25 things

Everyone is doing the 25 things thang, so I thought I'd join in. 25 things about me. If you are tagged, you are supposed to write 25 things about you. Simple!

1. I am a dreamer, my dreams have changed recently though. I don't want to rule the world, I just want a nice house to grow old(er) in and a nice garden to grow vegetables in.

2. I am completely head over heals in love with my husband, it just took me a while to realise it. He gives everything in my life meaning. Even washing up is bearable if he is in the kitchen. I smile when I hear his key in the door. I love him bringing the guardian crossword home for me to have a go at, even though that is terribly married/ grown up/middle class. I love my life with him, because of him... and I don't care what people's reactions are to this soppiness!!

3. This is my life's to do list in no particular order:
Dive somewhere beautiful
make a pot
play ice hockey
learn to rollerskate
go gliding
fly solo
have acrobatics flight
go to peru
go to India
learn spanish
keep chickens
get dreadlocks
do a triathalon
be a mum
knit something useful
understand basic electronics
service a nice watch for Andy
London to brighton
learn an instrument
get somewhere with the museum

4. Writing is my love. If I could do any job in the world, it would be to write comedy full time. Or fighter pilot. Or ice hockey player. No, red bull air race pilot... no underwater photographer. Definately underwater photograper.

5. My sitcom The Museum is being performed on stage in the Leicester Square theatre in a few weeks. I'm super excited.

6. Sometimes I think I'm brilliant at my job and I get really annoyed at my pay, and think I'll pack it in and go and get a much better job at an oil company. Other times, I want to curl under my desk and hide there until the last person goes, all the lights go off and I am safe and alone.

7. I have ME/CFS. This means I get tired easily and I can't exercise because it can make me really ill for weeks. Most of the time my head feels like it's full of cotton wool and my sinuses and muscles ache. Imagine how you feel when you are getting flu but it hasn't quite developed. That's me most of the time. It also affects my sleep patterns, my concentraion, my tolerence to alcohol & caffine and my moods. It's a very hard thing to live with, which is why I get SUPER PISSED OFF when people think it's made up, or that I just need to pull myself together.

8. I once ran the Snowdonia marathon. It took me over 5 hours, but I loved it. I've also ran the great north run, the Georgetown to Idaho Springs half and various other shorter races. I don't run at the moment because of the ME. Which is a shame because the adrenaline rush I get from exercise and crossing the finish line is an amazing feeling. I miss it :(.

9. I only learned how to cycle last year, and promptly became a bike geek. I'm going to learn to swim properly then do a beginners' triathalon up in Scotland. Hopefully in 2012 to coincide with olympic year! It's very hard for me to train though, obviously..

10. I find the taste of rocket and corriander to be extremly exciting.

11. I am rubbish at keeping in touch with friends, partly because I find telephones terrifying.

12. I love margaritas and tex-mex food. I'd really like to go to Houston for 6 months and get fat on quesadilla and jose cuervo. Then I'd go to our Denver office and get thin on fresh air and good views. Then I'd go to our Trinidad office and get a tan, and head back to Egham brown and thin :).

13. One of my favorite things is laughing until my face hurts and my tear ducts keep squeezing. Something that did this to me was when I mixed Zombie Nation by Kerncraft with the Monty Python Spam sketch. I can't really explain why.

14. My hobbies include yoga, cycling, running, knitting, pocket watch repair, claymation, poi spinning, reading... well, pretty much everything ever invented. I'd rather be a jack of all trades.

15. I wish I could speak a second language. One doesn't seem like enough.

16. I wish I could play an instrument. Properly. Banging out smoke on the water doesn't really count.

17. I am mentally a child, but I'm happy with that. I love the thrill of discovering new things, and hope I always feel like that.

18. I didn't go the pub for months when I lived in Southampton because the thought of walking into a room full of people terrified me.

19. I miss my life in Wyoming. I miss working short days, writing lots, and spending weekends camping and skiing and diving. I'm sad that paying the bills involves spending all your energy pushing a mouse around. I hate being a grown up. But I'm grown up enough to accept that if I want to have a house and food it's something I have to do.

20. I don't like it when I moan. I'm trying to be more the sort of person who deals with things or shuts up about them.

21. I still have a phobia of plant roots.

22. I was once sick from drinking and dropped my wallet in it. Kate tells everyone she meets this story, which ensures that even if I was president of the UN or the next noel fileding or queen of england, I'd still be the girl who dropped her wallet in sick.

23. I think a life without music would be hell.

24. My husband thinks I'm a hippy. I'm not. Poi+joss sticks != hippy.

25. I am utterly, utterly useless at maths, physics and hard thinking in general. Can I have a job please, mr oil company exec?