{"id":961,"date":"2008-08-24T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=961"},"modified":"2008-08-24T12:03:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T16:03:22","slug":"things-you-may-not-know-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"things you may not know about me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so, i was inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/shane-natalie.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">friend<\/a> of mine that wrote a blog post about a bunch of things that her friends might not know about her. i started thinking, &#8216;what might people not know about me?&#8217; i realize that the notion to make public these things might seem a little narcissistic, but i think i&#8217;m doing this as much for the purpose of self-discovery than anything else. some of you may be all too aware of some of these things as i&#8217;ve been told that i&#8217;m a bit of an open-book, then again some of it might be news to you. if you find this a bit much, feel free to skip this one and wait for some more pictures of our kids. so, here we go.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>i desperately wanted to be a rock star for the longest time.<\/li>\n<li>i gave up on the dream when i moved to california and played in a few bands. reality is a tough pill to swallow.<\/li>\n<li>i still want to record an album with my wife.<\/li>\n<li>we own 2 dogs. a chihuahua and a chihuahua\/jack russell terrier mix.<\/li>\n<li>i bought them for my wife because i was afraid to have kids and thought this might buy me some time. thankfully, it didn&#8217;t buy me much.<\/li>\n<li>as a young boy, i once ran face first into a cactus. since my mom wasn&#8217;t home at the time, i sat in tears on the porch for several hours with a face full of cactus quills waiting for her. when she got home it took the rest of the evening for her and my sister lani to remove them all. i&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s odd to see a child crying long after he&#8217;s run out of actual tears. most people would assume that he&#8217;s faking. until they saw the quills.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;ve never broken a bone (i don&#8217;t count fingers or toes. i broke my thumb, and i suspect that i&#8217;ve broken a couple of toes, though i have no definitive proof).<\/li>\n<li>musical guilty pleasures: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/...Baby_One_More_Time_(song)\" target=\"_blank\">first album britney spears<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_wk\" target=\"_blank\">andrew w.k.<\/a> (though i&#8217;ll admit i feel no guilt for that one), select <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashlee_simpson\" target=\"_blank\">ashlee simpson<\/a> tunes, dr. dre&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chronic_2001\" target=\"_blank\">chronic 2001<\/a> (i have the edited version because i&#8217;m not that hard core). there are many, many more but i&#8217;ll leave you with these few.<\/li>\n<li>i was born in san diego, ca. while moving to spokane, wa at the age of 10 would be considered a raw deal by most, it was one of the best moves of my life.<\/li>\n<li>though i would say i&#8217;m mostly conservative, i definitely wouldn&#8217;t call myself a republican (i don&#8217;t think i&#8217;ve ever written that before. it feels like coming out of the political closet). i&#8217;m definitely not a democrat and must say that i pretty much despise both political parties.<\/li>\n<li>i would vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaul.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ron paul<\/a>. in fact, i&#8217;m going to write his name in on the ballot.<\/li>\n<li>about 2 years ago, i switched to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/imac\/\" target=\"_blank\">mac<\/a> and can&#8217;t imagine switching back. the imac and iphone have literally changed my life.<\/li>\n<li>(the friend that gave me the idea to write this, said this same thing so i know she&#8217;s going to think i ripped her off, but i swear i&#8217;ve always had the opinion that&#8230;) i completely disagree with the advice of never going to bed angry with your spouse. when you&#8217;re arguing, go to bed. nothing&#8217;s ever as important in the morning. unless you&#8217;re arguing about why they ate the last of the cinnamon toast crunch. then you&#8217;re likely to be even more upset when you wake up.<\/li>\n<li>i LOVE cinnamon toast crunch. one time when it was on sale, i bought 15+ boxes. they didn&#8217;t last as long as they should have.<\/li>\n<li>i am over-weight (i blame the cinnamon toast crunch, but we just can&#8217;t stay away from each other). though, this morning i hopped on the scale and found that i&#8217;ve lost 10 pounds. people have been asking me lately if i&#8217;ve lost weight and i was pretty sure that they were just trying to be nice. apparently, they were on to something.<\/li>\n<li>i owned my own business for about 2 years. it was the best education i&#8217;ve ever had.<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;m not a college graduate (thankfully jana is). i am, however, a police academy graduate. that&#8217;s got to count for something, right? i&#8217;m not a police officer, however.<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;m a fan of parenthetical writing (there&#8217;s something so expressive about it).<\/li>\n<li>i have had my hair several different colors. purple, fire engine red, green, black, orange, white (yes, white is possible. but odds are your scalp is going to bleed after you&#8217;ve bleached your hair for the 3rd time in 2 hours. at least mine will), and a few more colors, but this is all i can remember right now.<\/li>\n<li>I can write a sentence properly, including normal capitalization. When I&#8217;m at work I&#8217;m forced to. but if i&#8217;m writing anything to a friend, or just something a little more casual, i prefer to ignore capitalization. i don&#8217;t feel like any letter deserves to be more important just because it&#8217;s at the beginning of a sentence or because &#8220;education&#8221; tells us it should be.<\/li>\n<li>i hate football.<\/li>\n<li>i LOVE tennis, though i don&#8217;t really play anymore or follow any of the pros.<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;m secretly jealous of people who are overly talented at completely useless skills.<\/li>\n<li>whenever i type the word &#8220;skills&#8221;, i always want to spell it with a &#8216;z&#8217;, like &#8220;skillz&#8221;. not because i don&#8217;t know how to spell it, but because that&#8217;s just how i roll.<\/li>\n<li>as long as jana and i have been married, we&#8217;ve had nachos every sunday after church. i know we&#8217;ve missed some days, but i would definitely say we&#8217;re 3 out of 4. i&#8217;m still not sick of nachos.<\/li>\n<li>if you want to make a perfect plate of nachos, microwave it for 52 seconds at a power of 7. it&#8217;s taken me, literally, hundreds of plates of nachos to come to that conclusion.<\/li>\n<li>it&#8217;s been a long time since i&#8217;ve seen them, but i&#8217;m not sure if anyone will ever make a funnier movie than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089155\/\" target=\"_blank\">fletch<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0097366\/\" target=\"_blank\">fletch lives<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>i am currently on my 3rd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vespausa.com\/\">vespa<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vespausa.com\/Products\/GT.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">this one&#8217;s<\/a> my favorite. my first was totaled by a friend of mine (that one was actually featured in a vespa commercial. not that model, but the actual scooter. ask if you&#8217;re curious), and the 2nd one i sold. i won&#8217;t make that mistake again.<\/li>\n<li>i built an aluminum guitar. it sounds AWESOME. and if the light is angled just right, i can blind you.<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;ve always wanted to be on an episode of jeopardy, but have a sneaking suspicion that i wouldn&#8217;t do nearly as good as i do at home. i&#8217;m pretty freakin&#8217; good at home.<\/li>\n<li>as a child, i always wanted to have an imaginary friend so i tried making a few up, but i could never immerse myself into it enough to actually believe that they were real. i always knew that i was an impostor.<\/li>\n<li>i once sold italian sodas out of my locker in high school for extra cash. it only lasted one day as a girl got sick because the cream that i was using went bad. she asked for her money back, but i was a firm believer in the &#8220;buyer beware&#8221; philosophy.<\/li>\n<li>i took piano lessons for about 6 months but only did about 1 months&#8217; worth of practicing. this is why i suck at the piano, and why my parents wouldn&#8217;t let me play the violin a few years later. they were wise enough to know that i wouldn&#8217;t stick with it, and yet&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;ve played the guitar for about 14 years. i bought my first guitar after i went to my first concert. i saw nirvana play in spokane and decided that i HAD to get a guitar (see first entry at top).<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;ve never had any desire to get a tattoo or pierce any part of my body.<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;ve always wanted to be really good at photography. i have a pretty decent camera, but now realize that there&#8217;s a little more to it than that.<\/li>\n<li>my first kiss was really bad. afterward, the girl said, &#8220;we&#8217;ll have to practice that&#8221;. in my mind, all i heard was, &#8220;we&#8217;re going to be doing that again&#8221; when what she was politely trying to say was, &#8220;you really suck at kissing&#8221;. i&#8217;d like to think i&#8217;ve gotten better. there&#8217;s a whole lot of ladies you can ask. HEY-O!<\/li>\n<li>my wife probably won&#8217;t approve of the above comment at the end. but she needs to know that she&#8217;s the only lady in my life.<\/li>\n<li>there was a period of several years where i only wore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickies.com\/wc2\/product_list.asp?cat=101&amp;type=A&amp;cdscr=Men%27s+Workwear&amp;tdscr=Pants\" target=\"_blank\">dickies<\/a> pants. and in fact it was only in the last couple of years that i decided to try wearing jeans again. turns out, i really like jeans. in fact, i don&#8217;t even own a single pair of dickies any more.<\/li>\n<li>i used to own almost every color of dickies that they make. kakhi, black, brown, dark blue, light blue, gray, red, orange, yellow, white, green&#8230; i&#8217;m sure there were others but that&#8217;s all i can think of right now.<\/li>\n<li>i really think when my kids get a bit older, we&#8217;re going to form some sort of partridge family\/hanson type band. lily will sing and play keys, jackson will play drums and asher will play guitar.<\/li>\n<li>i LOVE the moments when somebody says something that causes you to laugh uncontrolably in awkward situations. case in point: several years ago, i was at church and asked a friend of mine if he had some chapstick. he pulled some out (it was called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blistex.com\/Herbal%20Answer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the herbal answer<\/a>&#8220;) and said, &#8220;i&#8217;ve got the herbal answer&#8221;, to which i replied, &#8220;well that&#8217;s great, because i&#8217;ve got the herbal question&#8221;. this sparked a few minutes of laughter in the middle of a fairly reverant sunday school class. me and that friend still talk about it occasionally.<\/li>\n<li>i can type about 50 words per minute. i don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s any good or not. i&#8217;ve never taken a typing class and wonder how much faster i could type if i were properly trained.<\/li>\n<li>i&#8217;m jealous of my children. not that they have it any better than i did, but because they&#8217;re still impressed by the simplest of things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so, i was inspired by a friend of mine that wrote a blog post about a bunch of things that her friends might not know about her. i started thinking, &#8216;what might people not know about me?&#8217; i realize that the notion to make public these things might seem a little narcissistic, but i think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raisingheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}