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100 Things about Me

May 31, 2005 at 2:04 PM

by Ashleigh

  1. I am almost 6 ft tall.
  2. I live in Holland, but was born in Zimbabwe and have lived in South Africa and the UK.
  3. I have been breastfeeding continuously for more than 5 years!
  4. I have given birth three times (one girl and two boys).
  5. I have experienced natural birth (without painkillers) twice and had a caesarean section once.
  6. I am a divorcee.
  7. I am remarried.
  8. I used to be religious.
  9. I grew up on a farm.
  10. I play the piano.
  11. I am a cat person without a cat.
  12. I like to read vampire chick fiction.
  13. I can't sleep at night unless I read before bed.
  14. I think I am a kind person.
  15. I have trouble saying no.
  16. I believe honesty is the greatest virtue.
  17. I believe if you say something often enough it will come true.
  18. I think excuses are just that, excuses.
  19. I worry all the time about my boys' health.
  20. I ride a bicycle everywhere.
  21. I do not possess a driver's licence.
  22. I prefer vanilla.
  23. I speak two languages.
  24. I am a feminist.
  25. I am also a stay at home mom.
  26. I think it is possible to be both.
  27. I participate in the Nestle Boycott.
  28. I love women's magazines.
  29. I like to swim but I don't enjoy sunbathing.

  30. I like to cook.
  31. I iron my family's clothing (and bedlinen).
  32. I grew up in a family with an alcoholic parent.
  33. I am the product of a private education.
  34. I trained as a secretary.
  35. I can write in shorthand.
  36. I am a qualified book-keeper.
  37. I met my husband on the internet.
  38. I was married in a registry office wearing a Guns 'n' Roses t-shirt that matched the groom's.
  39. I only told my family and his after we were married.
  40. I don't own a wedding ring (not by choice).
  41. A lot of people think I'm unmarried as a result.

  42. I want to write a book.
  43. I can type at 90 wpm.
  44. I would give up a kidney for my brother if I had to.
  45. I love my children more than my life.
  46. I am pro-choice politically and pro-life personally.
  47. I wish I could vote.
  48. If I could vote I would vote left.
  49. I am not very fond of other people's children.
  50. I spend too much time fiddling on the computer.
  51. I am a compulsive stitcher.
  52. I don't wear makeup anymore.
  53. I am a wearer of sensible shoes.
  54. I prefer uncomplicated clothing.

  55. I could happily live without a television.
  56. I have size 8 (UK) 42 (Continental) feet.
  57. I am always too hot or too cold.
  58. I had one of my baby teeth until I was 30.
  59. I now have a dental implant in its place.
  60. I love my husband.
  61. I don't believe he loves me, I think he just feels responsible.
  62. I don't like shopping.
  63. I like to read in the toilet.
  64. I learned to fire a gun when I was four years old.
  65. I take Prozac.
  66. I chat more to people on line than I do in real life.
  67. I talk less now in my thirties than I did in my twenties.
  68. I miss Africa sometimes.
  69. I have one brother, 7 years younger than me, and one step-sister, 12 years older.
  70. My mom is only 7 years older than my step-sister.
  71. Sometimes I don't like living in Holland.
  72. I am compulsively tidy.
  73. I am not as bad with the compulsive tidiness as I used to be.
  74. I tend to procrastinate about doing things I don't like.
  75. I like being outdoors more now than I did when we lived in Africa.
  76. I get agitated when my kids misbehave in public, like it reflects on me.
  77. I was a tearaway teenager.
  78. I hope my children are not.
  79. I didn't talk to my mom for two years of my life.
  80. I regret it now.
  81. I lived with my grandmother from age 5 - 11.

  82. I went to boarding school for high school.
  83. I left high school at age 15 after my O levels.
  84. I can horseride.
  85. I can play tennis (badly)
  86. I played in the basketball team in high school.
  87. I find it boring to sit outside with the kids while they play in the sandpit.
  88. I feel terrified at the idea that both kids will be in full time school soon.
  89. I don't fear ageing or death.
  90. I am an athiest.
  91. I have smoked marijuana.
  92. I don't smoke or drink at all now.
  93. I fear losing control.
  94. I like to be organised.
  95. I love to travel.
  96. I don't like to fly.
  97. I prefer Coke to Pepsi.
  98. I used to torment my little brother when I was a kid.

  99. I find it hard to love my dad.
  100. I hope I have a good relationship with my kids when they are older.


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