20 Facts (Interesting-I'll let you decide!) about me!

Just read someone's 'Interesting Facts About Me' (Them-me not me-me) Blog & thought I'd blatantly copy.

1) I use other people's ideas rather than my own....

Nah-not really. Here's my real list:

1) I am useless at most things on the computer. I can't upload my own photos,  locate files without assistance, set & remember p4sswords or make my computer do anything at a faster pace than that of a telegram from Kenya to London during WW2. However I can make a graph on a spreadsheet with the aid of my OU 'How to' guide, very useful for any housewife...

2) I am a housewife. I don't tie my hair up in a teatowel, wear a pinny or have wash-days and bake-days as I am a housewife in name only. I tut at dust and trip over the hoover but I suppose I keep my house looking approximately tidy,  keep my kitchen & bathroom clean and feed people who are in my house. The awful American term 'At-home Mum' is probably the best description as I am a Mum and I'm mostly at home...

3) I have a 2nd class Honours Degree in Science allowing me to use the letters BSc Hons (Open) after my name which as we all know is an essential credential for any self-respecting 'At-home Mum'.

4) I used to be an Aircraft Engineering Mechanic in the Royal Navy in my youth and serviced/maintained Lynx Helicopters. HRH Prince Andrew was on my squadron and despite non-officers being banned from using the officers corridoors as a through-route to the Wrens locker rooms I used to waltz boldy through, with my high ponytail swishing from side-to-side and make a deliberate point of saying a chirpy 'Morning Sir' to him as I passed. No-one tells me where I can and can't go...

5) A lot of my interesting facts might be linked. As a result of my time as an engineer, I was offered a job at my local college lecturing in Aircraft Engineering. I taught there for 18 months, well I say taught, one weekly lesson I had to cover was in a 'workshop' where the students could build anything they liked. One group built an autoclave, another a hovercraft...?! I was an aircraft engineer, I was also a fish out of water but I maintained the required blagging air of 'I'm not going to tell you how to do it, I'm only here to supervise' and when I left to have Son2 in 2001 I vowed never again to do a job which hired me for one thing but used me for another...

6) I have also worked as a teaching assistant at Primary level and hold the High Level Teaching Assistant status. There's another job that has a job description that doesn't quite feel quite the same as the work you are actually doing...

7) I use the form of punctuation known as an elipsis far too often. 

8) I have three children, two sons aged 11 and 9 and a daughter aged 4. They are fab. Free-spirited and loud at times but they're great fun to be around! I won't mush on about them though-overall, to the casual onlooker, they look like any other snotty-nosed kids!

9) I am married to quite possibly the most grumpy man alive on this Earth. I have actually known him to go a whole weekend without cracking a smile. Honestly!

10) If I could live in a house with a big kitchen and a bedroom for each of my children, in the village that we live in now my life would be pretty damn complete. As it happens fact 10 could alternatively read 'I wish I could win the lottery'...

11) I love reading. I love books. I get the same feeling of anticipation when looking at my bookcases that alcoholics probably get in Threshers. I am reading a book called 'The Bolter' by Frances Osborne at the moment. It is the true story of the author's Great (Great?) Grandmother, one of the 'celebrities' of her generation and it is fascinating. I see a book as my friend but my poor memory forbids me from taking them everywhere I go. There is no more irritating moment than that where you realise, once tucked up in bed,  that your book is in the car... 
Note: I do not however, get much of a thrill when I see Mr T's Clive Cussler books or my son's 'Beast Quest' books-the latter of which are usually scattered throughout my house!

12) Mr T is waiting for me to go through and watch 'Hustle' with him. I must be quick now.

13) I like TV but not in the day. I rarely sit down to watch anything before 9pm and hold Sky+ largely to account for that-curse that Murdoch for making it that little bit easier for me to dither around a bit longer each evening... Marple, Poirot and Midsummer Murders are some of my faves, but I also loved Lost and ER. I also enjoy most of the one-off dramas on the Beeb and ITV and find seasonal programmes such as Big Brother *chokes back tears* and X-factor ridiculously addictive.

14) Rather than TV in the day I listen to 5live. I started listening in 1996 when my kittens chewed the ariel off the back of my clock radio preventing me from tuning into any British wavelength other than 909 or 693. I would love to be a journalist working for the station, the only thing stoppping me is their move to the North-West...oh and I suppose my lack of experience and qualification in broadcasting. Hmmm.

15) Grammar and spellling are really important to me. If I make a spelling error or miss an apostrophe I die a little on the inside.

16) I lost 3 stone in weight last year on Weight Watchers. It was easy as pie. Or Pi for those on a diet...

17) Mr T also read books by other authors too. Sorry...yes, it's supposed to be about me...

18) One of my favourite meals is Spag Bol. I'm also partial to Roast Beef, Fajitas, Tacos and Curry although the takeaway we had tonight (1st in 5 months) was utterly horrible-I shall stick to cooking my own I think...
I also love baking but it takes me a lot of time to create a masterpiece and in our kitchen with very little workspace, if baking overspills into normal-meal preparation time my kitchen feels like a not-so-fun circus tent (esp when the children come prowling & salivating like tigers) hence the desire for a bigger kitchen!

19) I am atrociously disorganised. If organisation skills were graded 1-10 with one being the worst I would give myself 1. (I could  so easily be mis-quoted on that...) Part of it stems from an absolutely disastrous short-term memory-I forget children (including other people's), birthdays, to return texts/phone calls, to arrange appointments, to attend appointments, important school-trip reply slips, medication-giving,  to go out for lunch with friends (yes-last year!), my own sons' birthday party (Mum of Bailey: 'What time's the party tomorrow?' Me: 'What party?' Mum of Bailey (incredulous as she can see the genuine 'I-don't-knowness' on my face): 'Billy's-your son's?!!!'). Everything. If you are my friend, you have to learn not to take offence, not to get cross and to remind me of everything. Always.

20) I talk a great deal. I go on and on and on. People foolishly come back for more...