A new friend of mine asked me if I had ever done a ‘100 things about myself’ blog post. Not having done so but seeing theirs, I set about to write one up. So here you go… 100 Things About ME!

100 Things About Me 2008

1. I’m a Capricorn
2. I could care less about astrology
3. I was in speech competition in high school
4. I was also in drama in high school and community theater
5. I once helped write a play
6. I once wrote a paper on theoretical time travel using increasing mass as a fuel source
7. I am a fabric whore and would sell my soul for a good silk
8. I wear a kimono when I am alone and want to relax
9. I taught myself how to program a computer at 10 years of age
10. I used to be a waiter at Pizza Hut
11. I got fired when I refused to work on my birthday
12. I don’t work on my birthday…ever….
13. I only have 8 inches left of my large intestine
14. I once got suspended from high school for a week for protesting the US being in Beirut
15. I’m somewhat needle-phobic
16. I’m almost entirely arachnophobic
17. I used to run cross country and marathons
18. My nickname in high school was ‘The Doctor’ because I had the long scarf, coat and hat!
19. I passed the coat and hat off to a successor when I graduated
20. Which is partially a lie because I never graduated and got my GED instead
21. I have a weakness beyond compare for accents
22. I have never dated a younger woman
23. My favorite movie is a tie between ‘Fletch’ and ‘Gross Pointe Blank’
24. I have no tattoos though the idea of a particular one is growing on me
25. The most passionate kiss of my life to date occurred less than ten minutes after meeting the woman I kissed
26. I lost my virginity that same night
27. I am a Nippon-o-phile but I have not yet been to Japan
28. I haven’t listened to the radio since I was in high school
29. I have worn a Barry Manilow concert tee while having him autograph a book for me
30. I sew, scrap, woodburn, paint, knit, etch glass, make pottery and decorate cakes
31. Yes, I’m heterosexual
32. I’d still be perfectly happy to fall in love with a man and have a nice kissing relationship as long as he understood there’d never be sex
33. I want to bear John Barrowman or David Tennant’s children
34. I write erotica and I’m not ashamed of it
35. I can’t draw
36. I can’t dance
37. While I vacuum-seal leftovers for freshness, I then never actually get around to eating them so macrobiotic experiments are populating my refrigerator
38. I was in a program for ‘gifted’ youngsters in 6^th grade but they took us camping and canoeing, which was worthless to what I really wanted
39. I can’t help myself from doing anything possible to make people I like (friends or other) happy
40. I’m addicted to ellipses….
41. I hate ironing and often don’t bother with it so just wear a suitcoat over my wrinkled shirts all the time
42. I have won awards for my crème brulee and 5-chocolate layered ganache cake
43. I will not ascribed to any organized religion
44. I am a one-partner man
45. I wear a size 13 ½ shoe
46. I have lost 50 pounds in the last 8 months
47. I quote movies for fun and relaxation
48. In the mornings before work that I do not have my girls, I like to sit out on the deck and have my coffee wearing my kimono
49. I have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses twice in my life and am still here
50. Mudslides are my favorite drinks
51. I only have a drink about every two months on average
52. I still have poetry I wrote in 6^th grade
53. I can’t be in the car without singing to whatever my current CD is
54. I have a 16-inch scar running vertically down my abdomen
55. I have had sex in a department store changing room
56. I call all grey squirrels ‘Bruce’ and all red squirrels ‘Bob’
57. I’m a cherry blossom fanatic
58. I hate the incomplete use of ‘I’ve never been…’ – never been what?!?
59. I was Chief Technology Officer for a Fortune 50 company
60. I used to do a mean ‘Geddy Lee’ impression, according to biased sources
61. My favorite city is Boston, but I won’t drive there
62. I don’t have TV channels… my TV exists for DVD watching and video games
63. I like cuddling
64. I love curry and sushi, though not together
65. 99% of my dreams are nightmares about spiders or people trying to kill me
66. I own exactly two pairs of shoes and I only wear one
67. Banana is my favorite scent and flavor
68. I used to tear up parking tickets on other peoples cars
69. I never learned to type
70. Sports bore me and I think athletes are horrendously overpaid
71. I believe the quality of education in the US continues to decline as we undervalue the true importance of teachers and inflict standardized testing, ensuring everyone focuses on the least effort instead of teaching kids to excel
72. I eat a lot of PB&J sandwiches
73. I played Alto Sax in high school
74. My favorite color is red
75. The longest I’ve ever stayed awake is 77 hours
76. The average amount of sleep I get a night is 5 ½ hours
77. I’m a shameless flirt
78. I believe the right woman will arrive in my life completely by accident
79. I have no idea what ‘the right woman’ is
80. I use the word ‘awesome’ too much
81. I am deathly afraid of heights only because I fear the impact when I fall
82. I believe that language is arbitrary
83. I have an overwhelming sense memory for touch and can still remember vividly almost every good and bad tactile experience I’ve ever had
84. I’m an excellent coder and should never have given it up
85. I’m an excellent father raising two wonderful little girls
86. I believe jealousy to be the ruiner of relationships and yet get jealous myself
87. I don’t often express my jealousy though, and am working on reducing it altogether
88. I am eclectic in almost every artistic way
89. I am not very competitive
90. I usually win entertainment trivia games
91. I cry at movies, including ‘The Jerk’ for inexplicable reasons
92. I have eaten oatmeal for lunch 7 of the last 8 working days
93. I think the world is a sadder place without Don Ho
94. I plan to take at least one sub-orbital flight before I die
95. I am finally learning to love myself after a very rough life
96. If I could have any super-power, it would be teleportation
97. I am not a pack rat and have no problems throwing away things that I’m not actively using and are more than a year old
98. I find it nearly impossible to truly dislike anyone
99. However, I hate and despise those who take advantage of others
100. I’m too modest for lists like this
101. I’m a rebel and don’t always follow the rules.