Fifteen.

The latest challenge at Blog This is to tell everyone fifteen facts about yourself that are floating around in your head.

When I consult my head, it appears to be quite empty (echo, echo, echo) … so pulling fifteen facts out might be a challenge. I’m willing to give it a bit of a whirl. Here is my whirl.

1. I’m hopeless with technology. I’m impatient. Careless. I break things. Just this week I dropped my camera on the road (it survived) and had to wipe my laptop clean. That’s about the 3rd time this year. So this photo above is one of only three that got transferred across.

2. That photo above is from my sisters 21st birthday party. We had a big party aboard the Fun Boat. That’s what it was really called. The theme was prom night. It was fun. I got very drunk. It was one of the last times I got drunk, and partied before I fell pregnant.

3. I haven’t partied or felt like drinking (beyond a glass of wine or two) since having Lacey. I put it down to two things. One: I know I have to wake up and put on my parenting hat in the morning, which doesn’t go well with hangovers. Two: After three glasses I’d probably topple into a corner and have a big, long nap.

4. It’s been 465 days since Lacey arrived in the world. So it’s been more than 465 days since I’ve had a good sleep. Plus I didn’t sleep remarkably well whilst pregnant (who does?). So it could be quite possibly around 735 days since I slept well. Hey, but who’s counting? (I actually should probably stop counting because this non-good-sleep thing comes hand in hand with parenting, doesn’t it?)

5. I have my first ever cold sore. I think I’m run down. Actually, I know I’m run down. It’s ugly. I feel like people talk to it, rather than talking to me.

6. I don’t like ginger. I can remember going to girl guides once and we all made gingerbread. I hated ginger, and therefore I didn’t like girl guides. I never went back.

7. I don’t know how we ended up at girl guides. Ma wasn’t into putting us into those sort of things. We did go to a Christian group a couple of times too. We’re not religious at all, so how I ended up there, I’ll never know. Ma probably wanted some ‘me’ time and that seemed like the safest option.

8. Because of my time at the Christian group I know the words to He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands. I quite liked it there.

9. On my wedding night I lost my really expensive earrings. I was tipsy (ahem) and put them beside my bed, and then fell asleep (read: passed out). We then packed in the morning and went home. I only realised at about 3pm. I called the motel/hotel (I never know which it is) crying, and they said they hadn’t found them. I still hope one day I’ll find them in the bottom of some bag. The reality is that I’d probably find them inside a vacuum or in some house cleaner’s ears.

10. My first job was cleaning motel/hotel rooms. I set up all the tea/coffee/biscuits and helped vacuum. I worked all morning and got about $20. I thought I was rich. I bought a teddy bear with my first pay. I was about 14. I should have known better.

11. My second job was slicing bread in a bakery. I saw how meat pies were made. I don’t eat meat pies anymore.

12. I once babysat for a young family who had one little boy. The parents came home drunk. The Dad tried to hit on me. The parents then had a big fight. I was staying the night so could hear everything through the paper thin walls. I had to physically restrain the Dad by choking him with the collar of his shirt by twisting it tight. He then went crazy so the Mum and I sped off in my car, through a red light. It was the most frightening experience. The Mum said we had to leave the kid there. If it was up to me I would have scooped him up and taken him too. He ended up being okay.

13. Sometimes I’m an over sharer of irrelevant information. See number 12.

14. I can’t nap during the day. I did a few times whilst pregnant. But it takes me almost hours to fall asleep and then hardly seems worth it.

15. I am not very interesting. You may have just fallen asleep reading my 15 facts. I endeavour to be more interesting, but I think that comes with sleep. I think all my problems will be solved with a string of good nights sleep. Sleep is my scapegoat for everything. Before that it was being blond.

The end.