Tagged - 25 things

Curse you howl, curse yooooou! *shakes fist*

 

Right so uh.. 25 things about myself? This.. could be painful.

 

1: My full first name is Jenna, I go by Jen for one reason and one reason alone. I got SICK TO DEATH of my name being mispronounced as "Gina" with a hideous nasal whine as English people for some moronic reason tried to imitate my accent. -_- To this day the name "Gina" automatically makes me shudder, it's like nails on a chalkboard to me man.

I decided "Jin" was less annoying.

 

2: I'm really short, like, 5'2". I always wear 3 inch platforms, which is mostly just because I love freaking huge clompy boots, but it also means people freak out when I take them off and shrink. Every single time people are like "WOAH!? Where'd you go!?"

 

3: I used to have my lip pierced, which I think you can see in this rather um.. old picture. It gave me endless trouble and eventually I took it out after my lip swelled up for no reason. Never got a chance to put it back in because a few days later I ended up in hospital you know, giving birth. Lol. Kinda took priority.

 

4: Speaking of which, when this picture was taken I was about 5 months pregnant. Not that you can tell. I didn't start showing till about 7 months tbh, I just woke up fat and was all "WOAH!? What?"

Anyway, my now husband bet me I couldn't fit in the box (We were moving at the time) and I was like "I SO can!" so I climbed on in and well... yeah. I WON!

 

5: I'm dyspraxic, something I didn't actually know for sure till I was 22 years old!?? I always struggled with memory issues and directions, but having a label really made me feel better. Meant I didn't feel like I was just stupid.

 

6: I went to university to study Archaeology, but after a year of poor health and really crappy lecturers, I quit and switched courses. I was concerned if I continued with Archaeology my love of the subject would just die, so I took a course in Computer Animation and special effects. I hated it, the university LIED about what we'd learn and I suck at 3d shit.

Even so, despite hating the course and having a freaking baby half way through I managed to get a 2:2, so go me.

 

7: I moved to the UK when I was 14, I was born in NZ. My parents randomly decided "hey, let's move to England for 2 years, explore Europe, do all that overseas shit. It'll be great."

6 months after arriving in the country they filed for divorce. 11 years later and i'm STILL HERE. Eugh.

 

8: I love the colour green. in fact, allmost all my clothes are either green, brown or black. I also love really ugly plaid and hideous patterns, not sure why, they just amuse me.

 

9: I also LOVE skirts, and really would rather just wear them than having to deal with pants. Pants are lame, and they seldom fit me right (See the whole short remark earlier). Most of my skirts are knee length or longer though, just because I prefer the style.

 

10: I love vintage clothing, especially the 1930s and 40s. And i'm a little um.. obsessed with hats. Why don't people wear hats so much any more? Hats are fantastic and seriously, there's little in the world more damned sexy than a guy in a fedora and trenchcoat... but uh... that might be my Noir obsession talking there. Ahem.

 

11: My favourite movies of all time are Fargo and Edward Scissorhands. Which is a somewhat random combination would't you say? I love Coen Brothers movies because they're always insane and always keep you guessing, and I love a lot of Tim Burton's stuff for the dreamlike fairytale quality. Edward Scissorhands never fails to bring a lump to my throat.

 

12: I'm a roleplayer. Started out with chatroom rp and when I started university, joined the role play society (yes, they exist lol).

I don't have a favourite system, but my favourite game setting is the Planescape Campaign setting from AD&D. Why? Because it's totally unlike any other fantasy setting. It's strange and philosophical and surreal and I freaking LOVE that.

 

13: I'm Wiccan, though i'm pretty lackadaisical in my observation of this faith. Sure I observe most of the sabats, when I remember, but i'm not about to stop everything just because it happens to be Beltaine or whatever. Also, most other neopagans piss me off for being pretentious twats. I try to ignore them, especially when they try to tell me HOW to observe my own fricken faith.

A perfect example of this is a group of people I was doing some thing for the BBC with, who INSISTED as a practising witch I HAD to have a craft name. Uh why? I'm quite happy with my real name thank you very much.

 

14: I can read Tarot, though I fully accept it's fairly vague and often difficult to interpret or understand. Especially when the person you're reading for is being uncooperative and not telling you ANYTHING about themselves. Grrr.

 

15: I love old school adventure games, especially the Lucasarts adventure games which I grew up with. My father introduced me to the joys of gaming and i've never looked back since. I own very very few games made in the past 10 years actually, but that's because fps games don't appeal and hey, that's what 90% of new releases ARE.

 

16: I also love survival horror, but I SUCK at them.

 

17: I collect a lot of things. Not just fashion dolls but Owl figurines, Planescape paraphanalia, Music and comics wheee. Not that I get much chance to read comics these days. Which is a shame.

 

18: DC is infinitely better than Marvel damnit. Batman kicks ASS.

 

19: My all time favourite book is The Neverending Story. Every so often I go back and reread it. I own at least two copies with the original red and green text, they're awesome and so much easier to read than the reprint in italics and standard font.

I used to love the film as a kid but looking back at it after reading the book SO MANY times, the flaws are so glaringly obvious. First film isn't so bad but the second? ouch... and the less said about 3 the better. That movie is an abomination and all responsible should be SHOT.

 

20: I love horror movies. The cheesier the better man. Chucky never fails to make me smile, which uh.. probably wasn't originally the intent ahem. That said, I also have a real soft spot for a good old fashioned ghost story like the original Haunting (The remake was crap, really.. really crap). It's kinda depressing to me that most modern horror films are either remakes of far superior asian horror titles or gore fests. It's been a while since i've seen a modern horror film that's actually scared me on a deeper level than "OMG a cat jumped out at me!"

 

21: I love cartoons. I grew up in the 90s with so many great cartoons on TV like Gargoyles and Animaniacs, man, that stuff was awesome. As a kid I was always kinda embarrassed that I liked Gargoyles because it was a BOY cartoon and I was a girl, but damn it was an excellent series. Having watched it again as an adult, yeah, it's still awesome.

 

22: I seldom played with dolls as a child. My mother always bought me baby dolls and such, but I never actually played with them. They just got put in a cupboard and pretty much ignored. I much preferred either just collecting things and displaying them or dinosaurs. Ooo yeah. Later I moved on to Littlest Pet Shop and Trolls, which we played with like you're supposedly meant to play with Barbie dolls... minus the dressing them up and mutilating them bit. I never mutilated my toys, if I broke them they'd be thrown away so yeah, I was really careful with my stuff.

 

23: I'm somewhat obsessive, which may explain my compulsion to collect things. I write endless lists, I get really pedantic about the tiniest trivial details and I think a lot of people think i'm insane heh.

Yesterday I wierded out the guy in Games Workshop teaching me to paint Miniatures by going off on a speculative rant about what fabric the rat man's tunic must be made of and what precise manner of armour his breastplate was. Yeaaaah... that was kinda pedantic.

 

24: I think i'm actually a little too open about myself. Often I find myself telling things that are totally tmi. I believe this is likely thanks to me having absolutely no shame LEFT. When you've had the amount of doctors/nurses/students etc standing around while you have your legs in stirups or some other undignified position, you kinda start to lose all sense of modesty.

 

25: I have PCOS, or something similar. Suffice to say, it makes my life freaking miserable. When i'm not in pain, i'm cranky and/or wanting to murder people so it's all pretty sucky. Also makes that whole, starting a family business rather difficult. My little boy is a miracle really, too bad it seems one is our limit on miracles.

 

Was that a depressing enough note to end on? Sure was.

 

So just look at me in a box and you'll cheer up. I miss my box.. my box was awesome.

Done