Well I’ll Go To The Foot Of My Stairs…

My dear sisterfriend v has tagged me with this meme and these are the rules:

Give eight random facts/habits about yourself then tag eight other bloggers.

Ok. Thanks, v…

1. I tore a calf muscle at the dance workshop. Fifteen minutes into the two hour session and I felt the whole thing go *pop* - it was the most sick-making feeling ever. Forty-eight hours of RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) and a week off work and it’s doing fairly well. I still have to be careful not to do too much with it and a mysterious bruise has appeared (on my lower shin!) but at least I can walk now and, possibly more importantly, drive.
I felt a right eejit for the remaining 1hr 45 mins of the workshop though - sitting there with my leg up on a chair only able to join in with the upper body isolations. I’m planning to go back to my regular class the week after next.

2. I spent most of today in my jimjams. I got dressed at about 5.45pm and I haven’t been outside all day. Much as I love my work, I love my weekends more.

3. I’ve grown an avocado from scratch. It’s been thriving for just over six months now and is doing really well. It’s about 18″ tall, it’s leaves are full, deep green and shiny and they just keep on coming. Unlike the leaves of the avocado my partner started at the same time - we were having a kind of competition. His is puny; the leaves are smaller, very pale and it struggles to grow. I’ve got into growing things this year. I’ve always had houseplants - well, you do, don’t you? - and, even though my kids have always told them “Yur go’n diae” (imagine bad fake southern US accent there), they’ve usually done ok. But this year I have a stack of pots in my garden that I planted with stuff and it’s all grown and is flowering and looks totally fab. If I remember, I’ll take a picture (if it ever stops raining) and post it up here.

4. Every summer I go to the Cropredy music festival. Camping in cow/sheep poo. Damp clothes. Wandering about for hours at midnight unable to find our tent because one tent looks very much like another at that time of night when one is a tad squiffy. Wandering around a field at 3am because someone moved the loos (either that or I’m too stoned to find them). Bacon and egg sandwiches and steaming hot coffee made and delivered to me by the one I love first thing in the morning. Spending time with good friends that I hardly ever see. Strangers being nice. Grooving.
I love it.

5. I love quizzes. In my maturity I’ve become able to acknowledge that I’m quite a competitive person in some respects and quizzes so bring that out in me. I also know a lot of bizarre triv.

6. I am a very lucky person. Not just because I have two fabulous offspring who mean the world to me - yes, K & J, that means you (K reads here, J will grow into it) - but my shit has always turned to roses without me having too much to do with it. I’m a “glass half full” individual, and maybe that has an influence, but when I look at my life so far I just think “bloody hell woman, you always fall on your feet”.

7. I painted my toenails purple yesterday.

8. Gods. It feels like this one should be something really profound but I’m feeling too laid back to be profound! I am an old hippy (note the ‘y’ - that denotes the ‘old’). I like beads in my hair and tiny mirrors in my clothes. I listen to Buffalo Springfield and King Crimson. I believe in free love (circa 1967) and real freedom of speech. I haven’t grown up and I don’t want to.

Ok, I tag Littoral Mermaid (when she returns), Cruella, Sarah, Christi, Amy, Hedonistic Pleasureseeker, TTB (if she has the time) and Dr Violet Socks