25 Random Things About Me

Friday, May 8th 2009 @ 12:30 PM (2 ratings)    post viewed 2203 times

The "25 Random Things About Me" meme started on Facebook in January/February 09 and jumped off Facebook over to bloggers.

If you get tagged you're supposed to write a note or blog post with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself and then tag another 5 people.

I got tagged.

25 Random Things About Me...

1. I'm a Leo sun, Leo moon, Taurus rising, Firehorse, born on a 6 day with a 9 lifepath. Make of that what you will.
2. I can type 27 words per minute at 100% accuracy with one arm tied behind my back. (see #1)
3. I own an adorable ex-racing greyhound called Katie.
4. I landed in London as a fairly naive 24 year old with 2 pounds in my pocket and through divine intervention and hard work stayed nearly 4 years. (see #1)
5. I made the "front page news" in Australia when I was a teenager.
6. I love dancing.
7. I did door-to-door sales selling oil paintings (in London) and a few years later became mates with a guy who recalled "slamming the door in my face".
8. I'll never, ever, go on an 'elephant trek' again. Ever.
9. One of my first jobs was interviewing people for 'the dole'.
10. I get grumpy when I'm hungry (apparently).
11. John Lennon is my favorite Beatle. I like Ringo too...
12. I'm an old student of Vipassana meditation.
13. I didn't eat my first full salad until I was 25 years old.
14. I did computer programming at 16 years old and gave it up because in those days you had to wear a tie.
15. I always cry at the end of Joe Dirt.
16. I had a courier run in Sydney and "spun out" when I first watched the Matrix; Neo flew off from the same spot I used to stand every day.
17. I swear I saw a UFO about 5 minutes after midnight on 1/1/2000.
18. I'm a Mac convert.
19. I married my beautiful wife in Jedi regalia.
20. I love a Sunday afternoon siesta.
21. I almost always reverse into a parking spot (old courier habit).
22. I love sweet, milky tea after a good hot curry.
23. I once had two Uzi's (sub-machine guns) pointed in my back.
24. I'm rebuilding the Temple of Shamballa from the inside out.
25. Apparently my Great Great Grandfather was a fine cricketer and would have been on the first Ashes cricket tour to England, except he couldn't afford the fare.

So there you go, you've got some good goss on me now.

How about you, have you got 25 random things in you for a blog post? Do you resonate with any of the above?

Arohanui
Stephen

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