I spotted this idea over on Single & Fabulous (via mamasaurus); to link up all our very first blog posts. Basically the blog posts we wrote when nobody was reading us so people can read us now.

Sadly, I don’t have my first post ever written as I lost the back up to my old blog a while ago, but it was rambling nonsense anyways about travelling and not very exciting. So instead, trawling the archives, I found this post way from back in 2008. I’ve updated it below as things really do change!

10 Things about Me

I change, things change, and there might actually be someone out there reading me, so i’ve decided to update what was 101 very inane facts about me, to the 10 actual things you need to know…

1. Firstly I’m wee (Scottish for ‘small’). That’s four foot 11 inches tall (1.5 meters). It’s the first thing anyone notices about me, so from an internet-you-cant-see-me kind of way I guess it’s the first thing you should know. Description wise I have dark hair, brown eyes, and i’m a size UK8. Basically i’m a midget all over. I look like a pixie. My boyfriend is also small; we make a very cute midget pixie couple. I’m also a tomboy and rarely wear make up. In fact I often forget I have it on and smear it all over my face in a childlike manner… I am with the same boy, I am still tiny, but not so thin and I now wear make up. Lots of make up. I am much less of a tomboy than I used to be.
2. I love to travel. Whether that’s just something touristy or to far flung places I have itchy feet to get out and about. I’ve moved to one of my favourite places in the world – Edinburgh– and I have made it my home for the last 12 years and I think the only place ill move to will be somewhere abroad. I’m scared of having put down roots. I hope to do it soon, sell the house and just head off into the sunset…I’ve now lived in Edinburgh for 15 years and I still love to travel. I still fancy getting away from here, if I don’t start a family soon it will be Australia.
3. Job wise I’m a town planner, have been for 6 years now. I mainly focus on waterfront development. I’m interested in architecture, cities, density and urban life. I work in a man’s world and I admittedly it can be tough. Sometimes I think I should just go back to working in a bar. Apart from my job, I also help run a website about clubbing in Edinburgh– http://www.eccf.co.uk/. I’ve helped to raise thousands of pounds for the Edinburgh Sick Kids Hospital through ECCF. I still love going clubbing despite the fact i’m 30.…8 years as a planner, wow. I still miss working in a bar. I now have a degree in climate change and focus on green issues rather than waterfronts. I no longer help run ECCF and I certainly don’t go clubbing anymore. I am still proud of the fundraising we did for the Sick Kids. 
4. I’m generally a bit sickly; i’ve suffered from a fecked up stomach for the last 10 years and have under gone far too many camera tests for my liking. I’m currently on a new medication which means I have to give up alcohol. I have also been told I have to give up smoking. Gulp. I also get bouts of insomnia quite regularly which can lead to some random blog posting.…nothing changes here. Still haven’t managed to give up the smoking.
5. Relationship wise it’s a mixed bag. I got married when I was 22. We got engaged after 6 weeks, married a year later and separated 6 months after that. So far we have taken 8 years to get divorced. One reason i’ve not done it is that i’m scared someone might propose to me again (I know, I know, but I think he may have done). It was on my to do list for 2008, but may have to be a new years resolution at this rate. I met the matching midget in May this year and it’s going swimmingly so far. But its still scary, I’ve walked away from my life twice. I’ve made a new start twice. I’m not sure I can do it again…I am now divorced and happily in a relationship with the matching midget (ha! sorry B). I am now ready to get married again. Things really have changed here.
6. I’ve no children, but I am broody. It’s not very strong as I know i’m not really ready for a family yet. But i’m getting on you know, I guess ill have to do it soon or later and i’m too old and weak to lift a baby. Good job my man is younger than me…well I am now broody. Very broody.
7. The first book I ever learnt to read was called I am adopted. I was adopted at 7 weeks old and have always known. My parents didn’t hide it from me. They have a daughter of their own who is a year younger than me. Despite the fact I struggled with it for years Id be proud to adopt a child. I believe in nurture rather than nature.… I am now searching for my birth history, although things are going very slowly here.
8. I have a number of weird habits. I don’t like sitting with my back to the door but I have to watch people coming and going. I people watch religiously. I can only walk on the left. (It comes from my mum’s habit of the same thing. We fight when we have to walk together and will swap sides simultaneously) but I have to sleep on the right. No idea where this comes from. I also frequently trip up stairs. I think it’s because i’m partially deaf in my right ear and it makes me unbalanced.
9. I’m not massively spiritual (I was born a catholic, brought up protestant) but I have read tarot cards for 15 years. My ex boyfriend used to call me a witch as i’m pretty accurate with them. I did cards professionally for a year but I got migraines so had to stop. Now I just do them for friends over a glass of wine or three. I also get night terrors in houses where there is a history of strange goings on. I’m not physic but they certainly like to disturb my sleep…this still spooks me out, I hate my night terrors.
   
10. I was bullied relentlessly in high school and unfortunately I now take great pleasure in hearing about my bullies failing in life. I wish I didn’t, but it’s some kind of sick revenge thing for years of self doubt. I can’t believe I admitted that… actually I am still happy to admit that!

So there you go, if you join in, pop over to Mamasaurus to link up.

Miss S x

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