100 random things about me

Wallace at Irish Rain encouraged me to try this after I made comment on his list on his blog. It is not as easy as it looks. It has taken days! So here it is, not in any particular order, my list:

1. politics bore me rigid
2. I am jealous of my daughter's eyelashes and my son's hair colour
3. summer and Christmas are my favourite times of year
4. I can be a bit of a tidy freak
5. as a rule, I don't vomit
6. I have a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award
7. my hair is probably officially grey
8. I play the bodhran
9. sand is better than snow in my opinion
10. I have fired a gun, I'm a pretty good shot
11. my only piercings are in my ears
12. gardening is not my thing
13. I want to visit the islands of the South Pacific, all of them
14. don't ask me to get on a horse ever again
15. I am not a morning person
16. my cup's generally half full
17. I hate feet
18. geocaching is my current 'sport' of choice
19. I went to school with Ian Paisley Jnr
20. the first car I had was an old mini
21. my mum does my ironing
22. I had half my hair cut off once for a show. The left half.
23. every plant I touch dies
24. I know how to get incriminating photos of Pluto
25. quilting, cake decorating and scrapbooking have all been hobbies
26. if I had one wish it would be to die before my children
27. my hair is 100% naturally curly
28. thanks to Jaws, I'm scared of fish
29. if you need a wall plastered, I'm your girl!
30. the only sport I watch is rugby
31. I have eaten rat
32. David Soul was my hero even before I met him in a hotel lift in Dublin
33. I could eat Turkish Delight all day, and sometimes do
34. when I can, I buy Fairtrade
35. organisation is my strong point
36. coffee goes straight through me
37. my sister-in-law turned me into a Desperate Housewives addict
38. I have never had a ticket or points on my license
39. The Beatles, The Who and The Stones - no thanks
40. I taught English in Poland
41. the tonsils are gone, but the appendix is still there
42. I am terrified of heights
43. baking and cooking over cleaning any day
44. my current ringtone is Girl from Belfast City
45. I honestly do like camping
46. Ben & Jerry's phish food is the best icecream in the world
47. I've never broken a limb
48. the best book I ever read was Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling
49. given a chance, I'd spend all my money on holidays
50. I won a prize every year at school
51. Cancer Research is my charity of choice
52. I have a wee job that nobody knows about
53. Songs of Praise rejected me
54. anaesthetics don't agree with me
55. I lived in a mud hut in Africa for a while
56. my home was wrecked in an IRA bomb
57. crisps are my weakness
58. I wear a lot of black
59. for a year I paid money to a gym, but I never went
60. I've worked in a pharmacy
61. once I was Brethren, now I'm non-denominational
62. filling in forms drives me nuts
63. I have travelled pretty extensively
64. purple is my favourite colour
65. I worked alongside UNHCR in Croatia during the Balkan war
66. Martini with lemonade is my tipple
67. I have osteoarthritis
68. my 1st teaching job should have been in the Bahamas, but I turned it down
69. best concert I attended was the Eagles, Dublin 1996
70. I hate, hate, hate football
71. Top Gear makes me laugh out loud
72. I have been to several garden parties at Buckingham Palace
73. sometimes I write for a satirical website
74. I can waterski
75. secretly, I've always wanted a go at being an air hostess
76. Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most moving place I have ever visited
77. I have had a mental illness
78. I always leave the coconut ones in liquorice allsorts
79. freesia are my favourite flower
80. we had kids from Chernobyl stay with us for re-hab
81. I'd rather be rich than famous
82. my pet peeve is finding used teabags in the sink
83. you can't beat Karen Carpenter's voice, or Michael Buble's, or Bryan Adams ...
84. scrabble and yahtzee are my games of choice
85. I once bought my husband half a grave for Christmas. He bought me the other half
86. I'm in a book club
87. I don't do sleep deprivation
88. what's a screwdriver? what's a hammer?
89. benefit makeup works miracles
90. I have a head like a sieve
91. my perfect pizza is mushroom and pineapple
92. I love the smell of honeysuckle, suntan lotion and fresh cut grass
93. culturally, more Irish than British
94. I generally only swear when I'm watching rugby
95. my old art teacher begged me not to do 'O' level Art
96. apparently, I always order the pasta
97. I support a child in Kenya through Tear Fund
98. shhhh, I'm not supposed to tell you this; I was a Samaritan
99. unfortunately I know all the words to High School Musical
100. I've just discovered I don't like writing lists