While blog surfing recently I’ve come across quite a few “A Hundred Things” list so thought I would do one of my own. It's a hundred things about myself without a questionaire.
1. I was born in November of 1967 in San Francisco. I’m very proud of that.
2. From what I’ve read I seem to be a typical Scorpio.
3. From what I know about myself I’m not very typical.
4. As of next year I will have been with my wife for ½ of my life.
5. I have 5 friends who I have known for over 13 years, one of them goes back nearly 23 years.
6. I am very proud of my friendships.
7. I don’t believe in Religion, I believe in Faith.
8. I feel like I have led past lives.
9. I believe in those lives I have been with my wife.
10. I believe my wife and I will find each other again.
11. I have three kids. Each one seems to reflect 1/3 of who I am.
12. I use to think I was the center of my group of friends trying to hold
us all together.
13. I have a way with dogs and cats, but I don’t like reptiles and I don’t
trust gerbils and rodents.
14. I love being in water. I dream of owning a pool.
15. When it rains I like to open the windows so I can hear and smell it.
16. Every friend I had when I got married has been married and divorced since then.
17. There are only two people I trust 100%, my wife and my mom.
18. I have a very non-addictive personality. I have never been addicted
to anything. I have a hard enough time just being consistent.
19. I am a great procrastinator. I lack self-motivation.
20. I believe I can learn anything and do anything. I just can’t decide what to do or learn.
21. I’ve learned mainly through osmosis, not from teaching.
22. I learn things either verbally or physically. I don’t remember what I’ve read unless I say it out loud or do it with my hands.
23. If I’m not focused I cannot hear someone talking right at me.
24. I have a quick mind that moves in random tangents. Because of that I am plagued with seeing worse case scenarios and fear of harm coming to family, friends, and myself.
25. It also causes me to get lost in thought a lot. It’s not unusual for me to go through years of possible outcomes in my head in a given moment.
26. I have a very hard time reading other people's emotions.
27. My emotional well-being use to be so tied to my friends that I had to seek counseling for depression when 2 of my friends had major relationship issues at the same time.
28. I have had to learn to let my friends fail and to not try to always help.
29. I honestly feel I have the best marriage ever.
30. I am not very good at being supportive. I tend to always want to help.
31. I am a jealous person by nature, but because I know it I am much better at controlling it now.
32. I have never broken a bone in my body.
33. I have perfect eyesight.
34. I once thought I needed reading glasses, but it turned out I didn’t have the attention span to read.
35. I have read more books in the last 2 years then I did in my first 34.
36. I am a very good cook. I am also very skilled at multi-tasking in the kitchen so that a whole meal is ready to be served at the same time.
37. I am very adventurous in what I eat.
38. I have severe reactions to marijuana so I have only tried it a handful of times in my life. Every time I do I swear it’s my last.
39. I only recently began drinking anything alcoholic other than beer. I can now enjoy Merlot, but mainly drink vodka based drinks.
40. I am very good at dancing, I have rhythm and I have soul.
41. One of the best compliments ever given to me was that I am not a “white” person.
42. I have a very positive self-image. To the point where I think I look better than I actually do.
43. I have been in theater and performed music live a lot, yet I have pretty intense stage fright.
44. My first two career goals were; to go to UCLA and be a computer programmer (pre-puberty) and then it was to be a gigolo in high school. I combined the two and came up with electronic musician/”rock star”.
45. I can remember the exact moment when I realized I’d rather be a father and husband than a “rock star” and I’ve never regretted it.
46. I believe in love-at-first-site. I’m living proof it exists.
47. I am obsessed with sex, but not addicted. I can go for months without sex, but I think about it constantly.
48. I believe pornography is healthy.
49. I don’t like visible body hair on women.
50. At one point in time I was 6’3” and weighed only 145 pounds and had a 28” waist.
51. I believe women are most attractive when they are size 10 or bigger.
52. I get bored with my appearance a lot. When I do I dye my hair or change my facial hair.
53. I think I have the best kids in the world.
54. My style as a Dad is based mostly on trying to not be like mine was.
55. My father once made me try to kill a chicken with a stick for dinner.
56. My father killed my pet goat and served it to me for dinner.
57. Growing up we had about 20 rabbits, which my dad would kill with his bare hands and serve it to us for dinner.
58. My father never swore and never hit me; he also only complimented me once.
59. My father does not understand why we have issues.
60. When my parents divorced I was 13 and had no idea it was coming.
61. Listening to and making music brings true joy into my life.
62. I didn’t understand the music of “The Beatles” until I was in my 30s.
63. I wish I hadn’t bought so many cassettes growing up. I should have stuck with vinyl.
64. I have seen Grease more than any other movie, except the Star
Wars trilogy.
65. I always wanted to have blue eyes.
66. I grew up a blonde, but at puberty my hair turned dark brown.
67. I have been looking forward to growing gray since I was a child.
68. I am a Momma’s boy.
69. I don’t like men in general.
70. Most of my friends have always been women.
71. When I feel jealous I tend to get judgmental and negative.
72. I enjoy traveling.
73. I know things I don’t share.
74. There are parts of my mind that I have to suppress.
75. I have two very distinct sides to my personality. One is outgoing, adventuresome, and can talk to people and go places. The other doesn’t even like to answer the phone unless it’s a familiar person. Over the years I’m getting better and blending them.
76. When I’m nervous I talk too much. Because of this when I meet new people I often walk away feeling they must hate me because I didn’t shut-up.
77. I can only be monogamous. The way my mind works I equate infidelity with death. Before I knew about STDs and HIV I wasn’t this way.
78. I believe all men should feel comfortable hugging and kissing each other. It would make the world a better place.
79. My natural clock is to sleep from 2 am to 10:30 am. This is not conducive with being a parent.
80. I have a pretty good eye for photography and graphic design.
81. I like to write, but I know I’m not very good at it. Written language
doesn’t come easy to me.
82. I believe a successful relationship boils down to three things. Trust, Faith, and Communication.
83. When I make my wife laugh it brings me more happiness than anything else but my kids can.
84. As I get older I am remembering more about my childhood.
85. I still feel loss when I think about friends who are no longer a part of my life.
86. If I don’t keep my mind busy I can think myself into a complete mental breakdown over things that will most likely never happen.
87. I can’t wait to be a grandparent.
88. My grandmother dieing on my birthday when I was very young has had a huge effect on me.
89. I have always felt like my life was watched over by all of my deceased family members.
90. My innate sense of direction has become useless now that I live on the East Coast.
91. At this moment I don’t think I will ever want to live in California again.
92. I have grown more skeptical with age.
93. I do not watch horror movies and violence makes me uneasy.
94. Every time I hear about harm coming to a child I get nauseous.
95. I am too materialistic.
96. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up yet.
97. I love watches.
98. Computers make sense to me, but I get overly stressed when something goes wrong.
99. I do my best to lead a good life and make the right decisions.
100. I believe people can change.