100 Things About Me
Updated 01-22-10
More than you ever wanted to know…
- I was born in Kentucky
- My parents were NOT related (bad Kentucky joke)
- I was raised in a very religious home
- I started working part-time when I was 13, full-time at 18
- I’m now 35
- Most people think I look young for my age
- My partner is 27
- We have been together for four years
- I believe homosexuals should have the right to marry
- I would marry my partner in a heartbeat
- I would like to have children, but don’t think it will ever happen
- We have three cats – Blu, Twinkie, & Macy Gray
- I didn’t go to church for several years, but started back in 2006
- I have seen Cher in concert 8 times
- I loved Michael Jackson and will love him forever
- I own my home
- I live on the same street that I lived on when I was born
- I still have the same neighbor who is now 90
- I love technology
- But I’m also scared of it, because it can take over your life
- My parents divorced when I was 25
- It still hurt
- I have a niece and 2 nephews
- I was in New York City on 9/11/01
- It was the scariest day of my life
- I think most politicians are self-serving and devious
- I voted for Obama but regret it
- I have been to Germany
- And Canada
- And 33 states
- I want to go to California
- And Oregon
- I’m terrified of flying
- I love roller coasters
- And skyscrapers
- I watch a lot of movies
- I have taken only two college courses
- I believe everything that has happened to me was for a reason
- I’m still trying to figure out what that reason is
- I eat a lot of ice cream
- I recently paid off my credit cards and closed the accounts
- I was named after my dad, but I look more like my mom
- I sometimes get called “ma’am” on the phone
- It used to make me angry, but now it just annoys me
- I still have three living grandparents
- I wish I had more muscles
- I love birds
- I used to beg God for a set of wings
- I hate public speaking
- I was once hospitalized for a suicide attempt
- I don’t smoke and despise smelling it
- I drink occasionally, but don’t get drunk
- Music makes me cry sometimes
- I rarely ever laugh out loud when I’m alone
- I tweeze my eyebrows
- And bite my fingernails
- I wish my arms weren’t so hairy
- I like bubble baths
- And rain
- And flamingos
- My favorite clothing brand is DKNY
- DVR has changed my life
- I’m a liberal
- I think Jesus was a liberal
- I have never cheated on a lover
- I used to smoke pot, but had a really bad experience with it
- I still think it should be just a legal as alcohol
- I like it very cold when I sleep
- Spooning is my favorite sleeping position
- I recently stopped sleeping with a security blanket (embarrassing, but true)
- I’m terrified of severe weather
- My favorite soda is Dr. Pepper
- I like the ocean, but I’m scared of water and the things that live in it
- I believe in extraterrestrials
- I can’t figure out how space has no beginning or end
- It makes my head hurt when I think about it
- Sometimes I don’t listen very well
- I’m the only gay guy at work (or am I?)
- I came out to my family in 1995
- I email my senators
- I’m a very loyal person
- But not blind
- I was raised without television, movies, or sports
- I still don’t like sports
- My favorite season is fall
- I’ve never been arrested
- I don’t have any tattoos
- Both of my ears are pierced twice, but…
- I never wear earrings, because my partner doesn’t like them
- I’m no good with money
- I dislike most country music
- I love to be hugged
- Home is my favorite place to be
- I can pop one of my arms out of socket
- My sister nicknamed me “Barney”
- My eyes are so dark brown they look black
- I wish I could quit cursing, but it’s really hard
- I wish I had more faith
- I spend way too much time online
- I am proud of myself for coming up with 100 things for this list.
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I never “laugh out load either” LOL. Can you tell I have too much free time at work?
Barney, It gives me great pleasure to read all your stuff. You are uncommonly intellegent. And honorable. And honest. And handsome. How did your Mom and I spawn such a creature? Go figure. Switched at the hospital? Anyway, I am so proud to be your father and I love you with all my heart. You deserve to be happy.
Aww…that is so sweet. You have a great family…a little dysfunctional but really great!LOL
P.S. I don’t like #28! You should change that to some. LOL
“You have a great family…a little dysfunctional”
I’m convinced that all families are a little dysfunctional. :-)
Yep! I agree. My family is a little more than most!
I can attest that all families are dysfunctional. Some more than others. The key is putting the FUN in dysfunctional!
I read your father’s response on Valentine’s Day. You have a wonderful Dad! Wow…you did come up with one hundred things…!
@ Alyson,
Well, we do have lots of fun most of the time. :)
@ Michelle,
I do have a great dad. Coming up with 100 took some time, but it was fun. You should try it!
I like this. Maybe I’ll steal the outline for my own blog. Would you mind?
Cturpen,
I don’t mind at all!
Hi! I tagged you!
i wonder how you can love roller coasters yet be terrified of
flying … do tell
regards mx
Mxara,
I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it’s true! I guess the roller coaster being connected to the ground makes it feel safer to me, whereas the plane is 40,000 feet in the air.
Another thing is that I’ve been riding roller coasters for years, so have little reason to fear them. I’ve only been on 4 jets, and two of them took over 8 hours to reach their destination. That may have been a little too much to start with. ;)
i live at at the arse end of the world so i guess to get anywhere it is at least 13 hours so i have got used to flying … but i don’t like it
i will never get used to the roller coaster ….
more power to you … if you ever have a rollercoaster snap let me know
regards mx
Hi, I stumbled across your blog, and now I feel like I know a lot about you. As far as #13, don’t give up hope! It can happen. I thought I would never be a mom, and now “the best thing that has ever happened to me” is sleeping in his crib.
Thank you for doing this! I completely ripped off your idea and did my own :)
And, thank you for sharing these personal things with total strangers.
i’m wondering if i could steal, more like borrow, your idea. because you know, there’s a commandment that i should not steal. may i? borrow your idea that is.
it’s been a nice read, by the way.
Elijahspeaks,
I “borrowed” the idea myself, so go for it!
Thanks for stopping by and glad you enjoyed it.
I don’t even know how i stumbled upon this, but I LOVE it.
My site is very new and I am working very hard on it.
Thanks for the giggles.
I stumbled upon this doing some research on Ron Paul and his stance on don’t ask, don’t tell in the military and found one of the most civil and interesting discussions I’ve ever read on the web!
Kudos to you, Brian and to the people replying on that thread!
Love this 100 things about you; I’m from Kentucky too, know SunDrop (lol!) and my eyes too are so dark brown, they appear black.
If you want to “marry” your partner, have a civil union. Don’t let the gubmint tell you what you can and can’t do. It’s your body, your life.
And don’t feel inferior; love yourself first,, the rest will follow.
I laugh out loud so much, people wonder if there is “something wrong?”
—Or maybe—”Is she up to something?”
I’ve had people stand up in restaurant booths, and peer around to see what was going on –”over there” (you guessed it—me laughing)
I laugh the most in the morning. Nothing has gone wrong —yet.
Life is good when the Looney Toones are on.
You guessed right again, I still watch cartoons.
My cat makes me laugh, when he falls alseep on the arm of the chair—then falls off!!! I roar for a full 5 minutes on that. You would think he would sleep in the seat after repeated falls. I have faced the fact that my cat may be a slow learner. Anyway, good for a daily 5 minute laugh.
I laugh every day when I try to squeeze my butt into pants that I know are too small. It’s like I think the fat elf came in the night and sucked out 5lbs of fat out of my a – -.
Life is better when we laugh. ( I think it burn calories too, )
Live, Love, Laugh.
Kelly
Fat elf? LOL!
There was a comedy club I went to a few times and their slogan was, “You’ll laugh your A_ _ off”. We always joked that we should stay for both shows!
Great list.
ALL politicians are self-serving in my opinion.
Also, gay men & women should have ALL rights like marriage etc..
The faster we become a trusting respectful society the better for all of us.
No one can stop 2 guys or 2 girls falling in love if that’s the way it has been set up by Nature/God/The Great Hairy Camel!
Good luck to ye wee man,(popular Glasgow phrase) and thanks for the site.
Dave.
Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
I just stumbled upon this blog, looking up stuff about Ron Paul. I think this list is great. And I hope that you don’t give up on having children so easily, because you sound like you’d be an amazing father. It is possible, I promise!
I’m gonna have to snag this one, too. I’ve been planning to do some heavy modification to my About page, so this will complement it nicely. :-)
I’m with you on that, Kelly!
you sound interesting …how in the world did you get the 100 things link on your blog?? Very nice.
@ Connetta – You can add a page instead of a post and put anything on it you want to. Go to Dashboard – Write – Page and have fun!
I found your blog through bosquechica.
I loved that your dad commented. I write a blog with a blogging partner (I’m in NM and she’s in MN), and her mom comments on our blog a bunch. It always touches my heart.
Roller coasters are wonderful. I hate to fly but do it all the time.
My brother lives in the house where I grew up. Roots is good.
( ( ( HUG!!!! ) ) )
@ ybonesy: Dad’s comment was fantastic and heart-warming.
@ Amrutha: Thanks for the hug!
IVE SEEN CHER 8 TIMES TOO lol haha
@ Kyndall: OMG! I wish she would tour again, because I’d go another 8 times. :)
Love the 100 things I learned about you! Feel like I know you better and can maybe comment more often. **shyness… wearing…off***
@ Chris: I’m so glad you posted! I never know how many people are lurking, but I love getting comments.
thank you for the warm fuzzies :) was feeling a little low.
::hug::
Brian,
I read your main-page essay, then printed a copy that I am going to give to a serious homophobe I know. I just don’t know why they can’t leave us alone and SHUT UP about it.
I enjoyed reading your list – I love your sense of humor.
You seem to be doing OK – keep it up. All best wishes to you and your partner.
@ James: Thanks so much for your comment. Good luck with the homophobe! ;)
Oh my God I am glad I am not the only one that 75 and 76 get to. I just can’t comprehend it although I know it is there! It freaks me out if I think about it to much.
I actually left your page (I found it while surfing) and came back a day later. Two things brought me back. One, on your front page you said you are trying to reconcile your faith with your sexuality I find that refreshing. I am not close to any gay people (at the moment,) but many of the ones I have met, and those who are shown on T.V. tend to be militant and anti-Christian (Gee, I wonder why? Maybe it’s the militant, anti-gay Christians?)
The second thing that brought me back was in your “hundred things about myself.” You struggled to find 100, but I bet people who know you could help you add to the list. Some people who don’t know you will boil you down to one word: gay. How sad that is. I would hate to be boiled down to one word. (Actually, I probably am. Having five kids, that word is “Mom.”) On the surface I’m about as different from you as could be; middle-class, middle-aged Mom, Grandma, etc. I do love birds, though, which was, believe it or not, what made me keep thinking about you. (Are the birds in Texas more interesting than the ones in suburban Southern California?) Dig deeper, and I find I have lots in common with you. (I’m a moderate-liberal in a far-right{think KKK} area. I believe Jesus was a -gasp- communist!) I think there are more than 100 facets to me, as well! Like you, I struggle with my faith. I am no more, or less, sinful than you are in the eyes of Jesus, just because I’m heterosexual. My sins are between God and me—and so are yours. Bible-thumpers will say that homosexuality is a sin, and that’s all that’s important. I say that’s none of their business. I do say that God will never leave you or forsake you. (Hebrews 13:5)
P.S. I also hate being called “ma’am, but for a different reason. I don’t *feel* like a ma’am!
@ Square Peg: Thank you so much for your lovely comment! We all have quite a bit in common if we only take the time to get beyond our differences to find them.
I don’t know you. I’m not sure how I landed on your site, but it was by way of thom browne, then skyscrapers, the the buraj dubai, then 100 things about you. and I read them all and you sound like a nice chap! Cheers! Sam in Seattle
Brian, you’ve done it again…inspired me to entertain…lol. Since I know that you don’t mind other people doing their ‘100′ list, I thought I would let you know that I’ve done it as well and it’s therapeutic. Thanks for sharing!
G’day from Australia! Came across your site today and just wanted to let you know I think it is very cool.
54. I rarely ever laugh out loud when I’m alone
I love laughing on my own to really stupid comedies or films or youtube videos.
Praise indeed for you blog. It’s great!