30 things

'These foolish things remind me of you.' - Bryan Ferry, These Foolish Things

1. I'm 5 ft 11. In England I felt like a giant. Now that I live in Holland I know that the English are just short.:)
2. I have naturally curly hair that goes very straight if the weather is wrong (it doesn't matter what kind of wrong, just wrong!)
3. I got my driver's licence when I was 32. I just had my first car accident.
   
4. I believe in second chances.
5. And true love.
6. I never thought I would. How things change.
   
7. Apparently I talk posh and plummy and sound like I should be sipping G&Ts on the verandah.
8. It must be true because my drink of choice is gin & tonic. Or if I'm not drinking, just plain tonic. All that quinine from my childhood must have made an impression.
9. I've had bilharzia but never malaria. (See, quinine works).
   
10. I loooooove to dance.
11. I think that airports hold the emotions of everyone who ever passed through them.
12. I work in an airport. Go figure.
13. My mom used to recite this rhymne to me when I was little: 'There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very very good, but when she was bad she was horrid'.
    
14. I don't like team sports much. I'm better pitched against my own best time.
    
15. I find it hard to say no to anything so I'm overcommitted and invariably disappoint people.
16. My favourite country out of those I've visited so far is Mozambique.
17. I'd love to visit Zanzibar. About ten years ago I watched a travel documentary about a cycle tour (like this one or this one) around the island and it's stuck with me.
    
18. I grew up in a landlocked country.
    
19. Subsequently, I love the sea. Islands especially. Landlocked sounds so final. Like a country in prison.
    
20. I'm turning 35 in January 2009. I wonder if I will feel different with only 15 years left to 50.
    
21. I'm a work in progress. I lost about a million kilos between 2005 and 2008. I'd like to lose 10 more.
    
22. I don't have a favourite movie, or a favourite song. I have a life soundtrack.
    
23. Childbirth was incredibly difficult but not nearly as difficult as being a good mother.
24. I grew up with a maid.
    
25. Ergo, I like ridiculous things like having my sheets ironed.
    
26. I like eating in bed. I also like carpet picnics on rainy days.
    
27. I leave my clothes in heaps on the floor. Despite this, I think I'm tidy.
    
28. I know lots of useless stuff, like the Latin names for plants, how to make obscure things like sausages, how to fold a fitted sheet.
29. I'd have liked a really big family.
30. I wonder all the time whether I'll have enough time to do everything I want to do.