ME, MYSELF, I

I am: made up of my life experiences, but am constantly changing.

I have: about 54 pairs of shoes, most of them red.

I know: that I am unique.

I think: I should have put the fillet in marinade an hour ago.

I don’t think: the weekend is going the way I wanted it to.

I want: to change some very important things soon.

I have: a tendency to cry easily.

I like: avocado pears.

I dislike: self-indulgent, egomaniac, me-me-me drug addicts.

I hate: winter.

I dream: an impossible dream.  But still I dream it.

I fear: something so much that I don’t want to put it in writing.

I am annoyed: quite often of late.

I crave: sunlight and starshine.
I usually: drink two cups of coffee a day and three glasses of wine a night.

I search: for some good in everyone, often it is hard.

I hide: my secret pair of Crocs away from everyone.

I wonder: what Marthinus eventually did with his life.

I know: that madness is just a moment away for everyone.  Some will evade that moment and others will succumb.  Look at the survivors of the Holocaust.

I just can’t help: myself from reacting to bigots.

I regret: a great many things.  But looking in the rear view mirror may make me miss a signboard, so …

I love: Quentin Crisp until my dying day.

I can’t live without: writing.

I try to: deliver the best version of me.  I really do try.

I enjoy: swimming naked at night in summer.

I don’t care: much for Chardonnay.
I always: dry my feet first when I get out of the bath.

I never want to: be misunderstood, but it happens all the time.
I rely on: my husband, too much perhaps.

I believe: that there are things I cannot change.

I dance: and it embarrasses people, so I try to only do it when I am alone.

I sing: and my family get very cross about it.

I argue: badly.  I am non-confrontational and generally a pacifist.
I write: constantly, without it I would die.

I win: wine sometimes in competitions.  I am lucky that way.

I lose: my reading spectacles very frequently.

I wish: I could fix something I broke.

I listen: to classic rock on DMX channel 119 almost all the time.

I don’t understand: Swedish, but I am working on it.

I’m scared of: again, I can’t write it down.

I forget: family birthdays.  Always.

I am happy: enough.

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