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Ok so it's Friday, and I'm a lazy blogger, so I'm going to play the ABC game because Lou told me too. I am such a sheep - baaaa!

AGE - 24 years and 10 months
BED SIZE - Queen, but I would love a king. Oh the space!

CHORE THAT I HATE - Cleaning the bathroom? Although our bathroom is tiny so it's really a ten minute job. Hmmm...maybe vacuuming because our vacuum sucks. Or doesn't. Depending how you look at it. Pleeeease get me a fancypants Dyson for my wedding! I also have not washed the windows of the farmhouse. Ever. And they are foul!

DOGS - Three. Tessa the wonder puppy and Mr M's two working dogs, Lily and Pippa. Lily came to live with us when Mr M's old boss went on holiday...and then she just kind of never left, and I'm so glad because she is the most wonderful, lovely, gentle soul. Love my Lily-pad. I want to clone her but Mr M says I'm weird. Tessa is my baby, as I always say she's pretty much the best dog in the world. And Pippa. Oh Pippa...we have a love/hate relationship. She means well, really she does, but sometimes I get sick of having to scream at her like a fish wife or wrangle her away from vistors children for fear of legalities involved or have to pull out the stock whip to get her back from her latest adventure. Sigh. Then she looks at me with the big puppy sad eyes and tilts her head as if to say 'Who me?' Gets me every time, dang it.
ESSENTIAL START TO MY DAY - A hot shower and cup of really hot English breakfast tea with a small dash of milk, although I would love a proper espresso coffee (skinny latte, no sugar) but I'll have to be a good girl and maybe that's another wedding gift. Or it's a half hour round trip to nearest espresso available for purchase.  

FAVOURITE COLOUR - always has been pink, still is, but I like lots of other colours like dove grey and sage green and sunshiney yellow and caramel taupe and duck egg blue these days too. 

GOLD OR SILVER - my engagement ring is white gold, I have a lot of silver too though.

HEIGHT - How bad is this, I don't even know?? I think I'm like 5'7"? Does that sound right? I have no clue.

INSTRUMENTS - Piano, although I am getting pretty rusty without a piano in the house. Must remedy this.

JOB TITLE - I guess I'm some sort of 'administration assistant' but that title encompasses a lot of things, like truck driver wrangler, angry phone call maker/receiver, debt collecter, logistics manager, report writer, bill payer...oh yeah and I'm a photographer too when I'm not in an office for 40 hours a week.
KIDS - Not yet.

LIVES - With the lovely Mr M in a ramshackle farmhouse on a sheep and potato farm in Gippsland.

MUM'S NAME - Gabrielle (pronounced like the angel, not Gabri-elle or Gabriella), also known as Gab, Gabby, the Gabmiester, Gabaroonie, Grandi Gabs.
NICKNAMES - Durks, Durkatron, Durkino, Durka-Durka...I wonder what people will call me in a few months?!

OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS - None! Boring. Or lucky?

PET PEEVES - Ignorance. It's not bliss. Be informed, people! Preferably before you open your big mouth and spout your opinions without knowing the facts. Rant over.

QUOTE FROM A MOVIE - Funny or inspirational? Can't think. Jerry McGuire gets me, and no not 'you had me at hello' *vomit* More the little kid and Jerry: "You said f*%! I won't tell. I gotta go! My mom's coming! I gotta go!" hehehehe

RIGHT OR LEFT HANDED - Left for writing, right for everything else. I play tennis right handed, but play Mr M left handed as handicap - ha!

SIBLINGS - Two big sisters and a big brother above us all. I'm the baby girl.

TIME TO WAKE UP - I'd love to say I get up at 5.30am and go for a run and make myself some sort of green bile-like substance and take heaps of vitamins before leaping in to my day...but who am I kidding, I get out of bed at about 7.15am after Mr M has yelled at me, poked me and pulled the doona off me for about 15 minutes (I'm meant to get up at 7 according to him, who gets up at 6 - ugh).

UNDERWEAR - Right now? Well that's a bit much isn't it?! Usually something comfy, pretty too but only if it's still comfy.

VEGETABLE I HATE - I don't think I hate any vegetables? I eat anything and everything! Mr M won't let me buy/cook brussel sprouts which makes me sad. They are misunderstood!

WHAT MAKES ME RUN LATE - Mr M! Definitely. He is the world's worst time manager. Drives me bonkers, well it used to drive me more bonkers until I reached a point where I just had to accept that that's how he is, that's what makes him super laid back and kind and gentle and easy going, so if I have to make him run on time but sacrifice those other things, no thanks. I still say I'll beat him to the church on our wedding day though.
X-RAYS - Teeth for when I had braces and some extractions to make way for the braces. I've had a cat scan too because I get bad migraines.

YUMMY FOOD THAT I MAKE - I do make a mean cookies and cream cheescake...just saying.
ZOO ANIMAL - You are not going to believe this but when I was a little girl I loved the bison at the Melbourne Zoo. I know - what sort of child was I?! The bison??? On the last trip to the zoo we thought the seals were pretty cool though. And any kind of monkey is pretty funny/freakishly human.

And if you've got to this point, I salute you. You have just found out a whole heap of fairly useless information about me.

Enjoy your weekend...

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