51 Things You May or May Not Know About Me
(otherwise entitled ripping off Christin)
1. I am the oldest of 3 children.
2. 1 of whom is engaged.
3. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
4. I took 3 semesters of Koine Greek in college, translating 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John, Galations, and part of Luke, I think.
5. I remember none of it.
6. When I was 7 years old, a car ran off the road and hit our house.
7. I received an invitation from Louisiana Tech to live in the boy's honor dorm.
8. After much consideration, I declined.
9. My family raises great danes.
10. My mom is cooler than your mom because she likes Dave Matthews.
11. I am incapable of giving a good first impression.
12. I stole a car once.
13. And had a wrestling match with my brand-new roommate.
14. Which I won.
15. I have never been on an airplane.
16. I still own (and use) my lite-brite.
17. I once got thrown out of PE class for refusing to play football.
18. I was the head baker for a café/coffee shop for all 3 years of high school.
19. That was my dream job.
20. I signed up for a college English course solely because the teacher looked like Hugh Grant.
21. He turned out to be a fabulous teacher.
22. But he was married.
23. My senior thesis in high school was a 30-page paper on the Beatles.
24. I still listen to my Amy Grant CD’s on occasion.
25. Which I am heartily ashamed of.
26. I got an e-mail from my famous uncle this week.
27. !!!!!!!
28. I spent 6 months working as a live-in nanny for 5 magnificent kids.
29. During these 6 months I was convinced that I never ever wanted to have kids.
30. But I think I’m over that now.
31. I participated in my kindergarden talent show by dressing up as Colby the Computer performing an all-lip synching, all-dancing extravaganza that I choreographed on the spot.
32. I have never quite forgiven my parents for letting me do that.
33. And if that weren’t enough, 2 years later I entered the talent show wearing a t-shirt and tutu and performing my own interpretive dance to the Monkee’s “Daydream Believer”.
34. Note that I had no previous dancing training.
35. I recently highlighted my hair for the first time ever.
36. I am now sporting the little bit of blonde you always knew I had in me.
37. I also now have Mandy Moore hair, but that’s another story.
38. Since the age of 6, I have been convinced that the Monkees were the coolest band ever.
39. Especially Mickey Dolenz.
40. It’s the curly hair that does it for him.
41. I spent a great deal of time during high school holed up in my room, playing the soundtracks to Broadway musicals and singing along in full voice with the female leads.
42. I still do that.
43. I invented a sorority in college, and made rush posters to hang up all over the dorm.
44. I know the words to every School House Rock song ever written.
45. I gave a 15-minute speech in college on the life of Dr. Seuss.
46. It was entirely in rhyme.
47. I spent a summer as a rock-climbing/rappelling instructor at a camp.
48. I still am not sure how to spell rappelling.
49. I am fabulous at writing papers on books that I didn’t read.
50. I vowed at 17 that I would never be a secretary again.
51. Ha.
My mom is cooler than your mom because she owns and rides a motorcycle.
Posted by: John at July 12, 2003 08:23 AM