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'One minute I held the key, then the walls were closed on me ...' - Coldplay, Viva la Vida

I filled in my new 43 things list yesterday. I had an old one from 2006. I was surprised at how many of my goals were sort of non-tangible really non-achievable type of things. Obviously I wasn't listening in the bit where they told us how to set goals in school : Make them achievable dammit!

Achieved from my old list:

• Get my driver's licence. Yes!
• Lose 40 pounds. Done and more.
  
• Go to the gym at least three times a week. Not at the moment but I did for two years.
• Drink 8 glasses of water a day.
• Go vegetarian. Did that and then stopped, because I really do quite like being an omnivore.

My new list is here.

I'd love to know if you have a 43 things list too.

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

Writer's block so here's a list of random bullshit:

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.

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'Wise men say only fools rush in.' - UB40, Can't Help Falling in Love with You

Time Out's guide to London's most erotic writers is interesting.

Anyone else have metafilter in their feed reader?

It's fun to browse, and full of obscure yet riveting topics. Just look in March 10. Corsets and an etch-a-sketch clock! What's not to like?

'so let's get down and freaky baby' - Paulo Nutini, Loving You

Paulo Nutini will have to entertain you. I am doing that virtual break thing this weekend, combined with a weekend away. Went to see Sweeney Todd, being less of a delicate flower, slightly tipsy ...

Go listen to Paulo.

'It's a beautiful day, don't let it get away' - U2, Beautiful Day

... no kids on the blog ... but isn't he beautiful?

We disco bowled (bowling to disco music with smoke machines and strobe lights and fear of epilepsy) today with five of his friends.

He's really 8 now. It's a big number isn' t it?

'Oh my god, oh you think I'm in control' - Ida Maria, Oh My God

Love love loving your six words.

In fact, so impressive, am speechless.

Would love you to write more.

Keep surprising me, I like surprises.

' A tell-tale sign, you don't know where to draw the line' - Keane, Nothing in my Way

This is so cool. What would your six word memoir be?

In my current phase my memoir is:

'Geographically re-situated, essentially nothing has changed.'

or

'Two marriages. Three children. Four countries.'

or

'Trying to re-write life at 34.'

Get over the comments hurdle and leave me a comment with your six word memoir. I know I have more than 30 regular readers, there has to be a comment in one of you, somewhere.

Go on, do it.

Or my next memoir may be:

'No blog comments, ended it all'*.

*Tongue firmly in cheek.

 

‘And yes, I guess I do have vagabond ways’ - Marianne Faithfull, Vagabond Ways

More cute comic strips here. Thanks for the tip Leese!

I’m reduced to using msn via Meebo because my msn has error 81000378.

Speechless, almost.

 'Hey, I put some new shoes on and suddenly everything is right' - Paulo Nutini, New Shoes

Aha! I feel like a girl with new shoes. Or just a little bit famous.

For Neil's Great Interview Experiment I was interviewed by Not Fainthearted.

Who, true to her pseudonym, is far from faint hearted.

She asked me all kinds of cool questions. I feel like one of the cool kids now. Way hey!

But (and why is there always a but with me?) re-reading my answers makes me think I spend too much time in my head.

Oh, and she asked me about the sexy stuff that I write here. Have a look at how skillfully I changed the subject. Way hey (again).

After you've read what I have to say go read the rest of the interviews here.

'it's okay…the struggle for things not to say' - U2, If you wear that velvet dress again

Possibly the sexiest song ever.