MeMe: 6 Weird Things About Me

I've decided to take up Susan's MeMe challenge - 6 Weird Things about me, that she did recently on her blog. Where do I begin? There are so many....... :] I won't include my 'I hate christmas' one. I already had a good rant about that a couple of weeks ago. So lets just call this the first 6.

1. I am the only child, of an only child, of an only child, of an only child on my maternal line (which after all is the only line any of us can really be sure of :]) and on that line my ancestry in Australia goes back to the 3rd Fleet. In 1791 my great, great, great, great grandfather Thomas Alwright was sentenced to 7 years in the colony. Shacked up with gggg granny 3 years later and produced the obligatory tribe of kids (most of whom died). The next generation is about where multiple progeny ended and onlies began.

2. I hate shopping and spending money. I refuse to have a credit card and the thought of having any debt at all would keep me awake at night. I may not have a lot and it may not be fancy but everything I have I own.

3. I used to jump out of perfectly good aircraft and plumett to earth at 200 kph. I'd refer to skydiving as my mid-life crisis sport. I turned 40 and for several years after used to do this most weekends. I also love flying. The smaller the plane the better. I'd love to try hang-gliding one day.

4. I can be rather obsessive, neat, tidy, detail oriented, fussy, meticulous, precise. Can't stand clutter, mess and dust catchers all over the house. This may be just my OTT response to my mother who has always been the complete antithisis of this :]

5. I am quite mechanically minded and have no problem in pulling something apart to repair it. I probably have more tools in my shed than the average bloke (and I know how to use them) and I am quite happy servicing my car or doing any repairs that are needed.

6. And for one of the weirder weird things....I can recite the alphabet 4 different ways. The normal way. Backwards (zyxwvu....). The keyboard way (qwertyuiopasdf.....) and alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot........

So there you go. Doesn't that make you feel that little bit saner now?

now I tag...............Sheila