If you hadn't already guessed I'm taking part in Blog Every Day in November, hosted by Elizabeth over at Rosalilium. Are you taking part? Do let me know if you are and I'll give you a visit. I really enjoyed blogging everyday for 40 days, a challenge I set myself on my 40th birthday, but almost immediately lost momentum when the 40 days where up. What better way to get back into it?

Today's prompt is 'something new about myself'. That's a toughie. I can't think of anything in particular. Questions like this make my mind go blank.

So, instead I decided to list 40 random facts about me.

1. I have never seen The Sound of Music from start to finish

2. I was the captain of a majorette troupe

3. I almost lost the top of my right index finger by shutting it in a door

4. I can't roll my tongue

5. I dislike the word 'inspo', I hate having to write 'the word inspo' because it's not a word.

6. Coatigan is also not a word. If it's a cardigan that you wear as a coat, it's still a cardigan

7. I can remember the registration number of a random car we had growing up, but not any of the cars I've owned

8. My college years where some of the unhappiest of my life

9. I am private, not a prude

10. I can't pronounce the word sophomore or statistically

11. I hate to admit how untidy I can be

12. Sometimes I enjoy planning my outfit for an event, more than the event itself

13. I have to spend some time on my own everyday or I start to get tetchy

14. I hate being watched

15. I detest the word 'moist', if something on a menu is described this way (normally cake) I can't order it

16. I worry about everything in some way

17. I can cry at the smallest thing, but can be as hard as stone

18. I don't think being a child automatically makes you likable

19. I hate being interrupted by children

20. In my head all of my friends and family know how much I love and need them

21. In reality, my friends and family really don't know how much I love and need them

22. I judge people by their table manners

23. I don't understand people who can't sit in silence

24. I write in books

25. I wish I'd known my grandparents

26. I'm really awkward around really old people

27. I didn't like olives until I was 33

28. I have a hankering to be an extra in a film

29. I wish I had a friend I'd known all my life

30. At the age of 30 I felt like I was starting life all over again

31. I'm always surprised if I do something well

32. I love the smell of my cat's breath

33. My favourite smell is water - rain , the sea, waterfalls, sometimes just the smell of a cold running  tap

34. Sometimes I do things so that I can blog about them

35. I've watched The Lost Boys more than any other film

36. I judge people by what they do, not what they say

37. I hate being told what to do, which is why being self employed works so well for me

38. Once I've decided I'm done with something, that's it I'm done, there's no going back

39. a purring cat on my lap is one of the most relaxing things in life, a purring cat on my keyboard is just infuriating

40. I'm 40 and still don't feel like a real grown up