Friday, 20 April 2012

Our Truth

The Rules of the Game
1. You must post these rules.
2. Each person must post 11 things about themselves on their blog.
3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer.
4. You have to choose 11 people to tag and link them on the post.
5. No tag backs and you legitimately have to tag 11 people. (I dont know 11 bloggers so that's a no to this point]]


11 Random Facts About Me
1. I've studied three martial arts: Jujitsu, Karate and boxing.

2. I have bipolar disorder (type II). I not normally that bad but I do go through the occasional very yo-yo emotional day. 


3.  I spent seven years studying ballet, during which time I preformed on stage twice. I quit when I took up karate.

4.I'm very easily bored.

5.I can play guitar and violin. The violin is my instrument of choice though.

6. I am a slob and the more distracted and busy I am the bigger slob I become. I only really clean when I'm bored.

7. I was able to read before I started primary school and when I started secondary school I was told to slow down because I was reading their A-level material when I was first year.

.I used to work in a morgue.

9. I'm a silver medal archer. It is the only sport I am actually good at.

10.I usually have my nails painted at all times.

11.I have an addiction to cheesestrings.


11 Questions From Immie!
 
1. What's your theme song?
At the moment I would say Part of Me by Katy Perry.
2. What's your favourite thing about yourself and why?
My eyes. They are big and bright green.
3. Who do you look up to in the blogging world?
No one really. I dont follow that many blogs
4. If aliens landed on earth and asked you to show them the wonders of the Earth, where would you take them first?
I would be wondering why they would be asking me of all people.
5. What's your favourite memory from the past year?
To be honest I dont have a favourite memory this year. The parts of my year that were good were all equally good, but now that I think about it I would say last Valentines Day.

6. What resolution have you completed so far, if any?
I made a resolution a few months ago to rebuild myself and I have done it, for the most part. I still have a few little things to fix but no one is perfect.
7. What's your worst bad habit?

I have been told that I have quite a few so it would be either be: Forgetting to sleep, occasionally smoking, forgetting to talk because I get too lost in my head, not eating and a few others that I'm not writing down.
8. If you could be fluent in any language, what would it be?
Japanese or German. I know a bit of both but being fluent would be brilliant.
9. How would you describe yourself?
Eccentric and creative would be the two words I would probably pick. I'm also a tad anti-social and quiet, but once I'm comfortable around a person shutting me up can be a difficult.
10. If you could time travel, when would you go first?
Victorian England to go clothes shopping and wander around London.
11. What do you want from life?
I'm not sure what I want exactly, but my aim would probably be to get a flat in London, write a few books and maybe get a dog, just because I dont feel safe without a dog in the house.

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Memo: Reading List

I have a bad habit of buying books that I never get around to reading so I making a note of my reading list here so it will be saved somewhere. So here's the list of the books I am currently reading/re-reading/planning to read:

The Woman in Black (Susan Hill)

The Green Mile (Stephen King)

IT (Stephen King)

InkHeart (Cornelia Funke)

InkSpell (Cornelia Funke)

InkDeath (Cornelia Funke)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Lisa See)


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)

Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)

The Vampire Lestat (Anne Rice)

The Queen of the Damned (Anne Rice)

The Tale of the Body Thief (Anne Rice)

Memnoch the Devil (Anne Rice)

The Vampire Armand (Anne Rice)

Merrick (Anne Rice)

Blood and Gold (Anne Rice)

Blackwood Farm (Anne Rice)

Blood Canticle (Anne Rice)

Pandora (Anne Rice)

Vittorio the Vampire(Anne Rice)

Red Dragon (Thomas Harris)

The Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)

Hannibal (Thomas Harris)

Hannibal Rising (Thomas Harris)

And I'll re-read the Sherlock Holmes collection as well while I'm at it. 


 

Thursday, 5 April 2012

Project Eat Alone

This is a bit of a personal growth project of mine that I have been working on the last few weeks and I thought I would write a blog about it. I have trying to overcome my fear of eating by myself. I know it sounds like I am trying to be a loner but to be honest up until recently if I was by myself and hungry I just simply would not eat. I guess I have a bit of a fear of what people would think of me if I sat in a restaurant or cafe alone, so when I am out and occupied I would usually make a meal out of snacks on the go rather than stop and eat something properly.

Lately though I have been working on adapting to doing things on my own. I have ventured into a few cafes for lunch with only a notebook and my phone for company. I even managed to eat an entire lunch in Bishops chippie today completely alone. I was proud of myself.

I know it is a bit strange to be proud of being alone but it does take a conscious effort for me to savour my own solitude. I am used to depending on people and being supervised so being by myself is a bit of a personal achievement.

...And before anyone starts thinking that I am lonely or anything like that I'm not. I still have people to talk to. I just need to practice alone time properly.

I dont know if anyone else can relate to a fear of eating alone, but I just hope this blog makes some sense.