25 things about Elissa you probably wouldn't guess
1. I don’t have a favourite colour or a favourite song 2. I wear L’eau D’Issey perfume 3. I quit my job as a lawyer after a 13 year career and I count that decision amongst the best (and scariest) ones I have ever made 4. I am a middle child 5. I swore I would never marry, as part of my feminist stance, but I did and it’s great 6. I have a nasty scar on my left knee 7. I am an evening person 8. I do not judge other people (or myself) on the basis of the car I drive 9. I have always had red key rings 10. I write a budget and I stick to it 11. I love to knit with wooden knitting needles 12. I love the smell of oatmeal soap 13. Sometimes I feel like wine and sometimes I feel like beer but I rarely drink spirits 14.I feel like I am still 22 and think I am still 30. I am neither anymore 15. I love to sing, but I shouldn’t do it in public 16. I read a lot 17. I hate commercial radio 18. I am good at maths 19. I am not good at spelling 20. I learned French for many years but I can’t speak it 21. I cry in movies. When I was pregnant, I cried in television commercials 22. Throughout my childhood I had long hair. I cut it when I was 25 but continued to ‘feel’ like a long haired person for years afterwards. 23. I have never had a sun tan 24. I am short sighted but I have excellent night vision 25. I have an unerring ability to tell which lift is going to come first
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Biography
Elissa Baxter is a portrait photographer, freelance writer and editor living in Sydney's Inner West. She is also a mother, art history student, ex-lawyer, friend and compulsive talker. In the six years since she started blogging she has grown up, filled out, given birth, moved house, changed careers, started businesses, made friends, lost friends and typed and typed and typed. It's all in here, if you dig deep enough.
