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.

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 where 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.

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 any fruit, and avoid them at all costs.

89. It takes 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. My 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.
(ADDED: 10 Dec, 2004)

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