no middle name and used to be extremely upset about this fact. So much so that I pretended it was Elizabeth (after great Grandma Bennett) one day in primary school when we all had to say what they were. I didn't yet know it but the name Elizabeth Bennett (but spelled with one 't') was to be the name of my favourite literary heroine of all time. Determined my daughter would not be deprived in the same cruel way, Elizabeth is her middle name.
6. I had my first boyfriend at the age of 5.
7. I once threw up when I was having an elephant ride in Bangkok because I was hungover. I only had a clear plastic bag and puked bright orange into it much to the horror of all the tourists sitting in the sanctuary open-front cafe. A lovely Thai girl gave me an Indian head massage afterwards because I was so unwell, but this made me throw up all over again. Oh, the shame.
8. I am a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation fan and have seen all of the episodes from all 7 seasons as well as the films. I used to have a huge poster of the Starship Enterprise above my bed and had a bit of a crush on Captain Picard. I still have T-shirt somewhere of his big shiny head that I bought in Los Angeles when I was 16.
9. The original version of my 'online persona' name comes from Dollybeadz, which I did mention once on a Kate Takes 5 Listology, but I'm really running out of non-interesting facts now :) The name Dollybeadz was born when I was 24 and always used to have one of those candy dolly bead necklaces attached to me and chose it as my email address and MSN nickname (remember MSN? or even older, ICQ?!!) Indeed I still buy them when I see them and am eating one right now.
10. Thank God, last one! Even though Reluctant Housedad (who I'm still narked at for being more interesting) decided it was lame to choose eye colour I'm gonna do it anyway. I have eyes that seem to change colour as sometimes they look blue and sometimes they look green. This is because most of the iris is a blue-green, with a dark blue outline. Then around the pupil I have a yellow ring, which often gives them the appearance of being green. But I never know whether to say they're blue or green because they are kind of both. Oh, and Kate Winslett and Angelina Jolie have the same eyes:
Now, in the time honoured tradition I get to tag some unsuspecting folk to find out more about them! So I choose:
mummypinkwellies
Motherventing
Mwah ha haaaaaaaaaah!
But anyway, sulk over, here are my not-very-interesting factoids:
1. I was mad keen on football growing up and got a major crush on Roberto Baggio in the 1994 World Cup. As he was a Buddhist I decided I might like to be a Buddhist too, so I bought a load of books, started meditating, and dragged a school friend half way across London whilst on a college trip to visit the Buddhist Society only to be too shy to talk to them when I got there. The crush on Baggio pretty much ended with that disasterous penalty kick but a lifelong fascination with Buddhism has remained and every now and then I have a little dabble. I even ticked the box in the Census.
2. When I was 25 I'd arranged to move to Leeds with my gay best friend. Everything was sorted, we had jobs, the flat, everything! Then the night before we were meant to go he called me to say he had no money, well except for a tenner he had in his pocket. He knew I had a bit saved up and expected me to front it all, even though he had a history of not paying people back money he had borrowed. I called the whole thing off, went to bed with a migraine and woke up covered in spots and seeing double. I had a week in hospital and an MRI scan but it seems the whole thing was caused by stress, including my brain swelling up and freezing the nerves behind my right eye. The double vision lasted 3 months and I eventually moved to Leeds some time after, but with my sister, NOT my gay ex-best friend.
3. I used to be a BT operator. When I worked on the night shift we would get all manner of pervs and whackos ringing up. There was one guy who in a really creepy voice used to ask what shoes you were wearing. We would play 'caller-tennis' with him and give him really silly answers before batting him over to someone else. The shoe perv would get really mad as we were killing ourselves laughing at his expense rather than being freaked out like he'd hoped. One of the many ways we would kill the time on that graveyard shift...
4. When I was 18 I would have died of carbon monoxide poisoning had the student house I lived in not been riddled with draughts, according to a gas engineer who condemned our house for leaking 10 times the safe level of carbon monoxide.
5. I have no middle name and used to be extremely upset about this fact. So much so that I pretended it was Elizabeth (after great Grandma Bennett) one day in primary school when we all had to say what they were. I didn't yet know it but the name Elizabeth Bennett (but spelled with one 't') was to be the name of my favourite literary heroine of all time. Determined my daughter would not be deprived in the same cruel way, Elizabeth is her middle name.
6. I had my first boyfriend at the age of 5.
7. I once threw up when I was having an elephant ride in Bangkok because I was hungover. I only had a clear plastic bag and puked bright orange into it much to the horror of all the tourists sitting in the sanctuary open-front cafe. A lovely Thai girl gave me an Indian head massage afterwards because I was so unwell, but this made me throw up all over again. Oh, the shame.
8. I am a huge Star Trek: The Next Generation fan and have seen all of the episodes from all 7 seasons as well as the films. I used to have a huge poster of the Starship Enterprise above my bed and had a bit of a crush on Captain Picard. I still have T-shirt somewhere of his big shiny head that I bought in Los Angeles when I was 16.
9. The original version of my 'online persona' name comes from Dollybeadz, which I did mention once on a Kate Takes 5 Listology, but I'm really running out of non-interesting facts now :) The name Dollybeadz was born when I was 24 and always used to have one of those candy dolly bead necklaces attached to me and chose it as my email address and MSN nickname (remember MSN? or even older, ICQ?!!) Indeed I still buy them when I see them and am eating one right now.
10. Thank God, last one! Even though Reluctant Housedad (who I'm still narked at for being more interesting) decided it was lame to choose eye colour I'm gonna do it anyway. I have eyes that seem to change colour as sometimes they look blue and sometimes they look green. This is because most of the iris is a blue-green, with a dark blue outline. Then around the pupil I have a yellow ring, which often gives them the appearance of being green. But I never know whether to say they're blue or green because they are kind of both. Oh, and Kate Winslett and Angelina Jolie have the same eyes:
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| Winslett-eyes See? |
mummypinkwellies
Motherventing
Mwah ha haaaaaaaaaah!
All cool facts - apart from the Star Trek one. I'm disowning you after that ;) xxx
ReplyDeleteAh, I'd been wondering for a while whether there was a story being the Beadzoid name.
ReplyDeleteAnd there's nothing wrong with Star Trek!
Thanks Mrs! Thinking on this one and thinking harder on how I can get you back!
ReplyDeleteThese things always reveal interesting facts! I was interested to read about the derivation of Beadzoid too and I like hearing what past jobs people had (there are usually some funny stories). Thanks for sharing :-)
ReplyDeleteHee hee, great post! Love the hangover sick story, I've had some embarrassing sick moments too, always worse when your friends only ever get a bit of a headache, and you can't venture 2 mins from a loo! Nat
ReplyDeleteI never knew what those candy necklaces were called! And tsk tsk to SAHMLovingit - be PROUD of being a trekkie! Apart from the new Enterprise series - that's rubbish, and the title music is appalling!
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started seeing my husband he was a trekkie and as the dutiful new girlfriend out to impress I watch them with him, and promptly fell in love with captain Picard and his bald head!
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