ferrousland.com - about me personally
all about how old i am, where i come from, where i currently live .. that sort of thing.
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on the 17th of january, 2003, my period was due, but it never arrived. i'd been off the pill for about six months because we wanted to have a baby & it seemed the day had finally arrived!
i took a home pregnancy test & it came out with two lines. i showed shroom & he knew what it meant straight away. he was very happy about it. i was happy, but nervous.
i'd been clucky for about five or six years already & was keen to be pregnant. i had the idea in my head that i would love being pregnant. the first stage of the pregnancy was much stranger than i thought it would be, but once the morning sickness was over i really did begin to enjoy it.
once i began to show i was very pleased to be able to prove to people that i was indeed pregnant. according to some, my belly was more obvious than most other women's bellies might have been at the same stage. i put it down to me being so short. with such a small amount of room between my ribs & my hips, there's really only one way for baby to go .. & that's outwards!
feeling the baby move inside me would have to be one of the most amazing & incredible things in the world.
i've been feeling really well through almost all of the pregnancy. there have been some things which i could do without, like morning sickness, carpal tunnel syndrome & fingers which look & feel like fat little pork sausages, but generally, i've enjoyed it as much as i anticipated i would. it's certainly one of the freakier things i've been through in life. 
after school i started working. i had no idea what i wanted to do when i finished school so i simply got a job. my first job was at a chicken place. i stayed there for about three months until i got a full time job at david jones in the city in the staff records department. since that time i've worked in various clerical, sales assistant or customer service jobs.
in early 1997 i got a job at a call centre, taking calls for people's pagers or mobile phone message banks. it's the worst job that i've ever had. the management sucked in the most huge way, the staff were so damn bitchy, the people you had to put up with on the phones were sometimes such dickheads. that job sucked the life out of people.
the clincher for me, when i decided that i couldn't possibly work there any longer, was when one of the close friends i had made there came back from holidays & actually looked different .. she had the light back in her eyes. by the end of her first day back though, she looked as dead & as pissed off as any of the other women there. i started my own house cleaning business to get out of there & lived on the poverty line while my business grew. in retrospect, i left the call centre too early, before i had enough cleaning jobs to keep me going, but i just couldn't stand to be there any longer.
we moved back to brisbane again when i was halfway through grade nine. i went to a state high school for the last half of that year. i was only there for six months but somehow it seemed a lot longer than that. i made some good friends there although i really only kept in touch with one of them. toward the end of the school year i sort of got caught in the middle of a 'friends war' .. there was a girl i hung out with whom some of my other friends didn't like. i refused to not be friends with her just because the others didn't like her for whatever reason & i copped a lot of flack for it. it stressed me out so much that at the beginning of the new school year, after only one week at school, i moved to another school.
i started at the school that my mum taught at for the beginning of grade ten. it was a pretty small school .. about six hundred students total, primary & high school. for once i wasn't the shortest one there .. at least until the girl who was shorter than me left at the end of grade twelve. she sold me her school blazer. my mum organised the school's first ski (snow skiing) trip. on that trip, when i was in grade eleven, i went out with my first ever boyfriend. he was really into trucks.
i was never very popular. i was kind of a 'nothing' kid. i'd always thought that i was the type of girl who would have to seek out others, rather than my friends seeking out me. i thought that i wasn't very popular, but when i was about thirteen sheryn organised a surprise party for me.
i seriously had no idea that she'd been planning it. she made up some completely dumb story to get me to come over at a certain time & to use the front door. now this was a strange thing because at sherry's house they hardly ever used the front door, they almost always used the side door which was next to the car port. i thought it was strange but didn't twig (sometimes i can be really dopey).
when i arrived she took me through the lounge room, opened the door to the main living area & all my friends were there shouting "surprise!" they'd made all my favourite junk food for me & had gone to so much trouble. even thinking about it now, over fifteen years later, it still gives me warm fuzzies & almost makes me cry. it was such a nice thing to do.
we moved again from brisbane to melbourne in victoria when i was in grade three, about seven years old. for a long time i considered melbourne to be 'home' even after we moved away from there. i guess it's because most of my 'growing up' years were spent there.
in grade six i made another best friend, sheryn. originally it wasn't like that. there were four of us: julie & i sat together, sheryn & sarah sat together & the four of us were friends. i can't recall the details of how it happened but eventually sheryn & i became best friends & julie & sarah became best friends. it made more sense that way anyway because julie & sarah lived in the same street & sheryn & i lived in the same street. also, the other two were kind of boy-crazy, but sherry & i couldn't really care less about boys. at that age anyway.
sherry & i used to walk to school together. i'd leave my house & get to her house in time for her to still be in the shower. if she had already finished showering & getting ready, then she'd still have to put her socks on, which, & i still don't know how she managed to do this, would take her about half an hour. seriously. we'd get to school late & miss the morning roll call every day (we never seemed to get in trouble for it, i guess they figured it was going to happen every day & gave up trying).
at lunchtime julie, sarah, sheryn & i would hang out & when i had money for the canteen, i'd buy a hot dog & a chocolate 'big m' (flavoured milk). i'd give each of the other girls a bite of my hot dog & while i ate the rest of it sarah would hold my 'big m' & shake it for me to make sure all the chocolate that had settled in the bottom had mixed through properly. i'm not sure how this ritual started, but i remember it being that way every time.
i've never been a 'girlie' girl. i used to help my dad do all sorts of fun handyman stuff like climbing around in the ceiling or on the roof. i've never liked wearing dresses unless the occasion calls for it. i own about three dresses which i hardly ever wear & practically live in jeans & boots, even in summer.
i burp all the time. in polite company i do it quietly so no one can hear but around my close friends & immediate family who love me for me, i allow myself to burp a little louder. i do always say "excuse me" so i'm not a complete pig! mind you, when i'm on my own i really let it rip! hee hee.
mum keeps hoping that one day i'll turn into a 'lady' but it's not going to happen. i'm just me.
we moved from perth to brisbane in queensland when i was about three or four. i remember going to a kindergarten where the whole front of the building was painted to represent a big, smiling face. i think that was the place where i had my nose bleed on the ugly dress. there was a lady there called mrs greenleaf, she was really nice.
in grade one i met my very first best friend, caroline setto. she was a really pretty girl, tall with dark hair. i used to go to her house & we'd play 'mousetrap' together (does anyone remember that game?) which i thought was the coolest game. after we moved away from brisbane we kept in contact for quite a while but somehow lost touch. if anyone knows her i'd love to find out what she's up to.
i've always been short, i also look very young. when i was one year old i still looked like a newborn. i never caught up with my height like some people seem to. mum took me to a paediatrician when i was about ten years old to see if i was going to stay really short. he put me on some growth hormones which didn't seem to do much but i finally did have some sort of pathetic growth-spurt that proved that i was growing at least a little bit.
my whole life so far, people have had trouble believing that i am the age i am. people would ask me how old i am & i would say, for instance, "thirteen." they'd say "really? reeeally? realllllly???" as though i was making it up & i'd think "for crying out loud .. get over it!" if i was going to lie about it i'd make up something a little more plausible & take five years off my real age.
i was named coralie. i thought for a long time that i was named after someone who helped look after mum when she was pregnant with me. turns out it was just the name of some pretty girl that my dad spied .. my sister was only two years old when i was born & couldn't say my full name so she called me corri (with no 'e' thank you) & it stuck.
it's a pretty bad name when it comes to giving it to people over the phone. when i give my full name they think i'm saying 'carolyn', 'carol', 'caroline', 'carlie', 'kylie', none of which (i think) sound anything like coralie. when i give my short name they think i'm saying 'lorrie', 'carrie', 'connie', 'kylie' (again), all sort of things but corri.
when it comes to spelling my name people rarely get that right the first five times either. aside from all that, i really like my name. it's different, unusual & pretty.
i was born on the 28th of april 1972 in perth, western australia four weeks premature via caesarian & i weighed four pounds, one ounce. four weeks uncooked was a big deal back then, not now though when they can look after babies that have hardly got past the pre-heating stage.
there's not many pictues of me as a newborn but i've been told that that i was a very ugly baby. maybe that's why there aren't many pictures of me .. my dad used to say to me "corri, for someone who started out life as a toad, you didn't turn out too badly." i take that as a compliment.
mum had problems when giving birth for both her pregnancies but the nature of the sickness meant that each successive pregnancy got worse so when it came time to bring me into the world she was pretty darn sick. the doctor actually asked dad who he would like him to try to save, me or mum. turns out i was as healthy as a horse (a very small horse) so they didn't have to worry about me anyway.
since she was so sick, mum was doped out for the week or two after i was born & i stayed in the nursery for most of the time. mum had somehow got it into her head that i was a boy so every time the nurses came into her room she'd ask "how is he?" they'd reply "she's fine, she's a girl" & mum would say "that's good, i'm so glad he's okay."
name
coralie.
nicknames
corri, cozza, ferrous angel, ferrous, ferralie.
location
south-east of brisbane, queensland, australia.
lives with
my son, smiley. a.k.a riley.
birthplace
perth, western australia.
birth date
28th of april 1972.
sign
taurus, if it really matters to you.
eye colour
hazel (or as my sister says "poo-brown").
height
short .. 153cm or 5 foot nothing.
piercings
tongue, belly button (not any more, it grew out .. r.i.p. belly piercing), scaffold (also gone, i gave it up for scuba diving .. the mask strap pushed on it), septum, daith, nostril, two stretched lobes (now shrunk back down), left nipple (gone since smiley was born & i started breastfeeding. there was just way too much nipple action going on to keep taking it out & putting it back in).
tattoos
none, but i've always thought a little one would be nice except for the fact that i sometimes lose interest in things & i might not like it after a while.
fetishes
not a fetish exactly, but i really like backs .. all that space to play in.
favourite colour
i don't really have one .. it depends on the day you catch me.
hobbies
(in no particular order) reading, spending time with my new man, playing with my web site, hanging out with my son.
favourite food
lasagne, left over spaghetti bolognaise on toast or in a jaffle, ice cream, avocado, mango, almost any style of chicken, almost any style of potatoes, curry as long as it's mild.
favourite movies
'the princess bride', 'when harry met sally', 'the shawshank redemption', 'fried green tomatoes', 'regarding henry', 'life is beautiful', 'the matrix', 'american beauty', 'the usual suspects'.
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