My 100 Things About Me

Well, I'm going to take a break from Sybil bashing and post my 100 things about me. Things are going pretty good between us right now. I am working on communicating and confronting my issues with her. She is working on patience and understanding. Anyway, I wanted to get this in before our next blow-up. Without further ado:

1. I am extremely likeable in person.
2. I can talk to anyone about anything.
3. I can be a great BSer, in terms of number 2.
4. Although I am sociable, I like my solitude.
5. I love the world, but I don't always like the people in it.
6. My kids are my foundation.
7. Sybil and I "had" to get married because she became pregnant after dating about 6 months.
8. Although we've had our ups and downs, I'd say we've done very well considering number 7.
9. All of my children were "surprises."
10. I love being outside.
11. My job keeps me inside.
12. I am highly educated.
13. Sometimes I'm not too bright.
14. I have a pilot's license and an instrument rating.
15. With a wife and 3 kids, I don't get to fly much.
16. I wish I had listened to my father and joined the Army.
17. I wanted to be in tanks and blow things up.
18. I have a tattoo.
19. It is my fraternity letters with crossed swords.
20. I did it before tattoos were "cool."
21. I worry about my past sins being visited upon my children (what goes around comes around).
22. This might be way too introspective.
23. My mother was a nut job until I moved out of the house.
24. I don't see the correlation.
25. I have communication issues.
26. I fear rejection.
27. I have self-esteem problems.
28. Numbers 25, 26, and 27 make it hard to open up with Sybil.
29. Don't laugh; you'll just encourage me.
30. I love baseball much more now that my sons play it.
31. I've always loved football ( both playing and watching).
32. I kind of hope my sons don't play it.
33. I have the habit of saying exactly the wrong thing.
34. I love to make people laugh.
35. I used to be laid back.
36. I don't know what changed me.
37. I'm trying to get back there.
38. I learned in college that love doesn't conquer all.
39. Indians can be racist.
40. I used to love to drink.
41. Not so much anymore.
42. I love a good cigar.
43. The public schools made sure to turn my children against my cigars.
44. I never smoked in the house.
45. I used to think of myself as perverted.
46. Thanks to some blogs I've read (not on my roll BTW, LOL!), I no longer do.
47. I believe pornography destroys.
48. Man, as I get older I get much more conservative.
49. I loath both political parties.
50. I voted Libertarian in 2004.
51. I'll probably do it again in 2008.
52. I think the government is evil.
53. I'm over half done.
54. I'm fairly easy to please.
55. I don't have high expectations.
56. I work too much.
57. I'm too much in debt not to.
58. I fear poverty.
59. I grew up poor (lower middle class).
60. My mother and father smoked like chimneys, yet mom couldn't afford a winter coat.
61. People have their priorities out of whack.
62. After New Year's Eve I can only drink beer.
63. Since getting out of college and earning an income, I can no longer drink cheap beer.
64. Sybil is Chinese.
65. Sometimes that creates friction because of different cultures, although she came to the US when she was six (legally, I might add).
66. My kids are better athletes than I was.
67. I'm wrapped around my daughter's finger.
68. I'm not sure I'll get to 100.
69. I don't have any regrets.
70. I think people get divorced too soon.
71. My family has communication issues.
72. I don't get enough exercise.
73. I wish I only needed five hours of sleep.
74. I love Spring.
75. My birthday is in the Spring.
76. I tend to be cynical. That's why I have low expectations of people.
77. I blog; therefore, I am.
78. I'm always surprised someone comments on one of my posts.
79. Sometimes I think this blog is too negative.
80. I am a closet optimist.
81. I wanted to be a marine biologist.
82. I sunburn too easily.
83. The only positive comment from my mother-in-law is that I have nice ears.
84. I'll take what I can get.
85. The good thing about my parents-in-law is that I can't understand most of what they say.
86. I dream of backpacking the AT.
87. With three kids, a lot of debt and a wife, it'll never happen.
88. Ironically, I'm a man of leisure.
89. Although it's near the bottom, I do love my wife.
90. Sometimes I wish she'd go away.
91. She can be a nag.
92. As I get older, I can't lay in the bed for very long.
93. That sucks.
94. One good thing about blogging is the catharsis.
95. It keeps me from getting much work done.
96. I need to take more time off.
97. I've never been to Disney World.
98. I received my first blow job whilst my family was gone to Disney World. I was 16.
99. I've loved them ever since.
100. Finally, my last one.

There ya go. Have a good weekend. I'm on vacation next week (finally). I don't know how much I'll be blogging.