33 Things About Me

I originally began this post in 2006. It was supposed to be 100 things about me, but for some reason I kept getting stuck around 20-something and giving up. I have now accepted that I will never be able to say 100 things about myself that will be true for more than 5 minutes, so now it is 33 things and a picture:

1. I am Canadian and proud of it
   
2. I was born in the 70's
   
3. I love my job, it is as close to my dream job as I can imagine
4. And yet it still drives me utterly insane sometimes
5. I love knitting
6. I love taking photos
7. I hate shaving my legs
8. Thank god for wax ;)
   
9. I am weirdly in love with my natural hair colour now, after over 15 years of dying it various colours
   
10. Because I'm Canadian and somewhat compulsive, I insist on spelling colour, behaviour & neighbour with a 'u' and it drives me crazy when other Canadians don't. I blame MS Word's auto-spellchecker for ruining the spelling habits of many of my less compulsive fellow Canadians
11. Of course I am prone to accidentally ending words in -ien instead of -ian (Canadien, Italien) but I blame my Québecoise heritage for that
    
12. My favourite colours swing back and forth between red & orange
13. I have 3 tattoos, the youngest of which is still more than 10 years old
14. I've been meaning to get a new tattoo for a while now
15. In my life I've had approximately 20+ body piercings
16. Currently I only have a few, and mostly in my ears
17. My husband and I have been together for over 10 years now
18. But we only just got married 5 months ago!
    
19. We have 2 cats and no plans to have babies
    
20. I go to the gym 3-5 times a week, and I started a weight-lifting program 6 weeks ago
21. I've dropped 3 pants sizes since starting
    
22. I'm back down to where I was about 5 years ago, before I decided to quit smoking and after many years of practically zero physical activity
23. I have become good friends with a neighbour (also a knitter!) from going to the gym
24. Its kind of cool to have someone to borrow a cup of sugar from if I need it!
    
25. I never would have thought I'd become a gym person but I've kind of grown to love going, especially now that I'm lifting weights
    
26. I'm not quite back into the kind of shape I was in at age 20
27. But I don't really have the motivation to start cycling 20-30km every day like I did back then
28. Lately I have been missing my youth a tiny bit though
29. Which is why I've been listening to a lot of old punk and industrial music on my mp3-player
30. Sometimes I feel like I'm in disguise
31. I couldn't possibly be that woman wearing the conservative wool coat, heels and giant sunglasses
32. Listening to the Forgotten Rebels or KMFDM at 8:30 in the morning on my commute through the financial district helps a little
33. I certainly don't feel like someone who just bought a used floor-loom so I could start weaving my own cloth!