list six: the best things in life

1. accidentally overhearing someone say something nice about you
2. waking up and realising you still have a few hours left to sleep
3. first kisses
4. making new friends
5. coluring-in with your children
6. getting mail
7. lying in bed listening to rain outside
8. someone playing with your hair
9. feeling your baby move for the first time when you are pregnant
10. unexpected gifts
11. the sound of leaves crunching under your foot
12. pretty flowers growing in your garden
13. amazing dedications found in books
14. hearing a currawong at the end of the day - I love their call

list six: beautiful words

forlorn - desolate or dreary
mellifluous - sweetly or smoothly flowing
susurrus - a soft murmuring or rustling sound
incandescence - the emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature
soliloquy - the act of speaking alone or to oneself, esp as a theatrical device
dulcet - pleasant to the ear; melodious
surreptitious - obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth;
apothecary - an archaic word for pharmacist
cacophony - harsh discordance of sound
feigned - to represent fictitiously;
tintinnabulation - a tinkling, like the ringing or sounding of a bell
taciturn - temperamentally untalkative

list five: things I'm bad at

Although it is nice to think we are good at everything, I know this is impossible. I am really rubbish at a lot of things and these are the ones I can recall, I am sure there are plenty more.

1. Acting my age, I am almost 40 people and very rarely act my age.
2. Talking on the phone, I hate it and try to avoid it as much as possible
3. Public speaking. I cringe just thinking about it and as much as I try to calm myself down I still find my voice quivering and my palms sweating like crazy.
4. Avoiding sweets
5. Maths. I cannot help my 16 year old doing 3 unit maths, thank goodness Andres is brilliant at it he would surely get an big F with his mum helping him.
6. Sports in general. I was always picked last at school.
7. Things being messy. I can't work in the middle of chaos, things need to be clean for me to able to concentrate.
8. Handling criticism. I admit I have gotten better but it is always so hard to hear criticism and not take it as an attack.
9. Vomit. I can't smell it or see it without feeling sick myself.
10. Crying when I am angry, why does it happen?
11. Writing on a card be it a birthday, engagement, wedding card. It takes me FOREVER
12. Adding or subtracting in my head quickly, and the faster I try to go the more confused I get.
13. Remembering things from my childhood or for that matter things that happened a year ago.
14. Folding a fitted sheet. I try and try but in the end I just end up shoving it together to the same size as the plain sheet.
15. Checking clothes before they go in the washing machine. I usually end up with clothes covered in toilet paper.
16. Heavy sleeper. When the kids were much younger and they would be unsettled at night I would sleep right through it without even hearing them, even now if asleep I will not hear the rain or the garbage men with their noisy trucks. Luckily Andres is a light sleeper.

list four: things on my desk

[+] Books...a WHOLE lot of books
[+] iMac
[+] Self healing mat that I use as my mouse pad
[+] My hard drive
[+] Glass of water to make sure that I drink plenty of water
[+] Small plant
[+] iphone

This is my desk cleaned...I usually have a LOT more on there

list three: 15 awesome things

My sister and I, I am the one with pigtails

1. Taking off your bra after wearing it all day...heaven
2. The feel of clothes or bed sheets against your bare skin after a leg wax
3. The smell of something baking in the oven
4. Opening your wallet and finding money you didn't know you had, right when you needed it
5. New stationery
6. Stepping on crunchy leaves
7. When someone highlights a book you are now researching
8. Catching someone you like looking at you
9. Looking through old family photos
10. Catching up to a car that has just passed you at the next red light
11. Checking somebody out and not getting busted
12. Alone in the car singing your favourite song...loudly
13. A cool breeze after a very warm day
14. Peeing after holding it forever
15. Taking your ponytail out

list two: embarrassing music on my ipod

• Kenny Rogers - Crazy
• New Kids on the Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)
• Rick Astley - It Would Take a Strong Strong Man
• Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan - Especially for you
• Jennifer Lopez & Marc Antony - No me ames
• Olivia Newton-John & Gene Kelly - Whenever your away from me
• Roger Whittaker - The last farewell
• Kenny Rogers - She believes in me

I probably have a few more...but really, I don't want to embarrass myself too much. I totally blame Kenny Rogers and Roger Whittaker on my mum!

list one: things to do before 40

I don't have much time left for this particular list of things to do before 40...just two years actually but I hope I can get a few done

• make my own photo calendar
  
• learn Portuguese
  
• make croquembouche
  
• sleep under the stars
  
• draw/paint a self portrait
  
• spend christmas day volunteering
  
• make my own pasta
  
• watch the sun rise
  
• learn sign language and speak to a deaf child

I am always jotting down these sorts of lists in a notebook, different notebooks so when I end up looking for them I don't know where they are and I end up starting afresh. I guess this way I won't be able to misplace my list.  I have to add a few more I think