Last week, I posted 25 random things about Janelle.......now it's my turn.
1) I broke my big toe with an axe…..with the sharp end2) I was once a member of a rap group
3) I’ve cried through a wedding before……my own.
4) People that are too tan in the winter give me the heebie-jeebies. It’s just unnatural.
5) I regret that I didn’t try harder to adopt a kid I met at an orphanage in Jamaica. Wish you were here Pete.
6) I equate going to bed with giving up on the day….so most of the time I fall asleep on the couch in my futile attempt to stay awake a little longer.
7) I hate cats. And I’m not opposed to eating one….just out of spite.
8) I generally use fake names whenever possible. I.e. The last time I put in an order at deli, I used the name Fonzi.
9) I love to watch the Tour de France.
10) I volunteer at a school and read to a kindergarten class every couple weeks……and by the end of the year I still don’t know most of their names. Some of them think my name is Captain Awesome…….but that may be because I told them it was once.
11) I have a tattoo. It’s a Hebrew word. For Captain Awesome. The last part isn’t true.
12) I never went to single prom or football game in high school.
13) I met Janelle while she was dating my college roommate. My other roommate also met his wife while she was dating the same college roommate (not at the same time though). He was like a human lure for hot girls.
14) I once went skinny dipping in a fountain......in the middle of downtown Charlotte.
15) I’m Irish, but St. Patrick’s Day is my least favorite day of the year.
16) I have never met my match in completing Word Searches (in terms of speed). If there was a professional circuit, I would quit my day job.
17) I’ve always wanted to be a rodeo clown......for a day. But I don’t think I have the kahunas for it.
18) I have an uncanny knack with an ax (except for the incidence in #1). If I were born in the northwest (where there is a lot of logging)....I would have been the next Paul Bunyan, or a Lumberjack champion.
19) I was really gullible in my youth......now it gives me great pleasure to take advantage of others’ gullibility. It’s a vicious cycle.
20) If a genie came out of a bottle, one of my wishes would be for Janelle to speak with an English accent for the rest of her life.....because that’s hot.
21) I have read a lot of classic fiction literature.....because I figured I could only read a finite amount of books, and I might as well start with the masterpieces. After having quite a few under my belt, I think most of them could have used a good editor.
22) My kids’ middle names are references from classic literature. Caden Crusoe, from the book Robinson Crusoe (which most people tend to inaccurately pronounce as Ca-rusoe), and Alaina Harper (Harper Lee is the author of To Kill a Mockingbird). I secretly hope that Caden demands to go by his middle name when he gets a little older.
23) Heavy use of TiVo and my IPod have rewired my brain to only want to experience things on my own schedule and pace. It’s now hard for me to enjoy anything in real time anymore......because I have a compulsion to fast forward through the boring parts, or pause because my attention span has run out.
24) When I sing in front of people, the thing I worry about most (and feel the most awkward about) is what to do with my hands. Speaking of hands.....mine are naturally clammy. If they weren’t so darn useful, I would just get rid of them altogether.
25) I have an extreme aversion to vomiting. In the highly unusual event that I vomit myself, I usually end up vomiting again because I was so grossed out that I just vomited. Bulimia would never be an option for me.
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