10 Facts About Me (that you probably didn’t need to know)

I’ve had a busy couple of weeks, I didn’t post a blog last week and I very nearly convinced myself that I shouldn’t post one this week either. Mentally, I’m pretty exhausted right now, and that sparks a thought that I don’t have the energy for anything creative. In actual fact though, taking some time to write or draw or simply create something does actually fill up the reserves a little bit. So, in the spirit of using little of my precious brain power, here is 10 things about me that you never asked to know.

1. I have 9 tattoos – a snowflake, a duck, a lotus flower, a paw print from each of my family dogs, a hand signal of llamas, the word ‘breathe’, and 2 separate lines from songs.
2. When I was 6 years old I got my right index finger stuck in the car door. Around the same time I had a habit of following my dad around with my hands in his back jeans pockets. A few weeks after the finger incident, the nail had turned black and I lost it in my dad’s pocket, never to be seen again.
3. As a child I was obsessed with the idea of blue food. I was always begging my mum for blue jelly and blue cordial, normally to no avail as mum always said blue was just too weird a colour for food to be! For my 10th birthday party I decided on a blue theme and I was allowed to have blue everything, even jelly. Honestly, I don’t think it was that great, just sweet – probably because there really isn’t any truly blue food for it to be based on. Sigh.
4. I absolutely detest peas, even now as a 24 year old woman I will pick them out without an ounce of embarrassment. For my 13th birthday my mum and dad said I didn’t have to eat them anymore.
5. I used to think I was actually a dog in disguise and that my childhood dog was my sister. I had a puppy calendar on my wall that I would show my friends when they came over, and I’d point out which dog was me in my natural form.
6. I hate the feeling of foam. Even writing that gave me shivers, ew.
7. The first coherent piece of writing I remember doing was called “The Forest Friends” and was about three native Australian animals who went out on an adventure and then nearly got killed by a bushfire…
8. As a child I was deathly afraid of fire. Also snakes, robbers and motorbikes. The worst dream I ever had was that I was being chased by a man on a motorbike who had snakes stuck to him and I couldn’t go inside because my house was on fire… so weird.
9. Going along with the above, I had terrible nightmares as a child, the first of which I remember coming from watching The Wizard of Oz with my kindergarten boyfriend. I couldn’t sleep for years and my mum eventually devised a system where I got a little froggy stamp on my calendar if I managed to stay in my bed all night. I still have the stamp as a reminder of what I can overcome.
10. If I could design my perfect day it would start early with a cup of tea and a good book, a beautiful fresh breakfast – avo on toast and maybe a croissant? – then I’d paint all day surrounded by woodland creatures before settling down in front of a roaring fire while it rains cats and dogs. Do I just want to be Beatrix Potter? Yes, yes I do.

So there you have it, 10 random things about me that even I hadn’t cared to think about for a while. I hope you enjoyed reading and now feel you know me a little better.

What’s an interesting fact about you?

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