20 Nuggets of Randomness

Lucky for you kids, Raina tagged me to post 20 random facts about myself. So you've been saved from reading my harping about how I hate Mondays, about how I'm tired of arguing with teenagers and about how it's frickin' cold out. Phew.

So here goes.

1) Do you remember the movie "Cool Runnings" about the Jamaican bobsled team? I haven't seen it years, but when I saw it when it came out, I cried not once, but twice while watching it. I cried at the climatic ending, of course, but also at the part when one guy was holding a postcard of Buckingham Palace saying he was going to live there one day and another guy said "Dude, you can't live there - that's the Queen's house." Highly emotionly charged stuff apparently.

2) I've had four friends have five babies in the past two years and they've all been boys!! Can someone have a girl? It's more fun to buy clothes for girls, dammit!

3) My middle name is Alexandra. That name was derived from my maternal grandfather's name.

4) My first name was derived from my paternal grandfather's name. His name was Christmas. Guess when his birthday was?

5) I'm half Polish, one quarter English, and one quarter Welsh.

6) This year I splurged and bought myself two Gwen Stefani LAMB handbags on Ebay partly because I really like the lamb charm that comes with them.

7) I've had five different jobs in my life. I worked in a restaurant in high school, I had a job at an art gallery one summer in university, I worked in a government office for two summers and I've taught at two different schools.

8) I suspected that I might want to be a high school teacher when I finished my first year of university. I didn't know for sure that it was the right career for me until I started practice teaching.

9) I won $25 in grade eight for a farm safety poster that I designed with the catchy slogan "A Safe Farm is a Happy Farm."

10) I took piano lessons for years and can play with amazing mediocrity, even though I'm pretty rusty now.

11) My favourite animated movie is Disney's Robin Hood. I think Robin Hood is pretty hot for a cartoon fox. I'd be all over him if he was not animated and if he was not a fox.

12) Every year from grade 8 to grade 12, I won my school's French award even though I cannot speak the language very well. However, I can conjugate a mean verb. Or at least I used to be able to.

13) I don't really like hockey.

14) I wish I was here right now:


(Cape Tribulation Beach, Queensland, Australia)

15) My birthday is February 15th.

16) I hate the book I'm reading right now, but since I'm stubborn, I insist on finishing the damned thing. The damned thing being 4 Blondes by Candance Bushnell (creator of Sex and the City).

17) Favourite song of the moment is "Hockey Skates" by Kathleen Edwards. The line that's really resonating for me is "I'm tired of playing defense and I don't even have hockey skates."

18) 9 more days of school until the holidays and 5 more days until the Stars concert.

19) It's taking me forever to write this post about randomness because during this time I've being talking on the phone to my friend about my trip to Cuba (it's booked!) and explaining logarithm graphs to my friend's boyfriend.

20) I still have a hard time falling asleep on Christmas Eve.

Voila. There you have it.

I'm gonna tag jason, since I know he's studying for exams, and posting 20 random facts would be a great way to procrastinate. Also on the tagging-block are new blog buddies Guggenflurgen, EveyQ and Lea (although Lea can be exempted since she just did a random fact post).

Have a good Tuesday!