100 Things

Actually I wasn't challenged at all, I just said I'd find it difficult and she said I could if I tried... so I'm trying!

Some of these you will already know.

1. I hate my first name yet it's the one I hear most of all!

2. I believe I would be able to survive if stranded on a desert island.

3. I can play the drums - badly but at least I try.

4. I have won awards for dancing and twice for singing.

5. I am deaf in my left ear and it's getting worse - as is my right.

6. I once melted all my toe nails off while walking on hot coals.

7. I tell people I can't swim but it's a lie.

8. I used to be nearly 25stone in weight.

9. I own land but I've no idea how much or where it is or where I put the deed.

10. I bought a title from Sealand and after researching it I found it it's very fucking valid!

11. I swear more than anyone I know but turn it off very easily in polite company or in front of kids.

12. When I was little I used to believe a nun rang me to give me advice, which I took.

13. I once sneezed and broke my wrist.

14. I have never recruited anyone in to my religion although I'm supposed to.  I never will either, I believe in free choice.

15. I trained as a hypnotherapist.

16. I once had a dream where I was Sean Paul and Nigel Harman was Blu Cantrell.

17. I believe in reincarnation and soul groups.

18. I can read Tarot and have loads of different packs.

19. I still get upset over my nan.

20. My favourite band is Erasure.

21. I have toes like Monkey fingers apparently.

22. I have four tattoo's and want six more.

23. I have six piercings and used to have seven others.

24. I learnt Japanese for Business but have forgotten most of it and can now only ask for Mr Yamamoto in the accounting department please as well hello, good bye and thank you.

25. I learnt Welsh but have forgotten most of it and can now only talk about the weather and ask how you are.

26. I have been a member of Mensa yet find the most logical things impossible to do or understand.

27. In my head I have a top ten of best songs and it changes constantly.  Kiss You Off by the Scissor Sisters is currently number one.

28. My favourite movie is Rebecca.

29. My dad used to be one of the biggest importers of confectionery in this country.

30. I don't understand birds.

31. I used to write movie reviews.

32. I talk that much that I forget what the original question was.

33. I used to volunteer with Stonewall but left because some of their stuff pisses me off.

34. I believe I see and experience strange things in this house but can't believe the house is haunted as it's so new.

35. My parents house //is// haunted.

36. I named a hamster Valerie as a tribute to Valerie Singleton.

37. I also named one Verity as a tribute to Verity Lambert.

38. Because of naming my first two hamsters with names beginning V I followed it up with Veronica and Valerie yet named my Chinchilla Kevin.

39. Kevin turned out to be a girl.

40. My confidence is often mistaken for arrogance.

41. I am arrogant.

42. I have a disease on my spine and have only ever met one other person with it and that was last year.

43. I long to arrange a surprise party for my parents and invite all the children they fostered but I wouldn't know where to start.

44. I don't believe anyone has ever seen a UFO but I do think we're being watched.

45. I'm gay.

46. I will be eternally grateful to the Duggans for giving us the help to live in such a spectacular country.

47. I share my nickname with Gary Barlow

48. I share my birthday with Jason Donovan

49. I really miss fostering but I love having the house to myself.

50. I once called my English teacher a cunt.  He thanked me for being honest.

51. I don't think I'll ever experience space travel yet it's something I yearn for.

52. I was accepted into the RAF but never took it up as I disagreed with my potential posting.

53. I don't believe in regrets.

54. In the future I will design and build my own home.

55. I have a strong theory about time and do not believe time travel will ever be possible.

56. I believe I'm a strong and efficient leader and calm in a crisis.

57. I appreciate music.

58. I don't take compliments very well and often believe people say them just to be nice.

59. I have been known to question my very own existence.

60. I once de-gloved one of my fingers.

61. I have been in three pop videos and have been asked to front a fourth but will never tell anyone what they are before you ask.

62. I have ran two people over by accident - it was their fault - but I aimed at a third one yet still speak to him and would consider him a close friend.

63. I have no self-respect.

64. I think Maslow was just pointing out the obvious and he theories were not as special as people point out.

65. i would rather buy a beggar a sandwich than give him my spare change for a cup of tea.

66. I believe I have a talent, I just don't know what it is yet.

67. My brain is a constant spark of ideas which never amount to much.

68. I love the music of the Cotton Club.

69. I hated Buffy the Vampire Slayer until I met Brad.

70. I once photocopied a page of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy many many times and posted each one to a friends house every day for about a year.

71. I used to work as a drag queen.

72. Only one person has ever got away with playing a prank on me.  He is the same person I tried to run over.  See No. 62.

73. This is the year I was born.

74. I find lack of continuity in films or tv programmes unacceptable and have often stopped watching because of it.

75. Through a line of marriages I am related to Jeremy Kyle and Vince Earl (Ron Dixon from Brookie!)

76. I think Kevin Smith is the greatest film director ever and Peter Jackson and Michael Moore are equal in their inability to direct, produce and write.  They are both shit!

77. I believe that I have drank enough coffee in my life that I no longer get a "buzz" from it and it no longer keeps me awake.

78. I am jealous of people who have clear early childhood memories as my earliest is when I was seven.  I think I have earlier ones but they are very very vague yet I cling to them as though they were clear images.

79. My taste in music is huge.  

80. I wish I could draw.

81. I am not as scary as some people think I am.

82. I have eaten fried wasp.

83. I have had all the X-rays your allowed in a life time but as I use different hospitals all the time with different medical records and I don't tell my doctor, no one knows.

84. I got my brown belt in Ju-Jitsu.

85. I was mugged and beaten up by four blokes while walking back home from club.  My ex didn't believe me and thought I was having an affair and was using the mugging as an excuse.  I had scars to prove it because I refused to fight back.

86. I once broke my arm while racing the dog down the stairs.  I jumped from the top to the bottom.  The important thing is that I won the race.

87. I don't believe in fate.

88. I hate the phrase "who'd have thunk it?"

89. I once told a counsellor that if he didn't stop paraphrasing I'd punch him.  After a pause he told me he didn't know what else to say.

90. I turn my hearing aid off when boring people are talking and while I think about other things I pretend I'm listening.

91. I am not ashamed that I had sex with a teacher during my last year of school or my first year of college or my first year of uni.

92. I believe everyone, no matter how much you deny it, is racist and judgemental to a certain degree. What matters is how you handle it.

93. I am a snob.  I used to deny it but there is no point.

94. I have made friends with people though writing a blog that I would trust implicitly with my life and the lives of those I love.

95. When Stuart and I split up I began planning my life around being single and was happy with that.  Four weeks later I met Brad.  I know which is better.

96. In the early 90's I changed my name to get an equity card and never told my parents.

97. Noisy eaters make me sick.

98. I don't think anyone will have read every single point on this list and that doesn't bother me.  I think people will read the first few then skip to the last few.

99. I was once trained as a master coffee roaster and can tell you the difference between burr and blade grinders, robsuta and arabica coffee's and wet and dry processing.

100. This list took longer than I thought it would but was easier than I thought.

It's been rather liberating.