31 Days Meme - Day 2

[dizzojay]

Day 2 - Twenty facts about me ...

1. I’m an Aries, and I was born in the Chinese year of the Monkey.


2. I’m an only child.


3. I was originally going to be an Amanda Jane, but when I turned up, both my parents decided I didn’t look like an Amanda, so I became Jane Amanda instead!


4. I had an accident in 2007 where I broke my arm/elbow and knocked myself out, and I was rescued by a passing plumber.


5. I don’t like to tempt fate – and I don’t even believe in fate!


6. I’ve skinny dipped in the hot springs in New Zealand.


7. I’m married to Mr Disney, whose late father was called Walter.


8. I’m fascinated by space and all things associated with it, but I think I would be too scared to actually go there.


9. I’ve swum with sharks in Australia; it was amazing and awesome and just a little bit terrifying!


10. I have no religious beliefs, and would describe myself as a humanist.


11. I saw the northern lights in Iceland on Barry’s birthday 2012.


12. I have been inside a Vulcan bomber (while it was on the ground).


13. When I was little I variously wanted to be a vet, a riding instructor and an artist.  Although it’s not my actual ‘living’, I managed to achieve one of those three.


14. I have an unhealthy obsession for big statement costume necklaces, and I'm not sorry!


15. Although I eat fish, I can’t bear to eat anything else that comes out of the sea; anything slimy or scuttly like prawns, oysters, crab etc is a total no-no!


16. I'm allergic to guinea pigs but, so far as I know, no other animal.


17. I had a sweet little house rabbit called Oscar at the time I got married.  He was nearly nine years old and he featured heavily in my wedding video.


18. On the subject of our wedding, my wedding car was a mini (old, classic version).


19. I learned to ride on a new forest pony called Pandora.  She was an ornery little cow, and I adored her.


20. I knocked my two front teeth out in a cycling accident when I was fifteen.  Remember what I said yesterday about being clumsy?

 

Comments

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

#9 I SO want to do that, I am so jealous!
#13 one out of three ain't bad at all bb!
#15 YES THIS! UGH! ACK! Anything scuttly, that's a perfect description.
#16 that's a very strange thing to be allergic to o.O

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

It is an odd random thing to be allergic to, isn't it? I only know because my granddad found a guinea pig one day while he was walking home from the shops. It seemed to be stray, and he felt sorry for it and took it home, so my (at the time) seventy-odd year old grandparents suddenly became the owners of a pet guinea pig called Marmalade. That weekend, I went round there to see Marmalade and I picked him up for a cuddle, and within minutes my hands looked, and felt, like I'd been cuddling stinging nettles! I was popping antihistamines for the rest of the day. I tried picking him up again a few weeks later, just in case he's had something in his coat on that first weekend - and got the same effect. :(

Yet, I've had numerous pet rabbits, and never had a single itch out of any of them!

Weird!

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

That's really odd because guinea pig hair is so similar to rabbit hair, strange O.o trust you to be odd! :D

[wings128.livejournal.com]

Were the hot springs in Rotorua? :D

When I think of scuttling, I think of cockroaches, which of course I have no trouble stomping on and would never consider eating. But we've been going to the Coromandel Peninsula since I was a kid, so catching rock crabs and boiling them over a campfire is part of my childhood memories. I'm not a fan of shellfish, but I love shrimp cocktails.

[dizzojay.livejournal.com]

No they were at DeBretts in Taupo.

I know seafood is a huge part of kiwi culture, it's a big part of London culture too, but for some reason I've just got a complete mental block - can't do it. Yack!!!

[wings128.livejournal.com]

Nice!

I think it may have something to do with the surrounded by the ocean thing, we've got going on, lol.
But each to our own, hun.

[sillie]

That's so random to just be allergic to guinea pigs, although I do hope for you that really is the only animal.

Also, ouch to 4 and 20. D:

[metallidean-grl.livejournal.com]

That really is an odd animal to be allergic to. I've never even been around guinea pigs to know that, I mean, they aren't your typical household pets. Very interesting.

I don't really have a bucket list, per se, but one thing I would really like to see before I die is the Northern lights. I've seen pictures, but I'm sure they don't come anywhere near justifying how magnificent they look. Another part of my bucket list would be to visit New Zealand and Australia. Someday?

I'm with you about eating anything out of the sea, although I won't eat fish either. All that stuff is just so slimy and gross and stinks. No thanks. I'll stick to other forms of protein.