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okay so im blog lifting this form my aunty's blog but i cant help myself i love answering questions :P



General Information:

Name: Lisa Maree Dowdell (nee McInnes)

Gender: Female

Height: 172cm

Weight/Build: Medium

Hair color and style: short dark brown. i normally wear it shoulder/chin length though

Eye color: Hazel

Distinguishing physical characteristics: mmmm?

Distinguishing mannerisms: i talk with my hands, and run my hands through my hair a lot.

Date of Birth: 2nd july 1981

Place of Birth: Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia.

Where I grew up: Liverpool and Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia

Mother’s name: Kym Maree Andrew (nee Bennett)

Father’s name: Gary Paul McInnes (but known as Quince)

Step Father's Name: Craig Phillip Andrew

Name(s) of siblings: Paul (22) Beth (17) John (step, 15), George (step, 13) Connie (step, 12) Jack (5)

Name of spouse/love interest: Adrian Dowdell

Name(s) children: none yet

Favorites:

Favorite color: PINK.

Favorite kind of music: Rock from the 60-80s i like pop/retro too

Favorite songs: i have way to many favorites to pick just one or even 10

Favorite poems: i dont think i have one,

Favorite season: Summer

Favorite holiday (and why): Honeymoon to Surfers Paradise 2002, um becuase it was my honeymoon, and my first official holiday.

Least favorite holiday (and why): i dont think i have one

Feelings about holidays in general: i like holidays :) i enjoy them more now cos im working,

Feelings about New Year’s: great time to party and get drunk with my friends, which generally ends up with me doing something stupid, liek last year i tried to drink frozen vodka slushis straight from the machine and i also thought i could sing Khe Sahn.

Feelings about Valentine’s Day: pointless holiday i dont feel the need to celebarte or even acknowledge

Feelings about St. Patrick’s Day: i like st pats day cos its the day after my anniversary and i have irish friends and my name is now irish

Feelings about Easter: i enjoy easter, i enjoy the religious significance and probably observe easter more reliogious then Christmas, i do ash Wednesday, shrove Tuesday, good Friday and participate in lent.

Feelings about Halloween: i didnt grow up with holloween so i dont care about it, its my aunty's bday and also my brother georges bday

Feelings about Thanksgiving: we dont celebrate thanksgiving in aus

Feelings about Christmas: i love everything about christmas aswell, and its the only time i go to mass (it should be much more!)

Favorite movies: Grease, Sound of Music, Dirty Dancing, Notebook, Chicago (noticing the theme there?) Pulp Fiction, Godfather, Resviour Dogs, Harry met Sally,

Favorite T.V. shows: So you think you can dance, amazing Race, next top model, biggest losser
CSI, CSI NY, Law and order, SVU, Cold Case
Desperate housewives, Lost, Brother and Sisters, Greys Anotonmy, House, Big Love, Weeds, Nip/Tuck, ER
Jepordy
Friends, Will and Grace
Jon and kate plus 8
(god watch tv much?)

Favorite wild animal: i love lions and tigers cant wait to go to tiger island in a weeks time they just had cubs!!

Favorite domestic animal: Dogs

If I had a pet, it would be: i have a dog and a blue tongue lizard

My favorite alcoholic beverage is: Midori (with lemonade, illusion shots or splice) appletinies, melon champagne, Rum (bundy and coke, bundy and bundy ginger beer otherwise known as a dark and stormy). Desert white wines or a Rose. (favs are from Lucy's run, Brown brothers, Ernest Hill)

My favorite non-alcoholic beverage is: Water, Diet Coke

My favorite meal is: Pasta or Roasts

My favorite snack is: Pies(apple), Chocolate, Chips and popcorn, i love fruit too :) .

My favorite dessert is: Apple pie, Mud cake

My favorite fruit is: Passion fruit, cherrys, pinapples, kewii fruit, bananas, melons

My favorite vegetable is: Brocoli, cabbage, sweet potato

My favorite people are: Adrian, Mum, Jen, actually all my immediate family

My least favorite people are: annoying ppl, ( ill say in general ;) )

I like to watch these sports: CRICKET, AFL, NRL, RU

I like to participate in these sports or exercises: ummm

My favorite teams are: SWANS, KNIGHTS, WARATAHS

My favorite newspaper cartoon is: i loved fred basset when i was younger and used to collect his cartoons they rnt in the paper anymore though :(

My favorite T.V. cartoon is: Simpsons, Rugrats

My favorite manner of dress is: Casual, jeans and t shirt, hoodies

Clothes are: great i wish i had more style and money for them

My signature scent: i wish i had one, i love romance by ralph lauren

My hobbies are: Reading, scrap booking, adrain's cricket team, facebokking, blogging

I collect: salt and pepper shakers, Matryoshka dolls, and worry dolls, teddy bears

My occupation is: Preschool Teacher

My politics are: liberal (meaning im up for rights of everyone, stem cell research, gay marriages, ect)

My religion is: Catholic

I feel this about religion: I love religion, i actaully love studying it, and i wish i had more faith, power of faith and pray is invaluable to a person

My social life: Is not as exciting as i would like

My ideal mate: A person who gets me and i can be totally honest with

An ideal date: a nice meal

This is how I feel about sex: It's great, who dosnt want more of it ;)

Marriage: is great i love being married, but dont think everyone should or have to be married. sometimes a commitment is just as important as the paper. but i think everyone should really look into the reasons why they are marring before they do get married

Divorce: is not for me i married for life. but i also understand that if things were bad ( i mean really bad) between adrian and myself i would go. i believe that if it is bad between a couple they should divorce rather then stay "just for the kids" its just harder on the children when they are fighting. but i think you both need to earn you way out of the marriage, try everything before accepting its over

A friend is: One of the most valuable things you'll ever have.

Crowds: ?? very important at sports games, but i would rather go shopping without them

Racism: Not to be tolerated at any time.

If money were no object: i build my dream house and preschool, give to charities and have an extra large family (probably adopt too)

If I had three wishes: Fall pregnant, win the lottery ( to do the above), cure for aids and cancer, environmental fixes,

My country: australia

My greatest strengths are: my optimism

My greatest weaknesses are: procrastinating and useless worrying, and obsessivenesses

My greatest fears are: drowning, chocking, germs

I am also afraid of: mirrors, spiders, & clowns

It’s hard for me to: not to obsess over things

These things make me angry: ignorance, intolerance

These things make me sad: inability to fall pregnant, injustice, cruelty

These things make me happy: family and friends, good food, great movies/tv, and great crciekt and footy, baths, massages, haircuts, manis and pedis

The most dangerous thing I ever did: have chemo (it scares me that one of the side effects was an increase risk of cancer)

I felt heroic when: I handled being diagnosed with cancer and was strong for my family

I felt like a coward when: avoid things

My favorite possessions: photos, scrapbooks, my dolls and teddies (yes this include muffy)

I trust these people: adrian, mum and jen

My relationship with my mother is: great its a total open relationship i can tel her anything even our sex lives

My relationship with my father is: also good, its not as strong as when i was little but its not dysfunctional either and id be lost without him. i probably take him for granted

My relationship with my sibling(s) is: im close with all of them and would hate to lose any of them, each one is a unique relationship to itself

Some scents that evoke positive emotions: cooking, vanilla, beach

Some scents that evoke negative emotions: lavender i hate lavender and everyone things is fucking awesome i dont get it.

These things are in my pockets / purse: tissues, cards(lots of them) phone, ipod, camera, photos (thats my handbag) (wallet- cards, money, photos)

These are my favorite quotes: "once i frew like raphel, but it has taken a lifetime to draw like a child"-picaso and "if the grass is greener on the otherside, water your lawn"

Childhood:

My earliest memory: hiding under my gandmothers bed with my aunty when i was 6 months old

My favorite toy as a child: muffy a stuff dog that mum brought for 50 cent to stop me rolling on my stomach or back when i was a baby, he went everywhere with me for my first 10 years, and came to my wedding, adrian even brought him to the hospital for me when i was admitted

When I was a child, my mother: bake apple pies, teach me games,

When I was a child, my father: take me to the footy, read to me

When I was a child, my sibling(s): younger then me so some wernt born yet

My mother’s cooking: Was excellent.

My father’s cooking: also excellent

My mother always said: "you half job everything"

My father always said: "clamper"

My grandparents: look after me when mum went backto work and during school holidays, and i was very close to them

My extended family: would come over frequently or we went there mostly, had periods of time though we didnt see some for months at a time.

Pets I remember: i had heaps of dogs, birds, fish, lizards, cats, frogs, turtles, hermit crabs, guinea pigs and a rabbit, and a sheep at one time (sounds like we lived on a farm but we lived in normal suburbia, we just were aloud to have many pets

The house where I lived as a child: i moved 9 times before i was 9. the house we eventually settle into was a 3 bedroom house in watt street, leumeah (suburb of campbelltown) nsw

My best friend when I was a child: i didnt have a best friend really until highschool, and jen became my bestie when i was in yr 8

My first day of school: confusing and exciting. i was a "M" meaning i started on day 2 and for a long time i thought i started half way though the year because other kids showed me around who had started on day 1 (the first half of the alphabet) i was excited to go and thought kids who cried were babies

My favorite elementary school teacher: mr Natress, my yr 5 teacher, he was the best teacher great at capturing the class and i had huge respect for him, and when i failed to do my home work once i felt ashamed i let him down, he also started my love of maths.

My least favorite elementary school teacher: have to be mr harrison my yr 3 teacher at the time i had a ball in his class but he was hopeless and let me get away with everything

As a child, I liked to play: Hand ball, ride my bike, bush walk, play back yard cricket, build cubbies, play video games.

As a child, I didn’t get along with: a lot of kids sometimes i kinda bounced around groups for a while

My best Halloween costume: i did halloween once when i was 10 i dressed up as a witch

The best Christmas: they were all pretty good.

The worst Christmas: the year my grandfather died.

My favorite T.V. shows: As a kid? - batman and robin, bewitched, brady bunch, i dream of jeanie, (yes lots of re runs )

My favorite movies: wizard of oz, sound of music, sleeping beauty

My favorite books: beatrix potter books, magic porridge, suggle pot and cuddle pie, 3 billy goats gruff, rupunzle.

My favorite foods: baked dinners and apple pies

The best party I attended as a child: my 8th birthday and my cousins bday at maccas oh and new years eve parties particularly 1989 in was the day b4 my cousin was born and remember my aunty being scared that she was going to go into labour that night

The worst party I attended as a child: ?

When I was a child, religion: wasnt important or influence by my parents but i went to scripture lessons and enjoyed them and had a sense of faith my self, i enjoyed my holy communion and going to bible studies as well

In elementary school, I was this kind of student: that plotted along i only become a good student when i made the effort my early teachers certinatly didnt

Junior High and High School Years:

Junior high school was: enjoyable

My favorite junior high teacher was: mr edwards my English teacher

My least favorite junior high teacher was: mr hamer my japanese teacher

My first day of high school was: exciting and nerve racking i just wanted to be put into classes with my friends

My favorite subject in high school was: math, english, geography and science (okay nerd much?)

My least favorite subject in high school was: PE/Sport

My favorite high school teacher was: im taking this as yr 11 and 12, Mr Keogh my math teacher

My least favorite high school teacher was: again mr hamer my jap teacher

In high school, I was involved in: just class work no extra curricula stuff for me

Sports: no sports but the ones i had to do

Music same music as i like today basically, INXS, stones, beatles, u2, talking heads, silverchiar. i also like backstreet boys

My extracurricular activities meant this to me: umm

The person who influenced me most in high school was: mr edwards i suppose

My friends were: jen, casey, kim, andrea, melissa

My best friend was: jen

I didn’t get along with: i didnt not get along with anyone really just some kids you dont click with

My first date: was with Adrian to a chinnese restaurant in bowral

My girlfriends / boyfriends were: no bf in high school

I had an unrequited crush on: man who didnt i have a crush on lol, David and Ethan were the big ones though

My favorite books: VC andrews books

My favorite movies: romeo and juliet, resvior dogs

My favorite T.V. shows: friends, dawsons creek

Religion: catholic?

A party I enjoyed: after the yr 12 formal

A party I didn’t enjoy:

I thought drugs were: not to be messed with

My most embarrassing moment was: reading in front of the class and crying during a speach

My best memories of high school are: lunch time with friends

My worst memories of high school are: fighting with my japanese teacher

When I was a teenager, my sibling(s): anoying little pest

I learned to drive when: i was 24

My first car: daewoo lanos was the car i learnt to drive in

Best and Worst:

The best thing I ever did for my mother: love her?.....support her when she needed it the most

The worst thing I ever did to my mother: fight with her

The best thing I ever did for my father: ? shares his interest i suppose

The worst thing I ever did to my father: encouraged mum to leave him

The best thing I ever did for my sibling(s): be there for them and support them when they needed me

The worst thing I ever did to my sibling(s): probably tell them off, they hate me bossing them around

The best thing my mother ever did for me: give birth to me

The worst thing my mother ever did to me: ?

The best thing my father ever did for me: parent me

The worst thing my father ever did for me: blame me for his and mums separation

The best thing my sibling(s) ever did for me: be my siblings, be there when i needed them

The worst thing my sibling(s) ever did for me: tell me they hated me

The best thing anyone ever did for me: marry me

The worst thing anyone ever did to me:betray my trust

The best thing that ever happened to me: getting married

The worst thing that ever happened to me: infertility

The best day of my life: My wedding day.

The worst day of my life: when my grandfather died, being diagnosed with PCOS

The worst decision I ever made: i dont know i dont regret my decisions by i regret how i went about them

The best decision I ever made: getting married

College / University:

College was: enjoyable and inspiring

My friends in college were: tristian and melissa

In college, I liked: child dev and play sessions

I hated: boring subjects like hygiene and menu planing, and goals

I dated: i was married to adrian

Parties: no parties

Studying: children servives

Sports: Our TAFE's (college equivalents) don't do sports.

In college, I was involved in: n/a

I majored in: chn services

I earned this degree: diploma in children services

My favorite college professor was: sue cant, jo radsovic and anne roydes

My least favorite college professor was: jan white, alex mayers

The best thing that happened in college was: Meeting Roger and Steven

The worst thing that happened in college was: Getting distracted and leaving before finishing so i had to start again

Love and Marriage:

I had the following serious romantic relationships as an adult: adrian

I met my spouse / fiance / current love interest: 26th june 1999

I knew I would marry my spouse / fiance when: the day i started dating him.

I knew I was in love with my spouse / fiance / current love interest when: i wouldnt of risked what i did if i wasnt

My friends thought / think my spouse / fiance / current love interest is/ was: i dont know the same as i do cute at times other times annoying

I proposed / was proposed to in this way: over the phone april 11th 2000 and officially march 3rd 2001

My bachelor / bachelorette party was: sydney habour on wild boys afloat

My wedding was: march 16th 2002 , st pauls catholic church and camden valley inn

The best wedding gift: food proceesor i really wanted one , oh and pasta maker and stock pot

The best thing about my spouse / fiance / current love interest: playfulness

The worst thing about my spouse / fiance / current love interest: indecisiveness

Career:

My first job: preschool teacher.

I had these jobs before my current position: preschool teacher

My work record: i have been working for 4 yrs now

My current job:preschool teacher

I chose my profession because i love teaching

If I lost my job: i would get another teaching one ( which i did )

The best thing about my job: the kids

The worst thing about my job: parents who dont understand

omg that took FOREVER!!