More bits and pieces

It's Good Friday here in Canada, a statutory holiday. Some of us also get Monday off - YAY! Brad's away at a choir practice. They're singing the Fauré Requiem tonight.

We are going to the live Met broadcast of Tristan und Isolde tomorrow at our local theatre. I'm very much looking forward to it. It's over 5 hours long with 2 intermissions. Canadian tenor Ben Heppner is singing the lead role of Tristan. We saw this opera at Covent Garden when we were in London celebrating our 10th anniversary in 2000.

Since I'm quite new at blogging, I thought I would do one of those "about me" lists so y'all can get to know me a bit better. I'm going to start with 25 because more than that and we both might get bored, plus I've got porn to surf, ya know! Here goes:

1. I am fluent in English and French. I speak a little and understand a lot of Spanish (my first partner was Venezuelan). I also speak a tiny bit of German and Russian.
2. I used to smoke, but quit about 10 years ago.
3. The hardest thing I've ever done... See No. 2 above.
4. I've never owned my own car. We have a car, but Brad bought it. He tells me I'm going to take over the payments next year.
5. I'm a door-locker and blind-closer. It's what I do. I lock doors and close blinds (at night).
6. I hate drive-thrus.
7. I enjoyed high school.
8. I'm a spendthrift, though Brad continues to try to change my ways.
9. For the past several years, I haven't slept well. I take a little blue pill almost every night now, but I am determined to stop using them very soon.
10. We have a dishwasher, but I never use it, even though I hate doing dishes. I do a better job, especially with plastic. Brad does use the dishwasher from time to time. We take weekly turns doing the dishes. We each do the dishes the week we get paid.
11. I really dislike spitting. Heavy fines should be levied on them that do it.
12. I am the youngest in my family and have 5 siblings. There is 16 years difference between me and the oldest.
13. I believe in guardian angels and believe I have been the subject of their intervention on more than one occasion.
14. I have had an out-of-body experience, a couple actually.
15. I believe in UFOs (Nina Hagen was right!) But this is not related to No. 14 - I've never been abducted, to my knowledge.
16. I am a Slow Food adherent; we never eat at fast food joints.
17. I feel naked without a watch. I always like to know what time it is.
18. My favourite food is fresh pesto. And raspberry pie. And strawberry-rhubarb pie.
19. If I could switch careers, I'd be in advertising or running a bakery or restaurant.
20. I hate getting dressed up (like for formal events). Theme nights at Daddy's are a different story.
21. I've been lucky in the lotto a few times. Biggest prizes to date: $2,800, $5,000, $10,000.
22. I have a pretty good memory, especially for seemingly trivial things, but films and actors and stuff like that I forget almost immediately.
23. I dislike winter for the most part and would like to travel south (Caribbean, Mexico, etc.) at least once a season - so far, I've done this only once - Mexican Riviera two years ago. It was terrific.
24. I believe in paying top dollar for quality.
25. I am something of a germophobe and dislike it when people around me sneeze, especially cashiers at the grocery store, particularly when they sneeze into their hands and then continue ringing your order through. Brad generally buys our groceries now.
...Okay, one more...
26. Best day of my life so far - November 9, 1990. I can't imagine my life had I not meet Brad on that date.