Sunday Stealing: One to Ten

 Let's get the Sunday Questions out of the way before I try and get Demon Copperhead finished for Tuesday's book group and do other things. 

Questions, as always, come from Bev at Sunday Stealing. 

One song that describes my life:

This: 

Two things I wish I had more of in my life:

Take your pick: 

Money and travel.

Oysters and Sex

Time and bum glue (would help get the novel back on track.)

You decide. 

Three ways I relax:

• Exercising
• Reading
• Watching television/films/theatre

Four of my best accomplishments:

• Surviving my childhood reasonably unscathed
• Getting some of my short stories published
• Gaining a Masters degree with a High Distinction average
• Not being in debt

Five things I am looking forward too:

• Going to Darwin next Sunday for work
• Hopefully going to Paris in October
• Finishing Demon Copperhead - this is both an achievement and a desire. I have about 250 pages to go and it needs to be read for book group on Tuesday. 
• Finishing tidying my flat for the inspection on Thursday. I'll be much happier when that is all done. 
• Falling in love again. We live in hope. 

Six things I am grateful for:

• My friends
• My health
• That I am employable (and now have a job that takes me interstate once a month for the next eight months. 
• My cat - he's awesome and a character
• That the Labor government is in power, even if they do make the odd dodgy decision (Submarines, much)
• That I'm well over halfway finished Demon Copperhead, and I am enjoying it. 

Seven facts about me:

• I'm polite beyond expectation or necessity
• I love to swear, but in very select circumstances
• I can't drink red wine - it gives me insomnia and turns my stomach, and I miss it, but there is no point. 
• It's suspected that I have mild ADHD - have to talk to my doctor about this.
• I have no real idea what my natural hair colour is at the moment. 
• I drive a red Mazda CX-3 named Derek. 
• I love baby animals more than anything else in the world. 

Eight things I can see from where I am sitting:

• The fish factory and the gym on the street outside the window. 
• A packet of cat treats sitting on the windowsill
• My backpack/work bag, which is unzipped and stuff is falling out of it. 
• My knitting projects - a cable scarf and a blue beanie for an former workmate. 
• My ironing pile. 
• An unlit candle from the Richmond Candle Co - double wick in their glorious Montana scent
• My television with the movie Pretty in Pink playing. 
• The floorboards, which badly need a hoover (vacuum)

Nine words I would use to describe myself:

• Kind
• Resilient
• Daft
• Loving
• Weird
• Persevering
• Daring
• Cuddly
• Smart

Ten little things that make me happy:

• The smell of dogs paws in the morning. 
• The turn of an extraordinary sentence. 
• Live music
• Pretty sunrises and sunsets
• The balloons that regularly float over my place in the morning.
• Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels
• Good coffee
• Ice cream
• Cuddles
• Walking barefoot along the beach

Today's song: