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100 Things

  1. My birthday is April 10th
  2. I’ve lived in Sydney my whole life
  3. I got married 12th Feb 2005
  4. I have one younger brother
  5. I can’t call him my little brother anymore because he recently grew to be taller than me!
  6. He’s five and a half years younger than me (the half is very important :P)
  7. I’ve been blessed to have had a supportive and loving family
  8. I love the Lord Jesus Christ
  9. I’ve been a Christian since I was 12 (at least)
  10. I love taking photos
  11. I love tea
  12. My favourite tea is Irish Breakfast
  13. I love coffee :coffee:
  14. When I buy coffee I usually get a cappuccino with vanilla syrup, at uni I get a White Velvet, which is a white chocolate mocha
  15. I love raspberries :yum:
  16. I love grape tomatoes
  17. My favourite movie as a child was The Wizard of Oz
  18. Apparently I wanted to be Dorothy, I used to tell adults that my name was “Doorthy”
  19. In years 7 and 8 of high school I had a huge crush on my geography teacher Mr Milne — it led to some weird comments in class, especially because his girlfriend and I shared the same first name; he left the school in year 8
  20. Once a boy named James made a harsh comment about above crush and I slapped him — his response was “Yeah, I deserved that.”
  21. In year 8 I had a crush on a boy from my school, he liked the attention but nothing more
  22. In year 9 and possibly 10 I had a crushes on a police officer who went to my church
  23. Also in years 9 and 10 I had a crush on a boy from my school I wanted to go to the year 10 formal with him and when I found out he was going with someone else I punched a metal locker repeatedly; my hand hand swelled up like a balloon (not my finest moment)… he and that someone else recently got married!
  24. In years 11 and 12 I had a crush (thought I was in love with) on a guy from church — he didn’t want me though; also just got married 🙂
  25. Now I am in love with my husband :kiss: *yay*
  26. I like wearing black
  27. I like wearing blue
  28. I like wearing pink, sometimes
  29. I have two piercings in each ear.
  30. I had the same watch since year nine, it’s a Rip Curl one with a blue face — it was stolen after six years 🙁
  31. I love cheese
  32. My all time favourite TV show is Buffy The Vampire Slayer
  33. Angel is good too
  34. I also like Stargate
  35. Dr. Who is aewsome, I like David Tenant (the 10th Doctor) 😀
  36. I’ve gotten back into Profiler after many years — if only they sold the DVDs in Australia
  37. I like Baileys
  38. I really like wine
  39. My hair is brown
  40. My eyes are greenish
  41. I’m a bit less than 5’2″ short
  42. One time I punched a boy for making a “short” (about short people) joke — it wasn’t without warning, I said, “I’m going to punch the next person who makes a short joke.” and he made one, so I thought I should deliver on my promises
  43. At the end of school I had three best friends; Amy, Sam and Lauren — we’re still good friends, but don’t see each other as often
  44. When I got engaged all three were to be bridesmaids; by the time I was getting married Lauren refused to come to the wedding because of a misunderstanding 🙁
  45. Hubby took me to Fiji for our honeymoon
  46. That was the first time in my memory that I’d been on a plane; I went on one when I was very young, about 2 years old
  47. For schoolies (after high school trip) Amy, Loz, Sam and I went to Byron Bay, we nipped up to Queensland on one or two of the days as well and went to Dreamworld
  48. I really hate cockroaches
  49. I don’t like the vegetable/fruit squash
  50. I enjoy playing netball
  51. I train in karate at least once a week
  52. I love boadgames and card games
  53. Risk, Settlers of Catan and Scrabble are some of my favourite boardgames
  54. 500, Emperor-Scum and Billionaire are some of my favourite card games
  55. Trivia nights are good fun too
  56. I really like toasted cheese and baked bean sandwiches
  57. My favourite lunch to take to work is Hot and Spicy Thai-flavoured-2 minute noodles with lime and cracked pepper tuna — I recently got my husband into it as well 😛
  58. I worked in a research laboratory for two years as a lab assistant
  59. I study Science (Molecular Biology) at uni
  60. I’d like to make a habit of jogging, but when I do I always hurt my knee
  61. The first thing I “consumed” when I was born was champagne, just a drop
  62. I like designing blog templates and web pages, I’d like to be better at it though
  63. One of my favourite singers is Aimee Mann
  64. I love music from Matchbox 20, so sad that they broke up
  65. The Idea of North gives a whole new meaning to acapella music — they make it cool!
  66. One of my favourite songs is Worlds Apart by Jars of Clay
  67. Another favourite is Could I Be You by Matchbox 20
  68. I think Space They Cannot Touch by Kate Miller-Heidke is a beautiful song
  69. I play guitar
  70. I play flute although not as much lately, I wish I played more
  71. I enjoy singing and have done at church but I mostly play guitar at church these days
  72. When I was in primary school I was in a combined schools choir that sung at the Opera House
  73. One of the songs from that concert, Aflow, has stuck with me; I emailed the composer who sent me a full score of the piece that includes that song — I hope to be able to play the flute part and write a guitar part for it to sing and play.
  74. In high school my favourite movie was Never Been Kissed; it bore a strange resemblance to my high school crush, my teacher and Michael Vartan were similar and both teachers (well Vartan played the role of a teacher)
  75. I also really loved, and still like a lot, While You Were Sleeping
  76. I loved Ever After so much that when I got the video for my 16th birthday I watched it everyday for two weeks and many, many, many more times after that
  77. My friends and I used to have movie nights and sleepovers; once a month each time at someone else’s house; each night had to have a theme linking the movies, my turn was “losers who become cool”, which included the movies Ever After, Loser and Never Been Kissed
  78. Open Source and GNU licensed software is excellent
  79. Almost all of my software is free
  80. One of my favourite book series is the Scarpetta crime novels by Patricia Cornwell
  81. I also liked The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
  82. I’m reading the Narnia series — it’s entertaining, just don’t try to take the Christian analogies too far
  83. I have a moral dilemma whenever I have to decide to throw away Christmas, Easter, thankyou and birthday cards
  84. I like getting my hair cut somewhere that I trust, especially when they give me a good head massage when they shampoo my hair
  85. I like having my hair above shoulder length, hubby of course likes it when it’s long — it’s long at the moment, it’s ok, just a lot of it!
  86. I like baking, especially cookies (they’re so yummy to eat)
  87. I love creme brulee
  88. I was always the “daring” one at school, they called me Confident Kris
  89. For a short time my nickname was Beaver — as in Leave It To Beaver — it didn’t stick
  90. Kriso did stick and I’m sometimes called that today; it’s on the back of my year 12 jersey
  91. My hubby is nearly five years older than me
  92. We met at church
  93. He was a youth group leader when I was a youth group kid, but there was not even a hint of anything dodgy
  94. My first job was at a large Pharmacy, it lasted two years before I resigned because they wouldn’t teach me new things
  95. My second job was at Starbucks — I loved learning to make coffee! I hated making coffee for self-absorbed caffeine addicts that refused to acknowledge that you were making orders for twenty people in ten minutes :grumpy: I also hated that it was so messy; I always smelt like stale coffee and warm milk :sick:
  96. My third job was at Blue Moon: It was a bead shop in which people could sit and make jewellery.
  97. I’m too easily saddened by things
  98. I failed my driver’s test four times, passing on the fifth
  99. Thankfully I passed my learner’s test and my green P test first go (it goes L, P1 (red Ps), P2 (green Ps), then full liscence)
  100. I took a defensive driving course recently; I highly recommend it