Blog challenge: 50 things I learned last year

Happy new year, everyone. Yes, I’m sorry it’s yet another list, but I’m just taking up another of Lorelle’s blog challenges. Also, I wrote a post that wasn’t a list, which wasn’t too bad, then wrote one that was a depressing rant about myself, thought I deleted the depressing rant, but actually deleted my post about what I learned in 2006! Not a good start to my blogging year!

Anyway, here are 50, yes 50, things I learned last year. Who would have thought it? In no particular order…

1. There are some wonderful people in the world
2. The thing you least expect can happen
3. Kurt Weill was Jewish
4. It may not be a great idea to write a musical about your colleagues
5. John Barrowman can sing!
6. Getting my hair cut was not as scary as I thought it would be
7. Cole Porter wrote many great songs that I didn’t know he wrote
8. My husband is very tolerant
9. I am crueller and more selfish than I thought I could be
10. Doctors are not always right
11. My dad has not changed very much 
12. I can be horribly jealous of people without even realising it
13. It is possible to love and hate someone at the same time
14. It doesn’t matter if you don’t send every single person you know a Christmas card
15. The worst sound in the world (that I have heard so far) is a mother crying for her dead son
16. Music is what makes me feel most alive
17. Taking the yellow migraine medicine first stops the pain developing. Don’t bother with the pink ones.
18. I have some very talented colleagues
19. Malaysia is a very green (as in lush) country
20. Mr C makes a fantastic curry
21. Some people are very good at hiding how they really feel
22. My weakness makes my job harder than it should be
23. My mum is shrinking (or I’m growing!)
24. Lots of things about my colleagues since we moved offices, which would be more than 50 items on their own!
25. Sometimes there really is nothing you can do to make it better
26. The fur of a Miniature Schnauzer is soft, not wiry
27. I’m never going to have children
28. I can hold an alto line on my own
29. It’s true when they say that you can never remember much about your own wedding
30. You can’t get a nice house in a nice place around here for £125,000 or less
31. WordPress is better than Blogger
32. Life is far too short to argue with people about their library fines. (However, it’s my job, so I will continue to do this)
33. Cognac tastes disgusting
34. You can’t dream about someone when you want to
35. Mr C has more of a social life than I do
36. I find it very difficult to think of things to blog about
37. Grief saps my motivation
38. Creamed coconut is better for curries than coconut milk
39. Gin and tonic is my favourite alcoholic drink
40. Drinking when you’re nervous is  not a good idea
41. I am still not cool
42. My line manager does not want to give me my appraisal
43. I don’t really want to do my chartership (but I’ll do it anyway, eventually)
44. You can learn more about a person by reading his or her blog than you can from seeing him or her at work every day (this could just mean I’m insensitive, unobservant and don’t listen in real life)
45. My dad’s ancestors came from Kent
46. I can change the style of my shoes and it’s not a disaster
47. I can no longer sing the descant to ‘Once in Royal David’s City’
48. My sister-in-law does not always look perfect
49. Driving tests are more nerve-wracking than I thought they would be
50. Ironically, Articulate! is my favourite board game