25 Random Things that may or may not interest you about me (following in other bloggers footsteps)

1) i start listening to Christmas music in October and don't stop until January........sometimes i listen to it no matter what month it is, i love the season that much.
2) i prefer words over gifts any day.
3) i'm ridiculously double-jointed  and more people seem to notice than i'd like.
4) watermelon has been my fav food since i was a kid.
5) my spine has 3 titanium rods screwed and hooked into it due to having scoliosis surgery when i was 15.....i am still crooked and it still bugs me daily.
6) i used to have bad dreams after watching Macgyver as a kid.
7) i absolutely love netball and miss it like crazy when i'm not playing it.
8) i feel like barfing whenever people who are brushing their teeth try to have a conversation with me while they have toothpaste in their mouth.
9) i have a very real fear of bees, wasps, hornets.
10) ever since i became a Christian i have felt called to work with late teen/early 20's young women.
11) i used to HATE that people would call me Phoebe (from "Friends").....but i think i have finally learnt to embrace it and face the fact it's not going to stop.
12) i want to travel all around the world and experience every culture possible.
13) writing is one of my biggest forms of therapy and one of my biggest loves.
14) balls always manage to hit my head no matter where i am or where they are.
15) i get teary whenever i see someone who looks even remotely lonely.
16) many of my closest friends have been my friends for over 14years.
17) i got fired from working at Foodtown (supermarket) when i was in high school.
18) i played the flute when i was about 12 for an orchestra that was supposed to do this big performance thing but i got kicked out of it for never concentrating or "being focused"
19) i have been to 6 different countries (australia, rarotonga, philippines, thailand, USA, canada)
20) i was the body-double for Aphrodite on Xena Warrior Princess and also for a main actress in an american TV film and did lots of extra's work on many different programmes.
21) i danced for 18yrs.
22) i used to play the keyboard and i really wish i'd kept it up......i also used to play the recorder hardout but don't wish so much that i kept that up.
23) we used to have a German Shepherd dog called Max.
24) my brother and i went to a country school for a year or so when i was in primary (which i was not the most favourite kid at) and we got given ducklings to look after which we called Daffy and Dynamo.
25) since my car accident i have definitely become a backseat passenger.