Day One - A recent picture of me & 15 'interesting' facts about myself

The picture is 8 months old so it is not that recent which leads me into the 15 facts about me:

1. I am the photographer in our family so I am rarely in any photos unless I pay someone else to take them.  That way I always look half decent. I am a crappy photographer but am working on trying to be better.  I have the eye but not the technical detail.
2. I am also a crappy writer which is pretty bad considering I used to be so good at it and actually won a Young Writers Competition back in my day.  I still have the book that I won with the typed (yes typed) piece of paper announcing my win.
3. I love to dance.  I have done a bit of ballet, jazz, tap, modern & ballroom.  I have done lots of gymnastics & callisthenics.  I did 10 years of competition callisthenics and went out on a bang when our club won the state title.
4. I can't sing and absolutely have no idea about music although I love it.  I have an iPod that has the strangest array of stuff on it.  Looking forward to doing day 15 to see what comes up.
5. I have driven across Western Australia in an Ambulance. I know, a little strange but it was my job and I loved it.  In fact it has to be my all time favourite job ever.  I was one of the first women to work on a Gas Pipeline construction. Man did it rock.
6. I have given Taj Burrows a jab in the bum so that he could travel to South Africa to compete in a surfing comp.  Best & whitest butt I have ever seen.
7. I have regularly had my nog in the paper since I was about 10 years old.  It's been a while now but always in the local paper, the West Australian, a couple of defunct social magazines and even a piece in the Australian Geographic (refer to point 5).  Mustn't forget the kids school annual. Yep even managed to make it into that!
8. I was a career orientated person until I had kids.  Now I consult & administrate Travel Health to a small consultant mining company.
9. I love my kids and although I'd like to say that this is given I am not sure that it is for some people.  They are unique individuals and they bring me great joy.  So does my hubby.  I am very lucky.
10. I travelled to Nepal and hiked to Mt Everest base camp.  I got altitude sickness at Lobuje (5000m) so never made it to the base camp with the rest of the trek group. I spent two days in Periche with the Nepalese family that ran the only hostel on a fur rug in their kitchen while I got better.  The time spent with the them was worth more than making it to base camp.  I burnt my socks on the pot belly. I also lost 10kgs in about 20 days from all the physical exercise (about 8 hours a day) - I had to pin my knickers to my pants so that they wouldn't fall down (no joke).
11. I have spent most of my career helping whoever I was working for improve their 'paperless' image.  Forms, forms and more forms.
12. I am a super organised person and one of my friends thinks that I should be Peter Walsh's (google him) apprentice.  Not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
13. I just swatted a fly with my non dominant hand.  It had been annoying me for most of this post.  There's not even a bzzzzz left in him.
14. I'm on the countdown to the big 4-0.  My sister still thinks that I am 26 & I love her for that. She lives in the UK.  I miss her terribly.  Our phone conversations are never under an hour.
15. I am a Gemini.  That should just about explain everything about me.