January 30, 2009 at 1:50 pm (25 random things)
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I’m going to see if I can keep coming up with these in groups of 25:
- My armspan is 7″ longer than I am tall.
- I castrated piglets as part of a summer job in high school.
- I picked up a hitch hiker while on a date once to tick the girl off because we had gotten into an argument.
- When I was 4, I stood on a urinal to pee like a big boy, and it fell off the wall, pinning me to the ground.
- I can read backwards very quickly due to having to use a mirror to watch TV while sitting at my computer desk in my college dorm.
- I have sprained both of my ankles so severely in the past that my feet can now turn fully upside down with no pain. This is handy when hiking.
- I’ve never ridden a horse.
- I’ve never ridden a motorcycle.
- I’ve knocked myself out playing with electricity on more than one occasion.
- I’m not allergic to anything. (Except poison ivy, if that counts as an allergy)
- I’ve only fired a gun once, at Boy Scout camp.
- I got sucker-punched in the face by a drunk redneck outside a bar once, and I did nothing to retaliate. (And I’m proud of that)
- I’d like to expatriate someday.
- I’ve never had the flu or strep throat.
- I had a cyst the size of a softball (when abscessed) removed from the base of my spine in 2006.
- I’ve never read a book by Steven King, John Grisham, or Tom Clancy.
- I like to spit into famous bodies of water when I visit them.
- I’ve never ice skated.
- I stare at jets in the sky sometimes in case they are about to crash.
- I have made a lifetime profit from the lottery. ($1 spent, $7 won)
- Web sites I’ve created have been shown/referenced on/in CNN, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, ABC, NBC, CBS, and dozens of local TV and radio programs. (Jackass Driver Registry in 1998 and dontfirealgroh.com in 2006-2008.)
- No matter how many times I’ve been burned by those close to me in the past, I am still able to be extremely trusting of people once they become part of my inner circle.
- My signature almost never looks the same twice
- I have an issue with road rage, but it’s only because I’m a much better driver than everyone else!
- My legs are very twitchy when I’m sitting. Janice calls me Tigger. Tiggers bounce!
Tiggers bounce!
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January 29, 2009 at 9:51 am (25 random things, Anger, Bad Driving, Dog, Dreams, Laney, Pain, School, Stupidity, Virginia Tech)
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- I broke a bone in my hand punching one of my friends in the arse. (His name rhymes with Wreath Yelps)
- The volume of my car stereo has to be an even number. (Obligatory OCD admission)
- I used to shoplift baseball cards when I was a little kid, and I never got caught. I kind of wish I had been.
- When I see someone driving a Mustang, I assume that person is a douchebag, and I’ve only been proven wrong a couple of times.
- I have recurring dreams about having to go back and finish high school for some reason.
- When I was a teenager mowing the lawn, I would stop the mower to shoo a ladybug out of the way every time I saw one in the mower’s path.
- I know who is cheating at golf, even if I don’t say anything.
- I unintentionally take on the accent, colloquialisms and mannerisms of the people with whom I’m speaking.
- I tend to either have a really strong opinion or none whatsoever.
- Unapologetic tardiness is a cardinal sin in my book.
- I’ve never been sold on having kids because I just don’t feel like my genes are so special that they need to be propagated.
- As many times as I’ve tried to learn, I simply cannot read sheet music.
- I have extended conversations with pets even when I’m the only person in the room. I speak for them as well as for myself. Each animal gets its own voice.
- I get frustrated when someone is unable to tell me why they do something a certain way.
- I leave extra money when no one’s looking if I see someone left a crappy tip. (But I don’t look at people’s receipts; it’s only if I happen to see cash or the like)
- Sudden loud noises make me jump and feel a momentary surge of rage. (Like PTSD, but I have no idea what the trauma was)
- Animals absolutely love me as soon as they see me.
- If I could change careers without having to pay for retraining, I’d become a personal chef.
- I feel like I have a billion dollar idea in my head, but I have no idea when it will surface or what it will entail.
- When I see another driver about to do something illegal, I sometimes try to make it look like I’m going to hit them and then honk my horn in order to scare them.
- I think it’s pathetic how desperate people are to get themselves on TV, even if it’s just in the background of a news report or sporting event.
- I assume people are dumber than average when they have a southern accent, even though I grew up in the south and have seen countless examples to the contrary, and can even take on one myself when in a group of southerners.
- I feel like I learned almost nothing in any of my classes in college.
- It takes me a good 15 minutes of cycling to break a sweat, yet I’ll be dripping with perspiration less than 5 minutes into vacuuming a room.
- For 15 years or so, I’ve had a gigantic numb spot on one of my thighs. You could jam a fork in there and I’d never know. (But if you’re going to try, you’d better pick the correct one!)
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January 27, 2009 at 9:53 am (25 random things, Blacksburg, Charlotte, Death, Depression, Diet, Happiness, Life, Weather)
Tags: 25 random things, Blacksburg, Charlotte, coffee, crosswords, National Enquirer, root beer, SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, Sudoku, telephone
A bunch of people seem to be doing this ‘25 things about me’ stuff on Facebook, so I thought I would do it here as a post and then just import it. So here it is:
- I do 5 crossword puzzles each day: Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday, and Thinks.com. I generally finish most of them without cheating, at least until Thursday or Friday.
- In the past 6 months, I’ve gone from hating coffee to drinking 2 cups of black coffee each morning.
- Throughout life, almost all of my role models, favorite authors, athletes and entertainers have been non-caucasian, even though my skin is as white as the driven snow.
- I checked myself into a hospital for depression a year ago and it was the best move I ever made.
- I’ve broken every finger on both hands at some point, excluding both thumbs.
- I am enjoying the happiest period in my life (so far) right now.
- I’ve appeared in a full page spread in the National Enquirer.
- I hate talking on the telephone.
- In 33 years, I have lived in 3 places: Zuni, VA, Blacksburg, VA, and Charlotte, NC.
- In June, I will be without a car payment for the first time since I turned 16.
- The smell of root beer makes me physically sick.
- I have Seasonal Affective Disorder, which causes me to despise cloudy winter days.
- I’ve had one cold and two headaches in the last 3 years.
- I never drink soda unless it’s mixed with alcohol.
- I cut my own hair (with clippers) and have for almost a decade.
- I went over 8 years without being clean shaven until this past year.
- I shattered a bone in my foot two years ago trying to jump and click my heels like a leprechaun.
- For the first time since high school, there isn’t anyone in my day-to-day life that I absolutely loathe.
- I’ve seen hundreds of human corpses in my life (I used to deliver for a florist).
- Unlike most people, I prefer raw tomatoes to prepared versions, such as ketchup and red sauces.
- If eating fast food, I eat all my fries first, because they’re terrible when they get cold.
- I have weighed as little as 180 and as much as 265 lbs in adulthood (around 230 at the moment).
- Twice in my life, I have been chased full speed by a cow.
- The less important something is, the more likely I am to remember it.
- I don’t understand what the big deal is with Sudoku. Either I’m really good at it or I’m missing the point.
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