- I live in a small house in Rugby, England, with my partner G aka "the Cog" and our cat Tom (Thomas when he's being naughty)
- I've been a CAD engineer since I left school, although now I also do some animation work
- I have a real rapport with cats, I haven't yet met one that didn't like me
- I love my first cup of coffee of the day. I'm not so keen on tea, unless it's weak and sweet, or Earl Grey
- I've never been able to click my fingers. The Cog thinks this is hilarious
- I'm allergic to penicillin, I get a nasty rash, and whatever I was given the medicine for goes away of its own accord
- I'm also allergic to certain cheap soaps
- I'm very creative and crafty, and usually have at least ten projects I want to start at any one time
- I'm absolutely dreadful at finishing things. I get bogged down in the details
- I have one sister. We don't always see eye to eye
- I love the beach, and I love warmth. My holiday hell would be somewhere cold
- I'm a little on the curvy side, after taking medication that increased my appetite. Well, that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
- I love anything loud and colourful, I think I was colourblind in a previous life
- I love rainbows, and I have to photograph them
- If I wasn't an engineer, I'd've loved to have been a photographer or an architect
- I once designed a secondary school. I was about 13
- I spend a lot of my spare time with my knitting machines, or surfing the internet
- I collect cobalt blue glass, and Colourbox cats.
- I used to collect interesting candles, but the colours fade and a few got too close to the fire and wilted
- My favourite flowers are tulips. They are taking over the borders in the back garden
- My favourite season is summer, with spring a close second. I'm not a winter person
- My fave way of spending an evening is a night in with a good bottle of wine, a video, a nice bar of chocolate and my favourite blokes (male and feline)
- I like big words. I like "undercarriage"
- At school I made up the word "despulphragate". I was never that sure of its meaning, but it was supposedly slightly rude
- I cut my nails very short - years of being a violinist. Plus I like to keep them clean
- I'm fascinated by stationary. My fave place is the pen department in WHSmiths.
- The Cog thinks this is weird
- He's probably right
- I used to sing alto in a church choir
- I used to be a sunday school teacher
- I once went to church choir practice in black ski pants that I'd cut holes in and laced up - it caused a bit of a stir
- I once attended a job interview in jeans
- I didn't get hired
- I love to swim, and I try and organise most holidays to be near a water park
- I resent paying extra once I'm inside though - Tenerife was a rip-off, Faliraki was excellent (and all-in)
- My favourite food is thai, followed by chinese, indian, mexican. There's not much I don't like
- I don't like swede or turnip, but I'm coming around to the idea of parsnips
- Especially the parsnip crisps from the lunch van at work - bliss!
- I taught G to cook, and he's far more inspired than me now
- I'm not known for my patience
- I love cracked black pepper kettle chips
- I can't stand salt-and-vinegar anything. Makes my eyes water
- I've got a certificate in Swedish body massage
- It's amazing how everyone says they need a massage, but never get around to getting their kit off
- I used to read only sci-fi stories, but now I just pick books at random
- Even better if they're book-crossing ones, because I can put them back.
- My favourite colours are hot pink, cobalt blue, purple and black
- I don't much care for green, brown or orange
- I love comedy programs
- I'm not so keen on politics. Whoever you vote for, the government gets in
- Artifical people really get up my nose, so I don't really get on with the squeakysec I have to share a cell with
- I'm much happier in t-shirt and jeans than a business suit
- I couldn't care less about clothing labels
- I love raiding charity shops
- I try and recycle as much as I can
- I have far too much yarn, it's taking over the front bedroom despite my being on a self-imposed yarn diet
- I inherited someone's lifetime collection of machine knitting magazines. I'm still working my way through them
- I've got near-perfect pitch. I tend to sing out of tune deliberately when alone, to make myself laugh
- I don't tend to do more than 10mph over the speed limit
- I have a clean driving licence
- I have a large big toe joint. I think everyone else's feet look odd
- I used to have a gorgeous half persian cat called Fraggle. Alas, he liked to chase cars, and one day his ninth life ran out
- I love earrings, I used to collect them - had a competition with a girl at school as to who could get the most. I won
- I love rock music, classical, and dance. Classical for when I've had a hard day and need to be calmed
- I'm a light sleeper. Sometimes I have to sleep downstairs. The Cog snores, though he denies it
- I have a very basic mobile phone, that actually rings, and I've no intention of changing it until it dies
- I love to write with fountain pens, and with different coloured inks
- I like writing to penpals
- I'd rather be knitting
- If I could meet anyone in history, it'd probably be either John Lennon or Gandhi
- My most favourite jacket is a cropped denim one, with frayed denim fringe. Alas, it was bleached, and has gone yellow with age. I need to get dyeing!
- I love markets, car boots, jumble sales and craft fairs
- I love hot chocolate fudge cake, butterscotch
- White chocolate is my favourite.
- I also like spirits eg amaretto, cherry brandy, kahlua. I adore the liquer selection packs at Schipol airport - wonder if De Kuypers would let me become head taster?! :)
- Creme brulee. Love it!
- I don't suffer fools gladly
- I think I know more than anyone else, and I think I can do everything better than anyone else
- This gets me into trouble a lot
- The Cog has me pegged as a bullsh*tter. He's not wrong
- I have far too many hobbies, and not enough free time
- I'm not very tidy - sometimes you have to step carefully around piles of wool, magazines and patterns
- I'd love to *be* tidy, and have an immaculate house, but realism tells me it's never going to happen
- I'm quiet, shy and introspective, but I tend to hide this at social events by being loud and chatty
- It took me four attempts to pass my driving test
- My second car, a lovely red Vauxhall Astra, seized up on the M5. Not the best spot to break down
- I love comedy and cartoons, especially Dilbert, The Far Side, Diesel Sweeties, Red Meat, Kit N'Carlyle. I have a dry sense of humour
- I have a tendency to be too serious sometimes
- I've never been in trouble with the law, and I've only had one parking ticket - I was dropping off a tv at the time so was a bit miffed
- I love pineapples, bananas and mangos
- My fave cocktail is pina colada
- My fave smoothie is yogurt, honey and vanilla
- I love hats, although I don't actually wear them that often. Go figure
- When I was younger, I wanted to be a spy - only because I was fascinated with codes
- My sister and I set up the Secret Sign Society, which was amazingly like Brownies with badges and targets etc
- We used to have great fun in the woodlands at "The Cedars" park, in Barwell, Leicestershire
- Went back a few years ago - it all seems a lot shorter now! :)
- I get on better with men than with women.
- I've a bad habit of engaging my mouth before my brain
I'm one of those weird luddites that likes her mobile phone to ring, as opposed to chirrup or play some strange sound file. To that end, I'm still using my Nokia 8310 (built-in modem and FM radio) and will continue to do so until it dies a death...
I can't believe I finally made it to 100! :) I just realised that 100 is a copy of 66 (hey, I wrote this in shifts!), so here's an addendum:
- I'm convinced I'm a blonde. In reality I'm kinda light mouse, or "dirty blonde", as someone at work put it.
4 comments:
I also played violin, but very short time. Being a pianist had the same effect with fingernails, even 10 years after I quit.
Very unfortunate place to break down Vauxhall engines can be very reliable my corse is getting on but never had any problems to date (oops shouldn't jynx myself).
You missed one favourite actor/actress.
Probably a tie between Johnny Depp and Kevin Bacon
LOL! Just discovered you and am flabberghasted @ how many particularities we have in common. R U by any chance an INTJ or an INTP? (I'm the 5mer.)
Thanx for all your cool online k-m info: I will be coming back to the short row tutorials a zillion times, bec. even tho I've been prolifically k-m'ing since '92 and use shortrowing all the time in my beloved upside-down sweaters, I simply CAN not keep the shortrowing principles straight (I can DO it if I'm told step by step what to do).
Best,
KnitKnack
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