Lazy person post alert...

OK, I've just got around to filling this in on Facebook after being tagged by several other people, and thought it might inspire me to write a post. It hasn't yet. So I've cut and pasted in the hope that it will...and if you've already read it, well - you don't need to again. Bonus!

25 Random Things About Me

1. I love all my family and friends. Even though most of them are complete lunatics.
2. I wish I could become characters in books and films. I’d love to live in Harry Potter’s world. Or be Marty McFly’s sidekick. Or be a Goonie.
3. As well as being a shameless blogger, I'm also a brand new Twitterer. Look me up on Twitter (although I have no idea exactly how it works and what I'm supposed to do with it, yet): http://twitter.com/WitteringByGem
4. The worst job I did was promotional work – on one job I had to dress up as a reindeer (antlers, red nose and all) in supermarkets and sing Christmas carols.
5. I have had two ghostly experiences in my life!
6. I was once in Byker Grove but all you could see of me on screen were my elbow and shoe.
7. I love crap 80s films and music and can often be found dancing in my pjs in the kitchen.
8. I once got a part as Medusa in a school play because I was the girl who could remember lines and scream the loudest.
9. I really want to go to San Francisco, Oz and New Zealand. My favourite places I’ve been to so far are the Rockies, New York and New England.
10. I love cooking and experimenting in the kitchen (even when it all goes hideously wrong). Sometimes I wonder if I should have gone to chef school instead of uni.
11. I am allergic to red peppers and hate mayonnaise, boiled eggs and batter.
12. I have danced on stage with Keith from Boyzone, had a piggy back from Frank Bruno, and almost been run over by Michael Winner (who, despite those Esure car insurance adverts, is not a good driver, I assure you).
13. I have an MA in Film, and can’t decide what my favourite film is. It’s a very long list.
14. I cry all the time at anything – books, films (even pathetic ones), songs…and have even been known to sob over adverts.
15. I broke my toe 3 weeks before having to squeeze into wedding shoes, whilst intoxicated in my house with lots of friends playing giant Jenga.
16. I’m really good at coming up with one-liners and witty retorts about an hour after I needed them.
17. My family tree is nuts – I have an opera singer, the guy who played Tub in SuperGran, a drug baron and a woman who spontaneously combusted all on there.
18. My tipple of choice is the oh-so-70s Tia Maria and coke.
19. I’d love to have a dog but would feel too cruel leaving him in the house all day while I went out to work. I have a crazy cat instead.
20. I carry a notebook with me to jot down odd things I find, funny turns of phrase I hear and (seldom) good ideas I might have. I’d love to be a published author.
21. I would love to have a kitchen big enough to house an island in the middle. Where I could pretend to present my own cooking show.
22. I would quite happily let Gene Hunt give me a slap.
23. I would really love to have children one day but am absolutely terrified of being pregnant.
24. If I won the lottery I would open my own café with a proper deli inside (i.e. not a sandwich shop!). I have a name worked out and everything.
25. I seem to have a knack for hoarding trivia. Often useful in pub quizzes, always good for boring people to tears with.

Dammit, it still hasn't inspired me to write anything constructive yet.