All About Me

Yesterday, I not only awoke to some lovely comments awaiting me in my inbox but also this MeMe award form the gorgeous Margarita over at Ramblings Of A Fab Brunette! The award is all about me, myself and I and seeing as I blog, it may not come as a surprise to you that I like to blurble on a bit! So I would like to thank Margarita for giving me full permission to do it some more!

In order to accept said piece of fru fru-ness, (shush... it's a word!), I need to share seven bits of info about me and then pass the bling onto seven blog folk. Well my friends... that I can do! Forgive me for what I am about to share, I know not what I do....

1. I'm prone to a lot of clothing mishaps. They include: wearing a thong sideways and not realising until lunchtime, leaving the cardboard toe shaper inside one of a new pair of ballet pumps and wondering why it was so uncomfortable all day and... leaving the very large neon orange sale price ticket on the back of a skirt purchased at the Next sale one year... whilst wearing it out for dinner. That one I blame on the fact that I got up at 5.00am to queue for the sale and said skirt and was therefore demented with tiredness. All the other stuff I have no excuse for whatsoever.
2. After seeing Flashdance, I wanted to be a welder.... for a very long time! In fact I wanted to be Alex full stop. I even rode my bike to work once in a vain attempt to emulate my heroine - except it was a really crap fold up thing and I thought I was going to die of exhaustion by the time I got there. A bit stupid seeing as it was a journey I had to take two buses across town for normally. I did however manage to perfect the taking off of the bra under the T shirt thing - still works like a charm on Other Half!
3. When I was about fourteen and bored, which was pretty often, I used to pretend that my whole life was being filmed for an ongoing documentary! This was way before Jim Carey ever did The Trueman Show. I was so ahead of my time.
4. There aren't many things I wouldn't do for a triple scoop of Haagen Daaz Macadamia Nut Brittle, Peanut Butter Burst and Cookie Dough Dynamo!
5. The song Hungry Eyes has the ability to make me think I actually am Baby, rehearsing with Johnny in the dance studio wearing my silver heels, tights, cropped top and big pants. And yes I did remember to shave under my arms but it'll still tickle when he runs his hand down under my armpit!
6. It took me precisely one month to fall pregnant with Small Child. We had planned a trip to America and told ourselves that we had at least a year of post honeymoon marital bliss before anything happened. Other Half of course takes full credit for this... apparently it's all down to his Super Sperm!
7. I did a years stint as an apprentice hairdresser on a Youth Training Scheme (Jesus - showing my age now), when I was sixteen. I learned how to descale metal chair legs with vinegar, wash the hair of old ladies who hadn't washed it themselves for two weeks and that you should never sit next to a kettle when it blows up due to the fact that the other apprentice forgot to put any sodding water in it! Especially when said kettle is also next to a jar of Coffee Mate that explodes, coating your retina in fiery hot white powder. And then your stingy git of a boss makes you come back to work after your visit to the eye hospital, complete with eye patch. Cue lots of hobbling around from your colleagues on one leg, propped up on the salon broom saying "Ooh Arr Me Hearties" etc etc. Yes.. ha ha... very funny.

Gosh... I feel somewhat purged now!

And so to pay it forward... please step up the following lovely blogger peeps:

• NotSupermum... cos she's lovely!
• Flower Faires And Fairy Cakes... cos she's back!
• Diary Of A Yummy Mummy... because I will be living vicariously through her when she buys those over the knee boots!
• Shopaholic who is Shopping In Suffolk... cos she's gorgeous, funny and can shop for a bargain!
• With Love... cos she needs no introduction. Just get over there and see beautiful fashion and photography.
• Maternal Tales... cos she makes me laugh until a little bit of pee comes out. And she tells great poo stories - my hero!
• Last but by no means least, Tara at Sticky Fingers because of something she sent me recently proving that she is a true friend and I heart her loads! Plus... unless she decides to change the rules (again!), I get to find out even more weird stuff about her!

Now please excuse me but I have an appointment with Rachel Zoe to discuss what I'm going to wear the post awards ceremony party. Mwah!