The A to Zed of me

This is a viral post - thanks to Laura up at Our Wee Farm

A= Age; really do I have to?  Am dealing with a significant birthday coming up - big breathes, big breathes.

B= Bed size; Queen and you know how I love my bed.  Oh how I love my bed, polar fleece sheets, extra pillows - did you know I've only had two duvets in my adult life because it takes me a year to find one I like so have to look after it to make it last and last.

C = Chore that you hate; I loathe, loathe taking the rubbish out.  Cannot tell you how much I loathe that.

D= Dogs; Not so much - I always think I want a dog and love the dogs of other people - Tommi, Puke, Grizz, Manny - but I know I'm a cat person because they look after themselves and don't need much.  Maybe I should emotionallly invest in a goldfish - even lower input.

E = Essential start to your day; To sound like a complete priss, first thing is reading the news on  stuff.co.nz, this makes my eyes ache and I must stop doing it.  I then do my bidness and then do pilates or yoga and read and meditate.  The cook breakfast, shower and go to work - oh and get dressed of course.

F = Favourite colour;  yellows of every hue but to wear dark blue

G = Gold or silver; gold

H = Height; 5.6

I = Instruments you play; hmmm tried piano, clarinet and the all time classic, the recorder.  So not a practice type person.  Unlike Pippapotamus, nobody bought me a $1500 saxophone before I started lessons - resale on saxophones is very good.

J = Job title; this week it's Network Manager - this is likely to change next week.

L = Live; Leeston out on the Canterbury Plains.

M = Mother's name; Margaret HERMIA, yeah we know.  You can call her Mags.

N = Nickname; Cee from my Dad and Punk but I'm not a nickname sticky person.

O = Overnight hospital stays; When I was about to turn 5 I went to hospital to get my tonsils out.  The nurses kept giving me breakfast and I would say "nil by mouth" (I probably didn't but Mags is a surgical nurse so we were well versed in surgical protocol) but they would insist, because of course I was a naughty kid who just didn't want porridge.  In hindsight what was probably happening was they were deliberately keeping me in hospital under instruction of my family's doctor and my aunt who was the Matron on the kids ward because, get this - my Dad had just got out of hospital after having a vasectomy, my brother Punky Pete was in hospital getting a weird cyst cut out of his throat and Mags was about to give birth to Pippapotamus who arrived on December 20th, yes all of us in hospital in the two weeks before Christmas - Mags stayed in over Christmas with brand new Pippapotamus who I wanted to call Snow White.

P = Pet peeves; Spitting in public,  pomposity, arrogance, taking the rubbish out, cold feet, skinny jeans.

Q = Quotes from a film; Im a book person.

R = Right or left handed; Right right.

S = Siblings; Pippapotamus (now in Brisbane) and Punky Pete (in the 'tron right at this minute, but usually on my couch - will write a fun, fun post about that one day).

T = Time you wake up;  Last week it was 5.45am with a bounce in my step, this week with daylight savings starting it's more like 9.30am.  Just joking, not really, maybe...

U = Underwear; Gs

V = Vegetable I hate; pumpkin, punkin, what ever you call the darn thing - that taste, the texture, the really hard to cut skin (not hard to cut my skin when I slipped), the orange insides - yuk!

W = What makes you run late; sheep and cows on the road but I'm not really ever late.

X = Xrays you've had; I had a greenstick fracture that I got when I fell out of barn loft at my Dad's mate place.  Luc is a doctor and had the same attitude as my family and said it was nothing - it was a little more than that but not much.

Y = Yummy food you make; Pooh's chocolate chip cookies

Z = Zoo animals; I know someone who has pet giraffes which is pretty cool (they have their own full time keeper and get to be free roaming across their farm).  Zoos not so much.