50 Things About Me

I have intended to do the “100 things about me” for some time. I started this morning but only got to 50. I might finish it later but more than likely I won’t. I suppose I may as well go ahead and post it.

1. I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
2. I am a morning person.
3. I like green.
4. Jennifer and I will have been married for 10 years this June 29.
5. I love dogs of all shapes and sizes but prefer those of the sporting variety.
6. I am a Christian but I don’t go to church. I would like to but I can’t find a congregation that doesn’t make my stomach churn. Maybe someday…
7. I am addicted to coffee.
8. We have 2 dogs (Zoie and Sadie), 2 cats (Sidney and Saylor), and a fish (Schroedinger).
9. People that only talk about sports are annoying. In spite of that, I am a lifelong St. Louis Cardinals and Arkansas Razorback fan.
10. I love to travel.
11. I prefer baths to showers but usually take a shower because it is more convenient.
12. I like beer. Just about any brand except Heineken.
13. Some of my favorite authors are Kerouac, C.S. Lewis, Hemingway, Annie Dillard, Plath, and Bukowski.
14. I don’t generally like to cook but I don’t mind to grill.
15. I grew up on a cattle farm. I did all sorts of things around the farm, like hauling hay, starting from about age 10 until I finished college. I hated it but, even though it sounds cliché, it taught me the value of working hard.
16. I have often said that there is no form of physical labor that I enjoy. In the past few years, though, I have found that I enjoy cleaning the house.
17. I hate mowing the lawn.
18. Going to the theater to see a movie is one of my favorite things to do.
19. I like serious films, especially dramas, but I also enjoy a good shoot ‘em up action or sci fi.
20. I love to eat but especially like ethnic foods.
21. I currently subscribe to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and The Smithsonian.
22. Scrubs is currently my favorite television show, although I really like Lost and Dr. Who. Historically, my favorite show of all time is Northern Exposure.
23. I prefer hard wood floors to carpet.
24. I have seasonal allergies.
25. I was once so scared while reading a Stephen King book that I had to quit and have never finished it (Pet Semetary).
26. I like politics. Although I have very strong views on most political issues, I like politics more for the strategy involved. As a result, I majored in political science in college. If I had it to do over again, I think I would major in English.
27. I went to law school because a B.A. in political science is virtually useless.
28. My favorite season is Autumn.
29. My favorite holiday is Thanksgiving.
30. My favorite city is Paris.
31. I have been hospitalized once. It was for surgery to repair my rotator cuff that I tore during high school. The doctors were not sure if I did it playing baseball or water skiing. Before I got it repaired, my shoulder would slip out of socket from time to time. It wasn’t particularly painful but it was very unnerving and disturbing.
32. I once hit pedestrian while driving. It broke her arm and her leg. I felt badly for her but the police officer who came to the scene said it wasn’t my fault (she was dressed completely in black and was jaywalking through an alley at night).
33. Including hitting the pedestrian, I have been behind the driver’s wheel during 5 traffic accidents. Except for one, they were all fender benders and not serious. The one that was serious happened during high school. I was driving way too fast on a dirt road trying to get my friend and me to the county fair. I flipped the Ford F-150 I was driving end over end. It landed upside down. When the dust settled, the engine shut off but the tape deck was still blaring Motley Crue’s Smoking in the Boy’s Room. Thinking back about it makes me laugh but we were seriously blessed not to be seriously injured. I had to have 10 stitches to sew up a gash in my chin. Otherwise, we weren’t hurt.
34. Boxers not briefs.
35. Shaving is the bane of my existence but I don’t like to have facial hair. Maybe I’ll get facial electrolysis.
36. I prefer diet Coke to the real thing.
37. I enjoy a good cup of tea.
38. In high school, I played basketball and baseball, and ran track.
39. I don’t currently play any musical instruments but, in the past, I have played piano and guitar. A virtuoso I am not.
40. I like almost all kinds of music.
41. I don’t really have a favorite color.
42. From the time I was born until I went to college, I lived in the same house. My parents still live there. Since then, I have lived in 3 different dorm rooms, one apartment, a duplex, and three houses. All in Arkansas.
43. I did not attend my 10 year high school reunion.
44. I was born in Harrison, Arkansas.
45. I have two siblings. They are both older – one is 11 years older and the other is 13. I definitely was not planned.
46. I have six nieces and nephews. The oldest is a junior in college, the youngest is in third grade.
47. My first memory is of talking to my father on walkie talkie that I got for Christmas one year. I don’t know how old I was.
48. My current car is the only new car I have ever owned.
49. I have found that friends often commiserate better than family.
50. I am irrationally scared of wolves.