50 things about me

I see these kinds of posts doing the inter webs from time to time and even though I’ll find it hard to come up with 50 things about me you may or may not know, I thought I’d give it a try.

1.  I was born in Brisbane, Queensland and Mum gave birth at the original Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital.
2.  I am the eldest of three girls.
3.  I have two children, a girl aged 9 and a boy aged 7.
4.  I have two dogs, a female Miniature Fox terrier called “Bonnie” and a male Miniature Pinscher called “Willy”.
5.  I have a cockatiel bird called “Bam Bam”.
6.  I live in the south eastern suburbs of Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland.
7.  I went to Hendra Primary School and Hendra High School.
8.  I walked to school.

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9.  I had a mad school girl crush on Robin (Burt Ward) from “Batman & Robin”.
10. I learnt to cook, sew, crochet and knit before I was 10.
11. I played softball from the age of nine until I was 21, including playing at representative and ‘A’ grade level.
12. The only sport I never played, except for 2 years at primary school, was netball. I didn’t like it all, preferring bat and ball or running sports.
13. I was a full-on vegetarian at age 19 which lasted about 2 years.
14. My dream job (and still is) was to be a high school Physical Education teacher or work in sport’s rehabilitation.
15. I am a single mother.
16. I live in a 3 bedroom, split level home.
17. I wagged school a couple times (only a couple) including to see “Grease” at the cinema in the city when it was first released back in 1978.
18. The subjects I loved at high school were physical education, home economics and art.
19. My first job was working Friday nights and Saturday mornings at Woolworths Variety store in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.
20. My first love was David J, the boy across the road. I was aged about 8.
21. The first boy I kissed was Terry somebody in high school and we met at the bus stop. I was so nervous. I think I erased the whole thing from my mind, it was so awful.
22. I was a very naive girl at high school and didn’t understand any of the innuendos going around at the time. My parents were very strict.
23. I was christened and raised a Lutheran and went to church every Sunday growing up, including doing my confirmation.
24. My mother passed away in March 2012 from a heart attack and my father back in 1993 from pancreatic cancer.
25. I am half Latvian and half German descent.
26. My favourite colour is blue.
27. I don’t have a favourite number.
28. My middle name is Louise.

The Aussie band “Sherbet”

29. My first concert was “Sherbet” an Australian band popular in the 1970s.
30. My favourite band in my early teens was Bay City Rollers.
31. My favourite male singer in my early teens was David Essex.
32. My first ‘real’ concert was “The Ramones” at aged 17.
33. My favourite band of all time is “Led Zepplin” and my favourite song of theirs is “Rock’n’Roll”.
34. Rock’n’roll is my favourite genre of music but I love all types of music.
35. I first moved out of home when I was in my early 20’s with a guy who was a baker. We didn’t last too long.
36. I have lived for many years at a time on my own and I LOVE it!
37. I can’t say I have a favourite food. I just love all types of food but I guess I avoid offal at all costs. I can tolerate liver but not much else.
38. I have been to Las Vegas 6 times.
39. I am passionate about cooking, music and sports.
40. I lived in a small town called Ely in Nevada, USA (population approx 4,000) for 6 months.
41. My favourite movie of all time is “The Bridges of Madison County” and I have visited the covered bridges of Winterset, Iowa, USA.
42. I love every baseball movie ever made.

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42. The New York Yankees are my favourite baseball team and I have seen them play at Yankees Stadium, New York, USA.
43. I have a tattoo of a blue kangaroo below my right hip which represents my favourite football team here in Australia, the North Melbourne Kangaroos (I was 35 and feeling a little rebellious at the time).
44. I have been married twice. The first time in my early 30’s to a man who was my best friend. The marriage only lasted 12 months and we went our separate ways as friends.
45. I have been pregnant 6 times but only have 2 children (the other pregnancies were miscarriages).
46. I have always loved everything about Italy; the food, the landscape, the language, the motor vehicles (ie cars and motorbikes) and it is my dream to travel there one day.
47. I have only had four long term jobs over 23 years of full time work (I did many temp jobs in between the long term jobs).
48. I love life.
49, Tomorrow is my birthday.
50. I am turning 50 years of age.

Thanks if you made it to the end!