More than you ever wanted to know...

It's my 200th post! Weeeeeeeeeee! To celebrate, here's my 100 things, pinched off Donni. You might like to grab a coffee or perhaps a little alcoholic beverage to take the edge off whilst reading!

1. I dislike fresh tomatoes (which is somewhat ironic given they are red)
2. I do, however, love tomato flavoured pasta, pizza, tomato paste, tomato relish etc
3. I have the Sydney Morning Herald delivered every day of the week
4. I rarely actually read the paper apart from the front and back page.
5. But I always do the SMH sudoku puzzle, even the Saturday samurai sudoku
6. It usually only takes me 10 minutes to fill out my tax return.
7. But I never send it in on time
8. For the last financial year, I only submitted it at the end of April this year.
9. Fortunately I got a small refund
10. I still have last year's refund cheque (also small) sitting on my desk. I think it might be out of date now.
11. I procrastinate over everything. Even 10 minute tasks. Even where there is a legal obligation involved.
12. Fortunately, this habit has not gotten me in serious trouble … yet.
13. I'm pretty snobby when it comes to books (and yarn. And shoes).
14. I dislike chick lit but I will occasionally read it.
15. The book I've most recommended to others or bought as a gift is Captain Corelli's Mandolin (go on buy it, you'll love it, especially after the first 100 pages!)
16. The 2 hours I spent watching the movie of Captain Corelli's Mandolin are 2 hours I could have been knitting. Or even cleaning the house.
17. I hate cleaning the house
18. I like knitting. Ok, I know you know that. I think that I like knitting so much because it is a form of procrastination that is actually productive, so I don't feel guilty doing it, instead of, say, cleaning the house.
19. I like the idea of a garden but I don't really like gardening.
20. Especially weeding.
21. I don't mind pruning but I don't really know what I'm doing. I just hack away and hope I won't kill whatever it is I'm hacking at. Mostly, I'm lucky.
22. I have, however, killed a number of cactus and similar plants. To this day, I don't know how. I'd say from overwatering, but then again, I usually leave watering until the plants are drooping to the ground with thirst (see point 11).
23. I am excellent at packing a suitcase.
24. I am, of course, absolutely hopeless at packing light, so it's lucky I can pack well. Look, you never know what the weather's going to be like!
25. I've got a fair amount of common sense and practicality. One day I will design the perfect handbag with the right amount of open and zip pockets and key fobs etc and I will be rich, rich beyond my wildest dreams I say!
26. I plan big but generally achieve small.
27. Luckily I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
28. I have an excellent husband. He is very patient and good at housework and washing up, and mowing the lawn and ironing.
29. I don't like to iron, so I only buy clothes I don't have to iron (well, mostly).
30. I do buy clothes that, mostly, suit my body shape (curvy, everywhere).
31. While I don't necessary like what they personally wear from time to time, I have learnt a lot from Trinny and Susannah.
32. I work in an office but don't dress corporate suit-ish.
33. I don't own a suit.
34. I've worked for the same employer all of my adult working life (since just before I finished university).
35. I used to be a lawyer. I'm not any more (see point 11 – not a great skill to have as a lawyer!). Now I work in human resources.
36. I have long service leave (woo hoo!)
37. The idea of taking a month of my long service leave to sit at home and knit is extremely tempting.
38. I like watching reality TV. Well, not all of it, but you know, the good stuff.
39. I don't really want to be on reality TV.
40. If I was on reality TV, it would most likely be on the Fat Show (aka The Biggest Loser).
41. I suspect I would not, in fact, be The Biggest Loser.
42. I don't mind being curvy. I don't have body image issues. Except sometimes when I go shopping and don't fit into the clothes I like. But I get over it pretty quick. Usually while I'm eating chocolate.
43. I always read the end of a book first (well, after I've read the first couple of chapters at least).
44. I also read ahead on the internet about my favourite US TV shows.
45. Notwithstanding this, I love surprises.
46. I was pulling an all-nighter, writing an essay, when it was announced that Syd-er-ney had won the right to host the Olympics.
47. I always wrote my uni essays the night before they were due (see point 11 – anyone noticing a pattern here…)
48. I still achieved reasonably good marks. I probably would have done a whole lot better if I actually spent a bit more time drafting and redrafting rather than bashing it out in 12 hours straight with no sleep.
49. I like sleep.
50. I like sleeping in.
51. Lately, I've been waking up quite early on the weekends (which is clearly very unusual for me).
52. I quite like getting up early, having a coffee and knitting in the quiet of the morning, while husby is still sleeping.
53. I also find this a good time to watch my Buffy's.
54. I've watched my Buffy's (seasons 1 -7) several times each. I'm about to start again (I recently found a Buffy KAL!)
55. We have Foxtel. Since we got Foxtel, we have not hired a DVD. We have, however, watched almost every episode of Will and Grace at least once, as well as almost every episode of M*A*S*H. Time well spent?
56. I've been married for 7 years.
57. Before we got married, we'd been together for 7 years.
58. I wore red shoes (well, sandals actually) to my wedding.
59. I wanted to wear a red dress but husby said he wouldn't marry me if I walked up the aisle in a red dress. He's quite the traditionalist about some things.
60. It's probably lucky, because I think I would have looked a bit like a strawberry.
61. I don't like strawberries very much (again with the irony).
62. I will eat them though with pavlova, or chocolate cake.
63. I make an excellent pavlova.
64. I also make an excellent roast dinner. So does my mum. And so did my dad.
65. I miss my dad.
66. A lot.
67. Sometimes I can feel myself starting to cry about my dad at most inopportune times.
68. I cry more now than I used to in general. I always cry if I watch the Anzac Day march on TV.
69. I don't usually watch it because I get too sad.
70. I remember watching the movie Gallipoli for the first time with a friend who'd seen it already. She started crying before the really bad, sad, bit at the end. Of course, I cried too.
71. I also cry when watching RPA. I don't watch it much anymore either.
72. Sitting in the hospital with my dad was what really got me back into knitting.
73. I think hospitals should have yarn and sticks and how to knit books in the emergency department. It's good therapy.
74. I know you all know that.
75. I always wish I was funnier. Or even funny, that'd be good.
76. I feel my list of 100 things meme is not as funny as others I've read. Oh well. Better to admire the talents of others than feel jealous.
77. I find it annoying of myself when I use those kinds of platitudes.
78. I can't help doing it though.
79. I asked for a Macquarie Dictionary for Christmas one year, when I was still at High School.
80. I just used it to look up "platitude" to make sure I was using it correctly.
81. I am a bit paranoid about using "fancy" words incorrectly. Perhaps I didn't use the right word in #77.
82. One of my best friends at school and I both did the same subjects for the HSC.
83. We both ended up with the same mark (back in the dark ages when the HSC was still marked out of 500). We didn't get the same marks in our subjects though.
84. We were Dux of our High School. It was a small school.
85. I used to get teased, a little, about being "smart" (it's all relative!!) and reading the dictionary.
86. I don't care and I didn't back then either.
87. Sometimes I can be self-righteous, and too quick to judge.
88. I am details oriented and don't always see the "big picture"
89. I believe pretty strongly in fate (in the grand scheme of things) and karma, but I also believe that you can change things if you try.
90. I crack my knuckles all the time. I hope this does not give me arthritis. I would hate to have arthritis if it meant I couldn't knit.
91. I used to be able to poke my shoulder blades out at a ridiculous angle. The somewhat thicker layer of fat covering them now means it is far less spectacular.
92. I used to have an outie. Now it's an innie. I miss my outie. (and no, I don't know how that happened!)
93. I had the hugest crush on a boy who I went to school with, all through high school. Then I ended up sort of seeing his older brother. I'm still just a little in love with him (the one in my class, not his older brother).
94. I learnt how to fold a fitted sheet from Home Beautiful magazine. I am immensely proud of this every time I fold one.
95. Of course, I mostly wash the sheets and put them back on the bed the same day (once they've dried, clearly) to avoid the whole folding thing in the first place.
96. I'd like my house to be as clean and tidy as my mother-in-law's all the time. Of course, I am too lazy (and addicted to knitting) for this to ever be the case.
97. I'm really struggling to get to 100, so I've referred to a couple of others for inspiration.
98. I tend to do that a lot. I rarely have an original thought, but am quite good at running with ideas and coming up with variations once I've got a suggestion or a seed of an idea.
99. I like to laugh. A lot.
100. I consider myself a feminist. Even though, these days, it seems like feminism is the new "F" word. I'm not sure why this is so.

Now for the second part of this celebration - if you made it this far, you clearly deserve a prize. All commenters will go into a draw for a little something something which may or may not (ok, it clearly will) be knitting related. Quite possibly sock yarn. A most delicious sock yarn.