Random facts about me

A while ago for a project, I had to compile a list of 100 facts about myself. I just found the list and thought I'd put them up here for posterity (an to be completely narcissistic and self-aware). I'm going to filter out the ones that are out of date or for one reason or another not appropriate to put on this forum, but here goes: Too many things that you never wanted to know about me:

1. I am the oldest of four siblings
   
2. I was born on an Indian reservation
   
3. A freak accident with a horse bridle makes me nervous to ride another horse
   
4. I was deathly embarassed as a child to have to wear husky pants
   
5. I have a degree in Conservation Biology but hardly ever use it
   
6. I wish I would have gotten a degree in Classical Studies
   
7. I learned to drive a year behind the rest of my classmates
   
8. That was still a year younger than in most other states
   
9. I took shop in high school and only made things I had to cut out
   
10. I am moderately germaphobic
    
11. I hate when odors stay on my hands
    
12. I am addicted to Diet Pepsi
    
13. My first car was a Cadillac
    
14. My second and third cars were VW Jettas
    
15. I speak Norwegian
    
16. I inherited my family's propesity for back problems
    
17. I am a sucker for food with melted cheese
    
18. People that deviate from the norm attract my attention
    
19. I have a penchant for spotting misspellings on signs
    
20. I started watching 90210 because a girl I liked watched it and it gave us something to talk about
    
21. I have an irrational fear of my wife dying
    
22. I start to prepare her funeral every time she's more than 15 mintues late to meet me
    
23. I eat at Taco Bell almost every day
    
24. I love Taco Time's Crustos
    
25. I've only used Macs at all my jobs where I used a computer
    
26. I first used Apple computers in third grade
    
27. I got in trouble in third grade when I said my work was done so I could use the computer and the teach found out I'd lied
    
28. I once got a week's detention for peeking in the girl's bathroom in forth grade
    
29. I once cheated on a math test with my calculator watch
    
30. I owned a calculator watch!
    
31. I had eight Swatches during their 80's heyday
    
32. I gave them all to my brother
    
33. I've since gotten two back
    
34. I hate fishing and hunting because I anthropomorphize the animals
    
35. I love animal burrows under trees and fantasize about being samll enough to live there
    
36. I only buy lottery tickets if the jackpot is over $100 million
    
37. Despite never winning the lottery, I'm pretty lucky
    
38. Despite saying I'm pretty lucky, I've not been so lucky with cars
    
39. I got in a car wreck on my way to my missionary physical
    
40. I got in another car wreck while on vacation to the Oregon coast
    
41. Being evaluated drives my performance
    
42. I am an Eagle Scout but can only remember 2 or 3 knots
    
43. The first while book I read in Norwegian was a Nancy Drew book
    
44. I play with my lip when I'm thinking and don't realize it until someone points it out
    
45. I only read Richie Rich comic books growing up
    
46. I grew up Republican but am now a very left-leaning Democrat
    
47. I often tell people I'm from North Idaho, as if it's a state unto itself
    
48. I love maps, both looking at them and creating them
    
49. Once people annoy me, I have a hard time being around them
    
50. I can remember camping with my family when I was only four
    
51. I hate doing push-ups but I do them anyway
    
52. I would rather be too hot than too cold
    
53. I would rather the weather be too cold than too hot
    
54. The first time I ever went skinny-dipping, a leech attached to my inner thigh
    
55. The second time was in Sweden
    
56. I can't stand snakes
    
57. I love the Simpsons
    
58. I usually take two showers per day
    
59. I've always wanted to visit Paris, but all I've seen of the city was the train station and the airport
    
60. I developed an MSG allergy when I was 29
    
61. It completely changed my eating habits
    
62. I love to swim for exercise because I don't sweat
    
63. I really like the scent of marigolds
    
64. I prefer running on a treadmill over running outside
    
65. I had absolutely no desire to be in drama calss in high school
    
66. Still the thought of being in a play never tempts me
    
67. I had to do Indian sign language in a church play
    
68. I watch too much tv during the winter
    
69. I like rain
    
70. I can't stand my hands to be sticky
    
71. I clean as a form of procrastination
    
72. If a project loses my interest, it's almost impossible for me to regain any enthusiasm for it
    
73. I had long hair when I was 10 because my parents wanted me to be in touch with my Indian background
    
74. When I asked to get it cut, I felt guilty because my mom said I was rejecting my native roots
    
75. I really like installing moulding
    
76. I detest cleaning a toilet
    
77. I love having new gadgets
    
78. I have a birthmark on my forehead that used to be covered up by my hair but now is fully exposed
    
79. My favorite cookie is snickerdoodles
    
80. I love meatloaf but can't eat it in restaurants because it probably has MSG in it
    
81. I hate when people load a dishwasher incorrectly
    
82. I have been know to unload an incorrectly loaded dishwasher and reload it correctly
    
83. I have a well-developed superiority complex
    
84. I can justify just about anything
    
85. I think gift bags are totally cheating and a little lazy
    
86. I don't mind waiting in lines
    
87. I can't stand non-cotton underwear
    
88. I had a hernia operation when I was 7 and I still don't know how I got the hernia in the first place
    

There you have it--a long, long list of completely random things that you probably never needed to know about me and that you can now use against me or to make my life a living hell. Enjoy!