100 things about me.

1. My name is Kathryn, but even my parents now call me Kat!
2. I am a Christian - saved by God’s grace through Jesus on the cross. I will never deserve His love, or be able to do anything to deserve it, but I rejoice that He loves me unconditionally anyway.
3. I love chocolate a lot more than is healthy.
4. I’m in my first year studying Occupational Therapy at Cardiff University.
5. No on ever knows what Occupational Therapy is and I’m bored of explaining it.
6. I’m soo not motivated when it comes to motivating myself
7. I would recommend a gap-year to anyone; it refreshes your perspectives
8. I have one younger sister, I love her a lot, but we get on a lot better when we’re not living under the same roof. I don’t think this is a bad thing.
9. I have two cats; Felix and Smokey. I miss them more than I miss my mum’s cooking when I’m at uni (and that’s saying something!)
10. I hated A-Levels and got bored of trying towards the end.
11. I should have chosen different ALevels, apart from psychology. I love psychology!
12. I lived in South Africa for eighteen weeks last year and parts of my heart are there forever, the experience has changed my life.
13. I love Africa and want to visit as many African countries as is financially viable until I find where I want to live.
14. Living in Africa has been a lifelong dream…I’ve only just started vocalising it. I’m pretty sure my parents wish I wouldn’t!
15. Skydiving was the most exhilarating experience I think I will ever participate in. There are no words to describe free-fall!
16. I have some friends in the States who I want to visit soon. More than anything.
17. It took me a while to learn and understand that the perfect church is for heaven. No human can get everything right all at once.
18. I love organising people (which I know is probably code for ‘I’m bossy’ but I try very hard not to be!)
19. People are often surprised when they see how messy my room is because they’ve perceived me as an organised person! I call it organised chaos. Lol.
20. I don’t really understand why drinking until you’re out of control is perceived as cool.
21. We all put limits on God somewhere along the line so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. I wish we wouldn’t.
22. My favourite ever birthday party was my 16^th – all my closest friends and family in the back garden, messing around on an inflatable slide, which we accidentally tipped over while playing a game!
23. My first memory is being at a birthday party for an older family member in Germany when I was 3years old.
24. For most of my life I thought I was destined to be a doctor.
25. When I was 15 I honestly believed I was an introvert!
26. When someone initially invited me into a leadership role I thought they were crazy. Now I can’t imagine life without that part of me.
27. I love the complexity of the human brain – there’s no way we can ever fully understand it.
28. I don’t think there’s anything more beautiful than a sunset and a smile on a child’s face.
29. I love laughing and wish that seriousness didn’t increase with age
30. I love my parents sooo much; even if the battle for independence blurs that sometimes.
31. I’ve realised that there is a difference between knowing about God and the things He has done for you and understanding/accepting them.
32. Famous people who have inspired me: Mother Teresa, Bono, Rachel Joy Scott (Columbine High 1999), Jeremy Camp, Switchfoot (both musicians/music groups)
33. Not-so-famous people who have inspired me: My mum&dad, Hannah W, Mark&Meg, Lou S, Rob&Deb, Rich&Lys, Team Wildcats, Edith and Rene, Nandi, Mark Russell.
34. I watch far too much TV
35. I spend far too much time on the internet
36. Nothing beats a balmy summer evening with a couple of beers and good company
37. I love having lots of photos of people I care about around me.
38. I can never keep in contact with the number of people I would like to and hope that none of the people I don’t keep in regular contact with me hold it against me.
39. I would rather watch the Paralympics than the Olympics.
40. This may be partly to do with the fact that I have a mild disability
41. But it never has and never will get in the way of anything I set my mind to.
42. I can talk for England
43. I’ve talked 3people to sleep during my lifetime. One of them on numerous occasions!!
44. I dislike clothes shopping, in fact, I dislike shopping
45. I enjoy dancing and don’t particularly care how ridiculous I look whilst doing so
46. I’m happy to go on a student night out in jeans and a t-shirt and have never understood the girls who are shocked by that.
47. I don’t think you need make-up to be beautiful, but the cosmetic companies would like you to believe that.
48. I worry that I might be being judgemental sometimes. But hate that because I know how horrible it can be when people judge me
49. I stress like mad if I think I’ve said something in the wrong way or its been taken the wrong way
50. I’m not going to have sex till I’m married
51. I prefer trains to buses
52. I’m stubborn
53. I’m a city girl
54. I love horse-riding. But horses scare me!?
55. I’m a saver not a spender
56. I’m not sure if I ever truly believed in Santa
57. I hate the gym
58. The hymn ‘How Great Thou Art’ nearly always makes me cry.
59. I’ve loved working with severely disabled children
60. I love dogs, but I jump when they bark – maybe its the idea of them barking scares me?!
61. I’m a very jumpy person and hate sudden loud noises
62. I often wish that I could write insightful, eloquent and expressive pieces of writing more often than I manage to!
63. I love writing poetry, this doesn’t make me good at it!
64. I prefer rugby to football
65. I made a list of five things I want to do in my life and am worried I’ve forgotten what the last two were.
66. I prefer a game of word disassociation to a game of word association.
67. I’m exceptionally random
68. I’m a girl, of course I have favourite baby names….
69. I hate balloons and fireworks
70. I love Monty Python
71. I hate getting electric/static shocks
72. I spend too much money on books I never get round to reading…though I always mean to
73. I rarely manage to motivate myself properly more than 10days before a big deadline and have had this problem for years.
74. I knew I wanted to come to Cardiff uni as soon as I visited in 2006
75. I love the stories that my grandparents tell me
76. People need to say it as it is
77. I eat all of an apple, except the little stalk at the top
78. I honestly like most genres of music.
79. However I’m rarely in the mood for listening to classic or listening to someone screaming their lungs out throughout an entire song.
80. ‘The Notebook’ was the first film I properly cried at, aged 18….and unfortunately that seems to have opened the floodgates…
81. If I won the lottery (which is impossible as I never play) I hope I’d have the strength to overcome greed and give it all away.
82. There are certain songs which remind me of people, places and how I felt at that moment in time. And always will.
83. When I finished 7years of all-girls education I was a complete feminist. I don’t feel quite so strongly about some of those things now.
84. I’m a night person. Mornings are rubbish!
85. I can’t decide what length I prefer my hair.
86. I love hugs&cuddles and when you get to the stage when its OK to randomly hug a friend, just coz you feel like it.
87. I love getting stuck into a d&m (deep and meaningful conversation)
88. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.
89. I love driving and the freedom it gives me
90. I’m never as bored as when I’m halfway through a long-haul flight.
91. I’ve seen Switchfoot perform live once and wish I could see them live every night!
92. I think Year 11 was my favourite school year
93. Have you ever noticed that our dreams of the future never have any flaws in?!
94. Starting the job is always the hardest part
95. I love playing UNO and many other card/board games
96. I’ve developed an especial dislike for seagulls since they started waking me up early in the morning in Cardiff – I later tend to sleep through alarms.
97. That is NOT a way of asking for an alarm clock that sounds like a sea gull!
98. I hate uneven pavements.
99. I blink a lot when people take photos using flash!
    100. I don’t ever want to live a mediocre life!.