100 things (31 - 40)

31. I have weird fingers that I can bend back without touching. I can also cross them all over one another without any assistance from the other hand, and I can touch my wrist with my thumb. 32. I have two middle names which have never really caused me a problem until we got married, when I apparently said my full name in the manner of a teenager complaining, which made everyone laugh. I thought they were laughing at my name, so it could have been worse, but as my brother said 'You just had to be naughty didn't you?'. 33. I once had a car parked on my foot accidentally by my friend - there was a bit of bruising, but ultimately no long-term negative effects. 34. I used to be able to touch the floor with nearly flat hands (straight legged of course), and now can barely touch it with the tips of my fingers. Hence, I have chosen to add this to my list or arbitrary resolutions, and see if I can improve that over the next year. 35. I am a little bit in love with Google. I think it's partly because I work with Google, and there are loads of things that I can do and see from within my Google account that make my life loads and loads easier. Partly it's because the very nature of my job means that the better I do, the better Google does and so forth, which in turn means that as well as providing the information I need, Google also does loads of great stuff above and beyond the stuff I technically need which really helps me out, so a mutually beneficial time is had by all. But mostly it's because I use Google and the more I use and understand it through work, the easier and more effective I find it as a search tool for those drunken moments when I need to know the lyrics to a song, who was in an obscure programme I once saw, or what the time is in Acapulco. I am constantly amazed at people who are unable to find the information they want, misunderstand search results and fail to enter halfway decent parameters, and I consider myself lucky to be in a position to understand as much of how it works as I need to to be considered a bit of a Google whizz amongst my friends. 36. The only companies I get e-mails from on my birthday (I usually give a fake birth date to companies I don't like) are Google and Jack Daniels. I choose to be proud of that, as though it's some kind of achievement rather than a tragic comment on my life as an alcoholic search addict. 37. I found out recently that I am racist, but in favour of black people rather than white, meaning that I am either so right on I don't know what to do with myself, or that the veracity of online personality tests is dubious. 38. I put my whole blog into Wordle and when my word cloud came up the words Boy and Wonder were by far the biggest. It wasn't a surprise, but it was nice to find yet another way of demonstrating my obsession with my husband. 39. I don't really like reading things on a computer screen - I highlight the paragraph I am reading and constantly click on the screen as I read. This must be annoying for my colleagues but frankly, I couldn't care less. 40. I make the 'devil's horn' hand gesture way more than is healthy or appropriate for a person of my age.