Pinched from Kate Gordon – here are 34 (cos that’s how old I am) things you don’t know about me:
- In 2009 I read around 200 novels. I’ve already passed 230 in 2010.
- I never thought I’d have kids, until I met my husband.
- I wanted to be a teacher from the time I was in Year 2.
- The library was my favourite place to hang out all through school.
- I used to collect rocks when I was a kid. I would clean them and sort them regularly, and I think my parents still have some of my "collection"!
- It took me three weeks to read The Hobbit when I was at university. I never got past the first five chapters of The Lord of the Rings.
- I’m really good at retail and hospitality work.
- I have three university degrees.
- I once ran an indoor sports centre with my husband and a country pub with my husband.
- I visited Stonehenge twice when I went to the UK for my brother’s wedding.
- I’m very interested in family history, because there are lots of skeletons in my family closet.
- I was the lead in my high school musical "Doctor Pimples"!
- I was the vice-captain of my high school. I was the school captain of my primary school.
- I’ve been doing public speaking since Year 5, when my principal asked me to emcee our school Christmas concert. I don’t get nervous when I speak to crowds.
- My most overused word is “awesome”.
- I’m an excellent backstroke swimmer.
- I’m a National Councillor for the Australian School Library Association. I’ve no idea how that happened.
- I once had a story shortlisted in a national short story competition. I still think it’s the best thing I’ve ever written.
- I wrote a romance novel when I was 16.
- I have four tattoos (although one covers another): my first was a flying unicorn, when I was 18. I also have a phoenix and a celtic ankle band (which covers a really crappy band of starbursts.
- I have three earrings in each ear, but I used to have three in one and one in the other.
- I’ve loved cats my whole life, but now I have kids, I only like them.
- I’m allergic to most dogs. And horses.
- Despite that, I ride tolerably well.
- I have excellent blood pressure – three pregnancies worth of doctors tell me so 🙂
- I attended four different primary schools, in two different states, which resulted in my atrocious handwriting (different styles in formative years).
- When my daughter became interested in Barbie dolls, I was able to give her a suitcase full of my old dolls and accessories, still in pretty good nick.
- I became involved in the Australian spec fic scene because of Simon Brown’s book "Inheritance" – it’s a long story, but a good one! This means Simon is the one responsible for many of the friendships I have today – thanks Simon!
- I broke my right wrist tripping over a low brick wall onto very soft lawn. I broke my left wrist falling off monkey bars.
- I’ve never been hospitalised for injury or illness (only babies).
- I’ve lived in WA, QLD, NT and NSW, and have visited every other Australian state except Tasmania.
- I lived in the Northern Territory for a year when I was 17, working as a governess, but never visited Alice Springs or Darwin.
- I hate coffee, and anything coffee-flavoured.
- I bake excellent muffins but am terrible at biscuits.
So, what about you? What’s your age? Tell us that many things about yourself.
A conversational life 