50 Shades of Breathing Life

Lily Pups Life posted her 50 Shades and it sounded like an interesting idea, so here are mine.


1) I love Mexican Coca Cola. It tastes more cinnamony to me than the regular stuff.

2) I had a border collie, Maggie, for sixteen years. She was the best dog ever.

3) I have three sisters and two brothers.

4) I have lived in the same house for thirty-two years.

5) I hate mangoes, papayas and any melon except watermelon.

6) I was an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and I practiced for ten years.

7) I was a computer programmer for ten years (not the same ten years as number 6).

8) I am five feet, five and one half inches tall.

9) I broke my back when I was twenty-three in a car accident and spent six weeks in hospital.

10) I love manx cats. I have owned two, and there is likely a third in my future.

11) I use to be a runner, and trained for a marathon, but every time I got over ten miles my knee would give out.

12) I walked twenty-five miles when I was thirteen in a fundraiser called 'Miles for Millions'. It took me eight hours and I could barely walk the next day.

13) I got married when I was twenty-one and have been married to the same guy for thirty-eight years (now you know how old I am).

14) My father died when I was seventeen.

15) I went to my first Pride Parade yesterday. (It was awesome.)

16) I will be teaching Grade Nine English this fall.

17) I have never read, or watched the movie, Fifty Shades of Grey, and I likely never will.

18) I finished two triathlons in my late twenties.

19) I am gluten intolerant. (I know, too much information).

20) I had emergency abdominal surgery when I was twenty that saved my life.

21) The first time my now husband kissed me was in the elevator of the hospital where I was recovering from number 20.

22) I taught grade one in a small northern town for two years.

23) I had braces on my teeth for one year - my grade twelve year - and they came off one week before graduation.

24) I have hiked the Stawamus Chief twice and would like to do it one more time - at least.

25) I want to walk the Camino de Compostela by my 65th birthday.
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26) My husband and I took our almost two year old son to Greece and travelled around for a month.

27) I wish I was fluent in a second language.

28) I consider myself an esoteric Christian, but I do not believe in the Devil, or Satan.

29) I once considered myself to be a Hindu.

30) I once considered myself an Atheist.

31) I have loved doing yoga since high school.

32) I love doing dishes by hand.

33) I love horseback riding. Especially long day rides.

34) I nude sunbathe on my porch as often as possible in the summer.

35) I passed my Grade Eight exam in Piano when I was forty.

36) I think I have a pretty respectable singing voice.

37) I consider myself an Anthroposophist.

38) One day I would like to do the English Coast to Coast walk with my son.

39) I have a large stamp collection.

40) I have a new favourite summer coffee drink - iced lattes.

41) I hate shopping in large stores - I get so overwhelmed in big box stores that I usually have to leave.

42) I admit it - I like disco music.

43) I love the Romantic Poets - Keats, Byron, Coleridge, Yeats, Blake.

44) I haven't yet read every book in the Bible, but I am working on it.

45) I am looking forward to my 60s.

46) I get anxious in social situations that I won't be able to leave when I want.

47) I don't like tomatoes in salads unless it is a greek salad.

48) I knit for hours and hours a day.

49) Granny Smith apples are my favourite apple.

50) Scotch, neat, is my favourite bar drink.

Whew! That's 50! It took me all day.

If you want to play along, put a link in the comment section to your blog.