99+ Things About Me

Let's see how long this takes me to do.
Starting time: 10:19 am 05 Sept 2002

1. Aaron is my middle name. I hate my first name and do not use it.

2. Simple truth: You cannot spell 'arrogant' with out A-A-R-O-N. (my ex-wife has pointed that out numerous times)

3. I am a single father of a really great little girl young lady.

4. My driver's license claims I am 6 feet tall. (I am 5' 11").

5. I am aware that I am vain.

6. I flirt way too much.

7. I sometimes blush when a woman compliments me.

8. Boxers unless I'm working; then it's boxer-briefs.

9. I have never met my biological father.

10. I still live in the same city in which I was raised.

11. I am left-handed.

12. My earliest memories are when I was three years old.

13. I did not learn to ride a bike without training wheels until I was six.

14. I learned to read when I was three.

15. I can write backwards in cursive. You need a mirror to read it, and it actually looks fairly good.

16. I only own 3 pairs of shoes.

17. I have had the same friends for at least ten years, one of them since we were six.

18. I have friends I am willing to die for.

19. I blame my parents for my compulsive nature.

20. I often feel guilty for things that are beyond my control; and I blame my parents and Catholicism.

21. I do not like to take medicine, over the counter or otherwise. I will suffer cold symptoms, and very often migraines without taking anything.

22. I once lived in an apartment that had ghosts.

23. I am afraid of getting old; I work out every day because I worry about how I look.

24. Now that I have passed 30, I feel insulted if I do not get carded.

25. I am afraid of having orthopedic surgery even though I know I probably need it.

26. I enjoyed being under the influence of drugs when I had my wisdom teeth removed.

27. I was arrested for public intoxication and disorderly conduct when I was twenty-four.

28. I am more critical of myself than anybody else in the world could possibly ever be.

29. Finding typographical errors in my work - after letting someone else view it - nearly devastates me.

30. Three words I consistently spell wrong are: "marshmellows", "convienence" and "maintenence". I usually realize that they are wrong as soon as they are written or typed.

31. I often lack respect for authority. This is possibly why I am not the supervisor at work.

32. I wish I had been born in an earlier decade.

33. I am happy being pessimistic. (I am aware that statement contradicts itself.)

34. I like opera.

35. I really do love my job.

36. I have CDs in my collection that embarrass me and I claim somebody 'left them at my house'.

37. I actually named my penis when I was a kid, and never changed its name.

38. The real reason I never went to college is I thought it would be too much work.

39. If I am asked a question I don't want to answer, I change the subject.

40. I have a beanie baby on top of my computer monitor.

41. My most violent dreams are in black and white.

42. Every shirt I own is either grey, blue, white or black.

43. I love sci-fi / horror movies.

44. I care too much about people and their well being; even if they are not somebody I know.

45. I have been known to drink an entire pot of coffee in under two hours.

46. I suffer from insomnia at approximately two weeks out of every month.

47. On a bad day, bread can give me heartburn.

48. I used to want to live at Ikea... they have everything anybody would ever need.

49. I want a fully equipped chef's kitchen complete with a butcher's block, two convection ovens and 5 to 8 burner commercial cook top witih grill / griddle.

50. I am always hungry.

51. I don't like to play Monopoly.

52. I do not trust insects, my least favorite being the preying mantis.

53. I tend to not speak up when a friend annoys or upsets me; but I will bite the head off of somebody I don't know.

54. I get annoyed with people who ask a lot of personal questions.

55. I get annoyed with people who are known to habitually state the obvious.

56. I hate receiving jokes in my e-mail.

57. I worry too much that I will be judged on my grammar and punctuation.

58. Having to think of 100 99 + things to say about myself is making me feel pressured.

59. When I am angry I rub my left temple; when I am upset I rub my right eye.

60. When I am concentrating, my face gets scrunched up.

61. I hate to dust anything, yet, I hate dust ON anything.

62. I feel jilted when I am feeling down and people don't make time for me.

63. I am entirely too nice to people who have wronged me in the past.

64. I like to watch old movies on TCM and AMC.

65. When I was five, I wanted to be Speed Racer. I realized the show a cartoon but I assumed it was written about real people.

66. I still watch cartoons.

67. I love watching TV Land on satellite TV.

68. When I watch the movie Cujo, I feel sorry for the dog.

69. I have cried watching Animal ER on Animal Planet.

70. I love lobster. I rarely eat it because it makes me feel guilty.

71. I like vodka martinis - with 2 pearl onion stuffed olives, no pimentos.

72. I do not like gin, or pine nuts. I do not understand people who do.

73. I will drink an entire bottle of wine by myself, especially a merlot or a cabernet.

74. I grinned when I got to number sixty-nine in this list. I was almost embarrassed to admit it.

75. I don’t believe that so many things could possibly ‘taste like chicken’.

76. When ordering Chinese take-out, if I am in doubt, I order the shrimp.

77. I will choose cheese over chocolate any day.

78. I refused to try calamari until I was 30. It is actually pretty good.

79. I like my steaks medium-rare.

80. I consider a NY Strip to be better cut than a Rib eye.

81. When I eat fried chicken I prefer the wings, especially if the breast has not had the vertebrae removed.

82. My favorite cereals are Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch and Cocoa Puffs, but I buy Cheerios because I know they are better for me.

83. I hate mayonnaise, marshmallows and bananas.

84. I tend to freak out over finding stems or browned produce on my plate, so much so that sometimes I cannot finish my meal.

85. Fish bones make me choke.

86. I rinse canned tuna before using it. Update: I really like this pouch packed tuna - if you have not tried it, get the Bumblebee Albacore kind.

87. I do not really like salmon. This is relevant because I live in Oregon. Update: I had salmon at a dinner party that was prepared "right" and have added it to the LONG list of my favorite seafoods.

88. I do not swallow seeds from MOST fruit, and avoid them at all costs. Fruits that would be excluded would be: strawberries, blackberries, and raspberries.

89. It can sometimes me twenty minutes to pick out a tomato.

90. I have never smoked a cigarette, but I have been known to burn a few cigars from time to time.

91. I do not inhale.

92. Nudity does not embarrass me.

93. I care more about what other people think about me than I would like to admit.

94. A former girlfriend was so impressed by the way Antonio Banderas pours wine in the movie "Never Talk to Strangers" that she asked to imitate it.

95. I almost always have on socks, even when I am sitting around the house.

96. I get severe headaches that attack me during sleep and last for at least two days. I attribute my insomnia to having a fear of the onset of them.

97. Sometimes I turn off everything in the house and lay in the middle of the floor listening to nothing.

98. I prefer sitting on the floor over the couch when I watch television.

99. When I am not feeling well, I camp on the couch rather than in my bed.

100. I honestly did not think I would ever think of 100 things.

101. I was abandoned by the schmoes at 100 things, and joined 99 things, and at their request added this so that I had any number 'other than 100'. I am nice and respectful of people's wishes. Therefore I added this to fit the requirements.
(UPDATED: 8 Jun, 2010)

That's it!
Time (originally) completed: 12:10 pm 05 Sept 2002