Seven from me

I've been tagged by Pearlsa and also by Vivian to share my seven random facts.

1.     I have an obsession with giraffes. Seriously. I think they are incredibly amazing animals, so elegant and so well adapted, but yet so... daft. I recently saw a giraffe drinking at London Zoo and the memory of its sloppy drinking never fails to make me smile. I have dozens of cuddly giraffes and other giraffe related objects too.

2.    I cover my ears when I'm scared. It doesn't matter what the source of my fear is, it may be entirely visual, but I have to cover my ears to feel safe. I also sleep with my ears covered up, even in summer (although I do leave the rest of me uncovered when it is hot, I'm not completely mad!) 

3.     I can't say the word anemone. I just can't do it. Countless people have tried to teach me, but it never fails to make me sound as if I'm completely drunk!

4.    I only eat cooked cheese. This is partly because I don't like the texture of almost any cheese when it's not cooked. I much prefer the flavour reduced to a stringy, homogeneous blob first!

5.    I grew up in a village where all the houses look the same. Obviously not exactly the same, but each row of houses contained identical houses, each small neighbourhood had houses of very similar style and the entire village had a united look. I think it is this that has influenced my life long desire for uniformity and things that match. All the furniture in a give room of my house has to be in the same type of wood, for example.

6.    I regularly read things backwards. I don't mean prose, or when I 'm reading for an extended      time at normal pace, but when I see a title, or an individual word, or a sign or a brand name, I automatically reverse it in my mind. So Coke automatically becomes ekoc and diabetes is setebaid. I do occasioanlly do it with entire sentences too. I have no idea when I started doing this as I don't remember ever not doing it.

7.   Rob and I make  kissing noises down the phone to one another in lieu of the real thing. He won't, unsurprisingly, do it if anyone else is in the room on his end of the phone, but it was his suggestion that I include this as a random fact!

I'm pretty sure everyone has been tagged, but if you haven't and you want to be, you're it.

Comments

[Jillian]

Caro,

I think I like going to the dentist because my dentist is really crazy. I also like the office staff. I am actually going tomorrow!
It was great to learn a few new things about you.

[amylia]

Oh Caro, you crack me up! The kissy noises..ah the joy!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE giraffes! I've never met anyone who has shared my crazy love of giraffes. I have an obession. Maybe we are soulmates. so awesome you love giraffes.

i have a stuffed animal giraffe i sleep with named "yay ya". my grandma (now passed) named her. aw. lame, but sweet, somehow.

enjoy your day!

[in search of balance]

This seven was awesome! It's so cute that you cover your ears! How funny.

And the kissing noises... Rob sounds like a sweetheart :)

[Scott K. Johnson]

Number 6 is pretty interesting! That's what I call a great random fact! Or should I say "tcaf modnar taerg"?

:-)