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[freyakitten]

I got tagged by waitingman

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.

1. I have this mild phobia of shiny lifts, like the ones in hospitals. Being in one can cause minor panic attacks.

2. I have lived twenty seven years longer than anyone ever thought I would, and I attribute this to being stubbornly pigheaded. Failure to thrive and chronic (occasionally undiagnosed until crisis) infections are no barrier to taking life by the throat.

3. Tell me something is easy, and I will fail. It will take me years to get it, if ever. Tell me something is hard, and may take a few tries before I catch the trick of it, and I will get it perfect the first time, and most subsequent times.

4. I can eat leftovers one night after the original meal. After that, I have difficulty stomaching it. Can't face it. Nuh-uh.

5. I have real difficulty internalising that I can do a lot of things well that other people can't. I, and my family, take my competence for granted. It takes quite a few people saying that I'm good at something for it to sink in that it might actually be true. In the past couple of weeks, it has sunk in that I might actually be a very good cook - I made desserts as my contribution to a small dinner party a friend was holding while I was on holidays last week, and while I considered making lemon meringue tartlets from scratch to be not especially hard or time-consuming, at an hour and a half for a dozen half-muffin sized, the only other person there who might have attempted it has restaurant owners and chefs for relatives.

6. When eating properly, I look like I'm eating my own weight in food every day. This is an exaggeration, but not far off of it. I burn through it all - earlier this year, I had lost four kilos (approximately 7% of starting body mass), having not changed my diet, but having added an extra dance class per week.

7. I also eat an average of 100g of meat per day. More than that over the course of a week or so triggers the expression of mitochodrial disorder symptoms, as does more than the occasional sugary treat.

And as for the tagging... Tag thyselves, minions!

Comments

[rowlirowl.livejournal.com]

Hmm. How do I get in contact with you re:tomorrow night?

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Let's see... She-Boss has my mobile number, which I shall now put in my back pocket, since Bastard and I are going to an I'm-Not-Having-A-Birthday barbecue this afternoon, and it would probably be easier to get picked up from there (the next suburb south of my place) rather than making Bastard take me home, and I can't remember the actual address, just directions to get there. Bastard has them, but he's at work at the moment.

So phone is probably easiest. I've got your home number, so I'll call there first when Bastard gets home.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

hospital lifts are a bit scary but the tunnels underneath some of them are even scarier.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I've never been in the tunnels. Hospital lifts, now... They're bad places to wake up.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

humm I dunno, after an operation once, I woke up being transported on a trolley through one of the tunnels, I thought I had died and gone to hell. eeeeekkkk

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I don't remember waking up in the hospital lift - I was only about 18 months old.