100 posts! Wow! Oh my gosh! or heck! or whatever! My sister was the one who inspired me to start this blog, I thought it only appropriate that for my one hundredth post to echo what she did. That is, list 100 things about me. Oh boy...
1. I'm named (middle name) after my dad's younger brother
2. I lived in the same house from the time I was born until I was 19 and left for my mission
3. That house is green
4. But it's not a green house that you grow plants in, it's just painted the color green
5. My dad called me "bug" and "the blond German"
6. Maybe he still does when he's talking about me with my mom
7. It was a half-mile bike ride to my elementary school
8. I know this, because we drove there one day and tested the distance on the trip odometer so I could tell how far I was riding my bike to kindergarten
9. I'm thinking "kindergarten" looks like a German word
10. Once when riding my bike to kindergarten I scraped my left hand under a mail box and had to get stitches; the crossing guard carried me to the school (so I'm told)
11. I knew a girl named Tenly in kindergarten
12. I joined the Green Day "idiot" club
13. I have two older sisters, one older brother, and one younger brother
14. For about two and a half years while in college breakfast consisted of 2 or 3 cheddar cheese bagels and a donut from Smiths
15. For about two and a half years while in college my blood pressure got too high
16. When I was 15 I really wanted a job
17. I got hired at McDonalds, but then they said I couldn't work there because of my age
18. A couple years later my friend Heath got a job at the same McDonalds
19. Heath didn't like his job, except that when we went there for lunch one day he was surprised that the fries were hot and fresh
20. Heath tried to teach me how to meditate once in his one-room apartment in Manteca, California while listening to Magadog, but I didn't get it
21. Instead of working at McDonalds I got a job at Teriyaki Bowl
22. Then eventually I got a job at Sears where I met a girl who wore a different color pair of Converse Allstars everyday
23. She introduced me, kind of, to Skippy Smurf
24. Skippy Smurf introduced me to Supah Geek
25. Supah Geek introduced me to J
26. J and I got married in December 2002
27. I'm really, really in love with J
28. Two other guys who worked at Teriyaki Bowl (Stix actually) and I made a pact that we would never see the movie Titanic; the penalty for breaking the pact was death
29. One of the other dudes watched Titanic in Idaho
30. We didn't kill him; we figured watching the movie was probably a fate worse than death
31. My older brother hit me in the head with a baseball bat
32. accidentally
33. I have a smile on my right knee
34. Donuts, especially Winchells donuts, are heavenly
35. Cat allergies are terrible
36. I'm not allergic to cats
37. I used to be allergic to cats
38. But then I got NAET from the doctor who assisted Marie Osmond with her depression, and now I'm not allergic to cats anymore
39. As a missionary I rode in the backseat of a sheriff's car
40. Last time I weighed myself I was almost 200 pounds
41. I was once thought to be a hologram
42. I have carried on an entire conversation in which both parties only used the word "dude"
43. And this was long before those beer commercials
44. I'm not very good at sports
45. That I can remember I had committed to name my oldest son Bradley James or Aaron
46. My oldest son is not named Bradley James or Aaron
47. Speaking of names, I named each of my drums and cymbals on my old drum kit after famous drummers
48. They had names like Gene, Chad, Tre, and ... I don't remember the others
49. We (my friends and I) called my first car Starbolt
50. That came from a NOFX song; I wouldn't suggest listening to it
51. J and I spent our first Christmas together in a cheap motel and ate at Denny's
52. I majored in elementary education
53. and English
54. and history
55. and history education
56. and Classics
57. I graduated in Ancient Near Eastern Studies
58. I sell cars for a living, and I love it
59. After years of aspiring I finally got called to teach Gospel Doctrine, and I love that too
60. J and I have had four pet birds: one sparrow named Rochester, and three parakeets: Aberdeen, Wingfold, and Gladwynn
61. J and I have had (and still do) two pet cats: Nibley and Peterson
62. J and I have had three stinky pet mice: Constantine, Benedict, and ... help me out here J (i love you!)
63. J and I have had (and still do) one pet dog: Annie
64. I do seem to remember trying to grow some plants in my house growing up, but it's still not that kind of green house
65. Because it's not humid and glass
66. My best friend in high school once went to class wrapped up in Christmas lights; he plugged them in and "blinked" all during class
67. I've been on Less Than Jake's tour bus; probably not the same tour bus that they have now
68. I taught at the MTC for two and a half years
69. I taught Seminary for a year and a half
70. About a year ago I stood next to Elder Holland for about five minutes, but didn't have the guts to say anything to him
71. We were listening the the Utah Valley Bell Choir at the time and Elder Holland seemed really engaged in his listening
72. Elder Holland is taller in person than he seems in photos with other general authorities
73. I guess I'm opinionated about some things
74. If I'm ever setting up security questions on a website I can never use any objective questions such as "what is your favorite food?" or "what is your favorite color?" because I may like something today but in a month or whatever I might like something else
75. The best questions for me are subjective like "what color was your first car?" or "in what city did you attend elementary school?" because those answers never change
76. It seems to me that not very many people blog on the weekend
77. Like me, maybe they do most of their blogging while at work
78. One of the things that I'd always kind of wanted to try was being a server at a restaurant; that was fulfilled in 2006 when I got hired at Carrabba's
79. I hadn't heard the "f-word" in years when on my first day at Carrabba's I heard it more than once
80. I was just told by some guests that bought a car from me that I was so friendly and patient that they would have felt guilty shopping anywhere else
81. Ethically, I'm not sure how to feel about that
82. I really like the cartoons Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet
83. I wish I could find the CD of Space Ghost's barbeque
84. When I was a paper boy I would listen to a walkman while delivering papers and imagine that I was in a music video
85. I still like to imagine that I'm in music videos when listening to my iPod
86. I have had two iPod Shuffles; I washed one in the laundry and spilled lemonade all over the other one
87. Do I have a favorite television show? Probably not, but I really like Scrubs and The Office
88. I used to have a bumper sticker on my car that said "Kill Your TV"
89. That was the first of a lot of bumper stickers that decorated the back end of Starbolt; according to this blog that makes me a white person
90. About the one iPod Shuffle, it was in my apron pocket at Carrabba's and somehow a glass full of lemonade spilled down the front of me into the pocket; it still plays music but iTunes doesn't recognize it when it's plugged into the computer
91. I was really excited when I got hired at Saturn and I discovered that there is a hot cocoa machine there
92. The first day that I met J she served me cookies and hot cocoa
93. One evening when I went to visit J before we were dating she asked if it was OK with me if we listened to a talk by Elder Holland called "Inconvenient Messiah;" I couldn't have been happier
94. I still haven't developed a phobia
95. When J and I were engaged, I would usually have lunch with J's best friend Nash; we'd split a sandwich and drink (again) hot cocoa next to the ballroom in the Wilkinson Center and commiserate with each other because we both missed J
96. J was in her first semester of nursing school when we were engaged
97. The semester we were engaged, I was still an English major and my GPA ended up being, um, not so great;
98. I have dyed my hair black, bleached, blue, and purple
99. I have really liked Converse Allstars for as long as I can remember (my earliest memory includes looking in my closet and imaging a pair of red Allstar high tops there)
100. I've seen Rubin and Ed
8 years ago
9 comments:
eusebius
That's right. Thanks J. The other stinky mouse was named Eusebius, and he was the most friendly
They weren't ONLY stinky!
I'll admit, they weren't only stinky. They were very cute too, especially when they'd pick up a little food morsel and work it around and around...
Wow, how long did it take you to think of 100 things?! I'm impressed! I have to say, I shared some of the memories...going to school with a girl named Tenly (we must have gone to the same school or something...), living in the same house (only mine was blue) until my mission, and I'm sure there were others...
Yes, you did it!
Some things I knew and some things I did not know (for example, ALL your pet's names.)
Great list. I'll be looking forward to your 200th post.
Number 101, you have a California clone by the name of Brian Holdaway. I also went to BYU. I actually did become a lawyer. Enjoying the blog. I am proud owner of brianholdaway@yahoo.com email address. Did you take the brianholdaway@google.com address, forcing me to use a less descriptive alternative?
Hey Brian. That's pretty cool. I did take the gmail address, sorry.
Out of curiosity, did you serve you mission in Tonga or Samoa? I once got an email from someone from one of those places talking about me as a missionary there, but I served in Michigan...
Angie- I worked on the list for two days during slow times at work. Some of the things are a stretch, I know, but like J told me, they are about me obliquely.
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