I’ve avoided being tagged for almost 4 years now, but Angela got me.

So, here we go: The Three Things Meme

1. Three Things that Scare Me: chickenpox (no really – I veer towards phobia on this. I’ve never had it, and had a big scare when Akra Jr caught it while I was pregnant with Li’l Bhaji. Gives me the heebie jeebies every time I hear that it’s doing the rounds again), flying when my loved ones aren’t with me (I don’t care if we all crash and burn together, but I get panicky at the thought of leaving the kids on their own), horror movies – will only watch 18-certificate films if I know they’re classified for explicit sex scenes rather than for horror or gore.
2. Three People Who Make Me Laugh: ~Misty~’s ducks, JonnyB, and Akra (because he can’t read a Terry Pratchett book in public without sniggering out loud every third sentence).
3. Three Things I Love: my camera, my fish tank, and my life.
4. Three Things I Hate: The Daily Mail mindset, doorstep selling, and jar lids that are spot-welded on.
5. Three Things I Don’t Understand: why it always rains at 3pm, astrophysics (even though I have a degree in it, my brain seems to have hemorrhaged all that knowledge out in self-defence), and how Li’l Bhaji can bring home SO MANY illnesses.
6. Three Things On My Desk: a cold half-cup of tea, a bulging in tray, and a crumpled Cadbury’s creme egg wrapper.
7. Three Things I Am Doing Right Now: staring at a computer screen trying to think of answers so I can post this damn meme, looking folornly at the cold half-cup of tea I forgot to drink earlier, and wondering if two Cadbury’s creme eggs in the space of half an hour would be considered greedy.
8. Three Things I Want To Do Before I Die: have a novel published, play a computer game all the way to the end before I get bored, and see my boys grow up into men.
9. Three Things I Can Do: make a squeaky noise with just the palms of my hands, knit (yay!) and write a novel in a month (but then that’s the easy part, it’s the editing of it that’s the real bugger).
10. Three Things You Should Listen To: Li’l Bhaji singing “horsie horsie, don’t you stop”, anyone who advises you not to do memes, and compliments.
11. Three Things You Should Never Listen To: the inward spiral of self-negativity and critique, nursery rhyme CDs on permanent loop, and anything louder than 85 decibels. Mixing the latter two is especially dangerous.
12. Three Things I’d Like To Learn: Spanish, a martial art and to live in the moment.
13. Three Favorite Foods: vegetable lasagne, chicken korma and Cadbury’s creme eggs (not all three at the same time, though).
14. Three Beverages I Drink Regularly: water, tea and fruit teas (but only if they’re made by Twinings).
15. Three Books I Read as a Kid: I can pick only three?! Okay – The Changeover by Margaret Mahy, The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon and The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming (yes, really – my father had a huge collection of Flemings and Alistair MacLeans and I think I worked my way through the entire shelf by the end of primary school).

And finally, three people to tag: … I pick Tiger Feet, Jaegerin and Alley Katt.

My brain hurts now.