Posts Tagged ‘trivia’

1. I am an Aussie who should have been born European, as I hate the sun and sand which Australia is famous for.

2. I am a brunette, but I’ve been blonde before for a couple of years. That was hard work – and I had to bleach the crap out of my hair to get it past that orange stage. I came to my senses eventually and although I don’t have anything to blame any stupid cockups I make on now, I much prefer my dark hair.

3. Speaking of dark hair, I now have three dark hairs which spring up regularly on my chin. I have to pluck them out but most of the time one of the kids have pinched the tweezers, so I end up walking around like looking like I’m taking testosterone supplements.

4. I prefer baths to showers and only take a shower to wash my hair, which I do once a week as it is just frizzy and flyaway if it’s washed more frequently.

5. I have a teeth brushing phobia – I hate watching people brushing their teeth and seeing foam in their mouths. It makes me gag. I have to look away when a toothpaste ad comes on tv. When I brush my teeth I’m careful to switch my brain off and not dare to look in the mirror as I can’t stand the sight of it. I think it stems from my mum washing out my mouth with soap when I was young for ’swearing’ (ie saying something like ‘bum’ or ’shut up’)…

6. I went to a Catholic school for most of my education. I am an ex-Catholic but parts of the brain washing still lurks inside my head.

7. I met my husband, a professional musician online.

8. I met my ex-husband at Ayers Rock, in the centre of Australia. He was rude to me when I tried to make light talk. I should have learned then and there.

9. I twirl my hair alot – I’m a nerve wracked person. I get it from my grandma.

10. My pop was my all time favourite person in the universe. He died about 6 years ago from leukemia. If there is life after death he’s the one person I am looking forward to seeing again.

11. My nose is crooked. You can notice it in photos like on my driver’s license.

12. My best features are my ears – that’s scraping the bottom of the barrel for you!

13. I have very sweaty palms at times, I presume because of my nerves. When I was a teen I used to be really embarrassed and asked the doctor if there’s an operation to stop it – there is but it’s a dangerous one so I opted out of it.

14. I like meeting new people, but don’t like being the ‘new’ person in a group of people who already know each other.

15. My favourite colours are purple and yellow.

16. I like interior decorating, and especially love the challenge of decorating on a budget.

17. I cannot paint to save my life. I am hopeless at seeing colours and reproducing them on canvas.

18. I used to be a Mrs Beaver super-mother type when the kids were young. I was pedantic about keeping the house clean and looking good – I even colour matched the pairs of clothes pegs when I hung out the washing.

19. Now I’m a depressed lazy slob. I’ve learned there’s more important things in life than having matching clothes pegs.

20. I love to write but don’t think I practise enough.

21. I think I’ve got ADD, hence the above point.

22. My second eldest daughter looks exactly like me, so I’m told, only prettier, slimmer, and younger.

23. I went to uni when I was 32 but had to defer for a couple of years when I fell pregnant.

24. I did the same course twice, at two different unis, accidentally, and only realised it when they started talking about meanings in texts etc.

25. I studied anthropology, Roman history, and journalism for one semester before deciding it wasn’t for me.

26. I skipped many of my lectures as I didn’t have the patience to sit through them. I passed uni down to my dear friend coaching me before exams and giving me the notes in dot points.

27. When I was a baby, I got around by wriggling on my bum instead of crawling.

28. I grind my teeth at night, and sometimes bite my tongue.

29. I have a very sweet tooth, and don’t like savoury things much.

30. Consequently, I like sweet alcoholic drinks such as baileys, midori and malibu rum.

31. My favourite foods are chocolate and cherries.

32. My favourite animal is the gorilla, and maybe the elephant.

33. My dad was a sailor in the Australian navy where he met my mum, a nurse in the navy.

34. My dad is now semi-retired, and my mum is a teacher. They are both in the Falkland Islands right now, where my mum is teaching.

35. I became a teacher and teach primary school – from prep to year 7.

36. The second from the biggest toe on my right foot is slightly shorter than the others.

37. I like to sleep on the right side of the bed, on my right side. Sometimes I’m sure I’ve slept all night in the one position.

38. I love gadgets – new mobiles, computers, etc. My latest purchase was an infra-red room measuring gadget from ebay.

39. I have a heap of photographic studio equipment which I hardly use. I wanted to do children’s photography but I’m not motivated enough.

40. I had gestational diabetes during my last pregnancy.

41. I had a tubal ligation during the c-section when I had my last baby.

42. I am missing wisdom teeth – I wasn’t born with any. That could explain things…

43. I drive a 15 year old car which is falling apart, and I still have two years of paying it off.

44. I lost my virginity at age 18 at my sister’s house. I told her about it years later and she was shocked and amused.

45. My ideal home would be in a cottage in Scotland, somewhere where it snows and doesn’t get so stinking hot in summer!

46. I have Scottish, English, Irish and German ancestors. Somewhere back there was a plantation slave owner too. No convict ancestors though.

47. I don’t like cats after my ex kept a particularly horrid one which kept shitting and peeing on the floor, and I was the one who had to clean it up all the time.

48. I own a heap of power tools and would do woodworking (just like my dad and my pop) if I had a good shed to keep everything in.

49. I love the pokies, and I’ve won $1200 in the lottery once. My dad won a $40,000 car in an art union a few months ago, and my folks have won a couple of ‘biggish’ prizes ($3000 – 5000).

50. I am trying to write a novel, unfortunately, it won’t be before I turn 40 – which is only 2 months away now.

1373 Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world’s oldest) signed
1611 John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication
1774 Rhode Island becomes 1st colony to prohibit importation of slaves
1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington
1798 Mission San Luis Rey de Francia founded in California
1837 1st Mormon missionaries to the British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
1855 The opera “Les Vˆpres Sicilenne” is produced (Paris)
1863 Samuel Butler publishes 1st part of “Erewhon,” Christchurch, NZ
1866 House passes 14th Amendment
1871 Hurricane kills 300 in Labrador
1873 J C Watson discovers asteroid #132 Aethra
1879 A Borrelly discovers asteroid #198 Ampella
1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, BC
1888 Congress creates the Department of Labor
1889 2′ of snow accumulates in Rawlins Wyoming
1890 Eagle Ave in the Bronx is cut out & named
1895 mile Levassor wins 1st Paris-Bordeaux-Paris auto race (24 kph)
1898 Yukon Territory of Canada organized, Dawson chosen as capital
1900 China’s Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians
1905 NY Giant Christy Mathewson 2nd no-hitter, beats Chic Cubs, 1-0
1907 Lowest temp ever in 48 US states for June, 2øF in Tamarack Calif
1910 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
1910 William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
1913 Yanks win 13th game of year after losing 36 games
1918 Philles & Cards tie 8-8 in 19 innings
1921 Yanks’ pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8
1924 Yanks win by forfeit over Tigers, their 3rd forfeit win
1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC
1930 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece
1933 1st sodium vapor lamps installed (Schenectady NY)
1933 Federal Home Owners Loan Corporation authorized
1934 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1349 Bechuana
1935 James T Braddocks beats Max Baer for HW boxing champ
1937 Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs against St Louis Browns
1940 Paris evacuated before the German advance
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenem nde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1944 Nazi Germany begins V-1 (Fieseler Fi-103) buzz-bomb attacks
1946 1st transcontinental round-trip flight in 1-day, California-Maryland
1947 1st night game at Fenway Park (Red Sox 5, White Sox 3)
1948 Babe Ruth’s final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th
1955 Mercedes racing car kills 77 at Le Mans France
1957 Ted Williams becomes 1st ALer to have 2, 3-HR games in a season
1966 Supreme Court’s Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights
1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice
1969 Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins the Rolling Stones
1969 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2111 Tselina
1970 Beatles’ “Let It Be,” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks
1970 Beatles’ “Long & Winding Road,” single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 NY Times began publishing “The Pentagon Papers”
1971 Perth Observatory discovers asteroids #1806 Derice & #1978 Patrice
1972 T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2604
1973 Garvey, Lopes, Cey & Russell play together for 1st time, set record of staying together as an infield for 8+ years (LA Dodgers)
1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2219 Mannucci
1977 Convicted assassin James Earl Ray recaptured [?]
1980 Paul McCartney releases “Waterfall”
1980 Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in “Abscam” investigation
1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1981 Teenager fires 6 blanks at Queen Elizabeth II
1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on “Tomorrow”
1982 Fahd becomes king of Saudi Arabia when King Khalid dies at 69
1983 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1986 Pres Reagan criticizes South African state of emergency
1986 Steve Garvey 1st ejection from a game, after Atlanta’s triple-play
1987 Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete
cycling journey of 15,266 mi from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Argentina
1988 Boston Red Sox are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win the AL East
1988 George Harrison releases “This is Love”
1988 US Supreme Court refuses to hear Yonkers argument they aren’t racist
1989 Detroit sweeps Los Angeles, for the NBA championship
1990 Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1990 Wash DC mayor Marion Barry announces he will not seek a 4th term,
1991 NHL owners present contract to players (leads to Apr 1, 1992 strike)