Something to do!

A few weeks ago Natalie and I made arrangements for her to come down to Southampton for the day from London, but I had to postpone it the other day because my foot hasn't got any better yet and I can't drive anywhere, so it would be a bit of a wasted journey for her if we couldn't do anything when she arrived.

So, I am stuck at home again with nothing to do. At least Chelsi tagged me, which has given me something to think about for an hour. Thanks, Chels!

1. Five things I was doing 10 years ago:

• Spending a month in Perugia at the end of my year abroad from university (the rest of the year I was in Florence)
  
• Watching almost every match of World Cup 1998
  
• Looking after one of the guys who was with us in Perugia when he got gastro-enteritis
  
• Listening to an eclectic mix of music, including Romanza by Andrea Bocelli, 5 by Lenny Kravitz, Quello che Voglio by Alex Baroni, Supernatural by Des'Ree and anything by Eros Ramazzotti
  
• Losing weight - it was so hot in Italy that I didn't have much of an appetite and I was the thinnest I'd been since the age of 13. Ah, those were the days...

2. Five things on my to do list for today:

• Do three loads of washing
  
• Try and get some, if not all, of the ironing done
  
• Find a space in the back garden for the plant that Ali brought me on Tuesday
  
• Persuade Rob to take me to Hobbycraft to buy picture frames
  
• Once they're bought, frame my two embroideries

3. Five snacks I enjoy:

• Cheese & crackers
  
• Geobars - specially the chocolate ones
  
• Home-made cherry & coconut granola
  
• Cadbury's Buttons
  
• Anything with coconut in - like macaroons, mmm...

4. Five things I would do if I was a billionaire:

• Give up work (actually it would take a lot less than a billion quid to persuade me to do that)
  
• This one's too difficult
  
• Everything I think of seems lame or contrived
  
• Maybe I would give it all to charity
  
• Then I wouldn't have to think of ways to spend it

5. Five places I have lived:

• Stockport, near Manchester
  
• Salford, the other side of Manchester
  
• Hull, while I was at university
  
• Kirklevington, near Yarm, where I was brought up
  
• And finally, Hedge End, near Southampton, where I am now.

I won't tag anyone else, but if you'd like to post your answers, feel free.

Blogspot Confessional

Keri tagged me in her recent blog. I have to list 6 little-known facts about myself here, then tag 6 other people to do the same. I don't know many people who blog, and the people I do know have already been tagged, except for you, Sarah, so I tag you.

Here are mine, in no particular order: -

1. I read the Celebrity Baby Blog regularly. I hate that I do it, because it puts me in the category of people who keep paparazzi in business, but I don't read Heat, or Hello, or OK, or Closer, or any of the zillion other trashy magazines, so don't be too hard on me...

2. I have never seen Jaws, or any of the sequels. Or any of the Rocky films, or the Indiana Jones films, or the Terminator films, or an episode of The A-Team, or Sesame Street... Plus I was 16 before I saw my first Disney film. Rob wonders what growing up in my house was like...

3. I am a Licenciate of the London College of Music. I took the diploma when I was 18 - on the recorder, of all instruments - and it allows me to use the letters LLCM after my name.

4. Show me 5 seconds of a scene from Friends and I'll tell you which season it's from and what happens in the episode.

5. I miss Manchester. Not too much, but definitely a little bit.

6. I secretly (not so secretly any more) love Ryan Reynolds.

Four things you may or may not know about me...

Sarah just e-mailed me this. I'm not very good with forwards, particularly the ones that say 'send this on to 20 people in the next half hour or you'll have bad luck for a zillion years', but as it goes this one wasn't one of those anyway. Instead of replying to her and forwarding it on to everyone I know, I'll post my answers here. Which I think is a great idea because it gives me something to write about - there hasn't been a vast amount of excitement in the past week.

Although we did go to a football match on Saturday with Adrian and Sara and the kids - Eastleigh FC played Sutton United. Eastleigh are high up in their league (albeit a very low down league) and Sutton are second from bottom, so we had high hopes, but of course they were dashed - Sutton won 2-1. The quality of football was fairly terrible (not that I could have done any better, although thinking about it I could have done better than the Eastleigh goalkeeper who dropped the ball in front of his goal and allowed the Sutton player to dribble round him and into the back of the net) and Rebecca and Elliott were as interested in seeing the mascot as the football, but we still had a great time, and it made for a nice change. I haven't been to a football match since I was living in Italy - the atmosphere at a Fiorentina match is somewhat different to Eastleigh though :).

Sarah, I've modified a couple of the questions and have added some of my own, hope that's OK.

Four jobs I have had in my life:
Pianist at a hotel, Music teacher, Fee earner in solicitor's office, Director of my own company

Four films I could watch over and over:
Mission: Impossible, Entrapment, Ocean's Eleven, Evita

Four films I have bought but haven't got round to watching yet:
The Black Dahlia, Bobby, Vera Drake, Eternal Sunshine

Four places I have lived:
Kirklevington (where I grew up - 1976-1995), Hull (university - 1995-1999), Florence (year abroad during uni - 1997-1998), Manchester (1999-2007)

Four TV Shows that I watch when they're on TV:
Coronation Street (sorry), Desperate Housewives, Friends (re-runs on E4 every day), Child of our Time

Four TV shows that I watch when they come out on DVD Boxset:
24, Lost, Alias (till it finished), The West Wing (ditto)

Four places I have holidayed:
St Lucia, Egypt, The Maldives, Zakynthos

Four places I would like to visit:
Only four?? Australia (Sydney Harbour and Uluru particularly), Angkor Wat, Hong Kong, Macchu Picchu

Four people who e-mail/text/call me regularly:
Sarah (via our blogs), Jen, Mum, erm...

Four of my favourite foods:
Pasta, chicken, strawberries, salt (I am an auto-condimenter - I salt my food before I taste it; can't eat without it)

Four things I like doing:
Being in my new house, shopping (although not much of that at the moment other than house-related stuff as I'm broke), travelling, sleeping

Four places I would rather be right now:
I'm still at work right now, so: at home, sitting by a pool in the sun, having a meal (anywhere - I'm starving), in bed

Four things I am looking forward to this year:
Going on holiday - 4 weeks on Sunday!, going to Miami for The Spring Experience (not so much for the conference but to see Keri, Eva, Jill and Annabelle again and to meet Corgan), going to the Lake District for Christmas, my birthday (although I'm not ecstatic about being another year older)

So there you go. How about you?