Categories: random
Tags: meme
Date: 29 October 2005 22:47:15
Both blonde and ERG tagged me with this one, and in the absence of anything else blog-worthy, here goes - more to know about moi:
Ten years ago
I was working for a charity in London and learning about development (how to/how not to) and working with one wonderful and one absolutely awful co-worker, learning all sorts of things from both. I was living in a fantastic flat in Forest Hill with two fantastic friends. I was also researching which nursing colleges to apply to to do my nurse training. Two fab holidays that year - Easter was spent sailing in the Norfolk Broads, and then in the summer I went to Canada (Vancouver and the Rockies). I met a grizzly bear, lived to tell the tale and now have a great dining-out story (which occasionally gets a bit embellished, depending on the amount of wine consumed).
Five years ago
I'd just finished working on an orthopaedic/rheumatology ward at a major central London teaching hospital (my first job as a qualified nurse) and just started working as a staff nurse with the district nurses in lovely Catford. I had just started a diet which led to me losing over 3 stone over the next year (I really needed that - I've put about a stone and a half of it back on but I don't ever want to be that big again). I was just about to start my Open University Masters degree. And I was looking for a house to buy. What goes around comes around. A few months earlier I'd been on another fantastic holiday, this time to Namibia, which is utterly amazing and has some bonkers wildlife (though probably not as bonkers as Australia's).
One year ago
I was a few months into a great new relationship, not knowing that the following week it would be over. Hmm. We split the same day it was confirmed that Dubya had been re-elected - really not my best ever day, at the time it felt like the world had ended twice in the same day. I'd just damaged the ligaments in my shoulder (falling over at wedding reception - oops. It's still not 100%). I'd just handed in my Masters dissertation, having done my research in Moldova a few months earlier, and was waiting for the results. And I was in the final decision making process about whether or not to apply to do the PhD
Five yummy things
quinoa, good Indian food, Guinness, cheese, good red wine (not plonk!)
Five songs I know by heart
This is a toughie. Um. Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I Will Survive. I used to know more 20+ years ago (Smash Hits was a regular buy). I probably shouldn't admit that I could sing Wham Rap word perfectly back then, but I doubt I could do that now.
[ETA: Does Shine Jesus Shine count? argh]
Five things I would do with a lot of money
Buy somewhere with a garden. Travel a bit. Random surprise gifts to random surprise people. Probably set up a charitable trust so I could keep on making donations rather than just a one-off huge gift. I don't know, this is tough - I know I moan that I don't have much money at the moment, but really I've got all the *stuff* I need and more, I think I'd enjoy giving it away more than spending it.
Five places I would escape to
The place I went on retreat to in Cornwall a few years back. A village I've been to a couple of times in Turkey. Mont St Michel. Amsterdam. Canada.
Five things I would never wear
Anything in size 8. Thigh length stiletto boots. A dummy/pacifier whilst standing in a queue for a club. Hot pants. "Jesus Loves You" T-shirt.
Five favourite TV shows
Pride and Prejudice, Red Dwarf, Father Ted, The Simpsons, Blackadder.
Five things I enjoy doing
Drawing. Savouring the feeling when I've just handed in an essay that's been hanging over me like a big black cloud. Snogging. Daydreaming. Gardening.
Favourite toys
BigTed (he was a present when I was a baby, he now has no fur, his stuffing is pouring out and he doesn't smell so great, but I'd go back and rescue him in a fire). Shaun the Sheep. Pass the Pigs. Mousetrap. Lego.
Five people who get this
I think most people have already been got. I'm enjoying reading everyone else's.