
Theresa suggested we find out about our friends and ourselves by asking this question. Here are some of my answers. Yours?
I’m someone who has
- Declared God is Love
- Had my tongue stuck to the freezer compartment of a fridge
- Is yet to master the art of swallowing a raw egg
- Has sewed a lovely design in cotton on the bottom of my feet
- Has found a Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate unopened in the most unusual places (packet of frozen peas, wrapped in a T towel, standing vertically balanced on the meat tray behind the freezer compartment of the fridge. (note the obsession with the fridge)
- Put my beloved guitar arm up in to a fast spinning fan to see what would happen
- Asked for a cup of sugar from a neighbour to feed the ants
- Who worked out how to pluck a wasp nest off a plant with out being stung
- Owns a pair of jumper leads that every bloke,upon sight, wants to own
- Invented a new way of mowing lawns with out a grass catcher that ends up in two rows of clippings that required raking
- Cried because my quilt I made didn’t look like other quilts
- Wondered who was saying that, when it was me talking
- Sided with the underdog knowing it would cause people to have negative perceptions of me
- Survived a 20 year diet consisting of Coke, chocolate, chips, ice-cream, Milo and Tina Wafers
- Only been able to face the day because of the morning sun nourished my spirit
- Defended my grandmothers honour as a soft drink maker, when the capped bottle of lemonade containing a dead frog was on sale at the baker shop
- Tried to tear a Monopoly board in half horizontally
- Been forked lifted off a plane
- Almost drowned by showing off
- Pulled all the louvers out of my bedroom during the night and stacked them neatly in piles with out waking up. After my first day on the job as the biscuit stacker at Katherine Stores
- Never swooned
- Used a broomstick through the bike front wheel when the rider was going past so as to dislodge him
- Survived an attempt by a kid to hammer a nail into my back while I was riding a bike
- Defended herself by swinging a thick rope around in helicopter fashion as a kid
- Had a fist fight with dad
- Dobbed my sister in for plucking her monobrow (like who would not have noticed she now had two?)
- Challenged my mother to throw boiling water over me
- Had a dick placed strategically on my shoulder at a disco in the 1980s
- Done a great impression of a plane flying while trying to correct myself after tripping
- Been dragged up the passage way by my hair by my sister with my mother in pursuit with a hot iron, and me calling out “burn my face right here”
- Worked out that if I wanted to avoid the strap I should run into the prickle patch barefoot coz mum could not follow with out shoes on
- Not understood that spitting was unacceptable until I was in my 20’s
- Worked well with people no one else could work with
- Not seen a colourful butterfly cocoon on a tree since I lived in Dowling street in the 1960s.
- Had 3 serious marriage proposals from men who had never kissed me, and none from those who had kissed me. (Is this a breath problem?)
- Lived amongst a colony of fruit bats for 5 months (not through choice)
- Refused to iron my clothes for the past 20 years (due to too many burns on my tummy)
- Had five Angels in my life so far
- promoted water as the number one, most beneficial liquid to consume ever
- names for the babies I never conceived
- day dreamed away a large part of many days
- accepted there is only good and bad, love and fear, God and Man
- given until there is nothing left and then become apathetic
- resilience in abundance
- had the feeling that I am everything and nothing at all when looking into a lovers eyes
- not been able to imagine a world with out music
- believed a confession should be to the person or people you hurt rather than to a priest
- felt honoured to have been up close and personal in a birth (Hamish) and death (Mum)
- found it exhausting to hide things from people
- adored poeple with out the slightest provication on their part
- a letter from my kindy teacher confiming my first friend was Jenny Rowbottom
- had people use words like intense, passionate and shrewd when discribing me
- been working on transparency for over 1o years
2 comments:
These have made me smile and cry. We sometimes forget how much we love the ones who touch our lives. Thank you. MOo
I am going to try to do one like this - I highly doubt it would be as good as your though xo
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