1. My all time favourite smells are; freshly mown grass in the summer and wood burning in the winter
2. I always love the idea of a bath but then get crazy bored as soon as I'm in one
3. My favourite colour is an aqua/ turquoise type shade
4. I was born on the night of a hurricane
5. In December 2014 I sat through 2 sessions combining 9 hours of pain to get my half sleeve tattoo of a peacock and cherry blossom design at Curiosities tattoo shop in Ipswich and I absolutely love it (the tattoo, not the pain).
6. I went to the University of Portsmouth from 2007- 2010 and studied for a BA Hons in English Literature
7. I'm very bad at wanting to be good at things straight away and get disheartened if its not the case
8. I lived in New Zealand for just over two years and its one of the most beautiful places that I've ever seen- I am desperate to go back in the next few years and see all the things that I missed the first time round.
9. Anything to do with Harry Potter makes my heart happy
10. My all time favourite bands are Vampire Weekend and Paramore
11. I support Liverpool FC because my gf is a proud scouser and I would by lynched otherwise
12. I hate hate hate flying on a plane
13. My favourite food is Italian
14. Paris is my favourite city
15. The best gig I've ever been to was Green Day at the Milton Keynes bowl in 2005 (18 years old, group of 10 friends, 60,000 people- it was amazing!)
16. When I feel like giving up at the gym I think of Nicole Scherzinger's abs in this video and it keeps me motivated
17. I'm not the most subtle of people- when you're trying to talk about someone who is behind me, your slight nods and whispers will be met with confusion and I'll be shouting 'who got fat?' or 'who don't you like?' until the penny drops
18. I'm really not a cat person- sorry feline lovers- I just don't trust them. I adore all dogs and am trying to persuade Sam to let us get a greyhound- she is not so keen and thinks that they feel like a tent in a bag when you hug them.
19. My favourite perfume is CK One
20. I would much rather eat something savoury than sweet
21. My favourite cocktail is a mojito
22. I used to hate my curly hair but now I've embraced it- just think, I grew up in era of the Rachel from Friends haircut and it was tough
23. Meryl Streep is my favourite actress
24. I love a red wine and a smelly cheese combo
25. I once travelled around Western Europe over a 6 week period (Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Venice, Pisa, Florence, Rome)
26. Riding on an elephant, bare back, through the forrest and then washing said elephants in the river in Laos was one of the best days of my life
27. I am pretty much deaf in my right ear
28. I have had the same recurring dream about being late and missing out on something for the past two years
29. I guess I would be considered a 'femme' lesbian if you wanted to put a label on it and came out to my family and friends between 2008- 2010
30. I want to start learning sign language this year
31. I have really tiny ankles but size 7 feet- think of golf clubs and you'll know what I mean
32. The only food that I don't really like is pineapple
33. My name means 'friend' in Hebrew
34. I wrote my dissertation at University on the Beat generation, focusing on Kerouac's On the Road, and I absolutely loved it
35. I would describe my style as 'preppy tomboy'
36. Canada, New Zealand (again) and New York are my three main places that I want to visit in the next few years
37. I cannot do Math to save my life, I get the same feeling when looking at numbers that I assume dyslexics get with words
38. I have read A Christmas Carol by Dickens every Christmas for the past 6 years and its become my own seasonal tradition- I genuinely think that its one of the greatest stories every written, I love the idea of it never being too late to seek redemption
39. I passed my driving test first time which is interesting because I am a god awful driver
40. I miss New Zealand coffee so much, its the best in the world
41. I can kind of snowboard and can kind of surf and would like to change those to 'I can snowboard/ surf' in the future
42. I am desperate to learn how to Scuba dive but my dodgy right ear hurts too much when I try
43. I absolutely adore Pixar movies with my fave being a straight up tie between 'Finding Nemo' and 'Up'- the opening sequence of Up with Ellie makes me sob and sob and sob every time
44. I am the worst when I am hungry and need to eat on the hour every hour to avoid morphing into a monster
45. I have a terrible habit of buying more and more books when I have a huge pile of unread books sitting on my shelf
46. I have one older sister and although we couldn't be more opposite in personality, we get on so well and I am due to be her bridesmaid when she gets married next year
47. I have known one of my best friends Lorna literally since I was born, our mothers were pregnant together, lived two doors away from each other and we were born 12 days apart. She is now following her dreams of running her own photography business and I couldn't be more proud.
48. I love trying new food and always aim to eat/ drink something specific from the culture when I can e.g. a couple of weeks ago I tried a drink called Ayran at a local Turkish restaurant which is a salty, yoghurt based drink and ummm yeah...at least I tried it.
49. I have a wonderful collection of 'old man jumpers' as my girlfriend likes to call them from charity shops
50. I always thought of myself as a Ravenclaw but got sorted into Hufflepuff on Pottermore which I was genuinely gutted about for a good hour.
Hello and welcome to This Ruth Is On Fire, a UK blog which is a haven for random thoughts and sarcastic observations.
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