60 THINGS YOU NEED NOT KNOW

1. I love coffee.  Real coffee not instant.
2. I love caramel flavour.
3. I dislike artichoke, chicory.
4. I don’t like haggis
5. I have a high tolerance for pain which is both good and bad
6. I detest opera.  I would rather listen to cats on heat.
7. Until recently I only ever liked female singers. 
8. I would have liked to have been a singer or a comedian
9. I wanted to be a vet
10. I have lived in five different countries
11. I have visited every continent except South America
12. I lived in 34 different homes before I was 40
13. I lived in 33 different homes by my mid-20s
14. I am half Latin
15. I am wary of my own sex
16. I am hypervigilant-this is good and bad
17. If I had one wish it would be that everybody would be at peace with themselves.
18. I love chicken
19. I am almost always hungry
20. I am shy
21. I am good at acting as if I am not
22. I love to travel
23. I get homesick and long for the safety of home
24. I am anti-religion
25. I am not an atheist
26. I am not a theist
27. I am frightened of people in uniform especially men
28. Film and song can make me cry
29. I cannot watch graphic violence
30. I love the TV series Shameless
31. I watch Neighbours every day
32. I often feel very homesick for Australia
33. Living in Australia was the worst time of my life
34. I don’t understand 32!
35. I have spent almost 2 years of my life in mental hospitals
36. I witnessed the violent death of my best friend when I was seven
37. I have no recollection of it at all
38. I first tried to commit suicide when I was seven
39. I love junior school until I started a new term and my teacher was a man.  I hated school from that day on.
40. My nickname in high school was Shit
41. The most exciting place I lived was Singapore. I vividly remember the sights and sounds and smells.
42. Singapore was the place that my father first almost killed me
43. Singapore is my first memory of sexual abuse-I was attacked by a stranger.
44. I love to create and would consider not being able to simply dreadful
45. Sometimes I feel like staying in bed forever
46. I love to dress up
47. I love colour
48. I love to shop even if I do not buy
49. I love attention
50. I often wish I were invisible
51. I love Pepsi Max
52. I love jelly (jello)
53. I love peanut butter and blackberry jam sandwiches
54. I am allergic to grains and pulses
55. I adore ice cream and can eat it by the litre
56. I like rare steak so that the middle is uncooked
57. The smell of alcohol makes me gag
58. I hate rap music
59. I want to travel to the farthest reaches of the known universe
60. Being dead does not frighten me. Dying does.