101 Things About Me...

Inspired by Jacinta's post, I've decided to do this little task. If nothing else, it'll get me thinking outside the  workspace I live in!!!
1. I hate typing emails. But if I can get started I'll write 10 in one session.
2. I love wine and live by the theory of 'good food, good wine & good company makes for a perfect event'.
3. If you ask me for something, I'll probably say Yes before I have thought about whether I really can help you with it or not!
4. I don't use a mouse with my computer, I use a tablet.
5. I love reading, but of late, books are dust collectors more than items of interest! Too busy!
6. I hang my cloths in groups by item and ensure my socks are always paired on the line!
7. My favourite photographer is Robert Doisneau.
8. I would love to be a portrait photographer.
9. I saved my sister from drowning in the family swimming pool!
10. I love inventing stuff. (And pulling things apart)
11. I'm a jack of all, master of none!
12. I'm not very good at golf!!!
13. I am not happy with my body!
14. I am a typically Taurean, in that I'm stubborn.
15. I wish I could draw, play the guitar, speak more french and design more creatively!
16. I didn't know what I wanted to be growing up, and am still not sure!!!
17. I believe friends and family is more important that anything else!
18. I spend too much time on my computer
19. I love most types of music. I wake up with music, I get ready for the day with music on, I drive to work with music on, I work through the day with music on, I drive home with music on, and music is on in the evening. I love music.
20. I love buffet breakfasts.
21. My boss is 'Foxy'.
22. I love the smurfs.
23. I think I'm a good singer, but I'm not.
24. I don't like VPL's.
25. I want to be the next Yves Saint Laurent in either this life or my next life.
26. I taught myself almost everything I know about computers.
27. I don't like taking headache tablets.
28. I love coffee.
29. Melbourne & Edinburgh are my two favourite cities.
30. I love black & white photography.
31. My most prized possession is 6 bottles of 1996 Penfolds Grange.
32. My email address is derived from tortoise and turtle.
33. I love my Renault 25.
34. I think we need to do more to save our planet from total annihilation by humans.
35. I love playing Hacky Sack.
36. My favourite band is TOOL.
37. I have climbed Ayres Rock twice in one day.
38. One of my favourite things done on a holiday was Elephant trekking in Thailand.
39. I hate scary movies and don't agree with endorsing the psycho's who make the films.
40. I believe that if I spend my life trying to do favours for others, one day, somebody will do something for me that I can never ever repay.
41. I don't buy cheap jeans.
42. A 200km bike ride is not scary for me!
43. I have dislocated my shoulder 6 or 7 times (I've lost count)!
44. I love Tin tin books.
45. I have never seen The Sound Of Music.
46. I haven't cried in over 10 years.
47. I love doing speeches at parties! I'm not vain, and I think I sound stupid, but it's something I really enjoy.
48. Although entirely cliche, I think Paris is the most romantic city.
49. I think men and woman dress better in Italy, than anywhere else in the world I've been to.
50. I like complimenting people.
51. I have champagne tastes on beer money.
52. I have flown the Boeing 373 simulator at the Qantas training centre in Airport West.
53. I have raced my car on the Phillip Island race track.
54. I can fit 16 marshmellows in my mouth.
55. I will one day own and run a Winebar on the Mornington Peninsula.
56. I want to have little me's.
57. The person I admire the most is my Bro, simply for what he has overcome!
58. I love playing squash.
59. I don't like writing SMS's.
60. After I came back from Europe, I wanted to study theology.
61. I don't watch TV often at all.
62. I was told at school, that if I didn't do better that term, I would be leaving at the end of it.
63. I wish I had worked harder at school. There are some many things I remember learning, but don't remember! Though I'll never forget that it's best to put milk in your tea now rather than later as it will stay hotter longer. It has to do with rate of change being greater when the starting and finishing temp differ more.
64. I have a well defined list of foods I don't like: Avocado, Sun Dried Tomatoes, Celery, Corianda, Chai Tea (the smell) & Eggplant. 
65. I eat muffins upside down. (not English ones)
66. I've been mountain biking in the hill behind Queenstown NZ, and loved it!
67. I had a huge problem with credit card debt.
68. Drink of choice is Canadian Club & Dry.
69. I've been to Big Day Out 6 times.
70. I nearly had a life threatening crash when I spun my car out on a narrow cliff side dirt road in the Dandenongs.
71. I can drive a JetSki & Boat.
72. I love (good) suprises.
73. The little things matter to me.
74. I won a $2000 bet with my dad that I could reverse a trailor all the way down his driveway.
75. I'm the messiest neat freak you know.
76. I've never been the best at anything. i.e. I've never won any competition.
77. I have skinny dipped at Bells Beach.
78. I didn't like Borat when I first saw it.
79. I love Alessi homewares.
80. I don't care about politics, but probably should.
81. I didn't drink at my 18th birthday party, instead, I crashed my friends car.
82. I love 'That 70's Show'.
83. When asked, at a job interview for a cellar door person, how I am with people I stoopidly answer, "Yeah, I'm good with some people."
84. I am my sister-in-laws stylist.
85. I know what bra size Jacq is.
86. I have had dinner with Paddy Kendler, Dominique Portet & Jacques Reymond.
87. I think I might be the original Jackass as I used to think it was fun to ride my bike in a wall in the back yard.
88. The perfect arvo is beach side with friends and a drink.
89. I didn't understand the sausage roll joke until I was about 16 having heard it since I was about 6.
90. I would like to meet Matt Damon.
91. I would love to run an underground poker club.
92. I nearly drowned, with my Bro, in a rip at Apollo Bay, and that night, I lay awake in my tent, listening to the waves and was fightened as hell.
93. I'm not scared of much.
94. I'd rather bungy than skydive.
95. I would like to see Machu Pichu.
96. Some of my favourite books are: The Motorcycle Diaries, The Alchemist & Bangkok 8.
97. I don't think of myself as particularly interesting.
98. I don't know what I would do if I had to pick up chicks now!
99. I used to think of myself as a 'glass half full' thinker, but life seems to be emptying my glass faster than I can keep it full.
100. I love Jelly Belly Jelly Beans.
101. Theme park rides are not good for me! I threatened to kill Jacq when she took me on the Enterprise at Luna Park!!!

Hope you found this to be interesting reading. Looking forward to the comments.

3 comments:

Jacinta said...

I reckon I can beat the 16 marshmallow record... I'll get back to you on that one!
Great list Jase.

Anonymous said...

You spelled "marshmallow" wrong Jase.

:)

Unknown said...

This is cute...I'd a friend who once tried to make sucha list and could never finish it..keep it up!