25 Facts About Me...
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So, on Sunday I am turning 26 years old. I thought that I would be bothered about it, but I’m not. Getting older just doesn’t seem to bother me, it hasn’t for a long, long time. I actually quite like getting older because I like to reflect and see how I’ve changed and what I did over the year. I know some people don’t like to reflect, especially when they have lost someone throughout the year, but I think if you are constantly wanting to evolve as a person then this is an important practice to get into. Or maybe I’m just weird like that.
- I may no longer care about getting older, but when I was 9 turning 10 terrified me because entering double digits meant I was getting older and thus becoming an adult.
- I fractured my arm when I was 9 by falling off a seesaw.
- I chipped a bone in my foot when I was 20 and I have no idea how I managed it, all I know is it hurt and I was on crutches for almost a month. I didn’t fall over and it wasn’t a drunk injury like the nurse at the hospital tried to suggest to me it probably was. I know it wasn’t because during the whole night out the only alcohol I had was one vodka and red bull.
- Talking of red bull, I don’t handle caffeine very well. I become jittery and very hyperactive.
- I don’t drink tea or coffee. Occasionally I will have hot chocolate but not often.
- I have written and published a short story. You can find it here.
- I have also written a novel, it is currently being edited. I am hoping to get it traditionally published.
- My taste in music is a little weird. I don’t look like the type of person to like heavy metal, but I do. The less top 40 and the louder it is, the better for me.
- My dad is to blame for my taste in music. He used to play 80’s music when I was in the womb, he introduced me to the Foo Fighters when I was pretty young and flat out refused to buy me a Spice Girls cd for Christmas. Instead, I got the best of M People because “Santa thinks you need a better taste in music. It’s a good cd, I still have it, but I never got the Spice Girls one.
- On average I have gone to A&E once for every year of my life because I am clumsy.
- My clumsiness is partly due to the fact I am hypermobile. I’m pretty sure that part of it is just because I am completely uncoordinated.
- As a child, I collected coins. You know, like all normal people do. God, I was a weird child.
- As an adult, I collect illnesses. I kid a little but it’s true. You can read about my fibromyalgia here.
- I actually collect fountain pens.
- The furthest I have travelled is to Thailand.
- When in Thailand, I contracted Dengue Fever. It wasn’t pleasant, in fact I ended up suffering for a while after I came back. – I need to write up about this.
- I studied Journalism and English at university. After the first semester, I realised it wasn’t for me but I stuck it out because I didn’t want drop out and start again the following September. I didn’t want to get into the same rut I was in at college.
- The longest my hair has ever reached is just below my waist, but that was 15 years ago. The shortest it has been is a pixie.
- It took me just over two years after graduating to find any sort of employments – so don’t feel bad if you don’t have a job after graduation.
- I’m a chronic nail-biter, but I have periods where I manage not to chew them.
- Despite being a 20-something millennial, I am not tech savvy. I’m the type of person who has to take their laptop to get fixed because they’ve deleted the built-in speakers – this is sadly a fact, I have actually deleted the built-in speakers before.
- I am very close with my grandparents. I have been since I was little. I really like being close with them.
- I have one brother. He’s just under a year younger than I am. We are polar opposites. I go crashing through things and he’ll cautiously wade through the destruction I’ve just created.
- With my wisdom teeth, I have 28 teeth because as a teenager my mouth was too small to accommodate all my teeth. I also needed braces because the lack of space and thumb sucking had messed up my teeth.
- As a small child, I convinced the optician I needed glasses when I did. Jokes on me now because I actually need glasses all the time.
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